2026 James Drake: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	101	1594	1514	847	792	587	39187

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Overview

James Drake is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on physics and astronomy, with significant contributions to the subfields of astronomy and astrophysics, nuclear and high energy physics, molecular biology, geophysics, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

Their work addresses a range of topics related to space and plasma physics, including solar and space plasma dynamics, ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, astro and planetary science, magnetic confinement fusion research, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, earthquake detection and analysis, and stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

Drake's recent publications include the following papers:

"Electron Acceleration during Macroscale Magnetic Reconnection," 2021, Physical Review Letters
"Magnetic Reconnection as the Driver of the Solar Wind," 2023, The Astrophysical Journal
"A Solar Source of Alfvénic Magnetic Field Switchbacks: In Situ Remnants of Magnetic Funnels on Supergranulation Scales," 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
"Switchbacks as signatures of magnetic flux ropes generated by interchange reconnection in the corona," 2021, Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
"Interchange reconnection as the source of the fast solar wind within coronal holes," 2023, Nature

Their frequent co-authors include M. Swisdak, T. D. Phan, S. D. Bale, J. L. Burch, and R. E. Ergun.

Drake's research has been published primarily in the following venues:

The Astrophysical Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
Physics of Plasmas
Space Science Reviews
Physical Review Letters

Best Publications

A survey of interstellar H I from L-alpha absorption measurements. II

R. C. Bohlin;B. D. Savage;J. F. Drake

4065
Citations
Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) magnetic reconnection challenge

J. Birn;J. F. Drake;M. A. Shay;B. N. Rogers

1424
Citations
Electron acceleration from contracting magnetic islands during reconnection

J. F. Drake;M. Swisdak;H. Che;M. A. Shay

1018
Citations
Parametric Instabilities of Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas

J. F. Drake;P. K. Kaw;Y. C. Lee;G. Schmid

1014
Citations
A survey of interstellar molecular hydrogen. I

B. D. Savage;J. F. Drake;W. Budich;R. C. Bohlin

959
Citations
The FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus: Measuring the Coronal Plasma and Magnetic Field, Plasma Waves and Turbulence, and Radio Signatures of Solar Transients.

S. D. Bale;K. Goetz;P. R. Harvey;P. Turin

906
Citations
Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space.

J. L. Burch;R. B. Torbert;R. B. Torbert;T. D. Phan;L. J Chen

721
Citations
Kinetic theory of tearing instabilities

J. F. Drake;Y. C. Lee

573
Citations
Highly structured slow solar wind emerging from an equatorial coronal hole

S. D. Bale;S. T. Badman;J. W. Bonnell;T. A. Bowen

532
Citations
Alfvénic collisionless magnetic reconnection and the Hall term

M. A. Shay;J. F. Drake;B. N. Rogers;R. E. Denton

526
Citations
Formation of Electron Holes and Particle Energization During Magnetic Reconnection

J. F. Drake;M. Swisdak;Cynthia A Cattell;M. A. Shay

456
Citations
Structure of the dissipation region during collisionless magnetic reconnection

M. A. Shay;J. F. Drake;R. E. Denton;D. Biskamp

432
Citations
Transition to whistler mediated magnetic reconnection

M. E. Mandt;R. E. Denton;J. F. Drake

392
Citations
Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth's turbulent magnetosheath

T. D. Phan;J. P. Eastwood;M. A. Shay;J. F. Drake

381
Citations
Dissipation of the sectored heliospheric magnetic field near the heliopause: a mechanism for the generation of anomalous cosmic rays

J. F. Drake;M. Opher;M. Swisdak;J. N. Chamoun

359
Citations
Phase space of tokamak edge turbulence, the L-H transition, and the formation of the edge pedestal

B. N. Rogers;J. F. Drake;A. Zeiler

340
Citations
Two-scale structure of the electron dissipation region during collisionless magnetic reconnection.

M. A. Shay;J. F. Drake;M. Swisdak

324
Citations
Role of dispersive waves in collisionless magnetic reconnection.

B. N. Rogers;R. E. Denton;J. F. Drake;M. A. Shay

322
Citations
Cluster observations of electron holes in association with magnetotail reconnection and comparison to simulations

C. Cattell;J. Dombeck;J. Wygant;J. F. Drake

319
Citations
The scaling of collisionless, magnetic reconnection for large systems

M. A. Shay;J. F. Drake;B. N. Rogers;R. E. Denton

317
Citations