Most cited papers in Magnetic confinement fusion research
What are the most cited papers in Magnetic confinement fusion research?
The most cited paper in Magnetic confinement fusion research is "A family of embedded Runge-Kutta formulae" (John R. Dormand, P.J. Prince, 1980), with 3,681 citations. Next come "Advanced LIGO" (3,511) and "Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research" (3,406).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 636 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A family of embedded Runge-Kutta formulae John R. Dormand, P.J. Prince · Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics | Mar 1980 | 3,681 |
| 2 | Advanced LIGO J. Aasi et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity | 3 Mar 2015 | 3,511 |
| 3 | Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research Stephen M. Gibson, Tadashi Sekiguchi, Karl Lackner et al. · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) | 1987 | 3,406 |
| 4 | Fully multidimensional flux-corrected transport algorithms for fluids Steven T. Zalesak · Journal of Computational Physics | Jun 1979 | 2,630 |
| 5 | Finite-Resistivity Instabilities of a Sheet Pinch H. P. Furth, John Killeen, M. N. Rosenbluth · The Physics of Fluids | Apr 1963 | 2,601 |
| 6 | A compilation of charged-particle induced thermonuclear reaction rates Camila Betzabet Sepúlveda Angulo et al. · Nuclear Physics A | Aug 1999 | 2,284 |
| 7 | Zonal flows in plasma—a review P. H. Diamond, S-I Itoh, K. Itoh et al. · Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion | Apr 2005 | 1,971 |
| 8 | Relaxation of Toroidal Plasma and Generation of Reverse Magnetic Fields John Bryan Taylor · Physical Review Letters | 4 Nov 1974 | 1,880 |
| 9 | Stirring by chaotic advection Hassan Aref · Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Jun 1984 | 1,868 |
| 10 | A hybrid symplectic integrator that permits close encounters between massive bodies John Chambers · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 16 Apr 1999 | 1,864 |
| 11 | Theory of plasma transport in toroidal confinement systems F. L. Hinton, R. D. Hazeltine · Reviews of Modern Physics | Apr 1976 | 1,716 |
| 12 | Influence of sheared poloidal rotation on edge turbulence Hamid Biglari, P. H. Diamond, Paul W. Terry · Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics | 1990 | 1,483 |
| 13 | Plasma-material interactions in current tokamaks and their implications for next step fusion reactors G. Federici, Charles H. Skinner, J.N. Brooks et al. · Nuclear Fusion | Dec 2001 | 1,377 |
| 14 | Particle-in-cell charged-particle simulations, plus Monte Carlo collisions with neutral atoms, PIC-MCC C.K. Birdsall · IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science | Apr 1991 | 1,364 |
| 15 | Fast Plasma Investigation for Magnetospheric Multiscale C. J. Pollock et al. · Space Science Reviews | Mar 2016 | 1,349 |
| 16 | Advanced LIGO: the next generation of gravitational wave detectors Gregory M Harry · Classical and Quantum Gravity | 6 Apr 2010 | 1,332 |
| 17 | Effects of E×B velocity shear and magnetic shear on turbulence and transport in magnetic confinement devices Keith H. Burrell · Physics of Plasmas | May 1997 | 1,328 |
| 18 | Hyperbolic Divergence Cleaning for the MHD Equations Andreas Dedner, Friedemann Kemm, Désirée Kroner et al. · Journal of Computational Physics | 2002 | 1,321 |
| 19 | On a plasma sheath separating regions of oppositely directed magnetic field Edward G. Harris · Il Nuovo Cimento | 1962 | 1,309 |
| 20 | Relaxation and magnetic reconnection in plasmas John Bryan Taylor · Reviews of Modern Physics | Jul 1986 | 1,286 |
| 21 | Low-storage Runge-Kutta schemes John H. Williamson · Journal of Computational Physics | Mar 1980 | 1,266 |
| 22 | String stability of interconnected systems D. Swaroop, J. Karl Hedrick · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Mar 1996 | 1,237 |
| 23 | An energy principle for hydromagnetic stability problems Ira B. Bernstein, Edward A. Frieman, Martin David Kruskal et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 25 Feb 1958 | 1,236 |
