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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Adjoint methods for quasi-symmetry of vacuum fields on a surface107
Slow positron production and storage for the ASACUSA-Cusp experiment35
Development of compact tokamak fusion reactor use cases to inform future transport studies35
Influence of ion and variable dust charge on electron-dust bremsstrahlung emission spectrum in complex plasmas34
Correlations between X-rays, visible light and drive-beam energy loss observed in plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET-II33
Theory of gradient drift instabilities in low-temperature, partially magnetised plasmas27
Asymptotic quasisymmetric high-beta three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibria near axisymmetry26
Available energy of trapped electrons in Miller tokamak equilibria26
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient22
On turbulent magnetic reconnection: fast and slow mean steady states21
Dimits transition in three-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient turbulence21
Generalized expanding-box formulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamics in the solar wind20
Magnetohydrodynamic stability and the effects of shaping: a near-axis view for tokamaks and quasisymmetric stellarators20
A numerical study of gravity-driven instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma. Part 2. Hetero-interactions between a rising bubble and a falling droplet20
Fast magneto-acoustic wave turbulence and the Iroshnikov–Kraichnan spectrum19
Action principles and conservation laws for Chew–Goldberger–Low anisotropic plasmas19
Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma19
The Okubo–Weiss-type topological criteria in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows18
Numerical simulation of an expanding magnetic field plasma thruster: a comparative study for argon, xenon and iodine fuel gases18
Optimisation of gyrokinetic microstability using adjoint methods18
Stellarator equilibrium axis-expansion to all orders in distance from the axis for arbitrary plasma beta18
Hybrid electrostatic waves in linearized gravity18
An intuitive form of the energy functional for resistive plasma perturbations17
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
A two-dimensional numerical study of ion-acoustic turbulence – ERRATUM16
Temperature separation under compression of moderately coupled plasma16
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
Seeking turbulence optimized configurations for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator: ion temperature gradient and electron temperature gradient turbulence15
Advanced surrogate model for electron-scale turbulence in tokamak pedestals15
Observations of dust fragmentations in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak15
Non-thermal particle acceleration from maximum entropy in collisionless plasmas14
Radiation pressure acceleration of protons from structured thin-foil targets14
A structure-preserving particle discretisation for the Lenard–Bernstein collision operator13
Existence of an optimized stellarator with simple coils13
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using self-organizing maps (SOMs)13
Fast particle trajectories and integrability in quasiaxisymmetric and quasihelical stellarators13
Design and construction of the near-earth space plasma simulation system of the Space Plasma Environment Research Facility12
Validation of magnetized gas-jet experiments to investigate the effects of an external magnetic field on laser-plasma instabilities12
Microstability of β ~ 1 tokamak equilibria12
Non-specular ion reflection at quasiperpendicular collisionless shock front12
Simulation study of the influences of beryllium on the tokamak start-up process12
Effects of multi-dimensionality and energy exchange on electrostatic current-driven plasma instabilities and turbulence12
Phase transition to blob-hole coherent structure in the Hasegawa–Mima model for plasmas12
Wave turbulence in inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics12
The available energy of trapped electrons: a nonlinear measure for turbulent transport12
Coil optimization for quasi-helically symmetric stellarator configurations11
Exact boundary-value solution for an electromagnetic wave propagating in a linearly varying index of refraction11
Experimental study on the formation and evolution of unconfined counter-helicity spheromaks merging using magnetized coaxial plasma gun11
Reflection-driven turbulence in the super-Alfvénic solar wind11
Characterization of admissible quasisymmetries11
Confinement of transitioning particles in bi-helical Wendelstein-type configurations11
Modelling a thrust imparted by a highly ionized magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster11
Direct stellarator coil design using global optimization: application to a comprehensive exploration of quasi-axisymmetric devices11
Polarization effects in higher-order guiding-centre Lagrangian dynamics11
Structure and dynamics of magneto-inertial, differentially rotating laboratory plasmas11
Symplectic particle-in-cell methods for hybrid plasma models with Boltzmann electrons and space-charge effects11
High-density positron beam generation via Breit–Wheeler and trident processes using ultra-intense lasers11
Poloidal impurity asymmetries, flow and neoclassical transport in pedestals in the plateau and banana regimes11
Effects of mesh topology on MHD solution features in coronal simulations10
