Journal of Plasma Physics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Plasma Physics is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slow positron production and storage for the ASACUSA-Cusp experiment132
Influence of ion and variable dust charge on electron-dust bremsstrahlung emission spectrum in complex plasmas50
Development of compact tokamak fusion reactor use cases to inform future transport studies39
Fast magneto-acoustic wave turbulence and the Iroshnikov–Kraichnan spectrum37
On turbulent magnetic reconnection: fast and slow mean steady states36
Generalized expanding-box formulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamics in the solar wind35
Action principles and conservation laws for Chew–Goldberger–Low anisotropic plasmas32
Numerical simulation of an expanding magnetic field plasma thruster: a comparative study for argon, xenon and iodine fuel gases27
Hybrid electrostatic waves in linearized gravity26
The Okubo–Weiss-type topological criteria in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows24
Dimits transition in three-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient turbulence24
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient22
Stellarator equilibrium axis-expansion to all orders in distance from the axis for arbitrary plasma beta22
Available energy of trapped electrons in Miller tokamak equilibria22
Adjoint methods for quasi-symmetry of vacuum fields on a surface21
Correlations between X-rays, visible light and drive-beam energy loss observed in plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET-II21
Optimisation of gyrokinetic microstability using adjoint methods21
Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma20
Theory of gradient drift instabilities in low-temperature, partially magnetised plasmas20
Magnetohydrodynamic stability and the effects of shaping: a near-axis view for tokamaks and quasisymmetric stellarators20
Asymptotic quasisymmetric high-beta three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibria near axisymmetry20
Fast particle trajectories and integrability in quasiaxisymmetric and quasihelical stellarators19
An intuitive form of the energy functional for resistive plasma perturbations19
Radiation pressure acceleration of protons from structured thin-foil targets18
Seeking turbulence optimized configurations for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator: ion temperature gradient and electron temperature gradient turbulence18
A structure-preserving particle discretisation for the Lenard–Bernstein collision operator18
Iterative approach for time development calculation of tokamak plasma with eddy current effects using a 3D magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium solver17
A two-dimensional numerical study of ion-acoustic turbulence – ERRATUM17
Predicting the Z-pinch Dimits shift through gyrokinetic tertiary instability analysis of the entropy mode17
Theoretical and computational studies of the Weibel instability in several beam–plasma interaction configurations17
Advanced surrogate model for electron-scale turbulence in tokamak pedestals16
Temperature separation under compression of moderately coupled plasma16
Non-specular ion reflection at quasiperpendicular collisionless shock front16
Plasma flow suppression by the linear helical mirror system15
Observations of dust fragmentations in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak15
Microstability of β ~ 1 tokamak equilibria15
Gamma-ray flash in the interaction of a tightly focused single-cycle ultra-intense laser pulse with a solid target15
Non-thermal particle acceleration from maximum entropy in collisionless plasmas15
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using self-organizing maps (SOMs)15
Lectures on statistical mechanics15
Existence of an optimized stellarator with simple coils15
Design and construction of the near-earth space plasma simulation system of the Space Plasma Environment Research Facility15
Phase transition to blob-hole coherent structure in the Hasegawa–Mima model for plasmas14
Effects of multi-dimensionality and energy exchange on electrostatic current-driven plasma instabilities and turbulence14
Validation of magnetized gas-jet experiments to investigate the effects of an external magnetic field on laser-plasma instabilities14
Plasma potential shaping using end-electrodes in the Large Plasma Device13
Polarization effects in higher-order guiding-centre Lagrangian dynamics13
Exact boundary-value solution for an electromagnetic wave propagating in a linearly varying index of refraction13
The Gardner equation and acoustic solitary waves in plasmas13
Wave turbulence in inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics13
Coil optimization for quasi-helically symmetric stellarator configurations13
Simulation study of the influences of beryllium on the tokamak start-up process13
Drift of ablated material after pellet injection in a tokamak13
Structure and dynamics of magneto-inertial, differentially rotating laboratory plasmas13
Experimental study on the formation and evolution of unconfined counter-helicity spheromaks merging using magnetized coaxial plasma gun12
Symplectic particle-in-cell methods for hybrid plasma models with Boltzmann electrons and space-charge effects12
Lower hybrid current drive for an intense monochromatic applied field12
Reflection-driven turbulence in the super-Alfvénic solar wind12
Poloidal impurity asymmetries, flow and neoclassical transport in pedestals in the plateau and banana regimes12
High-density positron beam generation via Breit–Wheeler and trident processes using ultra-intense lasers12
