OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Gyrokinetic analysis of core turbulent transport in high-β scenarios in the EHL-2 spherical torus	73
Parallel Bayesian optimization of free-electron lasers based on laser wakefield accelerators	46
Special Issue on the 27th Workshop on MHD Stability Control, a joint US-Japan workshop	44
Numerical investigation of neoclassical tearing mode in toroidal plasma	38
Corrigendum: Optimization of the N	36
Multiple geodesic acoustic modes destabilization in the presence of energetic particles with ﬁnite orbit width eﬀects	35
Thermal confinement and transport in spherical tokamaks: a review	33
Vertical control of DIII-D discharges with strong negative triangularity	32
The dynamic axial compression of FRC with high-speed translated θ-pinch plasma	32
Beam model of Doppler backscattering	31
Dense plasma focus: different cathode geometries and their influence on the hard x-ray production	30
Towards a fusion power plant: integration of physics and technology	29
Radially inward particle transport driven by low-frequency instability in cylindrical magnetized plasma	29
Commissioning results from the high-repetition rate nanosecond-kilojoule laser beamline at the extreme light infrastructure	25
Linear simulation of kinetic Peeling-Ballooning mode with bootstrap current under the BOUT++ gyro landau fluid code	23
Plasmas, particles and photons—spotlights on multimessenger astronomy	22
MHD simulations of small ELMs at low triangularity in ASDEX Upgrade	21
Strongly magnetized plasma produced by interaction of nanosecond kJ-class laser with snail targets	20
A FAIR based approach to data sharing in Europe	20
Effect of inclusion of pitch-angle dependence on a simplified model of RF deposition in tokamak plasma	20
High-frequency measurement of the interferometric phase, the Faraday rotation, and the Cotton-Mouton effect with a single detector in a far-infrared interferometer-polarimeter	19
Investigation of core impurity transport in DIII-D diverted negative triangularity plasmas	18
Developing solid-surface plasma facing components for pilot plants and reactors with replenishable wall claddings and continuous surface conditioning. Part A: concepts and questions	18
Hot electron and x-ray generation by sub-ns kJ-class laser-produced tantalum plasma	18
Power balance analysis at the L-H transition in JET-ILW NBI-heated deuterium plasmas	17

Blob tracking and formation in edge and SOL plasmas using Q-factor	17
Understanding the electromagnetic topology during the ohmic breakdown in tokamaks considering self-generated electric fields	17
Review of magnetic islands from the divertor perspective and a simplified heat transport model for the island divertor	17
Wave propagation in rotating magnetised plasmas	16
Simulation of lithium flow, redeposition, and vapor shielding in liquid lithium divertor of T-15MD tokamak with SOLPS 4.3 code	16
Progress of a gas-electron-multiplier based camera (GEM) in investigating EAST macroscopic instabilities	16
Prediction of ICRF minority heating schemes for JET D–T experiments	16
Initial growth of tungsten fuzz induced by bubble-driven surface stress layer under helium irradiation	16
New evidence about the nature of plasma filaments in plasma accelerators of type plasma-focus	16
Two types of helical-core equilibrium states in tokamak plasmas	16
Benchmark of a self-consistent dynamic 1D divertor model DIV1D using the 2D SOLPS-ITER code	16
Phases and phase-transitions in quasisymmetric configuration space	16
Normalizing flows for likelihood-free inference with fusion simulations	16
A Bayesian formulation for perturbed current tomography in tokamaks	15
ORBIT simulations of fast ion power loads on the wall of the Divertor Tokamak Test	15
Currents in reconnection plasma jets: comparative study of laboratory experiments and spacecraft observations	15
Disruption avoidance by stabilizing coupled MHD modes using resonant magnetic perturbations on J-TEXT	15
Application of the triple-probe technique to magnetized plasmas	15
Remote infrared view of JET divertor compatible with D-T operations	15
Addressing the carbon and nitrogen impurity screening issue on HL-2M snowflake minus and conventional divertor using SOLPS	15
Enhancement of K-shell spectroscopy for temperature measuring of isochorically heated matter in the sub-keV range	15
Supervised learning approaches to modeling pedestal density	15
Investigation of the synergistic effects of ICRF + NBI heating in EAST plasma discharges	14
The problem of capturing marginality in model reductions of turbulence	14
Discussion on the transport processes in electrons with non-Maxwellian energy distribution function in partially-ionized plasmas	14
Impact of the turbulence wavenumber spectrum and probing beam geometry on Doppler reflectometry perpendicular velocity measurements	14