A tutorial on radio frequency sheath physics for magnetically confined fusion devices10
Gyrokinetic simulation of turbulence under lower hybrid wave and electron cyclotron wave combined heating on EAST10
Phase contrast imaging measurements and numerical simulations of turbulent density fluctuations in gas-fuelled ECRH discharges in Wendelstein 7-X10
Observation of subcritical shocks in a collisional laboratory plasma: scale dependence near the resistive length10
Drift of ablated material after pellet injection in a tokamak10
Plasma potential shaping using end-electrodes in the Large Plasma Device10
A family of quasi-axisymmetric stellarators with varied rotational transform10
Test particle acceleration in resistive torsional fan magnetic reconnection using laboratory plasma parameters10
Lower hybrid current drive for an intense monochromatic applied field10
Representing the boundary of stellarator plasmas10
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 Device9
Enhanced proton acceleration from laser interaction with curved surface nanowire targets9
Scaling of the Hosking integral in decaying magnetically dominated turbulence9
Characteristics of collisional damping of surface ion-acoustic mode in Divertor Plasma Simulator-2 (DiPS-2)9
Improved accuracy in degenerate variational integrators for guiding centre and magnetic field line flow9
Characterizing the velocity-space signature of electron Landau damping9
Using rational surfaces to improve pellet fuelling in stellarators9
On the thermodynamics of SPARC plasma and its role in reducing uncertainties on the way to large fusion gain9
Particle-based modelling of axisymmetric tandem mirror devices9
The magnetohydrodynamic equations in terms of waveframe variables8
Gyrofluid analysis of electron β e effects on collisionless reconnection8
Gyrokinetic moment-based simulations of the Dimits shift8
Terahertz generation by a rotating relativistic electron beam in a magnetized plasma column8
Quasilinear theory of Brillouin resonances in rotating magnetized plasmas8
On the electric field components in the collisionless plasmoid instability8
Radiative and continuum dampings of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes and perturbative analysis limitations for tokamaks8
Description of global EGAM in the maximum of local frequency during current ramp-up discharges in DIII-D8
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in stellarator plasmas8
On physical investigation of ball lightnings8
Power and particle exhaust for the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant8
Quasi-parallel propagating solitons in magnetised relativistic electron–positron plasmas8
Steady plasma flows in a periodic non-symmetric domain8
Terahertz radiation in the interaction of a focused laser pulse with plasma8
Extraordinary and upper-hybrid waves in spin quantum magnetoplasmas with vacuum polarization effect7
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using Bessel–Gauss doughnut beams for accelerating beam guiding7
Elastic overtaking collisions of large-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons7
On hydromagnetic wave interactions in collisionless, high-βplasmas7
Implementation of neutralizing fields for particle–particle simulations using like charges7
Density jump for oblique collisionless shocks in pair plasmas: allowed solutions7
Development of advanced linearized gyrokinetic collision operators using a moment approach7
Trapped-particle precession and modes in quasisymmetric stellarators and tokamaks: a near-axis perspective7
Experimental issues of energy balance in open magnetic trap7
Fresnel drag in a moving magnetised plasma7
Influence of magnetic configuration properties on kinetic ballooning modes in W7-X7
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient7
Hamiltonian kinetic-Hall magnetohydrodynamics with fluid and kinetic ions in the current and pressure coupling schemes7
Quasilinear modelling of collisional trapped electron modes7
On the construction of general large-amplitude spherically polarised Alfvén waves7
Data-driven model for divertor plasma detachment prediction7
Impact of wiggler magnetic field on wakefield generation and electron acceleration by Gaussian, super-Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian laser pulses propagating in collisionless plasma7
Kinetic stability of Chapman–Enskog plasmas6
Modelling the nonlinear plasma response to externally applied three-dimensional fields with the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code6
Transformation of a plasma boundary curvature into electrical impulses moving along a plasma surface6
Emission of terahertz pulses from near-critical plasma slab under action of p-polarized laser radiation6
Helical magnetic mirror performance at up- and downstream directions of the axial force6
Collisionless tearing instability in a relativistic pair plasma with a power-law distribution function6
Lane dynamics in pair-ion plasmas: effect of obstacle and geometric aspect ratio6
Microphysically modified magnetosonic modes in collisionless, high-β plasmas6
Inverse cascading for initial magnetohydrodynamic turbulence spectra between Saffman and Batchelor6
Pressure anisotropy and viscous heating in weakly collisional plasma turbulence6
All-optical Compton scattering at shallow interaction angles6
Overview of neutral beam injectors for plasma heating and diagnostics developed at Budker INP6
Nonlinear dynamics in dusty plasmas subjected to photo-discharging6
