Journal of Plasma Physics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Plasma Physics is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slow positron production and storage for the ASACUSA-Cusp experiment165
Influence of ion and variable dust charge on electron-dust bremsstrahlung emission spectrum in complex plasmas63
The Okubo–Weiss-type topological criteria in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows54
Numerical simulation of an expanding magnetic field plasma thruster: a comparative study for argon, xenon and iodine fuel gases42
Correlations between X-rays, visible light and drive-beam energy loss observed in plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET-II41
Available energy of trapped electrons in Miller tokamak equilibria40
On turbulent magnetic reconnection: fast and slow mean steady states30
Action principles and conservation laws for Chew–Goldberger–Low anisotropic plasmas30
Hybrid electrostatic waves in linearized gravity29
Optimisation of gyrokinetic microstability using adjoint methods27
Resonant theory of kinetic ballooning modes in general toroidal geometry – ERRATUM26
Asymptotic quasisymmetric high-beta three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibria near axisymmetry26
Generalized expanding-box formulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamics in the solar wind26
Development of compact tokamak fusion reactor use cases to inform future transport studies24
Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma23
Theory of gradient drift instabilities in low-temperature, partially magnetised plasmas23
Stellarator equilibrium axis-expansion to all orders in distance from the axis for arbitrary plasma beta21
Fast magneto-acoustic wave turbulence and the Iroshnikov–Kraichnan spectrum21
Magnetohydrodynamic stability and the effects of shaping: a near-axis view for tokamaks and quasisymmetric stellarators21
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient21
Dimits transition in three-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient turbulence21
A structure-preserving particle discretisation for the Lenard–Bernstein collision operator20
Iterative approach for time development calculation of tokamak plasma with eddy current effects using a 3D magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium solver20
Advanced surrogate model for electron-scale turbulence in tokamak pedestals20
Fast particle trajectories and integrability in quasiaxisymmetric and quasihelical stellarators20
An intuitive form of the energy functional for resistive plasma perturbations19
Lectures on statistical mechanics19
Temperature separation under compression of moderately coupled plasma19
Observations of dust fragmentations in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak19
Predicting the Z-pinch Dimits shift through gyrokinetic tertiary instability analysis of the entropy mode19
Seeking turbulence optimized configurations for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator: ion temperature gradient and electron temperature gradient turbulence19
A quasi-isodynamic stellarator configuration towards a fusion power plant18
Design and construction of the near-earth space plasma simulation system of the Space Plasma Environment Research Facility18
Non-thermal particle acceleration from maximum entropy in collisionless plasmas18
Steepening of inertial Alfvén waves18
Plasma rotation driven by lasers with zero angular momentum17
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using self-organizing maps (SOMs)16
Non-specular ion reflection at quasiperpendicular collisionless shock front16
Simulation study of the influences of beryllium on the tokamak start-up process16
A two-dimensional numerical study of ion-acoustic turbulence – ERRATUM16
The Gardner equation and acoustic solitary waves in plasmas15
Experimental study on the formation and evolution of unconfined counter-helicity spheromaks merging using magnetized coaxial plasma gun15
Confinement of transitioning particles in bi-helical Wendelstein-type configurations15
High-density positron beam generation via Breit–Wheeler and trident processes using ultra-intense lasers14
Coil optimization for quasi-helically symmetric stellarator configurations14
Poloidal impurity asymmetries, flow and neoclassical transport in pedestals in the plateau and banana regimes14
Microstability of β ~ 1 tokamak equilibria14
Wave turbulence in inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics14
Modelling a thrust imparted by a highly ionized magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster14
Characterization of admissible quasisymmetries14
Plasma potential shaping using end-electrodes in the Large Plasma Device13
Effect of eigenmode destabilisation by energetic ions on plasma rotation13
Conservative formulation of the drift-reduced fluid plasma model13
Effects of multi-dimensionality and energy exchange on electrostatic current-driven plasma instabilities and turbulence13
Structure and dynamics of magneto-inertial, differentially rotating laboratory plasmas13
Reflection-driven turbulence in the super-Alfvénic solar wind13
Validation of magnetized gas-jet experiments to investigate the effects of an external magnetic field on laser-plasma instabilities13
Lower hybrid current drive for an intense monochromatic applied field13
Symplectic particle-in-cell methods for hybrid plasma models with Boltzmann electrons and space-charge effects13
Drift of ablated material after pellet injection in a tokamak13
Omnigenous umbilic stellarators13
The available energy of trapped electrons: a nonlinear measure for turbulent transport13