New linear stability parameter to describe low-β electromagnetic microinstabilities driven by passing electrons in axisymmetric toroidal geometry	14
Analytical model for the combined effects of rotation and collisionality on neoclassical impurity transport	14
Constructing the space of quasisymmetric stellarators through near-axis expansion	14
Single-stage stellarator optimization: combining coils with fixed boundary equilibria	14
Observation of proton modulations in laser–solid interaction	13
Development of a portable pulsed fast ⩾10⁶ neutron generator based on a flexible miniature plasma focus tube	13
Linear instabilities in the hot-ion regime in a high-field spherical tokamak	13
Estimation of plasma parameter profiles and their derivatives from linear observations by using Gaussian processes	13
Structure of the electron temperature profile around the separatrix	13
Ion acceleration from a multispecies nanostructured target using a high-intensity laser: a simulation study	13
Magnetohydrodynamics simulation of magnetic flux rope formation in a quadrupolar magnetic field configuration	13
Simulation of shell pellet injection strategies for ITER-scale tokamaks	13
Quasioptical modeling of the electron cyclotron emission diagnostic	12
Neutralized, intense-ion beams for fusion	12
Model magnetospheric accretion and bipolar jets with intense lasers	12
Physics of drift Alfvén instabilities and energetic particles in fusion plasmas	12
Numerical study of divertor detachment in TCV H-mode scenarios	12
Numerical simulations on loss of ICRF-heated NBI ions in EAST	12
Machine learning aided line intensity ratio method for helium–hydrogen mixed recombining plasmas	12
Tomographic reconstructions of the fast-ion phase space using imaging neutral particle analyser measurements	12
The global energy balance of the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak determined with the revised cooling water calorimetry	12
Modeling of high-field-side high-density regime in the Globus-M2 tokamak	12
Corrigendum: Multi-temperature generalized Zhdanov closure for scrape-off layer/edge applications (2022 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 64 045005)	12
Vertical stray field measurements using an electron beam in the MEPhIST-0 tokamak	12

Tungsten accumulation during ion cyclotron resonance heating operation on WEST	12
Erratum: Regions without flux surfaces of given class for magnetic fields in toroidal geometry (2023 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 65 095021)	12
Potential for suprathermal chain reactions in degenerate deuterium plasmas at high densities	11
Application of multiple regression for sensitivity analysis of helium line emissions to the electron density and temperature in Magnum-PSI	11
Existence of a detachment cliff at ASDEX Upgrade	11
Electron collision cross sections and electronic states of BH: an R-matrix study for fusion edge plasmas	11
Special Issue on the 26th Workshop on MHD Stability Control	11
First measurements with a Coherence Imaging Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy (CICERS) diagnostic at Wendelstein 7-X	11
Modelling of runaway electron dynamics during argon-induced disruptions in ASDEX Upgrade and JET	11
Effects of energetic particles on the density-gradient-driven collisionless trapped electron mode instability in tokamak plasmas	11
Plasma opacity induced by laser-driven movement of background ions	11
Simulations of tokamak edge plasma turbulent fluctuations based on a minimal 3D model	11
Statistical analysis of magnetic divertor configuration influence on H-mode transitions	11
Characterization of the SCR-1 stellarator physics: investigating plasma discharge, MHD equilibrium calculations, and O-X-B mode conversion feasibility	11
A non-twisting flux tube for local gyrokinetic simulations	11
Extended electron tails in electrostatic microinstabilities and the nonadiabatic response of passing electrons	10
Study of ablation phase in double-wire Z-pinch based on optical Thomson scattering	10
Metal evaporation dynamics in electron cyclotron resonance ion sources: plasma role in the atom diffusion, ionisation, and transport	10
Incorporating large larmor radius effects in the full wave code TORIC	10
Building robust surrogate models of laser-plasma interactions using large scale PIC simulation	10
EMC3-EIRENE simulation of first wall recycling fluxes in W7-X with relation to H-alpha measurements	10
Commissioning of the tracer-encapsulated solid pellet (TESPEL) injection system for Wendelstein 7-X and first results for OP1.2b	10
Review of hydrogen isotope effects on H-mode confinement in JT-60U	10
Fast dynamics of radiofrequency emission in FTU plasmas with runaway electrons	10
On the use of CFD to obtain head loss coefficients in hydraulic systems and its application to liquid metal MHD flows in nuclear fusion reactor blankets	10
Particle-in-cell methods in edge plasma physics: the PICLS code	10
