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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 41 5650 5224 2074 1841 137 5078

Yongkoo Seol publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Yongkoo Seol between 1997 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Yongkoo Seol published across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025, averaging 5.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2019. 7 of the 153 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1997 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 17. Peak 17 publications in 2019. 1997: 1 publication 1998: 1 publication 1999: 1 publication 2000: 3 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 10 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 0 publications 2013: 2 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 8 publications 2018: 8 publications 2019: 17 publications 2020: 12 publications 2021: 4 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 3 publications 2025: 4 publications
1997 2025

153 publications in total across all disciplines

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Yongkoo Seol: publications per year, 1997 to 2025
Year Publications
1997 1
1998 1
1999 1
2000 3
2001 3
2002 4
2003 10
2004 3
2005 6
2006 9
2007 6
2008 5
2009 5
2010 4
2011 6
2012 0
2013 2
2014 7
2015 8
2016 6
2017 8
2018 8
2019 17
2020 12
2021 4
2022 4
2023 3
2024 3
2025 4
Total 153
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Yongkoo Seol publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yongkoo Seol sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 128–137 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 137 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557 137
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Yongkoo Seol D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

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

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 41 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289 41
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Yongkoo Seol is affiliated with the National Energy Technology Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions in the subfields of environmental chemistry, mechanics of materials, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and atmospheric science.

Their scholarly work concentrates on several main topics, including:

  • Methane hydrates and related phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Reservoir engineering and simulation methods

Seol has published extensively in various academic journals. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment
  • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Seol are:

  • "An international code comparison study on coupled thermal, hydrologic and geomechanical processes of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments" (2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • "Pore-Scale Investigation Of Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sediments Under Triaxial Condition" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Load-bearing characteristic of methane hydrate within coarse-grained sediments - Insights from isotropic consolidation" (2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • "Automated Well-Log Processing and Lithology Classification by Identifying Optimal Features Through Unsupervised and Supervised Machine-Learning Algorithms" (2020, SPE Journal)
  • "Pressure coring a Gulf of Mexico deep-water turbidite gas hydrate reservoir: Initial results from The University of Texas-Gulf of Mexico 2-1 (UT-GOM2-1) Hydrate Pressure Coring Expedition" (2020, AAPG Bulletin)

Frequent collaborators of Seol include:

  • Evgeniy M. Myshakin
  • Liang Lei
  • Sheng Dai
  • Ray Boswell
  • Jeong-Hoon Choi

The scientist's work encompasses investigations into the mechanical behavior of methane hydrates in sediments, advances in reservoir analysis techniques, as well as environmental gas dynamics and the implications of CO2 sequestration. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates laboratory experiments, field studies, and computational modeling to address complex energy and environmental challenges.

Best Publications

  • Methane hydrate formation and dissociation in a partially saturated core-scale sand sample

    Timothy J. Kneafsey;Liviu Tomutsa;George J. Moridis;Yongkoo Seol

  • Water permeability in hydrate-bearing sediments: A pore-scale study

    Sheng Dai;Yongkoo Seol

  • Pore habit of methane hydrate and its evolution in sediment matrix – Laboratory visualization with phase-contrast micro-CT

    Liang Lei;Yongkoo Seol;Jeong-Hoon Choi;Jeong-Hoon Choi;Timothy J. Kneafsey

  • Increasing Gas Hydrate Formation Temperature for Desalination of High Salinity Produced Water with Secondary Guests

    Jong-Ho Cha;Yongkoo Seol

  • Evaluation of the Gas Production Potential of Marine Hydrate Deposits in the Ulleung Basin of the Korean East Sea

    George J. Moridis;Matthew T. Reagan;Se-Joon Kim;Yongkoo Seol

  • The water retention curve and relative permeability for gas production from hydrate‐bearing sediments: pore‐network model simulation

    Nariman Mahabadi;Sheng Dai;Yongkoo Seol;Tae Sup Yun

  • Impact of hydrate saturation on water permeability in hydrate-bearing sediments

    Nariman Mahabadi;Sheng Dai;Yongkoo Seol;Jaewon Jang

  • Permeability of Laboratory-Formed Methane-Hydrate-Bearing Sand: Measurements and Observations Using X-Ray Computed Tomography

    Timothy J. Kneafsey;Yongkoo Seol;Arvind Gupta;Liviu Tomutsa

  • Studies of Reaction Kinetics of Methane Hydrate Dissocation in Porous Media

    George J. Moridis;Yongkoo Seol;Timothy J. Kneafsey

  • Pore-Scale Visualization of Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sediments With Micro-CT

    Liang Lei;Yongkoo Seol;Karl Jarvis

  • Destruction Efficiencies and Dynamics of Reaction Fronts Associated with the Permanganate Oxidation of Trichloroethylene

    Eung Seok Lee;Yongkoo Seol;Y C Fang;Franklin W Schwartz

  • Numerical simulations of depressurization-induced gas production from an interbedded turbidite gas hydrate-bearing sedimentary section in the offshore India: Site NGHP-02-16 (Area-B)

    Evgeniy M. Myshakin;Evgeniy M. Myshakin;Yongkoo Seol;Jeen-Shang Lin;Jeen-Shang Lin;Shun Uchida;Shun Uchida

  • Multistage Triaxial Tests on Laboratory-Formed Methane Hydrate-Bearing Sediments

    Jeong‐Hoon Choi;Jeong‐Hoon Choi;Sheng Dai;Sheng Dai;Jeen‐Shang Lin;Jeen‐Shang Lin;Yongkoo Seol

  • Composite thermal conductivity in a large heterogeneous porous methane hydrate sample.

    Arvind Gupta;Timothy J. Kneafsey;George J. Moridis;Yongkoo Seol

  • Experimental and Numerical Observations of Hydrate Reformation during Depressurization in a Core-Scale Reactor

    Yongkoo Seol;Evgeniy Myshakin

  • A Review of In Situ Chemical Oxidation and Heterogeneity

    Yongkoo Seol;Hubao Zhang;Frank W. Schwartz

  • X-ray computed-tomography observations of water flow through anisotropic methane hydrate-bearing sand

    Yongkoo Seol;Timothy J. Kneafsey

  • India National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02 summary of scientific results: Numerical simulation of reservoir response to depressurization

    Ray Boswell;Evgeniy Myshakin;Evgeniy Myshakin;George Moridis;George Moridis;Yoshihiro Konno

  • Methane hydrate induced permeability modification for multiphase flow in unsaturated porous media

    Yongkoo Seol;Timothy J. Kneafsey

  • Laboratory formation of noncementing hydrates in sandy sediments

    Jeong-Hoon Choi;Sheng Dai;Jong-Ho Cha;Yongkoo Seol

  • Effect of Dissolved Organic Matter in Treated Effluents on Sorption of Atrazine and Prometryn by Soils

    Yongkoo Seol;Linda S. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J. Kneafsey
Timothy J. Kneafsey Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
George J. Moridis
George J. Moridis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ray Boswell
Ray Boswell United States Department of Energy
Barry Freifeld
Barry Freifeld Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Timothy S. Collett
Timothy S. Collett United States Geological Survey
Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson
Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hui-Hai Liu
Hui-Hai Liu Saudi Aramco (United States)
Franklin W. Schwartz
Franklin W. Schwartz The Ohio State University
Stephan A. Graham
Stephan A. Graham Stanford University
Yu-Shu Wu
Yu-Shu Wu Colorado School of Mines

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