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D-Index
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26554
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3745
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Michael Frenklach publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Frenklach sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 245 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Michael Frenklach D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Frenklach sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for seminal contributions in mechanisms and modeling of soot formation and combustion chemistry

Overview

Michael Frenklach is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on several subfields including Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Atmospheric Science, Organic Chemistry, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics in the domain of combustion and related chemical physics, including:

  • Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds

Notable recent publications by the scientist include:

  • On the mechanism of soot nucleation, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • On the Mechanism of Soot Nucleation. III. The Fate and Facility of the E-Bridge, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Frequent co-authors with whom Michael Frenklach has collaborated include:

  • Alexander M. Mebel
  • A. S. Semenikhin
  • A. S. Savchenkova
  • I. V. Chechet
  • С. Г. Матвеев

The scientist has published multiple works in several recurring academic venues, such as:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Combustion and Flame
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • AIP conference proceedings

Michael Frenklach was recognized as a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2020 for contributions related to mechanisms and modeling of soot formation and combustion chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Reaction mechanism of soot formation in flames

    Michael Frenklach

  • A detailed kinetic modeling study of aromatics formation in laminar premixed acetylene and ethylene flames

    Hai Wang;Michael Frenklach

  • Kinetic modeling of soot formation with detailed chemistry and physics: laminar premixed flames of C2 hydrocarbons

    Jörg Appel;Henning Bockhorn;Michael Frenklach

  • Detailed modeling of soot particle nucleation and growth

    Michael Frenklach;Hai Wang

  • Detailed kinetic modeling of soot formation in shock-tube pyrolysis of acetylene

    Michael Frenklach;David W. Clary;William C. Gardiner;Stephen E. Stein

  • Substrate-free gas-phase synthesis of graphene sheets

    Albert Dato;Michael Frenklach;Velimir Radmilovic;Zonghoon Lee

  • Detailed Mechanism and Modeling of Soot Particle Formation

    Michael Frenklach;Hai Wang

  • Detailed surface and gas-phase chemical kinetics of diamond deposition

    Michael Frenklach;Hai Wang

  • Detailed Modeling of PAH Profiles in a Sooting Low-Pressure Acetylene Flame

    Michael Frenklach;JüRGEN Warnatz

  • Aerosol dynamics modeling using the method of moments

    Michael Frenklach;Stephen J. Harris

  • Optimization and analysis of large chemical kinetic mechanisms using the solution mapping method—combustion of methane

    Michael Frenklach;Hai Wang;Martin J. Rabinowitz

  • Growth mechanism of vapor-deposited diamond

    Michael Frenklach;Karl E. Spear

  • Formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in circumstellar envelopes

    Michael Frenklach;Eric D. Feigelson

  • Method of moments with interpolative closure

    Michael Frenklach

  • Calculations of rate coefficients for the chemically activated reactions of acetylene with vinylic and aromatic radicals

    Hai Wang;Michael Frenklach

  • Dynamic Modeling of Soot Particle Coagulation and Aggregation: Implementation With the Method of Moments and Application to High-Pressure Laminar Premixed Flames

    Andrei Kazakov;Michael Frenklach

  • Detailed modeling of soot formation in laminar premixed ethylene flames at a pressure of 10 bar

    Andrei Kazakov;Hai Wang;Michael Frenklach

  • Transport properties of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for flame modeling

    Hai Wang;Michael Frenklach

  • Nucleation of soot: Molecular dynamics simulations of pyrene dimerization

    Charles A. Schuetz;Michael Frenklach

  • Homogeneous nucleation of diamond powder in the gas phase

    M. Frenklach;R. Kematick;D. Huang;W. Howard

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Lester
William A. Lester University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Packard
Andrew Packard University of California, Berkeley
Hai Wang
Hai Wang Stanford University
Alexander M. Mebel
Alexander M. Mebel Florida International University
Eric D. Feigelson
Eric D. Feigelson Pennsylvania State University
Dimitris A. Goussis
Dimitris A. Goussis Khalifa University
Habib N. Najm
Habib N. Najm Sandia National Laboratories
Peter J. Seiler
Peter J. Seiler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Velimir Radmilovic
Velimir Radmilovic University of Belgrade
Zonghoon Lee
Zonghoon Lee Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

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