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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Adjoint methods for quasi-symmetry of vacuum fields on a surface116
Development of compact tokamak fusion reactor use cases to inform future transport studies42
Slow positron production and storage for the ASACUSA-Cusp experiment39
Correlations between X-rays, visible light and drive-beam energy loss observed in plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET-II36
Influence of ion and variable dust charge on electron-dust bremsstrahlung emission spectrum in complex plasmas36
Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma33
Asymptotic quasisymmetric high-beta three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibria near axisymmetry31
On turbulent magnetic reconnection: fast and slow mean steady states30
Generalized expanding-box formulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamics in the solar wind27
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient26
Dimits transition in three-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient turbulence23
Theory of gradient drift instabilities in low-temperature, partially magnetised plasmas22
Action principles and conservation laws for Chew–Goldberger–Low anisotropic plasmas22
Hybrid electrostatic waves in linearized gravity21
Stellarator equilibrium axis-expansion to all orders in distance from the axis for arbitrary plasma beta21
Numerical simulation of an expanding magnetic field plasma thruster: a comparative study for argon, xenon and iodine fuel gases21
The Okubo–Weiss-type topological criteria in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows21
Optimisation of gyrokinetic microstability using adjoint methods19
Available energy of trapped electrons in Miller tokamak equilibria19
Magnetohydrodynamic stability and the effects of shaping: a near-axis view for tokamaks and quasisymmetric stellarators19
Fast magneto-acoustic wave turbulence and the Iroshnikov–Kraichnan spectrum19
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using self-organizing maps (SOMs)18
Theoretical and computational studies of the Weibel instability in several beam–plasma interaction configurations18
Gamma-ray flash in the interaction of a tightly focused single-cycle ultra-intense laser pulse with a solid target17
Iterative approach for time development calculation of tokamak plasma with eddy current effects using a 3D magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium solver17
Predicting the Z-pinch Dimits shift through gyrokinetic tertiary instability analysis of the entropy mode17
Non-thermal particle acceleration from maximum entropy in collisionless plasmas16
Seeking turbulence optimized configurations for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator: ion temperature gradient and electron temperature gradient turbulence16
Observations of dust fragmentations in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak15
An intuitive form of the energy functional for resistive plasma perturbations15
Existence of an optimized stellarator with simple coils15
A two-dimensional numerical study of ion-acoustic turbulence – ERRATUM15
Advanced surrogate model for electron-scale turbulence in tokamak pedestals15
Plasma flow suppression by the linear helical mirror system15
Radiation pressure acceleration of protons from structured thin-foil targets14
A structure-preserving particle discretisation for the Lenard–Bernstein collision operator14
Temperature separation under compression of moderately coupled plasma14
Lectures on statistical mechanics14
Design and construction of the near-earth space plasma simulation system of the Space Plasma Environment Research Facility14
Fast particle trajectories and integrability in quasiaxisymmetric and quasihelical stellarators14
Simulation study of the influences of beryllium on the tokamak start-up process13
Non-specular ion reflection at quasiperpendicular collisionless shock front13
Validation of magnetized gas-jet experiments to investigate the effects of an external magnetic field on laser-plasma instabilities13
Wave turbulence in inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics13
Phase transition to blob-hole coherent structure in the Hasegawa–Mima model for plasmas13
Poloidal impurity asymmetries, flow and neoclassical transport in pedestals in the plateau and banana regimes12
Microstability of β ~ 1 tokamak equilibria12
Characterization of admissible quasisymmetries12
Confinement of transitioning particles in bi-helical Wendelstein-type configurations12
Exact boundary-value solution for an electromagnetic wave propagating in a linearly varying index of refraction12
Effects of multi-dimensionality and energy exchange on electrostatic current-driven plasma instabilities and turbulence12
Structure and dynamics of magneto-inertial, differentially rotating laboratory plasmas12
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
Polarization effects in higher-order guiding-centre Lagrangian dynamics12
A tutorial on radio frequency sheath physics for magnetically confined fusion devices11
Reflection-driven turbulence in the super-Alfvénic solar wind11
Modelling a thrust imparted by a highly ionized magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster11
Drift of ablated material after pellet injection in a tokamak11
Lower hybrid current drive for an intense monochromatic applied field11
High-density positron beam generation via Breit–Wheeler and trident processes using ultra-intense lasers11
