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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slow positron production and storage for the ASACUSA-Cusp experiment140
Influence of ion and variable dust charge on electron-dust bremsstrahlung emission spectrum in complex plasmas55
Correlations between X-rays, visible light and drive-beam energy loss observed in plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET-II42
Stellarator equilibrium axis-expansion to all orders in distance from the axis for arbitrary plasma beta38
Adjoint methods for quasi-symmetry of vacuum fields on a surface38
Magnetohydrodynamic stability and the effects of shaping: a near-axis view for tokamaks and quasisymmetric stellarators34
Available energy of trapped electrons in Miller tokamak equilibria29
Theory of gradient drift instabilities in low-temperature, partially magnetised plasmas26
The Okubo–Weiss-type topological criteria in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows25
On turbulent magnetic reconnection: fast and slow mean steady states24
Action principles and conservation laws for Chew–Goldberger–Low anisotropic plasmas24
Hybrid electrostatic waves in linearized gravity23
Dimits transition in three-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient turbulence23
Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma21
Development of compact tokamak fusion reactor use cases to inform future transport studies21
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient21
Asymptotic quasisymmetric high-beta three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibria near axisymmetry21
Fast magneto-acoustic wave turbulence and the Iroshnikov–Kraichnan spectrum20
Numerical simulation of an expanding magnetic field plasma thruster: a comparative study for argon, xenon and iodine fuel gases20
Optimisation of gyrokinetic microstability using adjoint methods20
Generalized expanding-box formulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamics in the solar wind20
Non-specular ion reflection at quasiperpendicular collisionless shock front18
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
Existence of an optimized stellarator with simple coils18
Fast particle trajectories and integrability in quasiaxisymmetric and quasihelical stellarators18
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
Temperature separation under compression of moderately coupled plasma17
Iterative approach for time development calculation of tokamak plasma with eddy current effects using a 3D magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium solver17
Lectures on statistical mechanics16
Plasma flow suppression by the linear helical mirror system16
Gamma-ray flash in the interaction of a tightly focused single-cycle ultra-intense laser pulse with a solid target16
Advanced surrogate model for electron-scale turbulence in tokamak pedestals16
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using self-organizing maps (SOMs)16
Observations of dust fragmentations in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak16
An intuitive form of the energy functional for resistive plasma perturbations15
Design and construction of the near-earth space plasma simulation system of the Space Plasma Environment Research Facility15
Non-thermal particle acceleration from maximum entropy in collisionless plasmas15
Theoretical and computational studies of the Weibel instability in several beam–plasma interaction configurations15
Simulation study of the influences of beryllium on the tokamak start-up process14
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
Exact boundary-value solution for an electromagnetic wave propagating in a linearly varying index of refraction13
Poloidal impurity asymmetries, flow and neoclassical transport in pedestals in the plateau and banana regimes13
Polarization effects in higher-order guiding-centre Lagrangian dynamics13
Wave turbulence in inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics13
Confinement of transitioning particles in bi-helical Wendelstein-type configurations13
The Gardner equation and acoustic solitary waves in plasmas13
Structure and dynamics of magneto-inertial, differentially rotating laboratory plasmas13
Reflection-driven turbulence in the super-Alfvénic solar wind13
Experimental study on the formation and evolution of unconfined counter-helicity spheromaks merging using magnetized coaxial plasma gun13
Direct stellarator coil design using global optimization: application to a comprehensive exploration of quasi-axisymmetric devices12
Lower hybrid current drive for an intense monochromatic applied field12
Characterization of admissible quasisymmetries12
Coil optimization for quasi-helically symmetric stellarator configurations12
Modelling a thrust imparted by a highly ionized magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster12
Symplectic particle-in-cell methods for hybrid plasma models with Boltzmann electrons and space-charge effects12
The available energy of trapped electrons: a nonlinear measure for turbulent transport12
High-density positron beam generation via Breit–Wheeler and trident processes using ultra-intense lasers12
Plasma potential shaping using end-electrodes in the Large Plasma Device11
Observation of subcritical shocks in a collisional laboratory plasma: scale dependence near the resistive length11
Drift of ablated material after pellet injection in a tokamak11
Microstability of β ~ 1 tokamak equilibria11