Direct stellarator coil design using global optimization: application to a comprehensive exploration of quasi-axisymmetric devices12
Current sheet formation under radiative cooling12
Polarization effects in higher-order guiding-centre Lagrangian dynamics12
Gyrokinetic simulation of turbulence under lower hybrid wave and electron cyclotron wave combined heating on EAST12
Data-driven model order reduction for accelerating boundary plasma turbulence simulations12
Exact boundary-value solution for an electromagnetic wave propagating in a linearly varying index of refraction12
Bounce-averaged theory in arbitrary multi-well plasmas: solution domains and the graph structure of their connections12
Observation of subcritical shocks in a collisional laboratory plasma: scale dependence near the resistive length12
Scale statistics of current sheets in relativistic collisionless plasma turbulence11
Free electron laser in the magnetically dominated regime: simulations with the ONEDFEL code11
Turbulence and transport in mirror geometries in the Large Plasma Device11
Conservation of magnetic-helicity fluctuations due to spatial decorrelation of fluxes in decaying MHD turbulence11
Resonant theory of kinetic ballooning modes in general toroidal geometry11
Optimal Landau-type closure parameters for two-fluid simulations of plasma turbulence at kinetic scales11
Variational quantum simulation of the Fokker–Planck equation applied to quantum radiation reaction10
Characterizing the velocity-space signature of electron Landau damping10
Quasi-parallel propagating solitons in magnetised relativistic electron–positron plasmas10
Gyrokinetic moment-based simulations of the Dimits shift10
Terahertz radiation in the interaction of a focused laser pulse with plasma10
Particle-based modelling of axisymmetric tandem mirror devices10
Using rational surfaces to improve pellet fuelling in stellarators10
A family of quasi-axisymmetric stellarators with varied rotational transform10
Radiative and continuum dampings of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes and perturbative analysis limitations for tokamaks10
On the thermodynamics of SPARC plasma and its role in reducing uncertainties on the way to large fusion gain10
Enhanced proton acceleration from laser interaction with curved surface nanowire targets10
The influence of Parker spiral on the reflection-driven turbulence10
Quantum calculation for two-stream instability and advection test of Vlasov–Maxwell equations: numerical evaluation of Hamiltonian simulation9
Description of global EGAM in the maximum of local frequency during current ramp-up discharges in DIII-D9
Terahertz generation by a rotating relativistic electron beam in a magnetized plasma column9
Power and particle exhaust for the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant9
Gauge-invariant variational formulations of electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory9
The magnetohydrodynamic equations in terms of waveframe variables9
Impact of wiggler magnetic field on wakefield generation and electron acceleration by Gaussian, super-Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian laser pulses propagating in collisionless plasma9
Scaling of the Hosking integral in decaying magnetically dominated turbulence9
Quasilinear theory of Brillouin resonances in rotating magnetized plasmas9
Density jump for oblique collisionless shocks in pair plasmas: allowed solutions9
Influence of magnetic configuration properties on kinetic ballooning modes in W7-X8
Trapped-particle precession and modes in quasisymmetric stellarators and tokamaks: a near-axis perspective8
Elastic overtaking collisions of large-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons8
Linear stability studies for a quasi-axisymmetric equilibrium including plasma flow, drift and viscosity effects8
Transformation of a plasma boundary curvature into electrical impulses moving along a plasma surface8
An adjoint formulation of energetic particle confinement8
Drift-cyclotron loss-cone instability in 3-D simulations of a sloshing-ion simple mirror8
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using Bessel–Gauss doughnut beams for accelerating beam guiding8
The collisional particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov–Maxwell–Landau equations8
On hydromagnetic wave interactions in collisionless, high-βplasmas8
ARC physics basis–magnetohydrodynamics8
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in stellarator plasmas8
Kinetic stability of Chapman–Enskog plasmas8
All-optical Compton scattering at shallow interaction angles8
Data-driven model for divertor plasma detachment prediction7
Microphysically modified magnetosonic modes in collisionless, high-β plasmas7
Collisionless tearing instability in a relativistic pair plasma with a power-law distribution function7
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 1. Quick and accurate equilibria computations7
Modelling the nonlinear plasma response to externally applied three-dimensional fields with the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code7
Fresnel drag in a moving magnetised plasma7
On the construction of general large-amplitude spherically polarised Alfvén waves7
Helical magnetic mirror performance at up- and downstream directions of the axial force7
Nonlinear dynamics in dusty plasmas subjected to photo-discharging7
ARC physics basis–magnetohydrodynamics7
Experimental issues of energy balance in open magnetic trap7
Overview of neutral beam injectors for plasma heating and diagnostics developed at Budker INP7
Angular splitting and selective acceleration in NiO plasmas generated by laser ablation7
