Gerald A. Navratil

6.5k citations

161 papers · 5.7k · 1 hit paper · h-index 40

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 5%
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 2%
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 153
- Magnetic confinement fusion research 151
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 24
Astronomy and Astrophysics 87
- Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics 84
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics 12

Co-authors: Andrea M Garofalo (29 shared papers)Edward Strait (28 shared papers)Michael E. Mauel (51 shared papers)J. Bialek (24 shared papers)M. Okabayashi (23 shared papers)M. S. Chu (18 shared papers)R.J. La Haye (16 shared papers)John T. Scoville (16 shared papers)
Journals: Nuclear Fusion (48 papers)Physics of Plasmas (36 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (15 papers)Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (12 papers)Physical Review Letters (11 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan Sweden

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Gerald A. Navratil

155 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Gerald A. Navratil'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

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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	Modeling of active control of external magnetohydrodynamic instabilities Physics of Plasmas ·J. Bialek, Allen H. Boozer, Michael E. Mauel, Gerald A. Navratil	2001	171
3	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
4	Sustained rotational stabilization of DIII-D plasmas above the no-wall beta limit Physics of Plasmas ·Andrea M Garofalo, Torkil Hesselberg Jensen, Luke Johnson, R.J. La Haye, Gerald A. Navratil, M. Okabayashi, John T. Scoville, Edward Strait	2002	129
5	Reduced Critical Rotation for Resistive-Wall Mode Stabilization in a Near-Axisymmetric Configuration Physical Review Letters ·Holger Reimerdes, Andrea M Garofalo, G.L. Jackson, M. Okabayashi, Edward Strait, M. S. Chu, Y. In, R. J. La Haye	2007	128
6	Higher Fusion Power Gain with Current and Pressure Profile Control in Strongly Shaped DIII-D Tokamak Plasmas Physical Review Letters ·Edward A. Lazarus, Gerald A. Navratil, Charles Greenfield, Edward Strait, Max E. Austin, Keith H. Burrell, T.A. Casper, Dan R. Baker	1996	125
7	Rotational and magnetic shear stabilization of magnetohydrodynamic modes and turbulence in DIII-D high performance discharges Physics of Plasmas ·Lang L. Lao, Keith H. Burrell, T. Casper, Vincent S Chan, M. S. Chu, J. C. DeBoo, E. J. Doyle, R. Durst	1996	122
8	Sustained Stabilization of the Resistive-Wall Mode by Plasma Rotation in the DIII-D Tokamak Physical Review Letters ·Andrea M Garofalo, Edward Strait, Luke Johnson, R.J. La Haye, Edward A. Lazarus, Gerald A. Navratil, M. Okabayashi, John T. Scoville	2002	119
9	Active feedback stabilization of the resistive wall mode on the DIII-D device Physics of Plasmas ·M. Okabayashi, J. Bialek, M. S. Chance, M. S. Chu, Eric Fredrickson, Andrea M Garofalo, Mikhail Gryaznevich, Ronald E. Hatcher	2001	118
10	Resistive wall mode stabilization with internal feedback coils in DIII-D Physics of Plasmas ·Edward Strait, Jim Bialek, Ioan N. Bogatu, M. S. Chance, M. S. Chu, Dana H. Edgell, Andrea M Garofalo, G.L. Jackson	2004	113
11	Resistive wall mode dynamics and active feedback control in DIII-D Nuclear Fusion ·Andrea M Garofalo, M. S. Chu, E. Fredrickson, Mikhail Gryaznevich, Torkil Hesselberg Jensen, Luke Johnson, R.J. La Haye, Gerald A. Navratil	2001	101
12	Cross-machine comparison of resonant field amplification and resistive wall mode stabilization by plasma rotation Physics of Plasmas ·Holger Reimerdes, T. C. Hender, Steven Sabbagh, J. Bialek, M. S. Chu, Andrea M Garofalo, M. Gryaznevich, D. F. Howell	2006	94
13	Measurement of the Resistive-Wall-Mode Stability in a Rotating Plasma Using Active MHD Spectroscopy Physical Review Letters ·Holger Reimerdes, M. S. Chu, Andrea M Garofalo, G.L. Jackson, R.J. La Haye, Gerald A. Navratil, M. Okabayashi, John T. Scoville	2004	93
14	Review of deuterium–tritium results from the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor Physics of Plasmas ·K. McGuire, Helmar G. Adler, P. Alling, C. Ancher, Harold M. Anderson, James Lee Anderson, Jon W. Anderson, V. Arunasalam	1995	84
15	Transport and performance in DIII-D discharges with weak or negative central magnetic shear Physics of Plasmas ·Charles Greenfield, David P. Schissel, Barry W. Stallard, Edward A. Lazarus, Gerald A. Navratil, Keith H. Burrell, T.A. Casper, J. C. DeBoo	1997	83
16	Fusion plasma experiments on TFTR: A 20 year retrospective Physics of Plasmas ·Richard J. Hawryluk, Steven H. Batha, W. Blanchard, Michael A Beer, M.G. Bell, R. E. Bell, Herbert Berk, S. Bernabei	1998	83
17	Measurement and modeling of three-dimensional equilibria in DIII-D Physics of Plasmas ·Matthew J. Lanctot, Holger Reimerdes, Andrea M Garofalo, M. S. Chu, J.M. Hanson, Yueqiang Liu, Gerald A. Navratil, Ioan N. Bogatu	2011	83
18	Demonstration of high-performance negative central magnetic shear discharges in the DIII-D tokamak Physics of Plasmas ·Bradley W. Rice, Keith H. Burrell, Lang L. Lao, Gerald A. Navratil, Barry W. Stallard, Edward Strait, T. S. Taylor, Max E. Austin	1996	81
19	Resistive wall stabilization of high-beta plasmas in DIII–D Nuclear Fusion ·Edward Strait, Jim Bialek, N. Bogatu, M. S. Chance, M. S. Chu, Dana H. Edgell, Andrea M Garofalo, G.L. Jackson	2003	79
20	Control of the resistive wall mode with internal coils in the DIII–D tokamak Nuclear Fusion ·M. Okabayashi, J. Bialek, A. Bondeson, M. S. Chance, M. S. Chu, Andrea M Garofalo, R.E. Hatcher, Y. In	2005	79

About Gerald A. Navratil

Gerald A. Navratil is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry, having authored 161 papers that have together received 5.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Magnetic confinement fusion research (151 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (84 papers), Superconducting Materials and Applications (53 papers), Fusion materials and technologies (37 papers), Particle accelerators and beam dynamics (33 papers), Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (24 papers), Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (17 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (5.5k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (3.1k citations), Aerospace Engineering (1.3k citations), Biomedical Engineering (1.9k citations) and Materials Chemistry (1.7k citations). Gerald A. Navratil has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Andrea M Garofalo, Edward Strait, Michael E. Mauel, J. Bialek, M. Okabayashi, M. S. Chu, R.J. La Haye, John T. Scoville, A. D. Turnbull and Holger Reimerdes. Their work appears in journals such as Nuclear Fusion, Physics of Plasmas, Review of Scientific Instruments, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Physical Review Letters.

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