Gyrokinetic simulation of turbulence under lower hybrid wave and electron cyclotron wave combined heating on EAST11
Bounce-averaged theory in arbitrary multi-well plasmas: solution domains and the graph structure of their connections10
Current sheet formation under radiative cooling10
Enhanced proton acceleration from laser interaction with curved surface nanowire targets10
Terahertz radiation in the interaction of a focused laser pulse with plasma10
A family of quasi-axisymmetric stellarators with varied rotational transform10
Free electron laser in the magnetically dominated regime: simulations with the ONEDFEL code10
Scale statistics of current sheets in relativistic collisionless plasma turbulence10
Turbulence and transport in mirror geometries in the Large Plasma Device10
Particle-based modelling of axisymmetric tandem mirror devices10
Improved accuracy in degenerate variational integrators for guiding centre and magnetic field line flow10
Radiative and continuum dampings of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes and perturbative analysis limitations for tokamaks10
Effects of mesh topology on MHD solution features in coronal simulations10
Resonant theory of kinetic ballooning modes in general toroidal geometry10
Using rational surfaces to improve pellet fuelling in stellarators10
On the thermodynamics of SPARC plasma and its role in reducing uncertainties on the way to large fusion gain10
Gyrokinetic moment-based simulations of the Dimits shift10
Variational quantum simulation of the Fokker–Planck equation applied to quantum radiation reaction9
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
Gyrofluid analysis of electron β e effects on collisionless reconnection9
Description of global EGAM in the maximum of local frequency during current ramp-up discharges in DIII-D9
Gauge-invariant variational formulations of electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory9
Characterizing the velocity-space signature of electron Landau damping9
Quasi-parallel propagating solitons in magnetised relativistic electron–positron plasmas9
Quantum calculation for two-stream instability and advection test of Vlasov–Maxwell equations: numerical evaluation of Hamiltonian simulation9
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using Bessel–Gauss doughnut beams for accelerating beam guiding8
Drift-cyclotron loss-cone instability in 3-D simulations of a sloshing-ion simple mirror8
Density jump for oblique collisionless shocks in pair plasmas: allowed solutions8
Terahertz generation by a rotating relativistic electron beam in a magnetized plasma column8
The magnetohydrodynamic equations in terms of waveframe variables8
Power and particle exhaust for the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant8
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient8
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in stellarator plasmas8
Trapped-particle precession and modes in quasisymmetric stellarators and tokamaks: a near-axis perspective8
On the electric field components in the collisionless plasmoid instability8
Quasilinear theory of Brillouin resonances in rotating magnetized plasmas8
Transformation of a plasma boundary curvature into electrical impulses moving along a plasma surface7
Inverse cascading for initial magnetohydrodynamic turbulence spectra between Saffman and Batchelor7
Quasilinear modelling of collisional trapped electron modes7
Elastic overtaking collisions of large-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons7
Angular splitting and selective acceleration in NiO plasmas generated by laser ablation7
The collisional particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov–Maxwell–Landau equations7
Collisionless tearing instability in a relativistic pair plasma with a power-law distribution function7
MHD turbulence: a biased review7
Pressure anisotropy and viscous heating in weakly collisional plasma turbulence7
Emission of terahertz pulses from near-critical plasma slab under action of p-polarized laser radiation7
Modelling the nonlinear plasma response to externally applied three-dimensional fields with the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code7
On hydromagnetic wave interactions in collisionless, high-βplasmas7
Influence of magnetic configuration properties on kinetic ballooning modes in W7-X7
Collisionless zonal-flow dynamics in quasisymmetric stellarators7
Microphysically modified magnetosonic modes in collisionless, high-β plasmas7
Resonant excitation of single Kelvin–Helmholtz high-order waves in a magnetized electron fluid vortex7
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 1. Quick and accurate equilibria computations7
Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefields7
All-optical Compton scattering at shallow interaction angles7
Experimental issues of energy balance in open magnetic trap7
Overview of neutral beam injectors for plasma heating and diagnostics developed at Budker INP7
On the construction of general large-amplitude spherically polarised Alfvén waves7
Fresnel drag in a moving magnetised plasma7
Kinetic stability of Chapman–Enskog plasmas7
Nonlinear dynamics in dusty plasmas subjected to photo-discharging7
Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas. Part 2. Current sheets and dissipation – ERRATUM7
Data-driven model for divertor plasma detachment prediction7
Helical magnetic mirror performance at up- and downstream directions of the axial force6
