OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nuclear Fusion is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A new paradigm for fast and repetitive chirping of Alfvén eigenmodes	110
The effect of blanket system and port plugs on the harmonic components of error field and optimizing approach investigation	93
Structure of pellet cloud emission and relation with the local ablation rate	88
Effect of electron and ion mobility on edge biasing in tokamak plasmas	83
Stability analysis of plasma waves driven by runaway electrons in tokamak hot plasmas	73
Validation of density pump-out by pedestal-foot magnetic island formation prior to ELM suppression in KSTAR and DIII-D tokamaks	66
Scoping study of lower hybrid current drive for CFETR	64
High erosion and re-deposition rates of tungsten in the highly collisional plasmas of Magnum-PSI	62
Stellarator coil optimization supporting multiple magnetic configurations	61
Enhancement of neoclassical impurity density up/down asymmetry and Pfirsch–Schlüter transport due to the plasma elongation in the tokamak plasmas	60
Ion heating/transport characteristics of the merging startup plasma scenario in the TS-6 spherical tokamak	59
Effect of a dynamic axial magnetic field on a preconditioned single-wire Z-pinch	58
Toward holistic understanding of the ITER-like resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) ELM control on KSTAR	57
Toroidal modeling of plasma flow damping and density pump-out by RMP during ELM mitigation in HL-2A	56
Stabilization of double tearing mode growth by resonant magnetic perturbations	56
Cross-tokamak disruption prediction based on domain adaptation	55
First observation of beta-induced Alfvén eigenmode inside the edge magnetic island on the J-TEXT tokamak	53
Argon pumpout by ICRF waves in C-Mod L- and I-mode plasmas	52
Analysis of high frequency Alfvén eigenmodes observed in ASDEX Upgrade plasmas in the presence of RF-accelerated NBI ions	52
Study of the electrothermal and MHD instabilities in exploding cylindrical foil liner	52
Quasi-linear transport analysis of impurity mode in tokamak plasmas	47
Experimental identification of ion cyclotron emission on HL-2A using YOLO neural network algorithm	47
Self-consistent modelling of radio frequency sheath in 3D with realistic ICRF antennas	46
Modeling of plasma beta effects on the island divertor transport in the standard configuration of W7-X	44
Plasma performance and operational space with an RMP-ELM suppressed edge	44

IFMIF-DONES’ Buildings and Plant Services	44
Optimizing detachment control using the magnetic configuration of divertors	43
Re-evaluation of the impact of wall retention on Tritium-self-sufficiency in fusion reactors	43
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electrostatic microturbulent transport using kinetic electrons in LHD stellarator	41
Single-stage gradient-based stellarator coil design: stochastic optimization	40
Magnetic island formation and rotation braking induced by low-Z impurity penetration in an EAST plasma	39
A novel computation of the linear plasma response to a resonant error field in single-fluid rotating visco-resistive MHD	39
Tailoring resonant magnetic perturbation to optimize fast-ion confinement during ELM control in KSTAR	39
2D measurements of parallel counter-streaming flows in the W7-X scrape-off layer for attached and detached plasmas	39
Self-consistent core-pedestal ITER scenario modeling	38
Modeling of heat flux on the main limiter in EAST	38
Impurity effects on quasi-linear heat transport induced by interaction of TEM and ITG turbulence	38
Plasma profile reconstruction supported by kinetic modeling	38
Transport and confinement physics: Chapter 2 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation	37
A unified description of atomic physics for electron Fokker–Planck calculations	36
The first observation of the hot ion mode at the Globus-M2 spherical tokamak	36
Effect of the divertor configuration on the JET edge radial electric field	36
A high performance and dense Fe–Al/Al₂O₃ tritium permeation barrier coating prepared on 316LSS at low temperature	36
The investigation of edge-localized modes on the Globus-M2 tokamak using Doppler backscattering	36
Core-edge 2D fluid modeling of full tokamak discharge with varying magnetic equilibrium: from WEST start-up to ramp-down	36
High gas throughput SOLPS-ITER simulations extending the ITER database to strong detachment	35
Real-time plasma boundary shape reconstruction using visible camera on EAST tokamak	35
Mechanical model for a full fusion tokamak enabled by supercomputing	35
Effect of fast electron transport on neoclassical tearing mode stabilization by electron cyclotron current drive	35
Three-dimensional inhomogeneity of electron-temperature-gradient turbulence in the edge of tokamak plasmas	34
Studies of energetic particle transport induced by multiple Alfvén eigenmodes using neutron and escaping energetic particle diagnostics in Large Helical Device deuterium plasmas	34
