V. Malka

19.8k citations

289 papers · 14.2k · 10 hit papers · h-index 57

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.02%
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Mechanics of Materials top 0.02%
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 262
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 261
Mechanics of Materials 178
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma 177

Co-authors: J. Fauré (80 shared papers)A. Rousse (31 shared papers)E. Lefebvre (23 shared papers)Y. Glinec (33 shared papers)K. Ta Phuoc (27 shared papers)F. Burgy (13 shared papers)A. Pukhov (11 shared papers)A. Lifschitz (39 shared papers)
Journals: Physical Review Letters (37 papers)Physics of Plasmas (33 papers)New Journal of Physics (13 papers)Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (12 papers)Laser and Particle Beams (11 papers)
Partner nations: France United Kingdom Italy

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V. Malka

279 papers receiving 13.7k citations

V. Malka's Hit Papers

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Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators 2013 · 551 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Reviews of Modern Physics
2012 Nature Photonics
2011 Nature Physics
2008 Nature Physics
2006 Nature
2005 Nature Physics
2004 Physical Review Letters
2004 Nature
2002 Science
1995 Nature

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1	A laser–plasma accelerator producing monoenergetic electron beams Nature ·J. Fauré, Y. Glinec, A. Pukhov, S. I. Kiselev, S. N. Gordienko, E. Lefebvre, A. Rousse, F. Burgy, V. Malka Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1560
2	Electron acceleration from the breaking of relativistic plasma waves Nature ·A. Modena, Z. Najmudin, A. E. Dangor, C. E. Clayton, K. A. Marsh, C. Joshi, V. Malka, C. B. Darrow, C. Danson, D. Neely, Florian Walsh Hit paper breakdown →	1995	671
3	Controlled injection and acceleration of electrons in plasma wakefields by colliding laser pulses Nature ·J. Fauré, C. Rechatin, A. Norlin, A. Lifschitz, Y. Glinec, V. Malka Hit paper breakdown →	2006	631
4	Laser-driven proton scaling laws and new paths towards energy increase Nature Physics ·J. Fuchs, P. Antici, E. d’Humières, E. Lefebvre, M. Borghesi, E. Brambrink, C. A. Cecchetti, Malte C. Kaluza, V. Malka, M. Manclossi, S. Meyroneinc, P. Mora, J. Schreiber, T. Toncian, H. Pépin, P. Audebert Hit paper breakdown →	2005	577
5	Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators Reviews of Modern Physics ·S. Corde, K. Ta Phuoc, G. Lambert, Romuald Fitour, V. Malka, A. Rousse, A. Beck, E. Lefebvre Hit paper breakdown →	2013	551
6	Electron Acceleration by a Wake Field Forced by an Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulse Science ·V. Malka, S. Fritzler, E. Lefebvre, M. M. Aléonard, F. Burgy, J.-P. Chambaret, J. F. Chemin, K. Krushelnick, G. Malka, S. P. D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin, M. Pittman, A. Rousse, J. N. Scheurer, B. Walton, A. E. Dangor Hit paper breakdown →	2002	486
7	Production of a keV X-Ray Beam from Synchrotron Radiation in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction Physical Review Letters ·A. Rousse, K. Ta Phuoc, Rahul Shah, A. Pukhov, Éric Lefebvre, V. Malka, S. I. Kiselev, F. Burgy, D. Umstadter, Danièle Hulin Hit paper breakdown →	2004	483
8	Principles and applications of compact laser–plasma accelerators Nature Physics ·V. Malka, J. Fauré, Y. Gauduel, Erik Lefebvre, A. Rousse, K. Ta Phuoc Hit paper breakdown →	2008	388
9	All-optical Compton gamma-ray source Nature Photonics ·K. Ta Phuoc, S. Corde, C. Thaury, V. Malka, Amar Tafzi, J. P. Goddet, Rahul Shah, S. Sebban, A. Rousse Hit paper breakdown →	2012	368
