John Killough

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

John Killough is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, John Killough has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Ocean Engineering, 110 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 61 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in John Killough's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (108 papers), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (60 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (54 papers). John Killough is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (108 papers), Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (60 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (54 papers). John Killough collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Qatar. John Killough's co-authors include Yuhe Wang, Bicheng Yan, Hewei Tang, Cheng An, Masoud Alfi, Hongqing Song, Zhi Chai, Xuyang Guo, María A. Barrufet and Jingwei Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Water Resources Research and Chemical Engineering Journal.

In The Last Decade

John Killough

160 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Reservoir Simulation With History-Dependent Saturation Fu... 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 100 200 300
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Reservoir Simulation With History-Dependent Saturation Functions
    1976 369 citations John Killough profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Killough United States 32 2.5k 2.2k 1.4k 658 414 161 3.4k
Maša Prodanović United States 35 2.6k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 1.9k 1.3× 773 1.2× 305 0.7× 151 3.9k
S. Bakke Norway 15 2.4k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 1.8k 1.2× 634 1.0× 265 0.6× 28 2.9k
Peter P. Valkó United States 30 2.0k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 718 0.5× 319 0.5× 196 0.5× 149 3.6k
Hossein Kazemi United States 36 4.9k 2.0× 5.0k 2.3× 2.5k 1.7× 1.5k 2.3× 828 2.0× 247 6.8k
Faruk O. Alpak United States 24 1.4k 0.6× 987 0.4× 649 0.4× 341 0.5× 388 0.9× 157 2.2k
T. S. Ramakrishnan United States 24 1.2k 0.5× 874 0.4× 586 0.4× 723 1.1× 336 0.8× 99 2.1k
C. Zarcone France 16 2.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 2.0× 181 0.4× 21 3.4k
T. A. Blasingame United States 41 4.4k 1.8× 4.5k 2.0× 2.1k 1.5× 586 0.9× 484 1.2× 206 5.4k
I. Yücel Akkutlu United States 34 3.0k 1.2× 2.4k 1.1× 4.2k 2.9× 589 0.9× 241 0.6× 113 4.9k
Turgay Ertekin United States 30 3.2k 1.3× 2.5k 1.1× 1.7k 1.2× 429 0.7× 244 0.6× 219 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Killough

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Killough, John, et al.. (2021). Transient Temperature Impact on Deep Reservoir Fracturing. Geofluids. 2021. 1–9. 7 indexed citations
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Huang, Jingwei, et al.. (2020). Effect of vertical heterogeneity and nano-confinement on the recovery performance of oil-rich shale reservoir. Fuel. 267. 117199–117199. 14 indexed citations
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Huang, Jingwei, et al.. (2019). Compositional simulation of three-phase flow in mixed-wet shale oil reservoir. Fuel. 260. 116361–116361. 40 indexed citations
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Huang, Jingwei, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of CO2 injection into shale gas reservoirs considering dispersed distribution of kerogen. Applied Energy. 260. 114285–114285. 45 indexed citations
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Huang, Jingwei, Xiaolong Yin, & John Killough. (2019). Thermodynamic consistency of a pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann fluid with interface curvature. Physical review. E. 100(5). 53304–53304. 18 indexed citations
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Tang, Hewei, Zhuang Sun, Youwei He, et al.. (2019). Investigating the pressure characteristics and production performance of liquid-loaded horizontal wells in unconventional gas reservoirs. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 176. 456–465. 40 indexed citations
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Tang, Hewei, A. R. Hasan, & John Killough. (2018). Development and Application of a Fully Implicitly Coupled Wellbore/Reservoir Simulator To Characterize the Transient Liquid Loading in Horizontal Gas Wells. SPE Journal. 23(5). 1615–1629. 26 indexed citations
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Tang, Hewei, et al.. (2018). Modeling wellbore heat exchangers: Fully numerical to fully analytical solutions. Renewable Energy. 133. 1124–1135. 33 indexed citations
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Guo, Xuyang, Hongqing Song, Kan Wu, & John Killough. (2017). Pressure characteristics and performance of multi-stage fractured horizontal well in shale gas reservoirs with coupled flow and geomechanics. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 163. 1–15. 29 indexed citations
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An, Cheng, Yi Fang, Masoud Alfi, et al.. (2017). Impacts of Matrix Shrinkage and Stress Changes on Permeability and Gas Production of Organic-Rich Shale Reservoirs. SPE Reservoir Characterisation and Simulation Conference and Exhibition. 24 indexed citations
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An, Cheng, Bicheng Yan, Masoud Alfi, et al.. (2017). Estimating spatial distribution of natural fractures by changing NMR T2 relaxation with magnetic nanoparticles. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 157. 273–287. 21 indexed citations
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Song, Hongqing, et al.. (2016). Analytical modeling of gas production rate in tight channel sand formation and optimization of artificial fracture. SpringerPlus. 5(1). 540–540. 5 indexed citations
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Yan, Bicheng, Yuhe Wang, & John Killough. (2015). Beyond dual-porosity modeling for the simulation of complex flow mechanisms in shale reservoirs. Computational Geosciences. 20(1). 69–91. 111 indexed citations
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Alfi, Masoud, Bicheng Yan, Yang Cao, et al.. (2015). Microscale porosity models as powerful tools to analyze hydrocarbon production mechanisms in liquid shale. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 26. 1495–1505. 26 indexed citations
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Yan, Bicheng, Masoud Alfi, Yuhe Wang, & John Killough. (2013). A New Approach for the Simulation of Fluid Flow in Unconventional Reservoirs through Multiple Permeability Modeling. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. 49 indexed citations
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Wang, Yuhe, Bicheng Yan, & John Killough. (2013). Compositional Modeling of Tight Oil Using Dynamic Nanopore Properties. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. 84 indexed citations
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Yan, Bicheng, Yuhe Wang, & John Killough. (2013). Beyond Dual-Porosity Modeling for the Simulation of Complex Flow Mechanisms in Shale Reservoirs. 56 indexed citations
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Killough, John, et al.. (1982). The Prudhoe Bay Field: Simulation of a Complex Reservoir. 13 indexed citations

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