OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Plasma Physics is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Overview of the SPARC tokamak	188
MHD turbulence: a biased review	53
Predictions of core plasma performance for the SPARC tokamak	46
Divertor heat flux challenge and mitigation in SPARC	43
On the violation of the zeroth law of turbulence in space plasmas	35
MHD stability and disruptions in the SPARC tokamak	33
Runaway dynamics in the DT phase of ITER operations in the presence of massive material injection	31
A new frontier in laboratory physics: magnetized electron–positron plasmas	31
Diagnosing collisionless energy transfer using field–particle correlations: Alfvén-ion cyclotron turbulence	29
Multi-scale dynamics of magnetic flux tubes and inverse magnetic energy transfer	28
Physics basis for the ICRF system of the SPARC tokamak	28
Reconnection and particle acceleration in three-dimensional current sheet evolution in moderately magnetized astrophysical pair plasma	27
Fluctuation dynamo in a weakly collisional plasma	27
Isotope dependence of energy, momentum and particle confinement in tokamaks	25
Conservative discontinuous Galerkin schemes for nonlinear Dougherty–Fokker–Planck collision operators	25
Zonally dominated dynamics and Dimits threshold in curvature-driven ITG turbulence	25
Investigation of turbulent transport regimes in the tokamak edge by using two-fluid simulations	25
A tutorial on radio frequency sheath physics for magnetically confined fusion devices	23
Magnetohydrodynamics of protoplanetary discs	23
Long-term dynamics driven by resonant wave–particle interactions: from Hamiltonian resonance theory to phase space mapping	22
On particle acceleration and transport in plasmas in the Galaxy: theory and observations	21
Effects of magnetic perturbations and radiation on the runaway avalanche	19
Status of the SPARC physics basis	19
Three-dimensional magnetic reconnection in particle-in-cell simulations of anisotropic plasma turbulence	19
Advancing the physics basis for quasi-helically symmetric stellarators	18

Projections of H-mode access and edge pedestal in the SPARC tokamak	18
On quasisymmetric plasma equilibria sustained by small force	18
Nonlinear gyrokinetic PIC simulations in stellarators with the code EUTERPE	18
Spatiotemporal analysis of the runaway distribution function from synchrotron images in an ASDEX Upgrade disruption	17
Fast-ion physics in SPARC	17
Nonlinear electromagnetic interplay between fast ions and ion-temperature-gradient plasma turbulence	16
Turbulent impurity transport simulations in Wendelstein 7-X plasmas	16
Self-sustaining sound in collisionless, high-β plasma	15
Magnetic well and Mercier stability of stellarators near the magnetic axis	15
Impact of wiggler magnetic field on wakefield generation and electron acceleration by Gaussian, super-Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian laser pulses propagating in collisionless plasma	14
Relativistic non-thermal particle acceleration in two-dimensional collisionless magnetic reconnection	14
A general metriplectic framework with application to dissipative extended magnetohydrodynamics	14
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient	14
Studies of the fast ion confinement in the Large Helical Device by using neutron measurement and integrated codes	14
Plasma flow suppression by the linear helical mirror system	14
Topological phase in plasma physics	14
Unitary quantum lattice simulations for Maxwell equations in vacuum and in dielectric media	14
The geometric theory of charge conservation in particle-in-cell simulations	14
A field–particle correlation analysis of a perpendicular magnetized collisionless shock	14
A compact exact law for compressible isothermal Hall magnetohydrodynamic turbulence	13
First experiments on ICRF discharge generation by a W7-X-like antenna in the Uragan-2M stellarator	13
Comparison between mirror Langmuir probe and gas-puff imaging measurements of intermittent fluctuations in the Alcator C-Mod scrape-off layer	13
Radial distribution of the plasma potential in a cylindrical plasma column with a longitudinal magnetic field	13
Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas. Part 2. current sheets and dissipation	13
On the polarization of shear Alfvén and acoustic continuous spectra in toroidal plasmas	13
Electromagnetic counterparts of compact binary mergers	13
Global electromagnetic turbulence simulations of W7-X-like plasmas with GENE-3D	13
