S. Jorna

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 830 citations indexed

About

S. Jorna is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Jorna has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 830 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in S. Jorna's work include Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (6 papers), Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (6 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (4 papers). S. Jorna is often cited by papers focused on Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (6 papers), Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (6 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (4 papers). S. Jorna collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. S. Jorna's co-authors include K. A. Brueckner, J. R. Buchler, R.J. Lombard, Ralph Janda, Joseph A. McClure, Lara A. Wood, R. K. Mueller, W. B. Thompson, H. W. Meldner and P.A. Seeger and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

S. Jorna

25 papers receiving 773 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.

Laser-driven fusion

1974 476 citations K. A. Brueckner, S. Jorna Reviews of Modern Physics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. Jorna United States	9	620	445	245	167	104	27	830
T. J. M. Boyd United Kingdom	17	354 0.6×	450 1.0×	272 1.1×	105 0.6×	126 1.2×	63	878
F. Ze United States	15	657 1.1×	509 1.1×	511 2.1×	204 1.2×	90 0.9×	23	908
N. K. Winsor United States	14	998 1.6×	230 0.5×	258 1.1×	116 0.7×	63 0.6×	41	1.2k
P. Mulser Germany	19	811 1.3×	728 1.6×	596 2.4×	185 1.1×	90 0.9×	63	1.0k
A. N. Mostovych United States	17	674 1.1×	531 1.2×	519 2.1×	222 1.3×	125 1.2×	37	1.0k
H. D. Wahl Germany	23	1.1k 1.8×	531 1.2×	320 1.3×	118 0.7×	168 1.6×	75	1.5k
O. Larroche France	16	490 0.8×	300 0.7×	188 0.8×	193 1.2×	81 0.8×	35	655
David Salzmann Israel	18	416 0.7×	821 1.8×	660 2.7×	157 0.9×	114 1.1×	60	1.2k
Tsuguhiro Watanabe Japan	15	516 0.8×	527 1.2×	183 0.7×	169 1.0×	36 0.3×	79	949
P. E. Young United States	21	985 1.6×	842 1.9×	793 3.2×	188 1.1×	77 0.7×	48	1.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jorna, S. & Lara A. Wood. (1987). Fokker-Planck calculations on heat flow in plasmas. Journal of Plasma Physics. 38(2). 317–333. 4 indexed citations

Jorna, S., et al.. (1981). An injector based on electric insulation for the controlled ballistic focusing of light ion beams. Journal of Applied Physics. 52(6). 3761–3768. 1 indexed citations

Bullard, E. C. & S. Jorna. (1978). Topics in nonlinear dynamics : a tribute to Sir Edward Bullard (La Jolla Institute). American Institute of Physics eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Jorna, S. & W. B. Thompson. (1978). On the propagation of energetic ion beams through a fusion target chamber. Journal of Plasma Physics. 19(1). 97–119. 6 indexed citations

Mueller, R. K. & S. Jorna. (1977). Intensity requirements in X-ray holography at 1 Å. Applied Optics. 16(3). 525–525. 7 indexed citations

Brueckner, K. A. & S. Jorna. (1976). Stabilization of Rayleigh-Taylor growth by thermal conduction. Journal of Plasma Physics. 16(3). 285–288. 3 indexed citations

Jorna, S.. (1975). Expansions for simple cubic lattice Green’s functions. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 16(11). 2333–2338. 2 indexed citations

Jorna, S.. (1975). Comment on H Brysk's article on multiphoton absorption. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 8(11). 1852–1852. 1 indexed citations

Brueckner, K. A., et al.. (1974). Double Pass Laser Amplifiers. Applied Optics. 13(10). 2183–2183. 9 indexed citations

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Brueckner, K. A. & S. Jorna. (1974). Laser-driven fusion. Reviews of Modern Physics. 46(2). 325–367. 476 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brueckner, K. A., S. Jorna, & Ralph Janda. (1974). Hydrodynamic stability of a laser-driven plasma. The Physics of Fluids. 17(8). 1554–1559. 29 indexed citations

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Brueckner, K. A. & S. Jorna. (1973). Stimulated backward Brillouin scattering in laser heated plasmas. The Physics of Fluids. 16(12). 2350–2351. 2 indexed citations

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Jorna, S. & Claude Springer. (1971). Derivation of Green-type, transitional and uniform asymptotic expansions from differential equations. V. Angular oblate spheroidal wavefunctions psrn ( η , h ) and qsrn ( η , h ) for large h. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 321(1547). 545–555.

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Jorna, S.. (1971). Atmospheric Depolarization and Stimulated Brillouin Scattering. Applied Optics. 10(12). 2661–2661. 3 indexed citations

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McClure, Joseph A. & S. Jorna. (1970). Use of new dispersion relations in the Glauber formalism with application to πd scattering. Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. A, Nuclei, particles and fields. 67(4). 667–677. 5 indexed citations

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Jorna, S. & Joseph A. McClure. (1969). Phase contours and zeros of forward π±-p scattering amplitudes in the complex energy plane. Nuclear Physics B. 13(1). 68–72. 6 indexed citations

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Brueckner, K. A. & S. Jorna. (1966). Linear Instability Theory of Laser Propagation in Fluids. Physical Review Letters. 17(2). 78–81. 27 indexed citations

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Jorna, S.. (1965). Derivation of Green-type, transitional and uniform asymptotic expansions from differential equations III. The confluent hypergeometric function U ( a , c , z ) for large | c |. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 284(1399). 531–539. 1 indexed citations

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Jorna, S.. (1964). Derivation of Green-type, transitional, and uniform asymptotic expansions from differential equations II. Whittaker functions Wk,m for large k , and for large | K 2– m 2|. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 281(1384). 111–129. 6 indexed citations

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Jorna, S.. (1964). Derivation of Green-type, transitional, and uniform asymptotic expansions from differential equations I. General theory, and application to modified Bessel functions of large order. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 281(1384). 99–110. 8 indexed citations

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