P. W. Terry

7.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
178 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

P. W. Terry is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, P. W. Terry has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 134 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 22 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in P. W. Terry's work include Magnetic confinement fusion research (142 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (118 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (75 papers). P. W. Terry is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic confinement fusion research (142 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (118 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (75 papers). P. W. Terry collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. P. W. Terry's co-authors include P. H. Diamond, H. Biglari, M. J. Pueschel, D. R. Hatch, B. A. Carreras, Y.-M. Liang, W. M. Nevins, B. A. Carreras, W. Horton and D. E. Newman and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

P. W. Terry

168 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

Influence of sheared poloidal rotation on edge turbulence 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 2000 1990 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Influence of sheared poloidal rotation on edge turbulence
    1990 1.2k citations P. W. Terry et al. profile →
  2. Suppression of turbulence and transport by sheared flow
    2000 658 citations P. W. Terry profile →
  3. Fluctuations and anomalous transport in tokamaks
    1990 420 citations P. W. Terry et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
P. W. Terry United States 35 5.4k 4.4k 987 507 431 178 6.0k
Ph. Ghendrih France 35 4.5k 0.8× 2.6k 0.6× 1.6k 1.6× 659 1.3× 630 1.5× 259 4.9k
V. Naulin Denmark 37 3.4k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 1.0k 1.0× 493 1.0× 437 1.0× 166 3.9k
S. C. Cowley United States 43 3.3k 0.6× 4.8k 1.1× 506 0.5× 411 0.8× 363 0.8× 130 5.8k
W. Dorland United States 43 6.8k 1.3× 6.2k 1.4× 1.5k 1.5× 713 1.4× 1.0k 2.3× 152 8.2k
A. Fasoli Switzerland 37 4.3k 0.8× 3.4k 0.8× 772 0.8× 559 1.1× 579 1.3× 208 4.8k
G. W. Hammett United States 43 6.7k 1.2× 5.8k 1.3× 1.6k 1.6× 851 1.7× 1.0k 2.4× 129 8.0k
J. Weiland Sweden 29 3.6k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 564 1.1× 465 1.1× 226 4.0k
Y. Sarazin France 32 3.0k 0.6× 2.2k 0.5× 716 0.7× 311 0.6× 326 0.8× 151 3.2k
R. D. Hazeltine United States 34 5.0k 0.9× 3.7k 0.8× 1.0k 1.1× 635 1.3× 584 1.4× 152 5.4k
F. L. Hinton United States 33 5.0k 0.9× 3.4k 0.8× 1.4k 1.5× 822 1.6× 652 1.5× 76 5.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of P. W. Terry

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Faber, B. J., et al.. (2025). Suppressing trapped-electron-mode-driven turbulence via optimization of three-dimensional shaping. Nuclear Fusion. 65(4). 46020–46020. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Chunxiao & P. W. Terry. (2024). Turbulence in plasmas and fluids. Physics of Fluids. 36(7). 1 indexed citations
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Pueschel, M. J., J. H. E. Proll, K. Aleynikova, et al.. (2024). Finite-β turbulence in Wendelstein 7-X enhanced by sub-threshold kinetic ballooning modes. Nuclear Fusion. 65(1). 16022–16022. 5 indexed citations
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Pueschel, M. J., et al.. (2024). On the effect of flux-surface shaping on trapped-electron modes in quasi-helically symmetric stellarators. Physics of Plasmas. 31(5). 3 indexed citations
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Barker, Adrian J., et al.. (2024). Predicting the Slowing of Stellar Differential Rotation by Instability-driven Turbulence. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(2). 195–195. 3 indexed citations
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Terry, P. W., et al.. (2023). Three-dimensional shear-flow instability saturation via stable modes. Physics of Fluids. 35(10). 3 indexed citations
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Terry, P. W., et al.. (2023). Nonlinear mode coupling and energetics of driven magnetized shear-flow turbulence. Physics of Plasmas. 30(7). 4 indexed citations
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Geiger, B., M. J. Pueschel, A. Bader, et al.. (2023). Optimizing the HSX stellarator for microinstability by coil-current adjustments. Nuclear Fusion. 63(5). 56004–56004. 7 indexed citations
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Faber, B. J., M. J. Pueschel, J. H. E. Proll, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Transport at High Plasma Pressure and Subthreshold Kinetic Ballooning Modes in Wendelstein 7-X. Physical Review Letters. 131(18). 185101–185101. 11 indexed citations
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Terry, P. W., et al.. (2022). Near-cancellation of up- and down-gradient momentum transport in forced magnetized shear-flow turbulence. Physics of Plasmas. 29(9). 5 indexed citations
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Terry, P. W., et al.. (2022). Mechanism for sequestering magnetic energy at large scales in shear-flow turbulence. Physics of Plasmas. 29(7). 5 indexed citations
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Hegna, C. C., D. T. Anderson, A. Bader, et al.. (2021). Improving the stellarator through advances in plasma theory. Nuclear Fusion. 62(4). 42012–42012. 13 indexed citations
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Pueschel, M. J., P. W. Terry, T. Nishizawa, et al.. (2020). Impact of resonant magnetic perturbations on zonal flows and microturbulence. Nuclear Fusion. 60(9). 96004–96004. 10 indexed citations
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Pueschel, M. J., et al.. (2019). Saturation and nonlinear electromagnetic stabilization of ITG turbulence. Physics of Plasmas. 26(8). 21 indexed citations
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Faber, B. J., M. J. Pueschel, P. W. Terry, C. C. Hegna, & José E. Román. (2018). Stellarator microinstabilities and turbulence at low magnetic shear. Journal of Plasma Physics. 84(5). 31 indexed citations
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Hegna, C. C., P. W. Terry, & B. J. Faber. (2018). Theory of ITG turbulent saturation in stellarators: Identifying mechanisms to reduce turbulent transport. Physics of Plasmas. 25(2). 33 indexed citations
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Pueschel, M. J., D. R. Hatch, D. R. Ernst, et al.. (2018). On microinstabilities and turbulence in steep-gradient regions of fusion devices. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61(3). 34002–34002. 20 indexed citations
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Terry, P. W., et al.. (2018). Saturation scalings of toroidal ion temperature gradient turbulence. Physics of Plasmas. 25(1). 29 indexed citations
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Faber, B. J., M. J. Pueschel, J. H. E. Proll, et al.. (2015). Gyrokinetic studies of trapped electron mode turbulence in the Helically Symmetric eXperiment stellarator. Physics of Plasmas. 22(7). 33 indexed citations

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