Assessment of vertical stability for negative triangularity pilot plants	10
Modeling turbulent impurity transport in the SOL of DIII-D with a reduced model	10
Magnetics only real-time equilibrium reconstruction on ASDEX Upgrade	10
Physical insights from the aspect ratio dependence of turbulence in negative triangularity plasmas	10
Characterisation of a laser plasma betatron source for high resolution x-ray imaging	10
Investigation of the double peak in the visible-light range of radiative divertor emission profiles on the EAST tokamak	10
Investigating the n = 1 and n = 2 error fields in W7-X using the newly accelerated FIELDLINES code	10
Drift instabilities driven by slab ion temperature gradient in suprathermal plasmas	10
Mesoscopic transport in KSTAR plasmas: avalanches and the E × B staircase	10
Comment on ‘The influence of plasma evolution on a kinetic scenario of collisional relaxation of a magnetized plasma’	10
Nonlinear feedback algorithm for tearing-mode magnetic control in tokamak	10
A neoclassical validation of balanced and unbalanced rotations on EAST H-mode discharges	10
Collective stimulated Brillouin scattering with shared ion acoustic wave under the action of two overlapping laser beams	10
B2.5-Eunomia simulations of Magnum-PSI detachment experiments: I. Quantitative comparisons with experimental measurements	10
Fast-electron maintaining a high shock-ignition gain with a significant decrease in the laser pulse energy	9
Numerical analysis of fast ions transport induced by magnetic islands in HL-2A	9
Influence of the magnetic field on the emission of hot electrons and ions from ablative plasma produced from a disc-coil target irradiated by the 3rd harmonic of the PALS iodine laser	9
A convenient analytical parametrization of a tokamak plasma last closed flux surface for use in shape and discharge design	9
Breakdown prediction of ion source at EAST-NBI using neural network	9
Enhancement of detachment control with simplified real-time modelling on the KSTAR tokamak	9
Gigabar shock wave driven by laser-accelerated electron stream	9
A 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the propagation of a plasma plume transverse to applied magnetic field	9
EUROfusion-theory and advanced simulation coordination (E-TASC): programme and the role of high performance computing	9
Excitation of strongly nonlinear plasma wakefield by electron bunches	9
Numerical study of turbulent eddy self-interaction in tokamaks with low magnetic shear. Part I: Linear simulations	9
Nonlinear lower hybrid wave equations in collisional tokamak plasmas	9
Comparing two- and three-dimensional models of scrape-off layer turbulent transport	9
Characterisation and optimisation of targets for plasma wakefield acceleration at SPARC_LAB	9
Characteristics of neutron emission profile from neutral beam heated plasmas of the Large Helical Device at various magnetic field strengths	9
Near real-time streaming analysis of big fusion data	9
Orbit-modulated transport and sources in time-dependent plasmas	9
Modeling magnetic field amplification in supernova remnants driven by laser	9
Correlation between the blob properties and global plasma parameters in L-mode on EAST	9
Experimental study on plasma characteristics in the extraction region of a high-power RF negative ion source based on electrostatic probe	9
ECEI characterization of pedestal fluctuations in quiescent H-mode plasmas in DIII-D	9
First lithium experiments in HIDRA and evidence of helium retention during quasi-steady-state stellarator plasma operations	9
Isotope effects on transport in LHD	9
Enhancing the conversion efficiency of extreme ultraviolet light sources using a 2 µm wavelength laser	9
Design of flexible proton beam imaging energy spectrometers (PROBIES)	8
Thermal quench and current profile relaxation dynamics in massive-material-injection-triggered tokamak disruptions	8
Structure and transportation of electron vortices in near-critical density plasmas driven by ultrashort intense laser pulses	8
Tungsten control in long pulse operation : feedback from WEST to ITER	8
PPCF Editor-in-Chief year-end update: news and announcements for 2024 and 2025	8
Hall physics during magnetic reconnection with collision effect	8
Theory of stochastic diffusion in Wendelstein-line stellarators in the presence of radial electric field	8
Noise suppression for MHD characterization with electron cyclotron emission imaging 1D technique	8
The solar corona as an active medium for magnetoacoustic waves	8
Pressure-driven stochastization of flux surfaces in stellarator equilibria: a review of the experimental observations and their analysis	8
Ponderomotive force driven mechanism for electrostatic wave excitation and energy absorption of electromagnetic waves in overdense magnetized plasma	8
Interface transport barriers in magnetized plasmas	8
Determining the fuel ion ratio for D(T) and T(D) plasmas at JET using neutron time-of-flight spectrometry	8