The available energy of trapped electrons: a nonlinear measure for turbulent transport12
Confinement of transitioning particles in bi-helical Wendelstein-type configurations12
Characterization of admissible quasisymmetries12
Modelling a thrust imparted by a highly ionized magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster12
Direct stellarator coil design using global optimization: application to a comprehensive exploration of quasi-axisymmetric devices11
Observation of subcritical shocks in a collisional laboratory plasma: scale dependence near the resistive length11
Gyrokinetic simulation of turbulence under lower hybrid wave and electron cyclotron wave combined heating on EAST11
Scale statistics of current sheets in relativistic collisionless plasma turbulence10
Turbulence and transport in mirror geometries in the Large Plasma Device10
Free electron laser in the magnetically dominated regime: simulations with the ONEDFEL code10
Effects of mesh topology on MHD solution features in coronal simulations10
Characteristics of collisional damping of surface ion-acoustic mode in Divertor Plasma Simulator-2 (DiPS-2)10
Test particle acceleration in resistive torsional fan magnetic reconnection using laboratory plasma parameters10
Bounce-averaged theory in arbitrary multi-well plasmas: solution domains and the graph structure of their connections10
Resonant theory of kinetic ballooning modes in general toroidal geometry10
Enhanced proton acceleration from laser interaction with curved surface nanowire targets9
On the thermodynamics of SPARC plasma and its role in reducing uncertainties on the way to large fusion gain9
Scaling of the Hosking integral in decaying magnetically dominated turbulence9
Characterizing the velocity-space signature of electron Landau damping9
Radiative and continuum dampings of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes and perturbative analysis limitations for tokamaks9
Quasi-parallel propagating solitons in magnetised relativistic electron–positron plasmas9
Variational quantum simulation of the Fokker–Planck equation applied to quantum radiation reaction9
Using rational surfaces to improve pellet fuelling in stellarators9
Particle-based modelling of axisymmetric tandem mirror devices9
Terahertz radiation in the interaction of a focused laser pulse with plasma9
Improved accuracy in degenerate variational integrators for guiding centre and magnetic field line flow9
Power and particle exhaust for the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant8
Gyrofluid analysis of electron β e effects on collisionless reconnection8
Steady plasma flows in a periodic non-symmetric domain8
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient8
Gauge-invariant variational formulations of electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory8
Terahertz generation by a rotating relativistic electron beam in a magnetized plasma column8
Impact of wiggler magnetic field on wakefield generation and electron acceleration by Gaussian, super-Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian laser pulses propagating in collisionless plasma8
Gyrokinetic moment-based simulations of the Dimits shift8
The magnetohydrodynamic equations in terms of waveframe variables8
On the electric field components in the collisionless plasmoid instability8
Density jump for oblique collisionless shocks in pair plasmas: allowed solutions8
A family of quasi-axisymmetric stellarators with varied rotational transform8
Description of global EGAM in the maximum of local frequency during current ramp-up discharges in DIII-D8
Quantum calculation for two-stream instability and advection test of Vlasov–Maxwell equations: numerical evaluation of Hamiltonian simulation8
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in stellarator plasmas8
Overview of neutral beam injectors for plasma heating and diagnostics developed at Budker INP7
MHD turbulence: a biased review7
Angular splitting and selective acceleration in NiO plasmas generated by laser ablation7
Modelling the nonlinear plasma response to externally applied three-dimensional fields with the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code7
On the construction of general large-amplitude spherically polarised Alfvén waves7
Influence of magnetic configuration properties on kinetic ballooning modes in W7-X7
Drift-cyclotron loss-cone instability in 3-D simulations of a sloshing-ion simple mirror7
Trapped-particle precession and modes in quasisymmetric stellarators and tokamaks: a near-axis perspective7
Transformation of a plasma boundary curvature into electrical impulses moving along a plasma surface7
Experimental issues of energy balance in open magnetic trap7
The collisional particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov–Maxwell–Landau equations7
Emission of terahertz pulses from near-critical plasma slab under action of p-polarized laser radiation7
Elastic overtaking collisions of large-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons7
On physical investigation of ball lightnings7
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using Bessel–Gauss doughnut beams for accelerating beam guiding7
Inverse cascading for initial magnetohydrodynamic turbulence spectra between Saffman and Batchelor7
All-optical Compton scattering at shallow interaction angles7
Pressure anisotropy and viscous heating in weakly collisional plasma turbulence7
Data-driven model for divertor plasma detachment prediction7
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 1. Quick and accurate equilibria computations7
On hydromagnetic wave interactions in collisionless, high-βplasmas7
Quasilinear modelling of collisional trapped electron modes7
