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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Slow positron production and storage for the ASACUSA-Cusp experiment	140
Influence of ion and variable dust charge on electron-dust bremsstrahlung emission spectrum in complex plasmas	55
Correlations between X-rays, visible light and drive-beam energy loss observed in plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET-II	42
Stellarator equilibrium axis-expansion to all orders in distance from the axis for arbitrary plasma beta	38
Adjoint methods for quasi-symmetry of vacuum fields on a surface	38
Magnetohydrodynamic stability and the effects of shaping: a near-axis view for tokamaks and quasisymmetric stellarators	34
Available energy of trapped electrons in Miller tokamak equilibria	29
Theory of gradient drift instabilities in low-temperature, partially magnetised plasmas	26
The Okubo–Weiss-type topological criteria in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows	25
On turbulent magnetic reconnection: fast and slow mean steady states	24
Action principles and conservation laws for Chew–Goldberger–Low anisotropic plasmas	24
Dimits transition in three-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient turbulence	23
Hybrid electrostatic waves in linearized gravity	23
Asymptotic quasisymmetric high-beta three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibria near axisymmetry	21
Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma	21
Development of compact tokamak fusion reactor use cases to inform future transport studies	21
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient	21
Generalized expanding-box formulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamics in the solar wind	20
Fast magneto-acoustic wave turbulence and the Iroshnikov–Kraichnan spectrum	20
Numerical simulation of an expanding magnetic field plasma thruster: a comparative study for argon, xenon and iodine fuel gases	20
Optimisation of gyrokinetic microstability using adjoint methods	20
Existence of an optimized stellarator with simple coils	18
Fast particle trajectories and integrability in quasiaxisymmetric and quasihelical stellarators	18
Non-specular ion reflection at quasiperpendicular collisionless shock front	18
Seeking turbulence optimized configurations for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator: ion temperature gradient and electron temperature gradient turbulence	18

A structure-preserving particle discretisation for the Lenard–Bernstein collision operator	18
Temperature separation under compression of moderately coupled plasma	17
Iterative approach for time development calculation of tokamak plasma with eddy current effects using a 3D magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium solver	17
A two-dimensional numerical study of ion-acoustic turbulence – ERRATUM	17
Predicting the Z-pinch Dimits shift through gyrokinetic tertiary instability analysis of the entropy mode	17
Gamma-ray flash in the interaction of a tightly focused single-cycle ultra-intense laser pulse with a solid target	16
Advanced surrogate model for electron-scale turbulence in tokamak pedestals	16
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using self-organizing maps (SOMs)	16
Observations of dust fragmentations in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak	16
Lectures on statistical mechanics	16
Plasma flow suppression by the linear helical mirror system	16
Design and construction of the near-earth space plasma simulation system of the Space Plasma Environment Research Facility	15
Non-thermal particle acceleration from maximum entropy in collisionless plasmas	15
Theoretical and computational studies of the Weibel instability in several beam–plasma interaction configurations	15
An intuitive form of the energy functional for resistive plasma perturbations	15
Effects of multi-dimensionality and energy exchange on electrostatic current-driven plasma instabilities and turbulence	14
Validation of magnetized gas-jet experiments to investigate the effects of an external magnetic field on laser-plasma instabilities	14
Simulation study of the influences of beryllium on the tokamak start-up process	14
Structure and dynamics of magneto-inertial, differentially rotating laboratory plasmas	13
Reflection-driven turbulence in the super-Alfvénic solar wind	13
Experimental study on the formation and evolution of unconfined counter-helicity spheromaks merging using magnetized coaxial plasma gun	13
Exact boundary-value solution for an electromagnetic wave propagating in a linearly varying index of refraction	13
Poloidal impurity asymmetries, flow and neoclassical transport in pedestals in the plateau and banana regimes	13
Polarization effects in higher-order guiding-centre Lagrangian dynamics	13
Wave turbulence in inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics	13
Confinement of transitioning particles in bi-helical Wendelstein-type configurations	13
The Gardner equation and acoustic solitary waves in plasmas	13
Symplectic particle-in-cell methods for hybrid plasma models with Boltzmann electrons and space-charge effects	12
The available energy of trapped electrons: a nonlinear measure for turbulent transport	12
High-density positron beam generation via Breit–Wheeler and trident processes using ultra-intense lasers	12
Direct stellarator coil design using global optimization: application to a comprehensive exploration of quasi-axisymmetric devices	12
Lower hybrid current drive for an intense monochromatic applied field	12
Characterization of admissible quasisymmetries	12
Coil optimization for quasi-helically symmetric stellarator configurations	12
Modelling a thrust imparted by a highly ionized magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster	12
Drift of ablated material after pellet injection in a tokamak	11
Microstability of β ~ 1 tokamak equilibria	11
Gyrokinetic simulation of turbulence under lower hybrid wave and electron cyclotron wave combined heating on EAST	11
Plasma potential shaping using end-electrodes in the Large Plasma Device	11
Observation of subcritical shocks in a collisional laboratory plasma: scale dependence near the resistive length	11
Turbulence and transport in mirror geometries in the Large Plasma Device	10
Particle-based modelling of axisymmetric tandem mirror devices	10
Improved accuracy in degenerate variational integrators for guiding centre and magnetic field line flow	10
Radiative and continuum dampings of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes and perturbative analysis limitations for tokamaks	10
Effects of mesh topology on MHD solution features in coronal simulations	10
Resonant theory of kinetic ballooning modes in general toroidal geometry	10
Using rational surfaces to improve pellet fuelling in stellarators	10
On the thermodynamics of SPARC plasma and its role in reducing uncertainties on the way to large fusion gain	10