Quasilinear modelling of collisional trapped electron modes7
Extending near-axis equilibria in $\mathtt {DESC}$7
Multi-cell trap developments towards the accumulation and confinement of large quantities of positrons7
A numerical study of gravity-driven instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma. Part 3. Homo-interaction between a pair of rising/falling bubbles/droplets7
MHD turbulence: a biased review7
Gyrokinetic simulations of magnetohydrodynamic modes in stellarator plasmas7
Inverse cascading for initial magnetohydrodynamic turbulence spectra between Saffman and Batchelor7
Emission of terahertz pulses from near-critical plasma slab under action of p-polarized laser radiation7
Pressure anisotropy and viscous heating in weakly collisional plasma turbulence7
Radio-frequency sheath excitation at the extremities of scrape-off layer plasma filaments, mediated by resonant high harmonic fast wave scattering6
Hall magnetohydrodynamics in a relativistically strong mean magnetic field6
The Infinity Two fusion pilot plant baseline plasma physics design6
Guiding-centre orbit-following simulations of charge exchange loss of NBI ions with the finite Larmor radius effect6
Chaotic and integrable magnetic fields in one-dimensional hybrid Vlasov–Maxwell equilibria6
Transient versus steady-state solutions: a qualitative study6
Calculation of collisionless pitch-angle scattering of runaway electrons with synchrotron radiation via high-order guiding-centre equation6
Modelling of the electron cyclotron emission burst from a laboratory tokamak plasma with loss-cone maser instability6
Particle-in-cell simulations of the tearing instability for relativistic pair plasmas6
Machine learning surrogates for ion energy–angle distributions in thermal and RF plasma sheaths6
Direct construction of stellarator-symmetric quasi-isodynamic magnetic configurations6
Imposing quasineutrality on electrostatic plasmas via the Dirac theory of constraints6
Resonant excitation of single Kelvin–Helmholtz high-order waves in a magnetized electron fluid vortex6
Ultrafast dynamics of a spin-polarized electron plasma with magnetic ions6
Outside and inside a magnetic island: different perspectives to describe the same observables6
A single-field-period quasi-isodynamic stellarator6
Deciphering the physical basis of the intermediate-scale instability6
Fast correlation heating in moderately coupled electron–ion plasmas6
Annihilation-gamma-based diagnostic techniques for magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma6
An analytical form of the dispersion function for local linear gyrokinetics in a curved magnetic field6
Guiding centre motion for particles in a ponderomotive magnetostatic end plug6
Towards ion stopping power experiments with the laser-driven LIGHT beamline6
Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefields6
Application of quadruple Beltrami state on Saturnian dusty plasma6
Lane formation in 3D driven pair-ion plasmas: I Parallel External Forcing6
Generation of energetic electrons by an electron cyclotron wave through stochastic heating in a spherical tokamak6
A comprehensive exploration of quasisymmetric stellarators and their coil sets6
Experimental study of argon gas breakdown with symmetric and asymmetric electrode configurations6
Hosking integral in non-helical Hall cascade6
Inverse cascade from helical and non-helical decaying columnar magnetic fields6
Recent results on high-β plasma confinement studies in the Gas Dynamic Trap6
Intermittency assessed through a model of kurtosis–skewness relation in MHD in fast dynamo regimes6
Application scope of the reductive perturbation method to derive the KdV equation and CKdV equation in dusty plasma6
Effects of guard and boom on needle Langmuir probes studied with particle-in-cell simulations6
Collisionless zonal-flow dynamics in quasisymmetric stellarators6
The residual flow in well-optimized stellarators6
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient – ERRATUM6
Data-driven model discovery for plasma turbulence modelling5
Dynamics of a collisional magnetized plasma sheath with non-thermal electrons, multi-component positive ions and charged dust: a fluid model analysis5
Beam focusing and consequences for Doppler backscattering measurements5
Eulerian and Lagrangian electron energisation during magnetic reconnection5
The Velikhov-ionisation instability revisited: a new opportunity for MHD energy conversion?5
Detecting shearless phase-space transport barriers in global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations with test particle map models5
Axisymmetric dynamos sustained by a modified Ohm’s law in a toroidal volume5
Proton and helium ions acceleration in near-critical density gas targets by short-pulse Ti:Sa PW-class laser5
Equilibriumβ-limits dependence on bootstrap current in classical stellarators5
Extended envelope nonlinear waves in dusty plasma chain5
Optimised stellarators with a positive radial electric field5
Twisted magnetar magnetospheres: a class of semi-analytical force-free non-rotating solutions5
Plasma formation with regulated electric potential distribution in SMOLA helical mirror device5
Temperature inversion in a confined plasma atmosphere: coarse-grained effect of temperature fluctuations at its base5
Space–time structure of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence5
Quasilinear drift kinetic theory of alpha particle transport by neoclassical tearing modes5
The hot-electron closure of the moment-based gyrokinetic plasma model5
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 5. Contrasting optimal and normal modes over the geometric landscape5
