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Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics

Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics is a research topic within Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the physics of laser-plasma interactions, including the generation and acceleration of electron and proton beams, ion acceleration, high-energy density plasmas, fusion ignition, and the use of high-power lasers. It also involves research in the relativistic regime and utilizes particle-in-cell modeling to study these phenomena.

  • Laser-Plasma Accelerators
  • Electron Beams
  • Proton Generation
  • High-Energy Density Plasmas
  • Fusion Ignition
  • Relativistic Regime
  • Ion Acceleration
  • Wakefield Acceleration
  • High-Power Lasers
  • Particle-in-Cell Modeling
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics

Which countries lead Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1k and 936 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1k works
  2. 2 United States 936 works
  3. 3 Russia 419 works
  4. 4 Germany 286 works
  5. 5 India 218 works
  6. 6 France 202 works
  7. 7 Japan 176 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 160 works
  9. 9 Italy 90 works
  10. 10 Iran 69 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 28.5%United States: 26.2%Russia: 11.7%Germany: 8.0%6 others listed: 25.6%29%largest
China1,018 · 28.5%United States936 · 26.2%Russia419 · 11.7%Germany286 · 8.0%6 others listed914 · 25.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 196 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 168 works
  3. 3 Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUnited States 112 works
  4. 4 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 87 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 74 works
  6. 6 Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States 61 works
  7. 7 Max Planck SocietyGermany 60 works
  8. 8 China Academy of Engineering PhysicsChina 57 works
  9. 9 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 50 works
  10. 10 Princeton UniversityUnited States 45 works

Who are the leading researchers in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics include M. Shoji, Xiaogang Wang and P. Jackson.

  1. 1 M. Shoji Japan 806k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 P. Jackson France 230k citations
  4. 4 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  5. 5 A. Meyer France 224k citations
  6. 6 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  7. 7 G. Mitselmakher France 223k citations
  8. 8 L. Li France 211k citations
  9. 9 M. Costa France 207k citations
  10. 10 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics?

The most cited paper in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics is "Laser Electron Accelerator" (T. Tajima, J. M. Dawson, 1979), with 4,718 citations. Next come "Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses" (3,902) and "Ignition and high gain with ultrapowerful lasers*" (3,041).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Laser Electron Accelerator T. Tajima, J. M. Dawson · Physical Review Letters 23 Jul 1979 4,718
2 Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses Donna T. Strickland, Gerard A. Mourou · Optics Communications Dec 1985 3,902
3 Ignition and high gain with ultrapowerful lasers* M. Tabak, J. H. Hammer, Michael E. Glinsky et al. · Physics of Plasmas May 1994 3,041
4 Intense few-cycle laser fields: Frontiers of nonlinear optics Thomas Brabec, Ferenc Krausz · Reviews of Modern Physics Apr 2000 3,003
5 Consequences of anomalous ward identities Jane A. Wess, Bruno Zumino · Physics Letters B Nov 1971 2,910
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics research done?

The largest centres of Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Shanghai (China) and Livermore (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Plainsboro Center, Livermore and Abingdon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 284 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 211 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 119 works
  4. 4 LivermoreUnited States 118 works
  5. 5 HefeiChina 86 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 66 works
  7. 7 Los AlamosUnited States 64 works
  8. 8 MianyangChina 58 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 51 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Plainsboro CenterUS · 20.0 works173×
  2. LivermoreUS · 118.0 works118×
  3. AbingdonGB · 21.2 works104×
  4. ColumbiaUS · 24.6 works73×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Rochester and Lovely Professional University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 16.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Princeton UniversityUniversity of Roches…University of Scienc…Lovely Professional …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 69.314.1%11.8×50 +19.4%
2University of RochesterUnited States 67.515.9%26.6×43 +0.1%
3Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 66.413.4%21.8×38 +138.5%
4Princeton UniversityUnited States 66.316.2%28.1×45 -16.2%
5University of AllahabadIndia 65.333.5%26.9×10 +142.8%
6Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 56.917.1%6.2×16 +18.8%
7École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland 56.324.2%7.4×11 -2.2%
8Peking UniversityChina 55.910.3%5.8×42 -1.4%
9Stanford UniversityUnited States 55.114.1%5.9×31 -19.5%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 54.88.7%4.0×42 +10.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics, country by country

Is Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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