Resonant excitation of single Kelvin–Helmholtz high-order waves in a magnetized electron fluid vortex6
The residual flow in well-optimized stellarators6
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 1. Quick and accurate equilibria computations6
Linear dispersion relation of geodesic acoustic modes driven by trapped and circulating energetic particles6
The collisional particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov–Maxwell–Landau equations6
MHD turbulence: a biased review6
Analysis of the isotropic and anisotropic Grad–Shafranov equation6
Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas. Part 2. Current sheets and dissipation – ERRATUM6
Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefields6
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
Multi-cell trap developments towards the accumulation and confinement of large quantities of positrons5
Collisionless zonal-flow dynamics in quasisymmetric stellarators5
Direct construction of stellarator-symmetric quasi-isodynamic magnetic configurations5
Ambipolar electrostatic field in dusty plasma5
Generation of energetic electrons by an electron cyclotron wave through stochastic heating in a spherical tokamak5
Intermittency assessed through a model of kurtosis–skewness relation in MHD in fast dynamo regimes5
Slab-geometry surface waves on steep gradients and the origin of related numerical issues in a variety of ICRF codes5
Towards ion stopping power experiments with the laser-driven LIGHT beamline5
Surface waves on the inhomogeneous interface between radiative electron–ion plasma and vacuum5
Measures of quasisymmetry for stellarators5
Predicting the Dimits shift through reduced mode tertiary instability analysis in a strongly driven gyrokinetic fluid limit5
Effects of guard and boom on needle Langmuir probes studied with particle-in-cell simulations5
An analytical form of the dispersion function for local linear gyrokinetics in a curved magnetic field5
Modelling of the electron cyclotron emission burst from a laboratory tokamak plasma with loss-cone maser instability5
Ultrafast dynamics of a spin-polarized electron plasma with magnetic ions5
A numerical study of gravity-driven instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma. Part 3. Homo-interaction between a pair of rising/falling bubbles/droplets5
Radio-frequency sheath excitation at the extremities of scrape-off layer plasma filaments, mediated by resonant high harmonic fast wave scattering5
Application of quadruple Beltrami state on Saturnian dusty plasma5
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient – ERRATUM5
Calculation of collisionless pitch-angle scattering of runaway electrons with synchrotron radiation via high-order guiding-centre equation5
Temperature inversion in a confined plasma atmosphere: coarse-grained effect of temperature fluctuations at its base4
Probabilistic effect of metastable excitation on lock-in amplified plasma laser-induced fluorescence diagnostics at modulation frequencies comparable to the fluorescence frequency4
Proton and helium ions acceleration in near-critical density gas targets by short-pulse Ti:Sa PW-class laser4
Building a weak shockwave from linear modes4
Transfer learning as a method to reproduce high-fidelity non-local thermodynamic equilibrium opacities in simulations4
Guiding-centre orbit-following simulations of charge exchange loss of NBI ions with the finite Larmor radius effect4
Intermittent, reflection-driven, strong imbalanced MHD turbulence4
The fast transit-time limit of magnetic pumping with trapped electrons4
The effect of viscosity and resistivity on Rayleigh–Taylor instability induced mixing in magnetized high-energy-density plasmas4
The Infinity Two fusion pilot plant baseline plasma physics design4
Guiding centre motion for particles in a ponderomotive magnetostatic end plug4
Four-dimensional equations for the study of electromagnetic plasma turbulence in a drift kinetic limit4
Recent results on high-β plasma confinement studies in the Gas Dynamic Trap4
Particle-in-cell simulations of the tearing instability for relativistic pair plasmas4
Vertical displacement oscillatory modes in tokamak plasmas4
Hall magnetohydrodynamics in a relativistically strong mean magnetic field4
Electromagnetic energy transport by tearing fluctuations in a self-organized reversed-field pinch plasma4
The fundamental parameters of astrophysical plasma turbulence and its dissipation: non-relativistic limit4
Geometric electrostatic particle-in-cell algorithm on unstructured meshes4
A single-field-period quasi-isodynamic stellarator4
Beam focusing and consequences for Doppler backscattering measurements4
Optimised stellarators with a positive radial electric field4
Faraday–Fresnel rotation and splitting of orbital angular momentum carrying waves in a rotating plasma4
Hosking integral in non-helical Hall cascade4
Laminar and turbulent plasmoid ejection in a laboratory Parker Spiral current sheet4
Modelling of parallel dynamics of a pellet-produced plasmoid4
Outside and inside a magnetic island: different perspectives to describe the same observables4
Quasilinear drift kinetic theory of alpha particle transport by neoclassical tearing modes4
Equilibriumβ-limits dependence on bootstrap current in classical stellarators4
Space–time structure of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence4
Reduced modelling of scrape-off losses of runaway electrons during tokamak disruptions4
The effects of finite electron inertia on helicity-barrier-mediated turbulence4