Quasilinear theory of Brillouin resonances in rotating magnetized plasmas7
Fresnel drag in a moving magnetised plasma7
Microphysically modified magnetosonic modes in collisionless, high-β plasmas6
Collisionless tearing instability in a relativistic pair plasma with a power-law distribution function6
Inverse cascade from helical and non-helical decaying columnar magnetic fields6
The residual flow in well-optimized stellarators6
Application of quadruple Beltrami state on Saturnian dusty plasma6
Lane dynamics in pair-ion plasmas: effect of obstacle and geometric aspect ratio6
Effects of guard and boom on needle Langmuir probes studied with particle-in-cell simulations6
Measures of quasisymmetry for stellarators6
Nonlinear dynamics in dusty plasmas subjected to photo-discharging6
Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefields6
Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas. Part 2. Current sheets and dissipation – ERRATUM6
A numerical study of gravity-driven instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma. Part 3. Homo-interaction between a pair of rising/falling bubbles/droplets6
Collisionless zonal-flow dynamics in quasisymmetric stellarators6
Ambipolar electrostatic field in dusty plasma6
Generation of energetic electrons by an electron cyclotron wave through stochastic heating in a spherical tokamak6
Radio-frequency sheath excitation at the extremities of scrape-off layer plasma filaments, mediated by resonant high harmonic fast wave scattering6
Resonant excitation of single Kelvin–Helmholtz high-order waves in a magnetized electron fluid vortex6
Kinetic stability of Chapman–Enskog plasmas6
Multi-cell trap developments towards the accumulation and confinement of large quantities of positrons6
Helical magnetic mirror performance at up- and downstream directions of the axial force6
Direct construction of stellarator-symmetric quasi-isodynamic magnetic configurations6
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient – ERRATUM6
Towards ion stopping power experiments with the laser-driven LIGHT beamline6
Four-dimensional equations for the study of electromagnetic plasma turbulence in a drift kinetic limit5
Ultrafast dynamics of a spin-polarized electron plasma with magnetic ions5
Guiding centre motion for particles in a ponderomotive magnetostatic end plug5
Calculation of collisionless pitch-angle scattering of runaway electrons with synchrotron radiation via high-order guiding-centre equation5
Effects of intermittency via non-Gaussianity on turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas5
Intermittent, reflection-driven, strong imbalanced MHD turbulence5
Outside and inside a magnetic island: different perspectives to describe the same observables5
Chaotic and integrable magnetic fields in one-dimensional hybrid Vlasov–Maxwell equilibria5
A comprehensive exploration of quasisymmetric stellarators and their coil sets5
Lane formation in 3D driven pair-ion plasmas: I Parallel External Forcing5
Application scope of the reductive perturbation method to derive the KdV equation and CKdV equation in dusty plasma5
Intermittency assessed through a model of kurtosis–skewness relation in MHD in fast dynamo regimes5
Modelling of the electron cyclotron emission burst from a laboratory tokamak plasma with loss-cone maser instability5
Particle-in-cell simulations of the tearing instability for relativistic pair plasmas5
The fast transit-time limit of magnetic pumping with trapped electrons5
Optimised stellarators with a positive radial electric field5
Dynamics of a collisional magnetized plasma sheath with non-thermal electrons, multi-component positive ions and charged dust: a fluid model analysis5
Deciphering the physical basis of the intermediate-scale instability5
Guiding-centre orbit-following simulations of charge exchange loss of NBI ions with the finite Larmor radius effect5
An analytical form of the dispersion function for local linear gyrokinetics in a curved magnetic field5
Annihilation-gamma-based diagnostic techniques for magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma5
Transient versus steady-state solutions: a qualitative study5
Fast correlation heating in moderately coupled electron–ion plasmas5
Recent results on high-β plasma confinement studies in the Gas Dynamic Trap5
Hosking integral in non-helical Hall cascade5
Temperature inversion in a confined plasma atmosphere: coarse-grained effect of temperature fluctuations at its base5
Hall magnetohydrodynamics in a relativistically strong mean magnetic field5
A single-field-period quasi-isodynamic stellarator5
The Infinity Two fusion pilot plant baseline plasma physics design5
The zonal-flow residual does not tend to zero in the limit of small mirror ratio4
Leaky modes in coronal magnetic flux tubes revisited4
Quasilinear theory for inhomogeneous plasma4
Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability properties of the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant4
Axisymmetric dynamos sustained by a modified Ohm’s law in a toroidal volume4
Probabilistic effect of metastable excitation on lock-in amplified plasma laser-induced fluorescence diagnostics at modulation frequencies comparable to the fluorescence frequency4
Eulerian and Lagrangian electron energisation during magnetic reconnection4
Proton and helium ions acceleration in near-critical density gas targets by short-pulse Ti:Sa PW-class laser4
Reduced modelling of scrape-off losses of runaway electrons during tokamak disruptions4
Beam focusing and consequences for Doppler backscattering measurements4
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 4. Bounce-averaged electrons4
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 5. Contrasting optimal and normal modes over the geometric landscape4