Resonant interaction between runaway electrons and the toroidal magnetic field ripple in TCV	34
Transport and stability in sustained high	34
Testing a prediction model for the H-mode density pedestal against JET-ILW pedestals	34
The dependence of tokamak L-mode confinement on magnetic field and plasma size, from a magnetic field scan experiment at ASDEX Upgrade to full-radius integrated modelling and fusion reactor prediction	33
Surrogate model-based cognitive digital twin for smart remote maintenance of fusion reactor: modeling and implementation	33
The role of plasma–atom and molecule interactions on power & particle balance during detachment on the MAST Upgrade Super-X divertor	33
Non-linear MHD investigations of high-confinement regimes without type-I ELMs in ASDEX Upgrade and JT-60SA	33
Effect of the isotope mass on pedestal structure, transport and stability in D, D/T and T plasmas at similar β _N and gas rate in JET-ILW type I ELMy H-modes	33
Numerical assessment of the new V-shape small-angle slot divertor on DIII-D	32
Amorphization and siliconization of silicon carbide as a first wall material	32
A self-sustaining mechanism for internal transport barrier formation in HL-2A tokamak plasmas	32
Electron cyclotron current drive under neutral beam injection on HL-2M	32
The IFMIF-DONES Control Architecture: The State-of-the-Art Design of Central and Local Control Systems and Communication Networks.	32
Experimental inference of neutral and impurity transport in Alcator C-Mod using high-resolution x-ray and ultra-violet spectra	31
Turbulence spreading induced E	31
Ion heating and energy balance during magnetic reconnection events in the RFX-mod experiment	31
Remote maintenance in IFMIF-DONES: current status and future development program	31
MARS-F/K modeling of plasma response and fast ion losses due to RMP in KSTAR	30
SOLPS-ITER predictive simulations of the impact of ion-molecule elastic collisions on strongly detached MAST-U Super-X divertor conditions	30
Fluid turbulence simulations of divertor heat load for ITER hybrid scenario using BOUT++	30
Kinetic theory of parametric instabilities in magnetized plasmas and its application to analyzing decay waves during the injection of lower hybrid waves	29
Overview of the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation programme in support of ITER and DEMO	29
Dependence of ELM instability on separatrix density in EAST long-pulse H-mode plasmas	29
A novel discontinuous-Galerkin deterministic neutronics model for fusion applications: development and benchmarking	29

Investigation of helium exhaust dynamics at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak with full-tungsten wall	29
Development and experimental qualification of novel disruption prevention techniques on DIII-D	29
Expulsion of runaway electrons using ECRH in the TCV tokamak	28
Investigating the influence of divertor baffles on nitrogen-seeded detachment in TCV with SOLPS-ITER simulations and TCV experiments	28
Turbulent drifts of impurity ions as an explanation for anomalous radial transport in the far-SOL of DIII-D	28
Measuring gross beryllium erosion with visible cameras in JET	28
Damage evolution in Plasma Facing Materials by a sequential multiscale approach	28
Disruption thermal load mitigation with shattered pellet injection on the Joint European Torus (JET)	28
Free-plasma-boundary solver for axisymmetric ideal MHD equilibria with flow	27
Modeling of thermal-ion-driven internal kink in DIII-D high-T _i plasmas	27
Optimization of irradiation configuration using spherical t-designs for laser-direct-drive inertial confinement fusion	27
Multi-scale gyrokinetic simulations of JT-60U L-mode plasma: reduction of the ion scale energy loss due to the nonlinear coupling with the electron scale turbulence	27
Corrigendum: Integrated RMP-based ELM-crash-control process for plasma performance enhancement during ELM crash suppression in KSTAR (2023 Nucl. Fusion 63 086032)	27
Nonlinear frequency chirping and radial restructure of the ion-temperature-gradient-driven turbulence	27
Low-frequency zonal flow eigen-structures in tokamak plasmas	26
Comparison of core Ar¹⁷⁺ and Mo³²⁺ toroidal rotation in C-Mod plasmas	26
ICRH-related impurity source and control across experiments in H, D, T plasmas at JET-ILW	26
Experimental investigation of kinetic instabilities driven by runaway electrons in the EXL-50 spherical torus	26
Evaluation of cross sections for fast ion reactions with beryllium in helium and hydrogen fusion plasmas	26
Experimental investigation and gyrokinetic simulations of multi-scale electron heat transport in JET, AUG, TCV	26
Probabilistic risk assessment model for released tritium into the environment for CFETR	26
Evaluation of ITER divertor shunts as a synthetic diagnostic for detachment control	26
Calibration and test of CsI scintillator ion detection system for tokamak magnetic field diagnosis based on laser-driven ion-beam trace probe (LITP)	26
