Edward Strait

18.5k citations

312 papers · 16.2k · 4 hit papers · h-index 71

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 1%
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 1%
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 304
- Magnetic confinement fusion research 302
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 68
Astronomy and Astrophysics 157
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics 155

Co-authors: Lang L. Lao (52 shared papers)T. S. Taylor (43 shared papers)A. D. Turnbull (54 shared papers)R.J. La Haye (68 shared papers)M. S. Chu (44 shared papers)William Walter Heidbrink (18 shared papers)Andrea M Garofalo (47 shared papers)J. R. Ferron (22 shared papers)
Journals: Nuclear Fusion (104 papers)Physics of Plasmas (68 papers)Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (39 papers)Physical Review Letters (29 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

Edward Strait

300 papers receiving 15.6k citations

Edward Strait's Hit Papers

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Chapter 3: MHD stability, operational limits and disruptions 2007 · 990 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2007 Nuclear Fusion
1997 Physics of Plasmas
1995 Physical Review Letters
1990 Nuclear Fusion

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1	Chapter 3: MHD stability, operational limits and disruptions Nuclear Fusion ·T. C. Hender, John C. Wesley, J. Bialek, A. Bondeson, Allen H. Boozer, Richard Buttery, Andrea M Garofalo, Timothy Paul Goodman Hit paper breakdown →	2007	990
2	Equilibrium analysis of current profiles in tokamaks Nuclear Fusion ·Lang L. Lao, J. R. Ferron, Richard J. Groebner, W. Howl, H. St. John, Edward Strait, T. S. Taylor Hit paper breakdown →	1990	589
3	Enhanced Confinement and Stability in DIII-D Discharges with Reversed Magnetic Shear Physical Review Letters ·Edward Strait, Lang L. Lao, Michael E. Mauel, Bradley W. Rice, T. S. Taylor, Keith H. Burrell, M. S. Chu, Edward A. Lazarus Hit paper breakdown →	1995	537
4	Beta limits in long-pulse tokamak discharges Physics of Plasmas ·Olivier Sauter, R. J. La Haye, Zhen-Cheng Chang, David Gates, Yoshihiro Kamada, Hartmut Zohm, A. Bondeson, D. Boucher Hit paper breakdown →	1997	419
5	Wall Stabilization of High Beta Tokamak Discharges in DIII-D Physical Review Letters ·Edward Strait, Tony S. Taylor, A. D. Turnbull, J. R. Ferron, Lang L. Lao, Bradley W. Rice, Olivier Sauter, Scott J. Thompson	1995	279
6	MHD Equilibrium Reconstruction in the DIII-D Tokamak Fusion Science & Technology ·Lang L. Lao, H.E. St. John, Qingyang Peng, John R. Ferron, Edward Strait, T. S. Taylor, William H. Meyer, Zhang Cuimei	2005	278
7	An investigation of beam driven Alfvén instabilities in the DIII-D tokamak Nuclear Fusion ·William Walter Heidbrink, Edward Strait, Erica A. Doyle, Glenn T. Sager, R. T. Snider	1991	266
8	Observation of beta-induced Alfvén eigenmodes in the DIII-D tokamak Physical Review Letters ·William Walter Heidbrink, Edward Strait, M. S. Chu, A. D. Turnbull	1993	223
9	Principal physics developments evaluated in the ITER design review Nuclear Fusion ·Richard J. Hawryluk, David J. Campbell, Günter Janeschitz, Paul Thomas, Raffaele ALBANESE, R. Ambrosino, Christian Bachmann, L.R. Baylor	2009	204
10	Control of neoclassical tearing modes in DIII–D Physics of Plasmas ·R.J. La Haye, S. Günter, Daniel Lewis Humphreys, John Lohr, T. C. Luce, Marc Maraschek, Craig Petty, Ronald Prater	2002	202
11	Loss of energetic beam ions during TAE instabilities Nuclear Fusion ·H. H. Duong, William Walter Heidbrink, Edward Strait, Thomas W. Petrie, R. Lee, Richard A. Moyer, J.G. Watkins	1993	201
12	Global Alfvén modes: Theory and experiment* Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics ·A. D. Turnbull, Edward Strait, William Walter Heidbrink, M. S. Chu, H. H. Duong, J. M. Greene, Lang L. Lao, T. S. Taylor	1993	195
13	Quiescent double barrier high-confinement mode plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak Physics of Plasmas ·Keith H. Burrell, Max E. Austin, D. P. Brennan, J. C. DeBoo, E. J. Doyle, Christel Fenzi, Christoph Fuchs, P. Gohil	2001	194
14	Regime of very high confinement in the boronized DIII-D tokamak Physical Review Letters ·G.L. Jackson, Jörg Winter, T. S. Taylor, Keith H. Burrell, J. C. DeBoo, Charles Greenfield, Richard J. Groebner, T. Hodapp	1991	181
15	Magnetic diagnostic system of the DIII-D tokamak Review of Scientific Instruments ·Edward Strait	2006	171
16	Quiescent H-mode plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·Keith H. Burrell, Max E. Austin, D. P. Brennan, J. C. DeBoo, E. J. Doyle, P. Gohil, Charles Greenfield, Richard J. Groebner	2002	159
17	Locked modes in DIII-D and a method for prevention of the low density mode Nuclear Fusion ·John T. Scoville, R.J. La Haye, A.G. Kellman, Thomas Osborne, Ronald D. Stambaugh, Edward Strait, T. S. Taylor	1991	155
18	Pedestal Bifurcation and Resonant Field Penetration at the Threshold of Edge-Localized Mode Suppression in the DIII-D Tokamak Physical Review Letters ·R. Nazikian, Carlos Paz-Soldán, J.D. Callen, John Stephen deGrassie, David Eldon, T.E. Evans, Nathaniel M. Ferraro, B. A. Grierson	2015	150
19	Direct Observation of the Resistive Wall Mode in a Tokamak and Its Interaction with Plasma Rotation Physical Review Letters ·Andrea M Garofalo, A. D. Turnbull, Max E. Austin, J. Bialek, M. S. Chu, K. Comer, Eric Fredrickson, Richard J. Groebner	1999	148
20	Observation of Plasma Rotation Driven by Static Nonaxisymmetric Magnetic Fields in a Tokamak Physical Review Letters ·Andrea M Garofalo, Keith H. Burrell, J. C. DeBoo, John Stephen deGrassie, G.L. Jackson, Matthew J. Lanctot, Holger Reimerdes, Michael J. Schaffer	2008	144

About Edward Strait

Edward Strait is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Materials Chemistry, having authored 312 papers that have together received 16.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Magnetic confinement fusion research (302 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (155 papers), Superconducting Materials and Applications (129 papers), Fusion materials and technologies (85 papers), Particle accelerators and beam dynamics (72 papers), Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (68 papers), Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (25 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (15.9k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (8.9k citations), Aerospace Engineering (3.7k citations), Biomedical Engineering (5.1k citations) and Materials Chemistry (4.9k citations). Edward Strait has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Lang L. Lao, T. S. Taylor, A. D. Turnbull, R.J. La Haye, M. S. Chu, William Walter Heidbrink, Andrea M Garofalo, J. R. Ferron, M. Okabayashi and Holger Reimerdes. Their work appears in journals such as Nuclear Fusion, Physics of Plasmas, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Physical Review Letters and Review of Scientific Instruments.

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