Sean McCoy

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Sean McCoy is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean McCoy has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 28 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Sean McCoy's work include Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (35 papers), CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (25 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). Sean McCoy is often cited by papers focused on Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (35 papers), CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (25 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). Sean McCoy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Sean McCoy's co-authors include Edward S. Rubin, Joule Bergerson, Md Golam Kibria, Paulina Jaramillo, W. Michael Griffin, Shariful Kibria Nabil, Navjot Sandhu, Michael Matuszewski, Daniel L. Sanchez and Peter Turner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Sean McCoy

53 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

On the climate impacts of blue hydrogen production 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

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. On the climate impacts of blue hydrogen production
    2021 233 citations Christian Bauer, Karin Treyer et al. Sustainable Energy & Fuels profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sean McCoy United States 21 1.1k 771 483 311 309 58 2.1k
Haibo Zhai United States 27 1.2k 1.1× 523 0.7× 398 0.8× 424 1.4× 538 1.7× 75 2.8k
John Davison United Kingdom 18 1.7k 1.5× 723 0.9× 362 0.7× 824 2.6× 312 1.0× 33 2.6k
Joule Bergerson Canada 28 473 0.4× 622 0.8× 835 1.7× 167 0.5× 361 1.2× 79 2.2k
Chris Hendriks Netherlands 22 1.3k 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 339 0.7× 561 1.8× 193 0.6× 48 3.2k
Andrea Schreiber Germany 27 1.2k 1.1× 594 0.8× 543 1.1× 386 1.2× 612 2.0× 48 2.9k
Mijndert van der Spek United Kingdom 22 1.2k 1.1× 382 0.5× 354 0.7× 450 1.4× 321 1.0× 63 2.1k
Simon Roussanaly Norway 35 2.2k 1.9× 1.0k 1.3× 353 0.7× 821 2.6× 392 1.3× 92 3.3k
Joris Koornneef Netherlands 16 722 0.6× 602 0.8× 270 0.6× 341 1.1× 167 0.5× 27 1.6k
Jeffrey M. Bielicki United States 29 1.2k 1.1× 1.4k 1.9× 712 1.5× 253 0.8× 278 0.9× 83 2.5k
Linwei Ma China 32 599 0.5× 1.1k 1.4× 593 1.2× 267 0.9× 533 1.7× 128 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sean McCoy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean McCoy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sean McCoy. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sean McCoy. The network helps show where Sean McCoy may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean McCoy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sean McCoy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sean McCoy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sean McCoy. Sean McCoy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rajendran, Arvind, et al.. (2025). How do ambient conditions influence sorbent selection in adsorption-based direct air capture?. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 9(16). 4404–4416.
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Ma, Haoming, Sean McCoy, & Zhangxin Chen. (2025). Development and comparison of reduced-order models for CO2-enhanced oil recovery predictions. Energy. 320. 135313–135313. 3 indexed citations
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McCoy, Sean, et al.. (2025). Toward consistent evaluation of CO2-EOR: A meta-analysis of life cycle assessments. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 146. 104430–104430.
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McCoy, Sean, et al.. (2023). Cost and Life Cycle Emissions of Ethanol Produced with an Oxyfuel Boiler and Carbon Capture and Storage. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(13). 5391–5403. 14 indexed citations
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McCoy, Sean, et al.. (2022). The impact of climate on solvent-based direct air capture systems. Applied Energy. 325. 119895–119895. 57 indexed citations
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Bauer, Christian, Karin Treyer, Cristina Antonini, et al.. (2021). On the climate impacts of blue hydrogen production. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 6(1). 66–75. 233 indexed citations breakdown →
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Müller, Leonard Jan, Arne Kätelhön, Stefan Bringezu, et al.. (2020). The carbon footprint of the carbon feedstock CO2. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(9). 2979–2992. 152 indexed citations
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Stolaroff, Joshuah K., Du T. Nguyen, Sean McCoy, et al.. (2020). Three-Dimensional Printable Sodium Carbonate Composite Sorbents for Efficient Biogas Upgrading. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(11). 6900–6907. 9 indexed citations
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Sandhu, Navjot, et al.. (2020). A life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from direct air capture and Fischer–Tropsch fuel production. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 4(6). 3129–3142. 128 indexed citations
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Nabil, Shariful Kibria, Sean McCoy, & Md Golam Kibria. (2020). Comparative life cycle assessment of electrochemical upgrading of CO 2 to fuels and feedstocks. Green Chemistry. 23(2). 867–880. 106 indexed citations
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Bergerson, Joule, Adam R. Brandt, Joe Cresko, et al.. (2019). Life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: Evaluation techniques at different stages of market and technical maturity. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 24(1). 11–25. 138 indexed citations
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Sanchez, Daniel L., Nils Johnson, Sean McCoy, Peter Turner, & Katharine J. Mach. (2018). Near-term deployment of carbon capture and sequestration from biorefineries in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(19). 4875–4880. 117 indexed citations
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Rubin, Edward S., Michael B. Berkenpas, & Sean McCoy. (2018). Technical Documentation: The Economics of CO2 Transport by Pipeline Storage in Saline Aquifers and Oil Reserves. Figshare. 1 indexed citations
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McCoy, Sean & Edward S. Rubin. (2018). Models of CO2 Transport and Storage Costs and Their Importance in CCS Cost Estimates. Figshare. 8 indexed citations
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McCoy, Sean & Edward S. Rubin. (2018). A Model of CO2-Flood Enhanced Oil Recovery with Applications to Oil Price Influence on CO2 Storage Costs. Figshare. 1 indexed citations
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Rubin, Edward S., M. Granger Morgan, Sean McCoy, & Jay Apt. (2018). Regulatory and Policy Needs for Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide. Figshare.
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Dixon, Tim, et al.. (2015). Legal and Regulatory Developments on CCS. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 40. 431–448. 64 indexed citations
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Heidug, W., et al.. (2012). Towards international guidelines for CO 2 storage resource estimation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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