2026 Dan Winske: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	75	3421	3252	1622	1509	355	14612

Dan Winske publication distribution in Physics in 2026

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 Dan Winske sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 355 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Dan Winske D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dan Winske sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1990 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For studies of electromagnetic instabilities in the foreshocks of planets and comets, and work on the structure of, and transport processes at collisionless shock waves in space

Overview

Dan Winske is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within Physics and Astronomy, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Mechanics of Materials, Geophysics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
Astro and Planetary Science
Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
Earthquake Detection and Analysis

Dan Winske has contributed to multiple recent papers, reflecting a breadth of research interests. Selected publications include:

Laboratory Observations of Ultra-low-frequency Analog Waves Driven by the Right-hand Resonant Ion Beam Instability, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Astrophysical Explosions Revisited: Collisionless Coupling of Debris to Magnetized Plasma, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
Scalings for the Alfvén-cyclotron instability: Linear dispersion theory and hybrid particle-in-cell simulations: Scalings of Alfven-Cyclotron Instability, 2021, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Laser-produced plasmas as drivers of laboratory collisionless quasi-parallel shocks, 2020, Physics of Plasmas
Hybrid particle-in-cell simulations of electromagnetic coupling and waves from streaming burst debris, 2022, Physics of Plasmas

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Dan Winske include:

Misa Cowee
A. Lê
R. S. Dorst
D. B. Schaeffer
S. Vincena

Winske's research has been published in several venues, most notably:

Physics of Plasmas
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

The scientist has received recognition through awards such as:

Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), awarded in 2003
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), awarded in 1990 with a citation acknowledging studies of electromagnetic instabilities in the foreshocks of planets and comets, as well as work on the structure and transport processes at collisionless shock waves in space

Best Publications

The structure of perpendicular bow shocks

M. M. Leroy;D. Winske;C. C. Goodrich;C. S. Wu

557
Citations
Coupling of newborn ions to the solar wind by electromagnetic instabilities and their interaction with the bow shock

D. Winske;C. S. Wu;Y. Y. Li;Z. Z. Mou

318
Citations
Simulation of a perpendicular bow shock

M. M. Leroy;C. C. Goodrich;D. Winske;C. S. Wu

248
Citations
The proton cyclotron instability and the anisotropy/β inverse correlation

S. Peter Gary;Michael E. McKean;Dan Winske;Brian J. Anderson

211
Citations
A Grid-Based Coulomb Collision Model for PIC Codes

Michael E. Jones;Don S. Lemons;Rodney J. Mason;Vincent A. Thomas

191
Citations
Proton temperature anisotropy upper bound

S. Peter Gary;Joseph Wang;Dan Winske;Stephen A. Fuselier

179
Citations
Kinetic quasi-viscous and bulk flow inertia effects in collisionless magnetotail reconnection

Masha M. Kuznetsova;Michael Hesse;Dan Winske

177
Citations
A kinetic cross‐field streaming instability

C. S. Wu;Y. M. Zhou;Shih‐Tung Tsai;S. C. Guo

176
Citations
A source of the backstreaming ion beams in the foreshock region

Motohiko Tanaka;C. C. Goodrich;D. Winske;K. Papadopoulos

170
Citations
Collisionless reconnection supported by nongyrotropic pressure effects in hybrid and particle simulations

Masha M. Kuznetsova;Michael Hesse;Dan Winske

161
Citations
Electron dissipation in collisionless magnetic reconnection

Michael Hesse;Dan Winske

156
Citations
Hybrid simulation of the formation of a hot flow anomaly

V. A. Thomas;D. Winske;M. F. Thomsen;T. G. Onsager

149
Citations
Re‐forming supercritical quasi‐parallel shocks: 2. Mechanism for wave generation and front re‐formation

D. Winske;N. Omidi;K. B. Quest;V. A. Thomas

146
Citations
Hybrid simulations of collisionless reconnection in current sheets

Michael Hesse;Dan Winske

145
Citations
Nonlinear evolution of the lower‐hybrid drift instability

J. U. Brackbill;D. W. Forslund;K. B. Quest;D. Winske

141
Citations
Ion heating in a dusty plasma due to the dust/ion acoustic instability

D. Winske;S. Peter Gary;Michael E. Jones;M. Rosenberg

136
Citations
Re‐forming supercritical quasi‐parallel shocks: 1. One‐ and two‐dimensional simulations

V. A. Thomas;D. Winske;N. Omidi

136
Citations
Proton resonant firehose instability: Temperature anisotropy and fluctuating field constraints

S. Peter Gary;Hui Li;Sean O'Rourke;Dan Winske

134
Citations
Excitation of magnetosonic waves in the terrestrial magnetosphere: Particle-in-cell simulations

Kaijun Liu;S. Peter Gary;Dan Winske

133
Citations
Whistler anisotropy instabilities as the source of banded chorus: Van Allen Probes observations and particle-in-cell simulations

Xiangrong Fu;Misa M. Cowee;Reinhard H. Friedel;Herbert O. Funsten

131
Citations