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Nuclear Fusion
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Nuclear Fusion

0029-5515

Published by: IOP Publishing

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/0029-5515

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 51 33 296 31

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 255
Documents by Best Scientists*: 672
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 12
SCIMAGO H-index: 144
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.337
Impact Factor: 4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Nuclear Fusion?

The discussions in Nuclear Fusion mainly cover the fields of Plasma, Atomic physics, Tokamak, Mechanics and Ion. The journal facilitates discussions on Plasma that incorporate concepts from other fields like Computational physics and Magnetic field. The journal focuses on Computational physics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Nuclear magnetic resonance and Optics.

Magnetic field research featured in Nuclear Fusion incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Field (physics), Condensed matter physics and Electric field. It holds forums on Atomic physics that merges themes from other disciplines such as Instability, Electron temperature, Electron, Cyclotron and Beam (structure). The studies in Tokamak featured incorporate elements of Nuclear engineering, Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamics and Current (fluid).

The study on Nuclear engineering presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Fusion power. The Mechanics study featured in Nuclear Fusion draws connections with the study of Classical mechanics. The research on Ion discussed in Nuclear Fusion draws on the closely related field of Neutral beam injection.

  • Plasma (54.82%)
  • Atomic physics (44.94%)
  • Tokamak (37.02%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research (3455 citations)
  • Reconstruction of current profile parameters and plasma shapes in tokamaks (1301 citations)
  • Plasma{material interactions in current tokamaks and their implications for next step fusion reactors (1074 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Nuclear Fusion:

The most cited publications generally zeroe in on subjects such as Plasma, Atomic physics, Tokamak, Magnetic confinement fusion and Mechanics. The most cited publications explore issues in Plasma which can be linked to other research areas like Computational physics and Magnetic field. The published articles address concerns in the field of Atomic physics by exploring it in line with topics in Ion which intersect with Neutral beam injection and Deuterium subjects.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Electron
  • Optics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The objective of Nuclear Fusion is to combine knowledge in the areas of Plasma, Tokamak, Nuclear engineering, Atomic physics and Mechanics. Toroid is the primary subject of Plasma works presented in it. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Tokamak, it also covered topics in Power (physics), Turbulence and Pedestal.

While Nuclear Fusion focused on Nuclear engineering, it was also able to explore topics like Fusion power and Divertor. The concepts on Atomic physics presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Ion, Cyclotron and Mode (statistics). Mechanics study tackled is connected to the field of Magnetohydrodynamics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas (18 citations)
  • X-point radiation, its control and an ELM suppressed radiating regime at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak (10 citations)
  • Suppression of edge localized modes with real-time boron injection using the tungsten divertor in EAST (10 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Nuclear Fusion (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jet-Efda Contributors (206 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jet Contributors (193 papers) published 23 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Katsumi Ida (177 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Yueqiang Liu (113 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • A. Loarte (113 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Nuclear Fusion (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Max Planck Society (1676 papers) published 105 papers at the last edition, 9 more than at the previous edition,
  • European Atomic Energy Community (998 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (840 papers) published 21 papers at the last edition, 20 less than at the previous edition,
  • General Atomics (786 papers) published 47 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (630 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 51.16% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 72.62% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.52% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 7.94% of all publications and 9.92% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Overview of JET results for optimising ITER operation

    Unknown

    (2022)
    172 Citations
  • Operating a full tungsten actively cooled tokamak: overview of WEST first phase of operation

    (2021)
    110 Citations
  • Physics and technology considerations for the deuterium–tritium fuel cycle and conditions for tritium fuel self sufficiency

    Mohamed Abdou;Marco Riva;Alice Ying;Christian Day

    (2021)
    108 Citations
  • X-point radiation, its control and an ELM suppressed radiating regime at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

    M. Bernert;F. Janky;B. Sieglin;A. Kallenbach

    (2021)
    86 Citations
  • Assessment of alternative divertor configurations as an exhaust solution for DEMO

    H. Reimerdes;R. Ambrosino;P. Innocente;A. Castaldo

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Predictive multi-channel flux-driven modelling to optimise ICRH tungsten control and fusion performance in JET

    F. J. Casson;H. Patten;C. Bourdelle;S. Breton

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Physics-guided machine learning approaches to predict the ideal stability properties of fusion plasmas

    A. Piccione;J.W. Berkery;S.A. Sabbagh;Y. Andreopoulos

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Model for access and stability of the X-point radiator and the threshold for marfes in tokamak plasmas

    (2022)
    46 Citations
  • Integrated modeling of ASDEX Upgrade plasmas combining core, pedestal and scrape-off layer physics

    T. Luda;T. Luda;C. Angioni;M.G. Dunne;E. Fable

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • Experimental confirmation of efficient island divertor operation and successful neoclassical transport optimization in Wendelstein 7-X

    (2021)
    43 Citations

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