Christopher J. McDevitt

1.6k total citations
52 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher J. McDevitt is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher J. McDevitt has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 26 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 11 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christopher J. McDevitt's work include Magnetic confinement fusion research (39 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (26 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (21 papers). Christopher J. McDevitt is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic confinement fusion research (39 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (26 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (21 papers). Christopher J. McDevitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and South Korea. Christopher J. McDevitt's co-authors include P. H. Diamond, Ö. D. Gürcan, Xian-Zhu Tang, Timothy J. Ebner, Zehua Guo, James R. Bloedel, T. S. Hahm, V. Naulin, T.S. Hahm and I. Holod and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Brain Research and Europhysics Letters (EPL).

In The Last Decade

Christopher J. McDevitt

49 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher J. McDevitt United States 18 907 640 227 136 129 52 1.1k
T. Nakano Japan 21 729 0.8× 176 0.3× 637 2.8× 29 0.2× 363 2.8× 126 1.8k
A. M. Brown United Kingdom 16 329 0.4× 313 0.5× 74 0.3× 125 0.9× 58 0.4× 56 917
Gordon Chalmers United States 22 540 0.6× 188 0.3× 33 0.1× 136 1.0× 267 2.1× 70 1.5k
K. Arisaka United States 15 302 0.3× 58 0.1× 105 0.5× 21 0.2× 185 1.4× 37 790
T. Yamauchi Japan 13 260 0.3× 126 0.2× 156 0.7× 41 0.3× 61 0.5× 38 648
M. Otte Germany 16 386 0.4× 162 0.3× 138 0.6× 20 0.1× 104 0.8× 74 692
Lihui Zhou Germany 16 120 0.1× 105 0.2× 229 1.0× 29 0.2× 63 0.5× 25 1.2k
H. Condé Sweden 19 405 0.4× 35 0.1× 46 0.2× 98 0.7× 27 0.2× 68 1.1k
Samantha M. Lewis United States 9 244 0.3× 123 0.2× 25 0.1× 35 0.3× 17 0.1× 26 577
L. Vermare France 19 725 0.8× 541 0.8× 190 0.8× 6 0.0× 76 0.6× 48 826

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McDevitt, Christopher J., et al.. (2025). An efficient surrogate model of secondary electron formation and evolution. Physics of Plasmas. 32(4).
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McDevitt, Christopher J., et al.. (2025). A physics-constrained deep learning treatment of runaway electron dynamics. Physics of Plasmas. 32(4). 1 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., et al.. (2024). A physics-constrained deep learning surrogate model of the runaway electron avalanche growth rate. Journal of Plasma Physics. 90(4). 4 indexed citations
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Chapman, D. A., et al.. (2024). A reduced kinetic method for investigating non-local ion heat transport in ideal multi-species plasmas. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 66(7). 75005–75005. 1 indexed citations
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Chung, Hyun-Kyung, Mark C. Zammit, Christopher J. McDevitt, et al.. (2022). Understanding how minority relativistic electron populations may dominate charge state balance and radiative cooling of a post-thermal quench tokamak plasma. Physics of Plasmas. 29(1). 3 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., et al.. (2022). The constraint of plasma power balance on runaway avoidance. Nuclear Fusion. 63(2). 24001–24001. 3 indexed citations
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Chung, Hyun-Kyung, Christopher J. Fontes, Mark C. Zammit, et al.. (2020). Impact of a minority relativistic electron tail interacting with a thermal plasma containing high-atomic-number impurities. Physics of Plasmas. 27(4). 9 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., Zehua Guo, & Xian-Zhu Tang. (2019). Avalanche mechanism for runaway electron amplification in a tokamak plasma. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61(5). 54008–54008. 19 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., Zehua Guo, & Xian-Zhu Tang. (2018). Spatial transport of runaway electrons in axisymmetric tokamak plasmas. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61(2). 24004–24004. 7 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., Xian-Zhu Tang, & Zehua Guo. (2018). Yield reduction via the Knudsen layer effect in a mixture of fuel and pusher material. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61(2). 25005–25005. 3 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., Xian-Zhu Tang, & Zehua Guo. (2017). Turbulent current drive mechanisms. Physics of Plasmas. 24(8). 7 indexed citations
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Guo, Zehua, Christopher J. McDevitt, & Xian-Zhu Tang. (2017). Phase-space dynamics of runaway electrons in magnetic fields. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 59(4). 44003–44003. 25 indexed citations
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Kagan, Grigory, D. Svyatskiy, H. G. Rinderknecht, et al.. (2015). Self-Similar Structure and Experimental Signatures of Suprathermal Ion Distribution in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions. Physical Review Letters. 115(10). 105002–105002. 27 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., Xian-Zhu Tang, & Zehua Guo. (2014). A quasilinear formulation of turbulence driven current. Physics of Plasmas. 21(2). 22310–22310. 2 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., Xian-Zhu Tang, & Zehua Guo. (2013). Turbulence-Driven Bootstrap Current in Low-Collisionality Tokamaks. Physical Review Letters. 111(20). 205002–205002. 14 indexed citations
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Rice, J. E., J. W. Hughes, P. H. Diamond, et al.. (2011). Edge Temperature Gradient as Intrinsic Rotation Drive in AlcatorC-Mod Tokamak Plasmas. Physical Review Letters. 106(21). 215001–215001. 69 indexed citations
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Gürcan, Ö. D., P. H. Diamond, P. Hennequin, et al.. (2010). Residual parallel Reynolds stress due to turbulence intensity gradient in tokamak plasmas. Physics of Plasmas. 17(11). 76 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., P. H. Diamond, Ö. D. Gürcan, & T. S. Hahm. (2009). Toroidal Rotation Driven by the Polarization Drift. Physical Review Letters. 103(20). 205003–205003. 38 indexed citations
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Diamond, P. H., Christopher J. McDevitt, Ö. D. Gürcan, T. S. Hahm, & V. Naulin. (2008). Transport of parallel momentum by collisionless drift wave turbulence. Physics of Plasmas. 15(1). 114 indexed citations
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McDevitt, Christopher J., Timothy J. Ebner, & James R. Bloedel. (1987). Changes in the responses of cerebellar nuclear neurons associated with the climbing fiber response of Purkinje cells. Brain Research. 425(1). 14–24. 25 indexed citations

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