Compton scattering in particle-in-cell codes	13
An approximate analytic solution to the coupled problems of coronal heating and solar-wind acceleration	12
How eigenmode self-interaction affects zonal flows and convergence of tokamak core turbulence with toroidal system size	12
General dispersion properties of magnetized plasmas with drifting bi-Kappa distributions. DIS-K: Dispersion Solver for Kappa Plasmas	12
Multidimensional Iterative Filtering: a new approach for investigating plasma turbulence in numerical simulations	12
Kinetic entropy-based measures of distribution function non-Maxwellianity: theory and simulations	12
Combined plasma–coil optimization algorithms	12
A hybrid full-wave Markov chain approach to calculating radio-frequency wave scattering from scrape-off layer filaments	12
Planar and non-planar nucleus-acoustic solitary waves in warm degenerate multi-nucleus plasmas	12
Regulation of the normalized rate of driven magnetic reconnection through shocked flux pileup	11
Optimized phasing conditions to avoid edge mode excitation by ICRH antennas	11
Slab-geometry surface waves on steep gradients and the origin of related numerical issues in a variety of ICRF codes	11
Measures of quasisymmetry for stellarators	11
Development of advanced linearized gyrokinetic collision operators using a moment approach	11
A single-field-period quasi-isodynamic stellarator	11
Preliminary experimental scaling of the helical mirror confinement effectiveness	11
Quasilinear gyrokinetic theory: a derivation of QuaLiKiz	11
Scaling of the Hosking integral in decaying magnetically dominated turbulence	11
Constructing precisely quasi-isodynamic magnetic fields	11
Diffusive scattering of energetic electrons by intense whistler-mode waves in an inhomogeneous plasma	10
Runaway electron generation during tokamak start-up	10
Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas. Part 1. Dynamical equations and basic dynamics of interacting resonant triads	10
Effect of the electron redistribution on the nonlinear saturation of Alfvén eigenmodes and the excitation of zonal flows	10

Physics basis for the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror (WHAM)	10
A relativistic particle pusher for ultra-strong electromagnetic fields	10
Collisional effects on resonant particles in quasilinear theory	10
Mapping the space of quasisymmetric stellarators using optimized near-axis expansion	9
Harmonic generation in the interaction of laser with a magnetized overdense plasma	9
Figures of merit for stellarators near the magnetic axis	9
Statistical description of coalescing magnetic islands via magnetic reconnection	9
Encoder–decoder neural network for solving the nonlinear Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator in XGC	9
Impacts of resonant magnetic perturbations on edge carbon transport and emission on EAST with EMC3-EIRENE modelling	9
Quasilinear theory for inhomogeneous plasma	9
Noise-induced magnetic field saturation in kinetic simulations	9
Hydrodynamics of quantum corrections to the Coulomb interaction via the third rank tensor evolution equation: application to Langmuir waves and spin-electron acoustic waves	9
Theory of the tertiary instability and the Dimits shift within a scalar model	9
Direct construction of stellarator-symmetric quasi-isodynamic magnetic configurations	9
Global calculation of neoclassical impurity transport including the variation of electrostatic potential	9
Effect of ionization waves on dust chain formation in a DC discharge	9
Koopman wavefunctions and Clebsch variables in Vlasov–Maxwell kinetic theory	9
Local gyrokinetic collisional theory of the ion-temperature gradient mode	9
Exact conservation laws for gauge-free electromagnetic gyrokinetic equations	8
Lagrangian and Dirac constraints for the ideal incompressible fluid and magnetohydrodynamics	8
Long-pulse plasma source for SMOLA helical mirror	8
Improved multispecies Dougherty collisions	8
The onset of electron-only reconnection	8
Gradient-based optimization of 3D MHD equilibria	8
The DESC stellarator code suite Part 3: Quasi-symmetry optimization	8
Optimization of finite-build stellarator coils	8
Application of Thomson scattering to helicon plasma sources	8
Non-thermal particle acceleration from maximum entropy in collisionless plasmas	8
Ion kinetic effects on linear pressure driven magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in helical plasmas	8
