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D-Index
58
Citations
11588
World Ranking
10649
National Ranking
2939

Phillip R. Westmoreland 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 Phillip R. Westmoreland sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 155 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Phillip R. Westmoreland 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 Phillip R. Westmoreland sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% 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

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for innovative research in pollution control, pre-soot chemistry, and the development of Flame MBMS and mechanistic modeling

Overview

Phillip R. Westmoreland is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, including Engineering, Materials Science, and Chemistry, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Organic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Catalysis.

Their research addresses multiple topics, notably Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions, Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure, and Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Westmoreland include:

  • Effect of Sodium Tungstate Promoter on the Reduction Kinetics of CaMn0.9Fe0.1O3 for Chemical Looping - Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Estimating flammability limits through predicting non-adiabatic laminar flame properties, 2020, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • A Bond-Energy/Bond-Order and Populations Relationship, 2022, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • High-throughput design of complex oxides as isothermal, redox-activated CO2 sorbents for green hydrogen generation, 2024, Energy & Environmental Science
  • CaMn0.9Ti0.1O3 based redox catalysts for chemical looping - Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane: Effects of Na2MoO4 promoter and degree of reduction on the reaction kinetics, 2022, Catalysis Today

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, Energy & Environmental Science, and Chemical Engineering Journal.

Westmoreland has collaborated regularly with researchers including Fanxing Li, Hrishikesh Ram, C. Murphy DePompa, Yuan Tian, and Tim J. Mallo.

Recognition of their contributions includes the award of Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018, acknowledging work in pollution control, pre-soot chemistry, and the development of Flame MBMS and mechanistic modeling.

Best Publications

  • Biofuel combustion chemistry: from ethanol to biodiesel.

    Katharina Kohse‐Höinghaus;Patrick Oßwald;Terrill A. Cool;Tina Kasper

  • Kinetics and mechanism of cellulose pyrolysis

    Yu Chuan Lin;Joungmo Cho;Geoffrey A. Tompsett;Phillip R. Westmoreland

  • Evaluation of candidate solids for high-temperature desulfurization of low-Btu gases

    Phillip R. Westmoreland;Douglas P. Harrison

  • Forming benzene in flames by chemically activated isomerization

    Phillip R. Westmoreland;Anthony M. Dean;Jack B. Howard;John P. Longwell

  • Recent contributions of flame-sampling molecular-beam mass spectrometry to a fundamental understanding of combustion chemistry

    Nils Hansen;Terrill A. Cool;Phillip R. Westmoreland;Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus

  • Enols are common intermediates in hydrocarbon oxidation.

    Craig A. Taatjes;Craig A. Taatjes;Nils Hansen;Andrew McIlroy;James A. Miller

  • Selective detection of isomers with photoionization mass spectrometry for studies of hydrocarbon flame chemistry

    Terrill A. Cool;Koichi Nakajima;Toufik A. Mostefaoui;Fei Qi

  • IUPAC Critical Evaluation of Thermochemical Properties of Selected Radicals. Part I

    Branko Ruscic;James E. Boggs;Alexander Burcat;Attila G. Császár

  • Thermochemical and chemical kinetic data for fluorinated hydrocarbons

    D.R. Burgess;M.R. Zachariah;W. Tsang;P.R. Westmoreland

  • Studies of a fuel-rich propane flame with photoionization mass spectrometry

    Terrill A. Cool;Koichi Nakajima;Craig A. Taatjes;Andrew McIlroy

  • Photoionization mass spectrometer for studies of flame chemistry with a synchrotron light source

    Terrill A. Cool;Andrew McIlroy;Fei Qi;Phillip R. Westmoreland

  • “Imaging” combustion chemistry via multiplexed synchrotron-photoionization mass spectrometry

    Craig A. Taatjes;Nils Hansen;David L. Osborn;Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus

  • Comparative kinetics of high-temperature reaction between hydrogen sulfide and selected metal oxides

    Phillip R. Westmoreland;James B. Gibson;Douglas P. Harrison

  • Bimolecular QRRK analysis of methyl radical reactions

    A. M. Dean;P. R. Westmoreland

  • A detailed chemical kinetic reaction mechanism for oxidation of four small alkyl esters in laminar premixed flames

    C.K. Westbrook;W.J. Pitz;P.R. Westmoreland;F.L. Dryer

  • Identification and chemistry of C4H3 and C4H5 isomers in fuel-rich flames.

    Nils Hansen;Stephen J. Klippenstein;Craig A. Taatjes;James A. Miller

  • Concerted reactions and mechanism of glucose pyrolysis and implications for cellulose kinetics.

    Vikram Seshadri;Phillip R. Westmoreland

  • A reactive molecular dynamics model of thermal decomposition in polymers: I. Poly(methyl methacrylate)

    Stanislav I. Stoliarov;Phillip R. Westmoreland;Marc R. Nyden;Glenn P. Forney

  • Measured flame structure and kinetics in a fuel-rich ethylene flame

    Anuj Bhargava;Phillip R. Westmoreland

  • BAC-MP4 PREDICTIONS OF THERMOCHEMICAL DATA FOR C1 AND C2 STABLE AND RADICAL HYDROFLUOROCARBONS AND OXIDIZED HYDROFLUOROCARBONS

    M. R. Zachariah;P. R. Westmoreland;D. R. Burgess;W. Tsang

Frequent Co-Authors

Nils Hansen
Nils Hansen Sandia National Laboratories
Terrill A. Cool
Terrill A. Cool Cornell University
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus Bielefeld University
Craig A. Taatjes
Craig A. Taatjes Sandia National Laboratories
Stephen J. Klippenstein
Stephen J. Klippenstein Argonne National Laboratory
Fei Qi
Fei Qi Shanghai Jiao Tong University
James A. Miller
James A. Miller Argonne National Laboratory
Wing Tsang
Wing Tsang National Institute of Standards and Technology
Bin Yang
Bin Yang Tsinghua University
Michael R. Zachariah
Michael R. Zachariah University of California, Riverside

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