Efficient generation of -radiation in a beam-driven thick plasma with oblique density modulation5
Vertical displacement oscillatory modes in tokamak plasmas5
In search of a data-driven symbolic multi-fluid ten-moment model closure5
Reduced modelling of scrape-off losses of runaway electrons during tokamak disruptions5
Transfer learning as a method to reproduce high-fidelity non-local thermodynamic equilibrium opacities in simulations5
The effects of finite electron inertia on helicity-barrier-mediated turbulence5
Spatial distribution of self-seeded air lasers induced by the femtosecond laser filament plasma5
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 4. Bounce-averaged electrons5
Theory of striped dynamic spectra of the Crab pulsar high-frequency interpulse5
Influence of finite ion Larmor radius on the dynamics of weakly collisional plasma jets colliding in a magnetic arch5
The fundamental parameters of astrophysical plasma turbulence and its dissipation: non-relativistic limit5
Is there an exact magnetic moment for charged particle motion in a time-dependent, homogeneous magnetic field?5
Intermittent, reflection-driven, strong imbalanced MHD turbulence5
Reinterpreting radio frequency heating and current drive theory in a tokamak4
The effect of shear flow on the resistive tearing instability4
Database-wide hazard modelling of the onset of DIII-D tearing modes with field features4
Towards fast and accurate predictions of radio frequency power deposition and current profile via data-driven modelling: applications to lower hybrid current drive4
Impact of dynamics, entanglement and Markovian noise on the fidelity of few-qubit digital quantum simulation4
Shearless bifurcations in particle transport for reversed-shear tokamaks4
The zonal-flow residual does not tend to zero in the limit of small mirror ratio4
Magnetic fields with general omnigenity4
Calibrated heating rate measurements using electric-field-induced electron extraction in ultracold neutral plasmas4
Energetic particle tracing in optimized quasi-symmetric stellarator equilibria4
Piecewise field-aligned finite element method for multi-mode nonlinear particle simulations in tokamak plasmas4
Plasma pressure response to non-inductive current drive in axisymmetric visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic steady states4
Mapping the space of quasisymmetric stellarators using optimized near-axis expansion4
Assessing parametric instabilities of trapped microwaves in full spatio-temporal framework4
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 2. Perturbation and continuation methods4
Development of the ambipolar electric field in a compressed current sheet and the impact on magnetic reconnection4
Leaky modes in coronal magnetic flux tubes revisited4
Multi-scale physics of magnetic reconnection in hot magnetized plasmas4
Sheath formation time for spherical Langmuir probes4
Transverse magnetic field effects on the high-voltage pulsed discharge plasma in helium4
Reduction of electrostatic turbulence in a quasi-helically symmetric stellarator via critical gradient optimization4
Role of the edge electric field in the resonant mode-particle interactions and the formation of transport barriers in toroidal plasmas4
Development of a field-reversed configuration device using radio frequency antennas to produce E × B for current-drive4
Fast ion generation by combined RF-NBI heating in W7-X4
Energy flux decomposition in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence – ERRATUM4
Particle transport through localized interactions with sharp magnetic field bends in MHD turbulence4
Lagrangian features of turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas: the Cyclone Base Case4
Quasilinear theory for inhomogeneous plasma4
Electromagnetic oscillations and anomalous ion scattering in the helically symmetric multiple-mirror trap4
Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability properties of the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant4
Finite orbit width effects in large aspect ratio stellarators4
Improved numerical simulation model for nuclear reaction rate calculations in high-speed plasma collisions4
Quadruple Langmuir probe characterization of different fuel gases in a plasma deflagration accelerator4
Quantum simulation of nonlinear dynamical systems using repeated measurement4
Machine-learning-based models in particle-in-cell codes for advanced physics extensions4
Multimode theory of electron hole transverse instability4
Coupling multi-fluid dynamics equipped with Landau closures to the particle-in-cell method4
Metastability of stratified magnetohydrostatic equilibria and their relaxation4
Density jump as a function of the field for parallel relativistic collisionless shocks4
Hybrid simulations of m/n = 1/1 instability driven by energetic counter-passing particles in tokamak plasmas4
Beyond analytic approximations with machine learning inference of plasma parameters and confidence intervals4
On the importance of flux-driven turbulence regime to address tokamak plasma edge dynamics4
A new reductive perturbation formalism for ion acoustic cnoidal waves4
Variation of instability characteristics and resulting electron transport under external modulation in E × B 4
Progress of open systems at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics4
Parameter optimisation design of helicon wave plasma source in High Magnetic field Helicon eXperiment4
Collisional alpha particle transport in a quasisymmetric stellarator with a single helicity imperfection3
Laser pulse focusing and energetic electron generation by magnetised plasma lens3
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