Corrigendum: Gas exhaust in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator during the first divertor operation (2022 Nucl. Fusion 62 096016)	26
Nonuniform plasma meniscus modelling based on backward calculation of negative ion beamlet	25
Emission of high rovibrational hydrogen molecules under detached plasma conditions by recycling on the tungsten wall	25
Gas puff imaging measurements during resonant magnetic perturbations on the HL-2A tokamak	25
Investigating pedestal dependencies at JET using an interpretable neural network architecture	25
Exploration of RMP ELM control on ITER-similar shape (ISS) in KSTAR	25
The role of electron-scale turbulence in the JET tokamak: experiments and modelling	24
Achievement of ion temperatures in excess of 100 million degrees Kelvin in the compact high-field spherical tokamak ST40	24
A model for the fast evaluation of prompt losses of energetic ions in stellarators	24
Analyses and optimization of the CFETR power conversion system with a new supercritical CO₂ Brayton cycle	24
Kinetic effects on the interaction of counter-propagating plasma shocks inside an ICF hohlraum	24
Recent results from deuterium experiments on the large helical device and their contribution to fusion reactor development	24
Observation of energetic ion anisotropy using neutron diagnostics in the Large Helical Device	23
Impurity effects on kinetic ballooning instability in high q	23
Phase-field microstructure-based effective thermal conductivity calculations in tungsten	23
Impact of negative triangularity plasma shaping on the n = 0 resistive wall mode in a tokamak	23
Interaction between disclinated non-equilibrium grain boundaries and radiation-induced interstitial/vacancy in tungsten	23
L-H transition studies on MAST: power threshold and heat flux analysis	23
Models and scalings for the disruption forces in tokamaks	23
Verification of a quasi-linear model for gyrokinetic turbulent transport	23
Toroidal Alfvén eigenmode stability in JET internal transport barrier afterglow experiments	23
DIII-D research to provide solutions for ITER and fusion energy	23
Effects of long-term annealing-induced microstructure evolution on mechanical performance and deuterium release behavior of Li₄SiO₄ pebbles	23
Nonlinear burn control in ITER using adaptive allocation of actuators with uncertain dynamics	23
Orbit tomography of energetic particle distribution functions	22
SOLPS-ITER modeling of CFETR advanced divertor with Ar and Ne seeding	22
Density pedestal prediction model for tokamak plasmas	22
Studies of EC pre-ionization in DIII-D to support development of ITER plasma initiation	22
The onset distribution of rotating m ,	22
Identification of a window for quiescent H-mode operation in MHD stability diagram of DIII-D plasmas	22
Integrating novel stellarator single-stage optimization algorithms to design the Columbia stellarator experiment	22
Interpretive modelling of boron transport in the boundary plasma of WEST experiments with the impurity powder dropper	22
The Lithium Systems of the IFMIF-DONES facility	22
Experimental characterization of the active and passive fast-ion H-alpha emission in W7-X using FIDASIM	22
Pedestal main ion particle transport inference through gas puff modulation with experimental source measurements	22
Divertor Tokamak Test facility project: status of design and implementation	22
Ion heating characteristics of merging spherical tokamak plasmas for burning high-beta plasma formation	22
Reducing transport via extreme flux-surface triangularity	22
Radiation induced non-linear oscillations in ITER baseline scenario plasmas in DIII-D	21
High-order coupling of shear and sonic continua in JET plasmas	21
An integral approach to plasma-wall interaction modelling for EU-DEMO	21
Enhanced particle transport events approaching the density limit of the J-TEXT tokamak	21
A general stellarator version of the systems code PROCESS	21
How fluctuation intensity flux drives SOL expansion	21
Effects of plasma nonuniformity on zero frequency zonal structure generation by drift Alfvén wave instabilities in toroidal plasmas	21
Studies of the outer-off-midplane lower hybrid wave launch scenario for plasma start-up on the TST-2 spherical tokamak	21
Non-thermal fusion burning processes, relevant collective modes and gained perspectives	21
Drift-Alfvén wave turbulence induced particle and heat transport in I-mode pedestal plasmas	21
Scenario adaptive disruption prediction study for next generation burning-plasma tokamaks	21
Quantitative comparison of impurity transport in turbulence reduced and enhanced scenarios at Wendelstein 7-X	21
Observation of high frequency Alfvén eigenmodes excited by RF-accelerated minority hydrogen ions in the EAST tokamak	21
Helical mode localization and mode locking of ideal MHD instabilities in magnetically perturbed tokamak plasmas	21
Characterization of W production during ICRF operations: experiments and modeling	21