Fast correlation heating in moderately coupled electron–ion plasmas4
Data-driven model discovery for plasma turbulence modelling4
Effects of intermittency via non-Gaussianity on turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas4
Deciphering the physical basis of the intermediate-scale instability4
Chaotic and integrable magnetic fields in one-dimensional hybrid Vlasov–Maxwell equilibria4
Transient versus steady-state solutions: a qualitative study4
Spatial distribution of self-seeded air lasers induced by the femtosecond laser filament plasma4
Annihilation-gamma-based diagnostic techniques for magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma4
Development of the ambipolar electric field in a compressed current sheet and the impact on magnetic reconnection3
Shearless bifurcations in particle transport for reversed-shear tokamaks3
Particle transport through localized interactions with sharp magnetic field bends in MHD turbulence3
Machine-learning-based models in particle-in-cell codes for advanced physics extensions3
Multi-scale physics of magnetic reconnection in hot magnetized plasmas3
Quantum simulation of nonlinear dynamical systems using repeated measurement3
Beyond analytic approximations with machine learning inference of plasma parameters and confidence intervals3
Efficient generation of -radiation in a beam-driven thick plasma with oblique density modulation3
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 4. Bounce-averaged electrons3
Collisional broadening of nonlinear resonant wave–particle interactions3
Improved numerical simulation model for nuclear reaction rate calculations in high-speed plasma collisions3
Development of a field-reversed configuration device using radio frequency antennas to produce E × B for current-drive3
Magnetic fields with general omnigenity3
Ambipolar electrostatic field in dusty plasma – ERRATUM3
Quasilinear theory for inhomogeneous plasma3
A new reductive perturbation formalism for ion acoustic cnoidal waves3
Leaky modes in coronal magnetic flux tubes revisited3
Impact of dynamics, entanglement and Markovian noise on the fidelity of few-qubit digital quantum simulation3
Database-wide hazard modelling of the onset of DIII-D tearing modes with field features3
Piecewise field-aligned finite element method for multi-mode nonlinear particle simulations in tokamak plasmas3
Interaction of radio frequency waves with cylindrical density filaments: scattering and radiation pressure3
Energy flux decomposition in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence – ERRATUM3
Sheath formation time for spherical Langmuir probes3
A gauge-compatible Hamiltonian splitting algorithm for particle-in-cell simulations using finite element exterior calculus3
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 5. Contrasting optimal and normal modes over the geometric landscape3
Lower hybrid current drive in a tokamak for correlated passes through resonance3
Calibrated heating rate measurements using electric-field-induced electron extraction in ultracold neutral plasmas3
Energetic particle tracing in optimized quasi-symmetric stellarator equilibria3
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 2. Perturbation and continuation methods3
Electromagnetic oscillations and anomalous ion scattering in the helically symmetric multiple-mirror trap3
A structure-preserving finite element method for compressible ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics3
Fast ion generation by combined RF-NBI heating in W7-X3
Reinterpreting radio frequency heating and current drive theory in a tokamak3
Mapping the space of quasisymmetric stellarators using optimized near-axis expansion3
Triggering tearing in a forming current sheet with the mirror instability3
Implications of weak rippling of the shock ramp on the pattern of the electromagnetic field and ion distributions3
On the importance of flux-driven turbulence regime to address tokamak plasma edge dynamics3
In search of a data-driven symbolic multi-fluid ten-moment model closure3
Surface waves in a streaming plasma propagating in a duct: kinetic theory3
Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability properties of the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant3
Eulerian and Lagrangian electron energization during magnetic reconnection3
Hybrid simulations of m/n = 1/1 instability driven by energetic counter-passing particles in tokamak plasmas3
Effect of ionization waves on dust chain formation in a DC discharge3
Metastability of stratified magnetohydrostatic equilibria and their relaxation3
Coupling multi-fluid dynamics equipped with Landau closures to the particle-in-cell method3
Quadruple Langmuir probe characterization of different fuel gases in a plasma deflagration accelerator3
Role of the edge electric field in the resonant mode-particle interactions and the formation of transport barriers in toroidal plasmas3
Suppression of the collisionless tearing mode by flow shear: implications for reconnection onset in the Alfvénic solar wind2
Vlasov–Maxwell equations with spin effects2
Rotation and shear control of a weakly magnetized plasma column using current injection by emissive electrodes2
Electromagnetic turbulence in increased β plasmas in the Large Plasma Device2
Scale invariance and critical balance in electrostatic drift-kinetic turbulence2
Computation of multi-region, relaxed magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with prescribed toroidal current profile2
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