Direct stellarator coil design using global optimization: application to a comprehensive exploration of quasi-axisymmetric devices11
Coil optimization for quasi-helically symmetric stellarator configurations10
Plasma potential shaping using end-electrodes in the Large Plasma Device10
Gyrokinetic simulation of turbulence under lower hybrid wave and electron cyclotron wave combined heating on EAST10
Free electron laser in the magnetically dominated regime: simulations with the ONEDFEL code10
A family of quasi-axisymmetric stellarators with varied rotational transform10
The available energy of trapped electrons: a nonlinear measure for turbulent transport10
Representing the boundary of stellarator plasmas10
Observation of subcritical shocks in a collisional laboratory plasma: scale dependence near the resistive length10
Bounce-averaged theory in arbitrary multi-well plasmas: solution domains and the graph structure of their connections10
Turbulence and transport in mirror geometries in the Large Plasma Device10
The Gardner equation and acoustic solitary waves in plasmas10
Effects of mesh topology on MHD solution features in coronal simulations10
Test particle acceleration in resistive torsional fan magnetic reconnection using laboratory plasma parameters10
Scale statistics of current sheets in relativistic collisionless plasma turbulence10
Variational quantum simulation of the Fokker–Planck equation applied to quantum radiation reaction9
Improved accuracy in degenerate variational integrators for guiding centre and magnetic field line flow9
Particle-based modelling of axisymmetric tandem mirror devices9
Characteristics of collisional damping of surface ion-acoustic mode in Divertor Plasma Simulator-2 (DiPS-2)9
Using rational surfaces to improve pellet fuelling in stellarators9
Scaling of the Hosking integral in decaying magnetically dominated turbulence9
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 gain8
Gyrokinetic moment-based simulations of the Dimits shift8
Radiative and continuum dampings of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes and perturbative analysis limitations for tokamaks8
Steady plasma flows in a periodic non-symmetric domain8
Terahertz radiation in the interaction of a focused laser pulse with plasma8
Description of global EGAM in the maximum of local frequency during current ramp-up discharges in DIII-D8
Characterizing the velocity-space signature of electron Landau damping8
Quasi-parallel propagating solitons in magnetised relativistic electron–positron plasmas8
Hamiltonian kinetic-Hall magnetohydrodynamics with fluid and kinetic ions in the current and pressure coupling schemes7
On hydromagnetic wave interactions in collisionless, high-βplasmas7
Elastic overtaking collisions of large-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons7
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using Bessel–Gauss doughnut beams for accelerating beam guiding7
On physical investigation of ball lightnings7
Power and particle exhaust for the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant7
Quasilinear theory of Brillouin resonances in rotating magnetized plasmas7
Density jump for oblique collisionless shocks in pair plasmas: allowed solutions7
Influence of magnetic configuration properties on kinetic ballooning modes in W7-X7
On the construction of general large-amplitude spherically polarised Alfvén waves7
Fresnel drag in a moving magnetised plasma7
Development of advanced linearized gyrokinetic collision operators using a moment approach7
Gyrofluid analysis of electron β e effects on collisionless reconnection7
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient7
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in stellarator plasmas7
Impact of wiggler magnetic field on wakefield generation and electron acceleration by Gaussian, super-Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian laser pulses propagating in collisionless plasma7
Trapped-particle precession and modes in quasisymmetric stellarators and tokamaks: a near-axis perspective7
Experimental issues of energy balance in open magnetic trap7
Drift-cyclotron loss-cone instability in 3-D simulations of a sloshing-ion simple mirror7
Quasilinear modelling of collisional trapped electron modes7
The magnetohydrodynamic equations in terms of waveframe variables7
On the electric field components in the collisionless plasmoid instability7
Terahertz generation by a rotating relativistic electron beam in a magnetized plasma column7
Quantum calculation for two-stream instability and advection test of Vlasov–Maxwell equations: numerical evaluation of Hamiltonian simulation7
Kinetic stability of Chapman–Enskog plasmas6
All-optical Compton scattering at shallow interaction angles6
Helical magnetic mirror performance at up- and downstream directions of the axial force6
Radio-frequency sheath excitation at the extremities of scrape-off layer plasma filaments, mediated by resonant high harmonic fast wave scattering6
Application of quadruple Beltrami state on Saturnian dusty plasma6
Collisionless tearing instability in a relativistic pair plasma with a power-law distribution function6
Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefields6
The collisional particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov–Maxwell–Landau equations6
Pressure anisotropy and viscous heating in weakly collisional plasma turbulence6
Modelling the nonlinear plasma response to externally applied three-dimensional fields with the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code6
MHD turbulence: a biased review6