Suppressing trapped-electron-mode-driven turbulence via optimization of three-dimensional shaping	21
Removal of fuel retention by direct-current glow discharge under strong magnetic field in EAST superconducting tokamak	21
Tokamak divertor plasma emulation with machine learning	21
Advances in prediction of tokamak experiments with theory-based models	20

A dimensionality reduction algorithm for mapping tokamak operational regimes using a variational autoencoder (VAE) neural network	20
Integral analysis of the effect of material dimension and composition on tokamak neutronics ^*	20
Full-flux-surface effects on electrostatic turbulence in Wendelstein 7-X-like plasmas	20
Effect of anisotropic fast ions on internal kink stability in DIII-D negative and positive triangularity plasmas	20
Modelling and application of a new method to measure the non-thermal electron current in the edge of magnetically confined plasma	20
Non-resonant global mode in LHD partial collapse with net toroidal current	20
DLTM: A deep learning method for tearing mode simulation and prediction	20
Effects of negative triangularity shaping on energetic particle driven Alfvén eigenmodes in DIII-D ^*	20
Safety engineering approach and licensing strategy of IFMIF-DONES	20
Experimental study of the core instability before and after internal transport barrier formation in EAST	20
The effects of zonal fields on energetic-particle excitations of reversed-shear Alfvén eigenmode: simulation and theory	20
Broadening of electron cyclotron power deposition and driven current profiles caused by dissipative diffractive propagation	20
Control of elongated plasmas in superconductive tokamaks in the absence of in-vessel coils	20
Effect of runaway electrons on tearing mode stability: with or without favorable curvature stabilization	20
Scaling of HeatLMD-simulated impurity outflux from COMPASS-U liquid metal divertor	20
Stellarators as a fast path to fusion	20
Observation of local density increase during pellet homogenization on EAST	20
The synergistic effect of deuterium and helium on the microstructure evolution of W–Y₂O₃ material during plasma exposure	20
Metrics for implosion performance with enhanced energy coupling on NIF	19
Global analysis of tungsten migration in WEST discharges using numerical modelling	19
Exploring the suppression methods of helium-induced damage in tungsten by investigating the interaction between beryllium and helium	19
Inter-ELM pedestal turbulence dynamics dependence on q₉₅ and temperature gradient	19
Simulation of stochastic transport and deposition of seed runaway electrons during disruption mitigation	19
Achievement of high-current continuous-wave deuteron injector for linear IFMIF prototype accelerator (LIPAc)	19
Resonant mode effects on rotation braking induced by n = 1 resonant magnetic perturbations in the EAST tokamak	19
Development of high-performance long-pulse discharge in KSTAR	19
Fabrication routes for advanced first wall design alternatives	19
Passive deconfinement of runaway electrons using an in-vessel helical coil	19
Simultaneous access to high normalized density, current, pressure, and confinement in strongly-shaped diverted negative triangularity plasmas	19
Kinetic effects of thermal ions on internal kink modes in tokamak plasmas	19
Isotopic mass effects of tritium-fueled high-performance TFTR supershots	19
Simulations of scrape-off layer power width for EAST H-mode plasma and ITER 15 MA baseline scenario by 2D electrostatic turbulence code	19
NSTX-U research advancing the physics of spherical tokamaks	19
Overview of physics results from MAST upgrade towards core-pedestal-exhaust integration	19
Wall stabilization of the rigid ballooning m = 1 mode in a long-thin mirror trap	19
Study on onset of nucleate boiling with screw tube for fusion reactor application	19
Diagnosing inertial confinement fusion ignition	19
Baseline design of laser fusion research reactor with MW class laser facility	18
Local destabilization of the ideal or infinite-n ballooning mode in the H-mode pedestal region with high triangularity	18
Modelling of energetic particle drive and damping effects on TAEs in AUG experiment with ECCD	18
The influence of full drifts on density shoulder formation at the midplane by numerical modeling	18
Current density limitation during disruptions due to plasma-sheaths	18
Micro-tearing mode dominated electron heat transport in DIII-D H-mode pedestal	18
Obituary: Professor Kenro Miyamoto	18
On the interaction between the island divertor heat fluxes, the scrape-off layer radial electric field and the edge turbulence in Wendelstein 7-X plasmas	18
A potential optical approach for diagnosis of the local magnetic field near the surface of the first wall/divertor tiles by Zeeman effect using polarization-resolved laser-induced breakdown spectrosco	18
Refractive index measurement of hydrogen isotopologue mixture and applicability for homogeneity of hydrogen solid at cryogenic temperature in fusion fuel system	18
