Liu Chen

12.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
191 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Liu Chen is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Liu Chen has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 142 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 37 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Liu Chen's work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (158 papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (141 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (66 papers). Liu Chen is often cited by papers focused on Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (158 papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (141 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (66 papers). Liu Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Italy. Liu Chen's co-authors include Akira Hasegawa, F. Zonca, R. B. White, E. A. Frieman, Zhihong Lin, C. Z. Cheng, M. N. Rosenbluth, R. A. Santoro, M. S. Chance and Zhiyong Qiu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Liu Chen

184 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A theory of long-period magnetic pulsations: 1. Steady state excitation of field line resonance

1974 942 citations Liu Chen et al. profile →
Nonlinear gyrokinetic equations for low-frequency electromagnetic waves in general plasma equilibria

1982 626 citations Liu Chen et al. profile →
Kinetic processes in plasma heating by resonant mode conversion of Alfvén wave

1976 427 citations Liu Chen et al. profile →
Physics of Alfvén waves and energetic particles in burning plasmas

2016 337 citations Liu Chen, F. Zonca profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liu Chen United States	52	8.9k	7.4k	1.5k	1.2k	1.0k	191	10.3k
C. Z. Cheng United States	49	6.3k 0.7×	5.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	729 0.6×	716 0.7×	208	8.1k
A. Bhattacharjee United States	51	8.1k 0.9×	4.4k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	341	9.7k
W. Horton United States	45	5.4k 0.6×	5.7k 0.8×	698 0.5×	894 0.7×	378 0.4×	289	7.6k
H. Matsumoto Japan	41	5.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.3×	916 0.6×	1.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	286	7.3k
Russell M. Kulsrud United States	45	6.9k 0.8×	4.9k 0.7×	980 0.7×	943 0.8×	300 0.3×	157	8.5k
B. Coppi United States	41	4.3k 0.5×	4.3k 0.6×	472 0.3×	982 0.8×	316 0.3×	241	5.8k
F. W. Perkins United States	43	3.7k 0.4×	2.9k 0.4×	390 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	894 0.9×	107	5.4k
J. B. Taylor United Kingdom	34	4.9k 0.5×	5.2k 0.7×	796 0.5×	852 0.7×	168 0.2×	93	7.0k
W. Dorland United States	43	6.2k 0.7×	6.8k 0.9×	540 0.4×	405 0.3×	155 0.1×	152	8.2k
R. Pellat France	36	5.3k 0.6×	2.7k 0.4×	1.6k 1.1×	926 0.8×	994 1.0×	165	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Liu Chen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Tao, Xin, F. Zonca, & Liu Chen. (2025). What drives chorus wave frequency chirping?. Physics of Plasmas. 32(10).

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Heidbrink, W. W., Xiaodi Du, Liu Chen, et al.. (2025). Measurements of the polarization of several instabilities in the DIII-D tokamak. Nuclear Fusion. 65(11). 112002–112002. 1 indexed citations

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Qiu, Zhiyong, et al.. (2024). Effects of plasma nonuniformity on zero frequency zonal structure generation by drift Alfvén wave instabilities in toroidal plasmas. Nuclear Fusion. 65(1). 16004–16004. 1 indexed citations

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Tao, Xin, et al.. (2024). Frequency Chirping of Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves in Earth's Magnetosphere. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(4). 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Liu, et al.. (2024). Drift wave soliton formation via beat-driven zonal flow and implication on plasma confinement. Physics of Plasmas. 31(4). 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Liu, Pengfei Liu, Ruirui Ma, et al.. (2024). The effects of zonal fields on energetic-particle excitations of reversed-shear Alfvén eigenmode: simulation and theory. Nuclear Fusion. 65(1). 16018–16018. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Liu, Zhiyong Qiu, & F. Zonca. (2024). On beat-driven and spontaneous excitations of zonal flows by drift waves. Physics of Plasmas. 31(4). 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Haotian, Liu Chen, E. Viezzer, M. García-Muñoz, & Jiquan Li. (2023). On gyrokinetic-fluid model for electromagnetic fluctuations in magnetized plasmas. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 65(6). 64003–64003.

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Ma, Ruirui, W. W. Heidbrink, Liu Chen, F. Zonca, & Zhiyong Qiu. (2023). Low-frequency shear Alfvén waves at DIII-D: Theoretical interpretation of experimental observations. Physics of Plasmas. 30(4). 6 indexed citations

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Qiu, Zhiyong, Liu Chen, & F. Zonca. (2023). Gyrokinetic theory of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode saturation via nonlinear wave–wave coupling. 7(1). 14 indexed citations

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Wang, T., et al.. (2022). Core localized alpha-channeling via low frequency Alfvén mode generation in reversed shear scenarios. Nuclear Fusion. 62(12). 126038–126038. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Liu, et al.. (2019). Extraction of Feature and Sentiment Word Pair Based on Conditional Random Fields and HITS Algorithm. 29(7). 71–75. 2 indexed citations

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Teng, Shangchun, et al.. (2017). Analysis of the Duration of Rising Tone Chorus Elements. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(24). 34 indexed citations

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Tao, Xin, F. Zonca, & Liu Chen. (2017). Identify the nonlinear wave‐particle interaction regime in rising tone chorus generation. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(8). 3441–3446. 58 indexed citations

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Chen, Liu, et al.. (2015). Study of discrete-particle effects in a one-dimensional plasma simulation with the Krook type collision model. Physics of Plasmas. 22(9). 3 indexed citations

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Qiao, Tong, Changjian Liu, Liu Chen, et al.. (2010). Transluminal therapy for type B thoracic dissection. Zhonghua putong waike zazhi. 25(3). 183–185. 1 indexed citations

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Biancalani, A., Liu Chen, Ф. Пегораро, & F. Zonca. (2010). Continuous Spectrum of Shear Alfvén Waves within Magnetic Islands. Physical Review Letters. 105(9). 95002–95002. 25 indexed citations

18.

Nishimura, Y., Zhihong Lin, & Liu Chen. (2009). Full Torus Electromagnetic Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations with Kinetic Electrons. Communications in Computational Physics. 5(1). 183–194. 5 indexed citations

19.

Chen, Liu, et al.. (2007). Wet Deposition of Low Molecular Weight Carboxylic Acids in Shenzhen. The Research of Environmental Sciences. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Liu. (2001). A Controlled Region Rearrangement Dynamic Algorithm for Delay-constrained Least-cost Multicast Routing. 1 indexed citations

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