W.P. West

8.6k citations

208 papers · 7.9k · 1 hit paper · h-index 50

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 5%
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 2%
- Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 163
- Magnetic confinement fusion research 163
Materials Chemistry 52
- Fusion materials and technologies 49
- Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials 2

Co-authors: Anthony Leonard (40 shared papers)M.E. Fenstermacher (32 shared papers)Keith H. Burrell (21 shared papers)J.G. Watkins (40 shared papers)Dennis G. Whyte (50 shared papers)Richard A. Moyer (19 shared papers)N.H. Brooks (55 shared papers)Gary D. Porter (27 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Nuclear Materials (76 papers)Nuclear Fusion (27 papers)Physics of Plasmas (20 papers)Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (19 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (14 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Germany

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W.P. West

205 papers receiving 7.6k citations

W.P. West's Hit Papers

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Edge stability and transport control with resonant magnetic perturbations in collisionless tokamak plasmas 2006 · 575 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.

2006 Nature Physics

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1	Edge stability and transport control with resonant magnetic perturbations in collisionless tokamak plasmas Nature Physics ·T.E. Evans, Richard A. Moyer, Keith H. Burrell, M.E. Fenstermacher, Ilon Joseph, Anthony Leonard, Thomas Osborne, Gary D. Porter Hit paper breakdown →	2006	575
2	Stability and dynamics of the edge pedestal in the low collisionality regime: physics mechanisms for steady-state ELM-free operation Nuclear Fusion ·Philip Snyder, Keith H. Burrell, H. R. Wilson, M. S. Chu, M.E. Fenstermacher, Anthony Leonard, Richard A. Moyer, Thomas Osborne	2007	239
3	First tests of molybdenum mirrors for ITER diagnostics in DIII-D divertor Review of Scientific Instruments ·Dmitry Rudakov, J.A. Boedo, Richard A. Moyer, Andrey M. Litnovsky, Volker Philipps, P. Wienhold, Steve L. Allen, M.E. Fenstermacher	2006	212
4	Dust measurements in tokamaks (invited) Review of Scientific Instruments ·Dmitry Rudakov, Jonathan H. Yu, J.A. Boedo, Eric Hollmann, Sergei Krasheninnikov, Richard A. Moyer, A. Yu. Pigarov, M. Rosenberg	2008	184
5	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, C. M. Greenfield, Richard J. Groebner, T. Hodapp	1991	181
6	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, C. M. Greenfield, Richard J. Groebner	2002	160
7	Fluctuation-driven transport in the DIII-D boundary Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·Dmitry Rudakov, J.A. Boedo, Richard A. Moyer, Sergei Krasheninnikov, Anthony Leonard, M. A. Mahdavi, G. R. McKee, Gary D. Porter	2002	155
8	Overview of the results on divertor heat loads in RMP controlled H-mode plasmas on DIII-D Nuclear Fusion ·M. Jakubowski, T.E. Evans, M.E. Fenstermacher, Mathias Groth, Charles J. Lasnier, Anthony Leonard, Oliver Schmitz, J.G. Watkins	2009	147
9	Quiescent Double Barrier Regime in the DIII-D Tokamak Physical Review Letters ·C. M. Greenfield, Keith H. Burrell, J. C. DeBoo, E. J. Doyle, Barry W. Stallard, E. J. Synakowski, Christel Fenzi, P. Gohil	2001	139
10	Studies of xenon atoms in high Rydberg states Physical Review A ·R. F. Stebbings, Colin J. Latimer, W.P. West, F. B. Dunning +1 other	1975	137
11	Advances in understanding quiescent H-mode plasmas in DIII-D Physics of Plasmas ·Keith H. Burrell, W.P. West, E. J. Doyle, Max E. Austin, T. A. Casper, P. Gohil, C. M. Greenfield, Richard J. Groebner	2005	124
12	Chemiionization involving rare gas metastable atoms The Journal of Chemical Physics ·W.P. West, F. B. Dunning, R. D. Rundel, R. F. Stebbings +1 other	1975	123
13	ELM suppression in low edge collisionality H-mode discharges usingn= 3 magnetic perturbations Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·Keith H. Burrell, T.E. Evans, E. J. Doyle, M.E. Fenstermacher, Richard J. Groebner, Anthony Leonard, Richard A. Moyer, Thomas Osborne	2005	110
14	H mode discharges with feedback controlled radiative boundary in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak Nuclear Fusion ·A. Kallenbach, Ralph Dux, V. Mertens, O. Gruber, Günter Haas, M. Kaufmann, W. Poschenrieder, Francois Ryter	1995	107
15	Boronization in DIII-D Journal of Nuclear Materials ·G.L. Jackson, Jörg Winter, Keith H. Burrell, J. C. DeBoo, C. M. Greenfield, Richard J. Groebner, T. Hodapp, K.L. Holtrop	1992	88
16	Radiative divertor experiments in DIII-D with D2injection Nuclear Fusion ·Thomas W. Petrie, D. N. Hill, Steve L. Allen, N.H. Brooks, D. Buchenauer, J. W. Cuthbertson, T.E. Evans, Ph. Ghendrih	1997	86
17	Measurements of impurity and heat dynamics during noble gas jet-initiated fast plasma shutdown for disruption mitigation in DIII-D Nuclear Fusion ·Eric Hollmann, Thomas C. Jernigan, Mathias Groth, Dennis G. Whyte, D. S. Gray, Max E. Austin, B.D. Bray, D. P. Brennan	2005	86
18	Measurement of the rotational transform at the axis of a tokamak Physical Review Letters ·W.P. West, Dan M. Thomas, J.S. deGrassie, S. B. Zheng	1987	84
19	Motional Stark effect polarimetry for a current profile diagnostic in DIII-D Review of Scientific Instruments ·D. Wróblewski, Keith H. Burrell, Lang L. Lao, P.A. Politzer, W.P. West	1990	83
20	Edge stability of stationary ELM-suppressed regimes on DIII-D Journal of Physics Conference Series ·Thomas Osborne, Philip Snyder, Keith H. Burrell, T.E. Evans, M.E. Fenstermacher, Anthony Leonard, Richard A. Moyer, Michael J. Schaffer	2008	83

About W.P. West

W.P. West is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Atmospheric Science and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 208 papers that have together received 7.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Magnetic confinement fusion research (163 papers), Fusion materials and technologies (49 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (10 papers), Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena (10 papers), Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (4 papers), Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials (2 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (2 papers) and Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (6k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (941 citations), Materials Chemistry (1.2k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (59 citations) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (255 citations). W.P. West has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Anthony Leonard, M.E. Fenstermacher, Keith H. Burrell, J.G. Watkins, Dennis G. Whyte, Richard A. Moyer, N.H. Brooks, Gary D. Porter, Thomas Osborne and Philip Snyder. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Nuclear Materials, Nuclear Fusion, Physics of Plasmas, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Review of Scientific Instruments.

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