Onset of fast magnetic reconnection and particle energization in laboratory and space plasmas	8
Direct computation of magnetic surfaces in Boozer coordinates and coil optimization for quasisymmetry	8
Effects of mesh topology on MHD solution features in coronal simulations	8
Reduced models of turbulent transport in helical plasmas including effects of zonal flows and trapped electrons	8
Gamma-ray flash in the interaction of a tightly focused single-cycle ultra-intense laser pulse with a solid target	8
Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma	8
Extraordinary and upper-hybrid waves in spin quantum magnetoplasmas with vacuum polarization effect	7
Bispectral analysis of broadband turbulence and geodesic acoustic modes in the T-10 tokamak	7
Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma with rotational shear flows and tracer transport	7
Inverse cascade and magnetic vortices in kinetic Alfvén-wave turbulence	7
Chaos in positive ion–negative ion magnetized plasmas	7
Gyrofluid analysis of electron β_e effects on collisionless reconnection	7
Effects of oblique incidence and colliding pulses on laser-driven proton acceleration from relativistically transparent ultrathin targets	7
The dispersion and propagation of topological Langmuir-cyclotron waves in cold magnetized plasmas	7
Kinetic modelling of runaway electron generation in argon-induced disruptions in ASDEX Upgrade	7
Dimits transition in three-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient turbulence	7
Properties of toroidal magnetic fields in axial plasma flow on the PF-1000U plasma focus facility	7
Soft X-ray emission from an anharmonic collisional nanoplasma by a laser–nanocluster interaction	7
The effects of density inhomogeneities on the radio wave emission in electron beam plasmas	7
A numerical study of gravity-driven instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma. Part 1. Rayleigh–Taylor instability and buoyancy-driven instability	6
Hosking integral in non-helical Hall cascade	6
Experimental and simulation study of impurity transport response to RMPs in RF-heated H-mode plasmas at EAST	6
Implications of weak rippling of the shock ramp on the pattern of the electromagnetic field and ion distributions	6
A structure-preserving finite element method for compressible ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics	6
Theory of gradient drift instabilities in low-temperature, partially magnetised plasmas	6
Rotation and shear control of a weakly magnetized plasma column using current injection by emissive electrodes	6
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient	6
General formulas for adiabatic invariants in nearly periodic Hamiltonian systems	6
Drift kinetic theory of alpha transport by tokamak perturbations	6
Simulation of the plume of a magnetically enhanced plasma thruster with SPIS	6
Nonlinear reversed shear Alfvén eigenmode saturation due to spontaneous zonal current generation	6
Triggering tearing in a forming current sheet with the mirror instability	6
Kinetic-ballooning-mode turbulence in low-average-magnetic-shear equilibria	6
Pressure anisotropy and viscous heating in weakly collisional plasma turbulence	6
Spontaneous formation of coherent structures by an intense laser pulse interacting with overdense plasma	6
Computation of multi-region, relaxed magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with prescribed toroidal current profile	6
Energy partition between Alfvénic and compressive fluctuations in magnetorotational turbulence with near-azimuthal mean magnetic field	6
Constrained stellarator coil curvature optimization with FOCUS	6
Sub-grid-scale effects in magnetised plasma turbulence	6
Counter differential rigid-rotation equilibrium of electrically non-neutral two-fluid plasma with finite pressure	6
Geometric particle-in-cell methods for the Vlasov–Maxwell equations with spin effects	6
A family of Vlasov–Maxwell equilibrium distribution functions describing a transition from the Harris sheet to the force-free Harris sheet	6
Data-driven model for divertor plasma detachment prediction	6
Hamiltonian kinetic-Hall magnetohydrodynamics with fluid and kinetic ions in the current and pressure coupling schemes	6
Vertical displacement oscillatory modes in tokamak plasmas	6
Role of the overshoot in the shock self-organization	6
An adjoint method for determining the sensitivity of island size to magnetic field variations	6
An Alfvenic reconnecting plasmoid thruster	6