Neural-network based electron density profile inversion for interferometer on EAST tokamak	8
Connecting recent JET isotope L-H transition studies to H-mode access in new ITER scenarios	8
Flow-shear destabilization of multiscale electron turbulence	8

Impurity analysis of JET DiMPle pulses	8
Observation and characterisation of trapped electron modes in Wendelstein 7-X	8
A comparative study of internal kink stability in EU DEMO designs with negative and positive triangularity	8
Prediction of high-performance scenario with localized magnetic shear reversal on EAST tokamak	8
Influences of sinusoidal density modulation on stimulated Raman scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas	8
Heavy impurity transport in tokamaks subject to plasma rotation, NTV and the influence of saturated ideal MHD perturbations	8
The ‘SXR—Pit’ paradox as an indicator of electron transport in tokamaks	8
Study on stray electrons ejecting from a long-pulse negative ion source for fusion	8
Investigation of the Langdon effect on the nonlinear evolution of SBS in Au plasmas	8
Suppression of equilibrium magnetic islands by density profile effect in quasi-axisymmetric stellarator plasmas	8
Corrigendum: Thermal confinement and transport in spherical tokamaks: a review (2021 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 63 123001)	8
High yield (⩾10⁸/pulse) DD neutron generator based on a compact, transportable and low energy plasma focus device	8
B2.5-Eunomia simulations of Magnum-PSI detachment experiments: II. Collisional processes and their relevance	8
Investigations into growth of whistlers with energy of energetic electrons	8
Features of resonant and non-resonant slab ion-temperature-gradient instabilities in weakly reversed magnetic shear configurations	7
Destabilization mechanism of the collisional microtearing mode in magnetized slab plasmas	7
Observation of ion-cyclotron-range-of-frequency wave emission in electron-cyclotron-resonance-heated tokamak plasma	7
Exploring extreme magnetization phenomena in directly driven imploding cylindrical targets	7
Monitoring of two-dimensional tungsten concentration profiles on the HL-2A tokamak	7
Pedestal instabilities during the L-H transition in ASDEX-Upgrade plasmas	7
Identification of trapping finer-scale fluctuations in a solitary vortex in linear magnetized plasma	7
Probabilistic theory of the L-H transition and causality	7
Influence of electron cyclotron current drive on the transition between normal sawteeth and the stationary state	7
Frontiers in data analysis methods: from causality detection to data driven experimental design	7
Generation of meter-scale hydrogen plasmas and efficient, pump-depletion-limited wakefield excitation using 10 GeV electron bunches	7
Full f and δf gyrokinetic particle simulations of Alfvén waves and energetic particle physics	7
Effect of nonlinearity, magnetic islands on turbulence and observation of electron energization, temperature anisotropy at Earth’s magnetopause (magnetosphere)	7
Species dependence of the impurity injection induced poloidal flow and magnetic island rotation in a tokamak	7
Efficient proton-carbon ions acceleration by the plasma-beat-wave mechanism in the presence of the axial magnetic field	7
Experimental study of flute instability by even/odd-parity quadrupole fields in Keda Mirror with AXisymmetricity (KMAX)	7
Adaptive low-temperature plasmas	7
Machine learning methods for locked-mode predictions in MAST-U plasmas	7
Experimental and numerical investigations of electron transport enhancement by electron-cyclotron plasma-wave interaction in tokamaks	7
Assessment of relevant pinch magnitudes of plasma focus devices based on non-uniform internal distributions of density and temperature	7
The fastVFP code for solution of the Vlasov–Fokker–Planck equation	7
Theory and simulation of the force-free equilibria in the EAST-CTI	7
Validation of IMEP on Alcator C-Mod and JET-ILW ELMy H-mode plasmas	7
News and announcements from the Editor-in-Chief for 2024	7
Elements of H-mode pedestal structure	7
Transition between continuous and discrete spectra of high-wavenumber turbulence in neutral gas pressure scan experiments on a linear magnetized plasma	7
Construction of an invertible mapping to boundary conforming coordinates for arbitrarily shaped toroidal domains	7
Benign termination of runaway electron beams on ASDEX Upgrade and TCV	7
Modeling fast ion losses due to tearing and internal kink perturbations in MAST-U	7
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons in a magnetically controlled plasma	7
Analysis of the convective amplification process of a three-wave parametric instability arises from low frequency plasma fluctuation	7
Oscillation dynamics of m/n= 3/1 double tearing mode	7
Two plasmon decay instability stimulated by large-incidence-angle laser in inertial confinement fusion	7