| 24 | Drift waves and transport Wendell Horton · Reviews of Modern Physics | Apr 1999 | 1,233 |
| 25 | Electron Heat Transport in a Tokamak with Destroyed Magnetic Surfaces Alexander B. Rechester, M. N. Rosenbluth · Physical Review Letters | 2 Jan 1978 | 1,231 |
| 26 | Vortex confinement by columnar defects in YBa2 Cu3 O7 crystals: Enhanced pinning at high fields and temperatures L. Civale, A. D. Marwick, T. K. Worthington et al. · Physical Review Letters | 29 Jul 1991 | 1,227 |
| 27 | Some features of field line resonances in the magnetosphere David J. Southwood · Planetary and Space Science | Mar 1974 | 1,178 |
| 28 | Chapter 3: MHD stability, operational limits and disruptions T. C. Hender et al. · Nuclear Fusion | Jun 2007 | 1,176 |
| 29 | Electron temperature gradient driven turbulence F. Jenko, W. Dorland, Mike Kotschenreuther et al. · Physics of Plasmas | May 2000 | 1,133 |
| 30 | Neoclassical transport of impurities in tokamak plasmas Steven P. Hirshman, Dieter J. Sigmar · Nuclear Fusion | Sep 1981 | 1,131 |
| 31 | Basic Data of Plasma Physics Sanborn C. Brown, Steve Singer · Physics Today | Feb 1961 | 1,113 |
| 32 | Theoretical model of flares and prominences Tadashi Hirayama · Solar Physics | Feb 1974 | 1,107 |
| 33 | Axial Vector Current Conservation in Weak Interactions Y. Nambu · Physical Review Letters | Apr 1960 | 1,102 |
| 34 | Chapter 4: Power and particle control Alberto Loarte et al. · Nuclear Fusion | Jun 2007 | 1,085 |
| 35 | Perturbation analysis of fluxon dynamics David W. McLaughlin, Alwyn C. Scott · Physical Review A | Oct 1978 | 1,076 |
| 36 | Turbulent Transport Reduction by Zonal Flows: Massively Parallel Simulations Zhihong Lin, T. S. Hahm, W. W. Lee et al. · Science | 18 Sep 1998 | 1,050 |
| 37 | The Bohm criterion and sheath formation K.‐U. Riemann · Journal of Physics D Applied Physics | 14 Apr 1991 | 1,039 |
| 38 | Foundations of nonlinear gyrokinetic theory Alain J. Brizard, T. S. Hahm · Reviews of Modern Physics | 2 Apr 2007 | 1,030 |
| 39 | Comparisons and physics basis of tokamak transport models and turbulence simulations A. M. Dimits, Glenn Bateman, M Beer et al. · Physics of Plasmas | Mar 2000 | 1,024 |
| 40 | psrchive and psrfits : An Open Approach to Radio Pulsar Data Storage and Analysis Aidan W. Hotan, W. van Straten, Richard N. Manchester · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia | 2004 | 1,008 |
| 41 | Nonlinear growth of the tearing mode Paul H. Rutherford · The Physics of Fluids | Nov 1973 | 1,007 |
| 42 | Edge localized modes (ELMs) Hartmut Zohm · Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion | Feb 1996 | 987 |
| 43 | Systematic measurements of identified particle spectra in pp , d + Au , and Au + Au collisions at the STAR detector B. I. Abelev et al. · Physical Review C | 24 Mar 2009 | 981 |
| 44 | Theoretical Considerations Concerning Quantized Magnetic Flux in Superconducting Cylinders Nina Byers, Chen Ning Yang · Physical Review Letters | 15 Jul 1961 | 971 |
| 45 | MOOSE: A parallel computational framework for coupled systems of nonlinear equations Derek R. Gaston, Chris Newman, Glen A. Hansen et al. · Nuclear Engineering and Design | 20 Jul 2009 | 962 |
| 46 | Reconnection in a Weakly Stochastic Field A. Lazarian, Ethan T. Vishniac · The Astrophysical Journal | Jun 1999 | 958 |
| 47 | Model of the High-Energy Phase of Solar Flares P. A. Sturrock · Nature | Aug 1966 | 950 |
| 48 | A program for coupled-channel calculations with all order couplings for heavy-ion fusion reactions K. Hagino, N. Rowley, András T. Kruppa · Computer Physics Communications | Dec 1999 | 931 |
| 49 | Theory of current drive in plasmas N. J. Fisch · Reviews of Modern Physics | 1987 | 911 |
| 50 | Model validation for the August 10, 1996 WSCC system outage Dmitry N. Kosterev, Carson W. Taylor, William A. Mittelstadt · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems | 1999 | 876 |
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