10	Few femtosecond, few kiloampere electron bunch produced by a laser–plasma accelerator Nature Physics ·O. Lundh, Joonwon Lim, C. Rechatin, L. Ammoura, A. Ben‐Ismaïl, X. Davoine, Guilhem Gallot, J.-P. Goddet, Éric Lefebvre, V. Malka, J. Fauré Hit paper breakdown →	2011	308
11	Practicability of protontherapy using compact laser systems Medical Physics ·V. Malka, S. Fritzler, Erik Lefebvre, E. d’Humières, R. Ferrand, G. Grillon, Claude Albaret, S. Meyroneinc, Jean‐Paul Chambaret, Andre Antonetti, Danièle Hulin	2004	221
12	High-Resolutionγ-Ray Radiography Produced by a Laser-Plasma Driven Electron Source Physical Review Letters ·Y. Glinec, J. Fauré, L. Le Dain, S. Darbon, Tomonao Hosokai, J. J. Santos, E. Lefebvre, J. Rousseau, F. Burgy, Brigitte Mercier, V. Malka	2005	182
13	Observation of Electron Energies Beyond the Linear Dephasing Limit from a Laser-Excited Relativistic Plasma Wave Physical Review Letters ·D. Gordon, K. C. Tzeng, C. E. Clayton, A. E. Dangor, V. Malka, K. A. Marsh, A. Modena, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, Z. Najmudin, D. Neely, C. Danson, C. Joshi	1998	182
14	Observation of Laser Wakefield Acceleration of Electrons Physical Review Letters ·F. Amiranoff, S. D. Baton, D. Bernard, B. Cros, D. Descamps, F. Dorchies, F. Jacquet, V. Malka, J.-R. Marquès, G. Matthieussent, P. Miné, A. Modena, P. Mora, Joseph Morillo, Z. Najmudin	1998	179
15	Laser plasma accelerators Physics of Plasmas ·V. Malka	2012	174
16	Proton beams generated with high-intensity lasers: Applications to medical isotope production Applied Physics Letters ·S. Fritzler, V. Malka, G. Grillon, A. Rousse, F. Burgy, E. Lefebvre, E. d’Humières, P. McKenna, K. W. D. Ledingham	2003	156
17	Particle-in-Cell modelling of laser–plasma interaction using Fourier decomposition Journal of Computational Physics ·A. Lifschitz, X. Davoine, E. Lefebvre, J. Fauré, C. Rechatin, V. Malka	2008	156
18	Controlling the Phase-Space Volume of Injected Electrons in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator Physical Review Letters ·C. Rechatin, J. Fauré, A. Ben‐Ismaïl, Joonwon Lim, Romuald Fitour, A. Specka, H. Videau, Amar Tafzi, F. Burgy, V. Malka	2009	145
19	Proton acceleration mechanisms in high-intensity laser interaction with thin foils Physics of Plasmas ·E. d’Humières, Erik Lefebvre, L. Grémillet, V. Malka	2005	142
20	Multi-MeV Ion Production from High-Intensity Laser Interactions with Underdense Plasmas Physical Review Letters ·K. Krushelnick, Ε. L. Clark, Z. Najmudin, M. Salvati, M. Santala, M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor, V. Malka, D. Neely, R. Allott, C. Danson	1999	141

About V. Malka

V. Malka is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Mechanics of Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Geophysics and Radiation, having authored 289 papers that have together received 14.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (261 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (177 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (149 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (57 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (33 papers), Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers (19 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (19 papers) and Laser Design and Applications (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (12.7k citations), Mechanics of Materials (7.5k citations), Radiation (2.4k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (8.2k citations) and Geophysics (2.8k citations). V. Malka has collaborated with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Italy. Frequent co-authors include J. Fauré, A. Rousse, E. Lefebvre, Y. Glinec, K. Ta Phuoc, F. Burgy, A. Pukhov, A. Lifschitz, C. Rechatin and S. I. Kiselev. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics of Plasmas, New Journal of Physics, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Laser and Particle Beams.

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