Emission of terahertz pulses from near-critical plasma slab under action of p-polarized laser radiation6
Predicting the Dimits shift through reduced mode tertiary instability analysis in a strongly driven gyrokinetic fluid limit6
Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas. Part 2. Current sheets and dissipation – ERRATUM6
Nonlinear dynamics in dusty plasmas subjected to photo-discharging6
Resonant excitation of single Kelvin–Helmholtz high-order waves in a magnetized electron fluid vortex6
Data-driven model for divertor plasma detachment prediction6
Overview of neutral beam injectors for plasma heating and diagnostics developed at Budker INP6
Transformation of a plasma boundary curvature into electrical impulses moving along a plasma surface6
Angular splitting and selective acceleration in NiO plasmas generated by laser ablation6
Lane dynamics in pair-ion plasmas: effect of obstacle and geometric aspect ratio6
Ambipolar electrostatic field in dusty plasma6
Multi-cell trap developments towards the accumulation and confinement of large quantities of positrons6
Microphysically modified magnetosonic modes in collisionless, high-β plasmas6
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 1. Quick and accurate equilibria computations6
Inverse cascading for initial magnetohydrodynamic turbulence spectra between Saffman and Batchelor6
Generation of energetic electrons by an electron cyclotron wave through stochastic heating in a spherical tokamak5
Direct construction of stellarator-symmetric quasi-isodynamic magnetic configurations5
The residual flow in well-optimized stellarators5
Modelling of the electron cyclotron emission burst from a laboratory tokamak plasma with loss-cone maser instability5
Towards ion stopping power experiments with the laser-driven LIGHT beamline5
Particle-in-cell simulations of the tearing instability for relativistic pair plasmas5
Calculation of collisionless pitch-angle scattering of runaway electrons with synchrotron radiation via high-order guiding-centre equation5
Annihilation-gamma-based diagnostic techniques for magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma5
Recent results on high-β plasma confinement studies in the Gas Dynamic Trap5
Effects of guard and boom on needle Langmuir probes studied with particle-in-cell simulations5
Analysis of the isotropic and anisotropic Grad–Shafranov equation5
Measures of quasisymmetry for stellarators5
Collisionless zonal-flow dynamics in quasisymmetric stellarators5
Application scope of the reductive perturbation method to derive the KdV equation and CKdV equation in dusty plasma5
Hosking integral in non-helical Hall cascade5
Ultrafast dynamics of a spin-polarized electron plasma with magnetic ions5
Four-dimensional equations for the study of electromagnetic plasma turbulence in a drift kinetic limit5
An analytical form of the dispersion function for local linear gyrokinetics in a curved magnetic field5
Lane formation in 3D driven pair-ion plasmas: I Parallel External Forcing5
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient – ERRATUM5
Inverse cascade from helical and non-helical decaying columnar magnetic fields5
A numerical study of gravity-driven instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma. Part 3. Homo-interaction between a pair of rising/falling bubbles/droplets5
Intermittency assessed through a model of kurtosis–skewness relation in MHD in fast dynamo regimes5
The fast transit-time limit of magnetic pumping with trapped electrons5
Chaotic and integrable magnetic fields in one-dimensional hybrid Vlasov–Maxwell equilibria5
Guiding centre motion for particles in a ponderomotive magnetostatic end plug5
Transient versus steady-state solutions: a qualitative study5
Transfer learning as a method to reproduce high-fidelity non-local thermodynamic equilibrium opacities in simulations4
The Velikhov-ionisation instability revisited: a new opportunity for MHD energy conversion?4
Collisional broadening of nonlinear resonant wave–particle interactions4
Outside and inside a magnetic island: different perspectives to describe the same observables4
Hall magnetohydrodynamics in a relativistically strong mean magnetic field4
Vertical displacement oscillatory modes in tokamak plasmas4
Deciphering the physical basis of the intermediate-scale instability4
Building a weak shockwave from linear modes4
Guiding-centre orbit-following simulations of charge exchange loss of NBI ions with the finite Larmor radius effect4
Equilibriumβ-limits dependence on bootstrap current in classical stellarators4
Reduced modelling of scrape-off losses of runaway electrons during tokamak disruptions4
Electromagnetic energy transport by tearing fluctuations in a self-organized reversed-field pinch plasma4
Quasilinear drift kinetic theory of alpha particle transport by neoclassical tearing modes4
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 4. Bounce-averaged electrons4
Beam focusing and consequences for Doppler backscattering measurements4
The effect of viscosity and resistivity on Rayleigh–Taylor instability induced mixing in magnetized high-energy-density plasmas4
Proton and helium ions acceleration in near-critical density gas targets by short-pulse Ti:Sa PW-class laser4
Effects of intermittency via non-Gaussianity on turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas4
Intermittent, reflection-driven, strong imbalanced MHD turbulence4
Fast correlation heating in moderately coupled electron–ion plasmas4
A single-field-period quasi-isodynamic stellarator4
Data-driven model discovery for plasma turbulence modelling4