Modification of the magneto-hydrodynamic equilibrium by the lower-hybrid wave driven fast electrons on the TST-2 spherical tokamak	18
Implications of parasitic absorption of electron cyclotron waves on ITER operation around half-field	18
Observation of bi-directional global Alfvén eigenmodes in the MAST-U tokamak	18
Analysis of the periodic variation of pellet ablation radiation intensity in ASDEX Upgrade	18
Reducing the L-H transition power threshold in ITER-similar-shape DIII-D hydrogen plasmas	18
Extending the operational boundaries of RMP-ELM suppression with optimized 3D field control	17
Electromagnetic gyrokinetic instabilities in STEP	17
Nonlinear MHD modeling of soft β limits in W7-AS	17
A staged approach to Indian DEMO	17
Assessment of validity of local neoclassical transport theory for studies of electric-field root-transitions in the W7-X stellarator	17
On the evolution of profiles and fluctuations towards the L-mode density limit in ASDEX Upgrade	17
Measurements of laser-plasma instabilities in double-cone ignition experiments relevant to the direct-drive conditions at Shenguang-II Upgrade laser facility	17
The effect of long-term heating on the tritium adsorption and desorption behavior of advanced core–shell breeding materials	17
Enhancement of ECCD by the current condensation effect for stabilizing large magnetic islands caused by neoclassical tearing modes in tokamak plasmas	17
Understanding turbulence suppression in JET D–T plasma with highly energetic fast ions via global gyrokinetic GENE simulations	17
NSTX-U theory, modeling and analysis results	17
A scaling law of the neutral penetration length and Balmer-α wing shape in high-temperature plasmas^*	17
Sustained edge-localized-modes suppression and radiative divertor with an impurity-driven instability in tokamak plasmas	16
Numerical modelling of sawteeth and sawtooth-free regime	16
Edge biasing and its impact on the edge and SOL turbulence	16
Surface modification of W–Ta–V–Cr multi-component alloy after low-energy He plasma irradiation	16
Magnetized ICF implosions: non-axial magnetic field topologies	16
TRIEX-II: an experimental facility for the characterization of the tritium extraction unit of the WCLL blanket of ITER and DEMO fusion reactors	16
Experimentally corroborated model of pressure relaxation limit cycle oscillations in the vicinity of the transition to high confinement in tokamaks	16
Full conversion from ohmic to runaway electron driven current via massive gas injection in the TCV tokamak	16
Understanding core tungsten (W) transport and control in an improved high-performance fully non-inductive discharge on EAST	16
How turbulent transport broadens the heat flux width: local SOL production or edge turbulence spreading?	16
Role of the separatrix density in the pedestal performance in deuterium low triangularity JET-ILW plasmas and comparison with JET-C	16
Two-fluid effects on resistive wall modes in plasmas with negative versus positive triangularity	16
SOLPS-ITER analysis of drift effects on plasma profiles in the EAST scrape-off layer	16
The dependence of confinement on the isotope mass in the core and the edge of AUG and JET-ILW H-mode plasmas	16
Kelvin’s circulation pinch theory in magnetized plasma turbulence	16
Design of passive and structural conductors for tokamaks using thin-wall eddy current modeling	16
A novel scheme for error field correction in permanent magnet stellarators	15
ITG turbulence in gyrokinetic simulations of high collisionality spherical tokamak plasmas	15
Controlling the size of non-axisymmetric magnetic footprints using resonant magnetic perturbations	15
Simultaneous control of safety factor profile and normalized beta for JT-60SA using reinforcement learning	15
Influence of AR injection on shielding layer properties and surface protection from transient high heat loads under the QSPA plasma exposures	15
Comparison of MHD stability properties between QH-mode and ELMy H-mode plasmas by considering plasma rotation and ion diamagnetic drift effects	15
Physics of tearing mode rotation and slow-down in the RFX-mod tokamak	15
Production and transport modelling of Po-210 in DEMO reactor	15
Overview of recent results from the ST40 compact high-field spherical tokamak	15
List of reviewers	15
Corrigendum: Reaching 30% energy coupling efficiency for a high-density-carbon capsule in a gold rugby hohlraum on NIF (2021 Nucl. Fusion 64 086028)	15
Observation of tungsten emission spectra up to W⁴⁶⁺ ions in the Large Helical Device and contribution to the study of high-Z impurity transport in fusion plasmas	15
Target fabrication technologies and noncontact delivery systems to develop a free-standing target factory operating in the repetition mode at the IFE relevant level	15
Operating a full tungsten actively cooled tokamak: overview of WEST first phase of operation	15
Limit-cycle-oscillation induced from the positive feedback amplification of radial electric field in the scrape-off-layer	15