Multi-cell trap developments towards the accumulation and confinement of large quantities of positrons6
Radio-frequency sheath excitation at the extremities of scrape-off layer plasma filaments, mediated by resonant high harmonic fast wave scattering6
Inverse cascade from helical and non-helical decaying columnar magnetic fields6
Lane formation in 3D driven pair-ion plasmas: I Parallel External Forcing6
Intermittency assessed through a model of kurtosis–skewness relation in MHD in fast dynamo regimes6
Four-dimensional equations for the study of electromagnetic plasma turbulence in a drift kinetic limit6
Effects of guard and boom on needle Langmuir probes studied with particle-in-cell simulations6
A numerical study of gravity-driven instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma. Part 3. Homo-interaction between a pair of rising/falling bubbles/droplets6
Measures of quasisymmetry for stellarators6
Direct construction of stellarator-symmetric quasi-isodynamic magnetic configurations6
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient – ERRATUM6
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
An analytical form of the dispersion function for local linear gyrokinetics in a curved magnetic field6
Application of quadruple Beltrami state on Saturnian dusty plasma6
The residual flow in well-optimized stellarators6
Towards ion stopping power experiments with the laser-driven LIGHT beamline6
Ambipolar electrostatic field in dusty plasma6
Guiding centre motion for particles in a ponderomotive magnetostatic end plug6
Ultrafast dynamics of a spin-polarized electron plasma with magnetic ions6
Annihilation-gamma-based diagnostic techniques for magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma6
Generation of energetic electrons by an electron cyclotron wave through stochastic heating in a spherical tokamak6
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 4. Bounce-averaged electrons5
The effect of viscosity and resistivity on Rayleigh–Taylor instability induced mixing in magnetized high-energy-density plasmas5
The effects of finite electron inertia on helicity-barrier-mediated turbulence5
Application scope of the reductive perturbation method to derive the KdV equation and CKdV equation in dusty plasma5
A single-field-period quasi-isodynamic stellarator5
Recent results on high-β plasma confinement studies in the Gas Dynamic Trap5
Intermittent, reflection-driven, strong imbalanced MHD turbulence5
The Velikhov-ionisation instability revisited: a new opportunity for MHD energy conversion?5
Hall magnetohydrodynamics in a relativistically strong mean magnetic field5
Beam focusing and consequences for Doppler backscattering measurements5
Deciphering the physical basis of the intermediate-scale instability5
Quasilinear drift kinetic theory of alpha particle transport by neoclassical tearing modes5
Building a weak shockwave from linear modes5
Dynamics of a collisional magnetized plasma sheath with non-thermal electrons, multi-component positive ions and charged dust: a fluid model analysis5
Spatial distribution of self-seeded air lasers induced by the femtosecond laser filament plasma5
Reduced modelling of scrape-off losses of runaway electrons during tokamak disruptions5
Hosking integral in non-helical Hall cascade5
The Infinity Two fusion pilot plant baseline plasma physics design5
Temperature inversion in a confined plasma atmosphere: coarse-grained effect of temperature fluctuations at its base5
Optimised stellarators with a positive radial electric field5
Fast correlation heating in moderately coupled electron–ion plasmas5
Chaotic and integrable magnetic fields in one-dimensional hybrid Vlasov–Maxwell equilibria5
Proton and helium ions acceleration in near-critical density gas targets by short-pulse Ti:Sa PW-class laser5
A comprehensive exploration of quasisymmetric stellarators and their coil sets5
Probabilistic effect of metastable excitation on lock-in amplified plasma laser-induced fluorescence diagnostics at modulation frequencies comparable to the fluorescence frequency5
Electromagnetic energy transport by tearing fluctuations in a self-organized reversed-field pinch plasma5
Data-driven model discovery for plasma turbulence modelling5
Transfer learning as a method to reproduce high-fidelity non-local thermodynamic equilibrium opacities in simulations5
Modelling of the electron cyclotron emission burst from a laboratory tokamak plasma with loss-cone maser instability5
Outside and inside a magnetic island: different perspectives to describe the same observables5
Guiding-centre orbit-following simulations of charge exchange loss of NBI ions with the finite Larmor radius effect5
Particle-in-cell simulations of the tearing instability for relativistic pair plasmas5
Plasma formation with regulated electric potential distribution in SMOLA helical mirror device5
Effects of intermittency via non-Gaussianity on turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas5
Axisymmetric dynamos sustained by a modified Ohm’s law in a toroidal volume5
Equilibriumβ-limits dependence on bootstrap current in classical stellarators5
Finite orbit width effects in large aspect ratio stellarators4
Ambipolar electrostatic field in dusty plasma – ERRATUM4
The effect of shear flow on the resistive tearing instability4
Beyond analytic approximations with machine learning inference of plasma parameters and confidence intervals4
Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability properties of the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant4
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 5. Contrasting optimal and normal modes over the geometric landscape4
Plasma pressure response to non-inductive current drive in axisymmetric visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic steady states4
Development of the ambipolar electric field in a compressed current sheet and the impact on magnetic reconnection4
Calibrated heating rate measurements using electric-field-induced electron extraction in ultracold neutral plasmas4
The fundamental parameters of astrophysical plasma turbulence and its dissipation: non-relativistic limit4
Efficient generation of -radiation in a beam-driven thick plasma with oblique density modulation4
Space–time structure of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence4
Quadruple Langmuir probe characterization of different fuel gases in a plasma deflagration accelerator4
Triggering tearing in a forming current sheet with the mirror instability4
Electromagnetic oscillations and anomalous ion scattering in the helically symmetric multiple-mirror trap4
Mapping the space of quasisymmetric stellarators using optimized near-axis expansion4
On the importance of flux-driven turbulence regime to address tokamak plasma edge dynamics4
Improved numerical simulation model for nuclear reaction rate calculations in high-speed plasma collisions4
Sheath formation time for spherical Langmuir probes4
Particle transport through localized interactions with sharp magnetic field bends in MHD turbulence4
Quantum simulation of nonlinear dynamical systems using repeated measurement4
Multi-scale physics of magnetic reconnection in hot magnetized plasmas4
Surface waves in a streaming plasma propagating in a duct: kinetic theory4
Database-wide hazard modelling of the onset of DIII-D tearing modes with field features4
Vertical displacement oscillatory modes in tokamak plasmas4
Eulerian and Lagrangian electron energisation during magnetic reconnection4
Hybrid simulations of m/n = 1/1 instability driven by energetic counter-passing particles in tokamak plasmas4
Density jump as a function of the field for parallel relativistic collisionless shocks4
Metastability of stratified magnetohydrostatic equilibria and their relaxation4
Piecewise field-aligned finite element method for multi-mode nonlinear particle simulations in tokamak plasmas4
Coupling multi-fluid dynamics equipped with Landau closures to the particle-in-cell method4
The zonal-flow residual does not tend to zero in the limit of small mirror ratio4
Quasilinear theory for inhomogeneous plasma4
Machine-learning-based models in particle-in-cell codes for advanced physics extensions4
Reinterpreting radio frequency heating and current drive theory in a tokamak4
Implications of weak rippling of the shock ramp on the pattern of the electromagnetic field and ion distributions4
Leaky modes in coronal magnetic flux tubes revisited4
Energetic particle tracing in optimized quasi-symmetric stellarator equilibria4
A gauge-compatible Hamiltonian splitting algorithm for particle-in-cell simulations using finite element exterior calculus4
In search of a data-driven symbolic multi-fluid ten-moment model closure4
Development of a field-reversed configuration device using radio frequency antennas to produce E × B for current-drive4
Energy flux decomposition in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence – ERRATUM4
Vlasov–Maxwell equations with spin effects3
On reduced modelling of the modulational dynamics in magnetohydrodynamics3
Statistical characterization of experimental magnetized liner inertial fusion stagnation images using deep-learning-based fuel–background segmentation3
The shear Alfvén continuum of quasisymmetric stellarators3
Magnetohydrodynami stability and the effects of shaping: a near-axis view for tokamaks and quasisymmetric stellarators – ERRATUM3
Collisional alpha particle transport in a quasisymmetric stellarator with a single helicity imperfection3
Strong gradient effects on neoclassical electron transport and the bootstrap current in large aspect ratio tokamaks3
Optical diagnosis of a kHz-driven helium atmospheric pressure plasma jet3
High-energy proton beam acceleration driven by an intense ultrarelativistic electron beam in plasma3
Neoclassical transport in strong gradient regions of large aspect ratio tokamaks3
The gyrokinetic field invariant and electromagnetic temperature-gradient instabilities in ‘good-curvature’ plasmas3
Scale invariance and critical balance in electrostatic drift-kinetic turbulence3
Momentum transfer and plasma rotation caused by destabilized eigenmodes in tokamaks3
Non-locality of ion reflection at the shock front: dependence on the shock angle3
Collisional damping of wave modes in ion–electron plasmas3
Energy partition between Alfvénic and compressive fluctuations in magnetorotational turbulence with near-azimuthal mean magnetic field3
Negative energy standing wave instability in the presence of flow – ERRATUM3
Instabilities in a current sheet with plasma jet3
Microscopic scales of linear tearing modes: a tutorial on boundary layer theory for magnetic reconnection – CORRIGENDUM3
Characteristics of betatron radiation in AWAKE Run 2 experiment3
Verifying raytracing/Fokker–Planck lower-hybrid current drive predictions with self-consistent full-wave/Fokker–Planck simulations3
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