In search of a data-driven symbolic multi-fluid ten-moment model closure4
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 5. Contrasting optimal and normal modes over the geometric landscape4
Temperature inversion in a confined plasma atmosphere: coarse-grained effect of temperature fluctuations at its base4
Spatial distribution of self-seeded air lasers induced by the femtosecond laser filament plasma4
Probabilistic effect of metastable excitation on lock-in amplified plasma laser-induced fluorescence diagnostics at modulation frequencies comparable to the fluorescence frequency4
Optimised stellarators with a positive radial electric field4
Space–time structure of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence4
The Infinity Two fusion pilot plant baseline plasma physics design4
The effects of finite electron inertia on helicity-barrier-mediated turbulence4
Faraday–Fresnel rotation and splitting of orbital angular momentum carrying waves in a rotating plasma4
Electromagnetic oscillations and anomalous ion scattering in the helically symmetric multiple-mirror trap3
Particle transport through localized interactions with sharp magnetic field bends in MHD turbulence3
Study of the electron–atom collisions in dense semiclassical plasma of noble gases3
Piecewise field-aligned finite element method for multi-mode nonlinear particle simulations in tokamak plasmas3
Impact of dynamics, entanglement and Markovian noise on the fidelity of few-qubit digital quantum simulation3
Triggering tearing in a forming current sheet with the mirror instability3
Beyond analytic approximations with machine learning inference of plasma parameters and confidence intervals3
Quasilinear theory for inhomogeneous plasma3
Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability properties of the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant3
Calibrated heating rate measurements using electric-field-induced electron extraction in ultracold neutral plasmas3
Efficient generation of -radiation in a beam-driven thick plasma with oblique density modulation3
Ambipolar electrostatic field in dusty plasma – ERRATUM3
Eulerian and Lagrangian electron energisation during magnetic reconnection3
Implications of weak rippling of the shock ramp on the pattern of the electromagnetic field and ion distributions3
Energy flux decomposition in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence – ERRATUM3
Metastability of stratified magnetohydrostatic equilibria and their relaxation3
A new reductive perturbation formalism for ion acoustic cnoidal waves3
Progress of open systems at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics3
Energetic particle tracing in optimized quasi-symmetric stellarator equilibria3
Shearless bifurcations in particle transport for reversed-shear tokamaks3
Quadruple Langmuir probe characterization of different fuel gases in a plasma deflagration accelerator3
Machine-learning-based models in particle-in-cell codes for advanced physics extensions3
Reinterpreting radio frequency heating and current drive theory in a tokamak3
Quantum simulation of nonlinear dynamical systems using repeated measurement3
A gauge-compatible Hamiltonian splitting algorithm for particle-in-cell simulations using finite element exterior calculus3
Database-wide hazard modelling of the onset of DIII-D tearing modes with field features3
Plasma pressure response to non-inductive current drive in axisymmetric visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic steady states3
The fundamental parameters of astrophysical plasma turbulence and its dissipation: non-relativistic limit3
Coupling multi-fluid dynamics equipped with Landau closures to the particle-in-cell method3
On the importance of flux-driven turbulence regime to address tokamak plasma edge dynamics3
Hybrid simulations of m/n = 1/1 instability driven by energetic counter-passing particles in tokamak plasmas3
Non-trace full-F gyro-fluid interchange impurity advection3
Magnetic fields with general omnigenity3
Role of the edge electric field in the resonant mode-particle interactions and the formation of transport barriers in toroidal plasmas3
Effect of ionization waves on dust chain formation in a DC discharge3
Finite orbit width effects in large aspect ratio stellarators3
Development of a field-reversed configuration device using radio frequency antennas to produce E × B for current-drive3
Reduction of electrostatic turbulence in a quasi-helically symmetric stellarator via critical gradient optimization3
Density jump as a function of the field for parallel relativistic collisionless shocks3
Fast ion generation by combined RF-NBI heating in W7-X3
Interaction of radio frequency waves with cylindrical density filaments: scattering and radiation pressure3
The zonal-flow residual does not tend to zero in the limit of small mirror ratio3
Mapping the space of quasisymmetric stellarators using optimized near-axis expansion3
Improved numerical simulation model for nuclear reaction rate calculations in high-speed plasma collisions3
Sheath formation time for spherical Langmuir probes3
Axisymmetric dynamos sustained by a modified Ohm’s law in a toroidal volume3
A structure-preserving finite element method for compressible ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics3
Surface waves in a streaming plasma propagating in a duct: kinetic theory3
Multimode theory of electron hole transverse instability3
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 2. Perturbation and continuation methods3
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