M. Swisdak

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

M. Swisdak is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Swisdak has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 38 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 21 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in M. Swisdak's work include Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (100 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (91 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (38 papers). M. Swisdak is often cited by papers focused on Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (100 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (91 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (38 papers). M. Swisdak collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. M. Swisdak's co-authors include J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, M. I. Sitnov, H. Che, B. N. Rogers, M. Opher, Andrey Divin, R. L. Fermo, Joel Dahlin and P. A. Cassak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

M. Swisdak

106 papers receiving 5.9k citations

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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.

Electron acceleration from contracting magnetic islands during reconnection

2006 651 citations J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. Swisdak United States	43	5.9k	1.6k	1.5k	525	407	111	6.1k
M. M. Kuznetsova United States	38	4.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	640 1.2×	208 0.5×	125	4.6k
B. N. Rogers United States	31	4.5k 0.8×	2.6k 1.6×	811 0.5×	255 0.5×	426 1.0×	70	5.0k
C. W. Carlson United States	37	4.5k 0.8×	673 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	980 1.9×	569 1.4×	80	4.9k
A. Vaivads Sweden	51	7.6k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	2.8k 1.8×	1.6k 3.0×	526 1.3×	193	7.8k
S. J. Schwartz United Kingdom	46	6.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	904 1.7×	570 1.4×	202	6.4k
N. Omidi United States	42	4.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	641 1.2×	285 0.7×	153	4.8k
R. M. Winglee United States	34	3.3k 0.6×	720 0.4×	711 0.5×	326 0.6×	244 0.6×	162	3.7k
A. N. Fazakerley United Kingdom	48	7.6k 1.3×	744 0.5×	3.3k 2.1×	1.4k 2.7×	670 1.6×	280	7.8k
V. Krasnoselskikh France	42	4.8k 0.8×	822 0.5×	892 0.6×	1.9k 3.7×	429 1.1×	184	5.0k
A. Otto United States	34	4.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	465 0.9×	146 0.4×	125	4.4k

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Liu, Yi‐Hsin, Michael Hesse, K. J. Genestreti, et al.. (2025). Ohm’s Law, the Reconnection Rate, and Energy Conversion in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection. Space Science Reviews. 221(1). 16–16. 7 indexed citations

Mallet, Alfred, et al.. (2025). Suppression of the collisionless tearing mode by flow shear: implications for reconnection onset in the Alfvénic solar wind. Journal of Plasma Physics. 91(2). 3 indexed citations

Drake, J. F., et al.. (2024). Simultaneous Proton and Electron Energization during Macroscale Magnetic Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 74–74. 8 indexed citations

Eriksson, S., M. Swisdak, Alfred Mallet, et al.. (2024). Parker Solar Probe Observations of Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts in Quiescent Plasmas near the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(1). 76–76. 12 indexed citations

Bale, S. D., J. F. Drake, Michael D. McManus, et al.. (2023). Interchange reconnection as the source of the fast solar wind within coronal holes. Nature. 618(7964). 252–256. 66 indexed citations

Scime, Earl, et al.. (2023). Using Direct Laboratory Measurements of Electron Temperature Anisotropy to Identify the Heating Mechanism in Electron-Only Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection. Physical Review Letters. 131(15). 155101–155101. 5 indexed citations

Qiu, Jiong, S. K. Antiochos, Joel Dahlin, et al.. (2023). The Role of Magnetic Shear in Reconnection-driven Flare Energy Release. The Astrophysical Journal. 955(1). 34–34. 7 indexed citations

Qiu, Jiong, C. R. DeVore, S. K. Antiochos, et al.. (2022). Correlated Spatio-temporal Evolution of Extreme-Ultraviolet Ribbons and Hard X-Rays in a Solar Flare. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(2). 218–218. 18 indexed citations

Cassak, P. A., et al.. (2022). Electron-only reconnection and associated electron heating and acceleration in PHASMA. Physics of Plasmas. 29(3). 10 indexed citations

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Cassak, P. A., et al.. (2022). Laboratory Observations of Electron Heating and Non-Maxwellian Distributions at the Kinetic Scale during Electron-Only Magnetic Reconnection. Physical Review Letters. 128(2). 25002–25002. 26 indexed citations

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Agapitov, O. V., J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, et al.. (2022). Flux Rope Merging and the Structure of Switchbacks in the Solar Wind. The Astrophysical Journal. 925(2). 213–213. 19 indexed citations

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Liang, Haoming, P. A. Cassak, S. Servidio, et al.. (2019). Decomposition of plasma kinetic entropy into position and velocity space and the use of kinetic entropy in particle-in-cell simulations. Physics of Plasmas. 26(8). 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qile, J. F. Drake, & M. Swisdak. (2019). Instabilities and turbulence in low-β guide field reconnection exhausts with kinetic Riemann simulations. Physics of Plasmas. 26(10). 8 indexed citations

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Sitnov, M. I., V. G. Merkin, P. L. Pritchett, & M. Swisdak. (2017). Distinctive features of internally driven magnetotail reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(7). 3028–3037. 19 indexed citations

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Opher, M., J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, B. Zieger, & G. Tóth. (2017). The Twist of the Draped Interstellar Magnetic Field Ahead of the Heliopause: A Magnetic Reconnection Driven Rotational Discontinuity. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 839(1). L12–L12. 23 indexed citations

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Drake, J. F., M. Swisdak, & M. Opher. (2015). A MODEL OF THE HELIOSPHERE WITH JETS. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 808(2). L44–L44. 44 indexed citations

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Haggerty, Colby, M. A. Shay, J. F. Drake, et al.. (2014). Electron Heating During Magnetic Reconnection: The Interplay of Parallel Electric Fields and Fermi-Bounce Acceleration. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Sitnov, M. I. & M. Swisdak. (2011). Formation of Dipolarization Fronts as a Part of the Magnetic Reconnection Onset Process in Two-Dimensional Current Sheets. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 2 indexed citations

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Drake, J. F., M. Opher, M. Swisdak, & K. M. Schoeffler. (2011). The dynamics, structure and signatures of magnetic bubbles in the outer heliosphere. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Zeiler, A., D. Biskamp, J. F. Drake, et al.. (2001). Three-dimensional particle simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 43. 1 indexed citations

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