In search of a data-driven symbolic multi-fluid ten-moment model closure4
Reinterpreting radio frequency heating and current drive theory in a tokamak4
Quadruple Langmuir probe characterization of different fuel gases in a plasma deflagration accelerator4
Database-wide hazard modelling of the onset of DIII-D tearing modes with field features4
Efficient generation of -radiation in a beam-driven thick plasma with oblique density modulation4
Building a weak shockwave from linear modes4
Equilibriumβ-limits dependence on bootstrap current in classical stellarators4
Improved numerical simulation model for nuclear reaction rate calculations in high-speed plasma collisions4
Electromagnetic energy transport by tearing fluctuations in a self-organized reversed-field pinch plasma4
The effect of viscosity and resistivity on Rayleigh–Taylor instability induced mixing in magnetized high-energy-density plasmas4
The effects of finite electron inertia on helicity-barrier-mediated turbulence4
The Velikhov-ionisation instability revisited: a new opportunity for MHD energy conversion?4
Collisional broadening of nonlinear resonant wave–particle interactions4
Effect of ionization waves on dust chain formation in a DC discharge4
Development of the ambipolar electric field in a compressed current sheet and the impact on magnetic reconnection4
Interaction of radio frequency waves with cylindrical density filaments: scattering and radiation pressure4
A gauge-compatible Hamiltonian splitting algorithm for particle-in-cell simulations using finite element exterior calculus4
Quasilinear drift kinetic theory of alpha particle transport by neoclassical tearing modes4
The fundamental parameters of astrophysical plasma turbulence and its dissipation: non-relativistic limit4
Space–time structure of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence4
Data-driven model discovery for plasma turbulence modelling4
Transfer learning as a method to reproduce high-fidelity non-local thermodynamic equilibrium opacities in simulations4
Plasma formation with regulated electric potential distribution in SMOLA helical mirror device4
Spatial distribution of self-seeded air lasers induced by the femtosecond laser filament plasma4
Vertical displacement oscillatory modes in tokamak plasmas4
Non-trace full-F gyro-fluid interchange impurity advection3
Study of the electron–atom collisions in dense semiclassical plasma of noble gases3
Calibrated heating rate measurements using electric-field-induced electron extraction in ultracold neutral plasmas3
Shearless bifurcations in particle transport for reversed-shear tokamaks3
Piecewise field-aligned finite element method for multi-mode nonlinear particle simulations in tokamak plasmas3
Multi-scale physics of magnetic reconnection in hot magnetized plasmas3
A new reductive perturbation formalism for ion acoustic cnoidal waves3
Magnetic fields with general omnigenity3
Self-organization in the avalanche, quench and dissipation of a molecular ultracold plasma3
Nonlinear interaction of Alfvénic instabilities and turbulence via the modification of the equilibrium profiles3
Global electromagnetic turbulence simulations of W7-X-like plasmas with GENE-3D3
Turbulent magnetic decay controlled by two conserved quantities3
Impact of dynamics, entanglement and Markovian noise on the fidelity of few-qubit digital quantum simulation3
Progress of open systems at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics3
Triggering tearing in a forming current sheet with the mirror instability3
Role of the edge electric field in the resonant mode-particle interactions and the formation of transport barriers in toroidal plasmas3
Development of a field-reversed configuration device using radio frequency antennas to produce E × B for current-drive3
Finite orbit width effects in large aspect ratio stellarators3
Mapping the space of quasisymmetric stellarators using optimized near-axis expansion3
Reconnection and particle acceleration in three-dimensional current sheet evolution in moderately magnetized astrophysical pair plasma3
An adjoint-based method for optimising MHD equilibria against the infinite-n, ideal ballooning mode3
Particle-in-cell simulations of Alfvén wave parametric decay in a low-beta plasma3
Transverse magnetic field effects on the high-voltage pulsed discharge plasma in helium3
Multimode theory of electron hole transverse instability3
Reduction of electrostatic turbulence in a quasi-helically symmetric stellarator via critical gradient optimization3
Implications of weak rippling of the shock ramp on the pattern of the electromagnetic field and ion distributions3
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 2. Perturbation and continuation methods3
Density jump as a function of the field for parallel relativistic collisionless shocks3
Impact of a free normal velocity boundary on the modelling of external MHD modes3
Particle transport through localized interactions with sharp magnetic field bends in MHD turbulence3
Energy flux decomposition in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence – ERRATUM3
Coupling multi-fluid dynamics equipped with Landau closures to the particle-in-cell method3
A parallel-kinetic-perpendicular-moment model for magnetised plasmas3
A comparison of low-n Mercier unstable Wendelstein stellarators and quasi-interchange modes in tokamaks3
Isolation and phase-space energization analysis of the instabilities in collisionless shocks3
Exact nonlinear solutions for three-dimensional Alfvén-wave packets in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics3
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