Gyrokinetic moment-based simulations of the Dimits shift	10
Bounce-averaged theory in arbitrary multi-well plasmas: solution domains and the graph structure of their connections	10

Current sheet formation under radiative cooling	10
Enhanced proton acceleration from laser interaction with curved surface nanowire targets	10
Terahertz radiation in the interaction of a focused laser pulse with plasma	10
A family of quasi-axisymmetric stellarators with varied rotational transform	10
Free electron laser in the magnetically dominated regime: simulations with the ONEDFEL code	10
Scale statistics of current sheets in relativistic collisionless plasma turbulence	10
Characterizing the velocity-space signature of electron Landau damping	9
Quantum calculation for two-stream instability and advection test of Vlasov–Maxwell equations: numerical evaluation of Hamiltonian simulation	9
Quasi-parallel propagating solitons in magnetised relativistic electron–positron plasmas	9
Variational quantum simulation of the Fokker–Planck equation applied to quantum radiation reaction	9
Impact of wiggler magnetic field on wakefield generation and electron acceleration by Gaussian, super-Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian laser pulses propagating in collisionless plasma	9
Gyrofluid analysis of electron β_e effects on collisionless reconnection	9
Scaling of the Hosking integral in decaying magnetically dominated turbulence	9
Description of global EGAM in the maximum of local frequency during current ramp-up discharges in DIII-D	9
Gauge-invariant variational formulations of electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory	9
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient	8
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in stellarator plasmas	8
Trapped-particle precession and modes in quasisymmetric stellarators and tokamaks: a near-axis perspective	8
On the electric field components in the collisionless plasmoid instability	8
Quasilinear theory of Brillouin resonances in rotating magnetized plasmas	8
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using Bessel–Gauss doughnut beams for accelerating beam guiding	8
Drift-cyclotron loss-cone instability in 3-D simulations of a sloshing-ion simple mirror	8
Density jump for oblique collisionless shocks in pair plasmas: allowed solutions	8
Terahertz generation by a rotating relativistic electron beam in a magnetized plasma column	8
The magnetohydrodynamic equations in terms of waveframe variables	8
Power and particle exhaust for the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant	8
Influence of magnetic configuration properties on kinetic ballooning modes in W7-X	7
Collisionless zonal-flow dynamics in quasisymmetric stellarators	7
Microphysically modified magnetosonic modes in collisionless, high-β plasmas	7
Resonant excitation of single Kelvin–Helmholtz high-order waves in a magnetized electron fluid vortex	7
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 1. Quick and accurate equilibria computations	7
Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefields	7
All-optical Compton scattering at shallow interaction angles	7
Experimental issues of energy balance in open magnetic trap	7
Overview of neutral beam injectors for plasma heating and diagnostics developed at Budker INP	7
On the construction of general large-amplitude spherically polarised Alfvén waves	7
Fresnel drag in a moving magnetised plasma	7
Kinetic stability of Chapman–Enskog plasmas	7
Nonlinear dynamics in dusty plasmas subjected to photo-discharging	7
Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas. Part 2. Current sheets and dissipation – ERRATUM	7
Data-driven model for divertor plasma detachment prediction	7
Transformation of a plasma boundary curvature into electrical impulses moving along a plasma surface	7
Inverse cascading for initial magnetohydrodynamic turbulence spectra between Saffman and Batchelor	7
Quasilinear modelling of collisional trapped electron modes	7
Elastic overtaking collisions of large-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons	7
Angular splitting and selective acceleration in NiO plasmas generated by laser ablation	7
The collisional particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov–Maxwell–Landau equations	7
Collisionless tearing instability in a relativistic pair plasma with a power-law distribution function	7
MHD turbulence: a biased review	7
Pressure anisotropy and viscous heating in weakly collisional plasma turbulence	7
Emission of terahertz pulses from near-critical plasma slab under action of p-polarized laser radiation	7
Modelling the nonlinear plasma response to externally applied three-dimensional fields with the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code	7
On hydromagnetic wave interactions in collisionless, high-βplasmas	7
A numerical study of gravity-driven instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma. Part 3. Homo-interaction between a pair of rising/falling bubbles/droplets	6
Measures of quasisymmetry for stellarators	6
Direct construction of stellarator-symmetric quasi-isodynamic magnetic configurations	6
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient – ERRATUM	6
Transient versus steady-state solutions: a qualitative study	6
Calculation of collisionless pitch-angle scattering of runaway electrons with synchrotron radiation via high-order guiding-centre equation	6
An analytical form of the dispersion function for local linear gyrokinetics in a curved magnetic field	6
Application of quadruple Beltrami state on Saturnian dusty plasma	6
The residual flow in well-optimized stellarators	6
Towards ion stopping power experiments with the laser-driven LIGHT beamline	6
Ambipolar electrostatic field in dusty plasma	6
Guiding centre motion for particles in a ponderomotive magnetostatic end plug	6
Ultrafast dynamics of a spin-polarized electron plasma with magnetic ions	6
Annihilation-gamma-based diagnostic techniques for magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma	6
Generation of energetic electrons by an electron cyclotron wave through stochastic heating in a spherical tokamak	6
Helical magnetic mirror performance at up- and downstream directions of the axial force	6
Multi-cell trap developments towards the accumulation and confinement of large quantities of positrons	6
Radio-frequency sheath excitation at the extremities of scrape-off layer plasma filaments, mediated by resonant high harmonic fast wave scattering	6
Inverse cascade from helical and non-helical decaying columnar magnetic fields	6
Lane formation in 3D driven pair-ion plasmas: I Parallel External Forcing	6
Intermittency assessed through a model of kurtosis–skewness relation in MHD in fast dynamo regimes	6
Four-dimensional equations for the study of electromagnetic plasma turbulence in a drift kinetic limit	6
Effects of guard and boom on needle Langmuir probes studied with particle-in-cell simulations	6