The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian LaBombard sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 546 publications — 62nd percentile
62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian LaBombard sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 76 D-Index — 11th percentile
11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.
Brian LaBombard is a researcher affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of physics and astronomy as well as engineering, with significant contributions in nuclear and high energy physics, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, aerospace engineering, and astronomy and astrophysics.
LaBombard's research predominantly centers on magnetic confinement fusion research, superconducting materials and applications, fusion materials and technologies, and studies related to the ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics. Further specialized areas include the physics of superconductivity and magnetism, particle accelerators and beam dynamics, and nuclear reactor physics and engineering.
The scientist has contributed a number of papers to notable publication venues. Frequent places of publication include Nuclear Fusion, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), arXiv (Cornell University), and the Journal of Plasma Physics.
Frequent co-authors in LaBombard's research collaborations include D. Brunner, A.Q. Kuang, M. Greenwald, J. L. Terry, and J. W. Hughes.
Brian LaBombard has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) since 2005. The citation highlights fundamental contributions made to the understanding of edge plasma transport phenomena in magnetic fusion devices, focusing on aspects such as poloidal transport asymmetries, plasma flows, and cross-field transport physics in the scrape-off layer.
A. Loarte;B. Lipschultz;A.S. Kukushkin;G.F. Matthews
T. Eich;A.W. Leonard;R.A. Pitts;W. Fundamenski
I. H. Hutchinson;R. Boivin;F. Bombarda;P. Bonoli
S. J. Zweben;J. A. Boedo;O. Grulke;C. Hidalgo
B. Lipschultz;B. LaBombard;E.S. Marmar;M.M. Pickrell
B. LaBombard;J.E. Rice;A.E. Hubbard;J.W. Hughes
M. Greenwald;D. Gwinn;S. Milora;J. Parker
B. LaBombard;R. L. Boivin;M. Greenwald;J. Hughes
S. J. Zweben;D. P. Stotler;J. L. Terry;B. LaBombard
Ghassan Y. Antar;Glenn Counsell;Yang Yu;Brian Labombard
M. Greenwald;R.L. Boivin;F. Bombarda;P.T. Bonoli
J. L. Terry;S. J. Zweben;K. Hallatschek;B. LaBombard
A. J. Creely;M. J. Greenwald;S. B. Ballinger;D. Brunner
B. LaBombard;M.V. Umansky;R.L. Boivin;J.A. Goetz
M. Greenwald;R. Boivin;P. Bonoli;R. Budny
B. Lipschultz;X. Bonnin;G. Counsell;A. Kallenbach
J. L. Terry;B. Lipschultz;A. Yu. Pigarov;S. I. Krasheninnikov
S. I. Krasheninnikov;A. Yu. Pigarov;D. A. Knoll;B. LaBombard
O. Grulke;J. L. Terry;B. LaBombard;S. J. Zweben
C.S. Chang;S. Ku;A. Loarte;V. Parail
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