Finite-temperature Thomas–Fermi–Dirac-Weizsäcker model in the warm dense matter regime	6
Intense laser-generated ion beams propagating in plasmas	6
Reduced transport models for a tokamak flight simulator	6
Single Gaussian process method for arbitrary tokamak regimes with a statistical analysis	6
Experimental study of medical isotopes ^62,64Cu and ⁶⁸Ga production using intense picosecond laser pulse	6
Quantifying the role of higher order neoclassical corrections to gyrokinetics in tokamak plasmas	6
ITB formation in gyrokinetic flux-driven ITG/TEM turbulence	6
Experimental evidence of very short power decay lengths in H-mode discharges in the COMPASS tokamak	6
The effectiveness of D₂ pellet injection in reducing intra-ELM and inter-ELM tungsten divertor erosion rates in DIII-D during the Metal Rings Campaign	6
Experimental study of the influence of gas puff locations on H-mode boundary plasmas with argon seeding on EAST	6
Numerics and computation in gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence with global particle-in-cell codes	6
Decoupled magnetic control of spherical tokamak divertors via vacuum harmonic constraints	6
Closure theory for high-collisionality multi-ion plasmas	6
QScatter: numerical framework for fast prediction of particle distributions in electron-laser scattering	6
Plasma zone plate for high-power lasers driven by a Laguerre–Gaussian beam	6
Deep learning and image processing for the automated analysis of thermal events on the first wall and divertor of fusion reactors	6
Nonlinear second order electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory for a tokamak plasma	6
Generation of isolated and polarized γ-ray pulse by few-cycle laser irradiating a nanofoil	6
Experimental study of the magnetic field and current distribution in double-wire Z-pinch	6
Laser-induced quenching diagnostics of hydrogen atoms in fusion plasma	6
Optimization of the magnetic diagnostics for plasma equilibrium reconstruction in EAST long-pulse operation	6
Spectral transition of multiscale turbulence in the tokamak pedestal	6
A 2D dynamic model for the impact of time-dependent low-mode drive asymmetries on the shell asymmetries during acceleration phases of ICF implosions	6
Validating NEUTRO, a deterministic finite element neutron transport solver for fusion applications, with literature tests, experimental benchmarks and other neutronic codes	6
Alfvén eigenmode stability in a JET afterglow deuterium plasma and projections to deuterium–tritium plasmas	6
Velocity-space distribution function of fast ions in a sawtoothing plasma	6
Accuracy of kinetic equilibrium reconstruction of NSTX and NSTX-U plasmas and its impact on the transport and stability analysis	6
The internal transport barrier formation on EAST tokamak during the fishbone instability	6
Stability and debris-mitigation of a solid tape target delivery system for intense laser-matter interactions towards high-repetition-rate	6
On electromagnetic turbulence and transport in STEP	6
Energetic passing particle-driven instabilities and their impact on discharge evolution in KSTAR	6
Validation and verification of a quasi two-dimensional turbulence model and an eddy detection method for liquid metal magnetohydrodynamics flows	6
Use of electrical measurements for non-invasive estimation of plasma electron density in the inductively coupled SPIDER ion source	6
The effect of longitudinal static magnetic field on the radiation efficiency of high harmonics from overdense plasma	6
Coherent mode induced by supersonic molecular beam injection in EAST Ohmic plasmas	6
Identification of MHD modes on EAST using a deep learning framework	6
Comparison of Doppler back-scattering and charge exchange measurements of E × B plasma rotation in the DIII-D tokamak under varying torque conditions	6
Pedestal particle balance studies in JET-ILW H-mode plasmas	6
3D simulations of inertial confinement fusion implosions part 1: inline modeling of polarized cross beam energy transfer and subsequent drive anomalies on OMEGA and NIF	6
Conservation of currents in reduced full-F electromagnetic kinetic and fluid models	6
Absorption efficiency of the second harmonic ECRH waves and comparative plasma transport simulation in the TJ-II stellarator and T-10 tokamak	6
Nonlinear microtearing modes in MAST and their stochastic layer formation	6
Investigation on the edge cooling threshold of the density limit in the J-TEXT tokamak with limiter and divertor configurations	6
Implementation of matrix compression in the coupling of JOREK to realistic 3D conducting wall structures	6
Effects of frequency-modulated pump on stimulated Brillouin scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas	6
Chasing the multi-modal plasma response in MAST-U	6
Linearised Fokker–Planck collision model for gyrokinetic simulations	6
Local gyrokinetic simulations of tokamaks with non-uniform magnetic shear	6