Tom Blackburn

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Tom Blackburn 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, Tom Blackburn has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 24 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 12 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Tom Blackburn's work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (33 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (20 papers) and Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (12 papers). Tom Blackburn is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (33 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (20 papers) and Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (12 papers). Tom Blackburn collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Tom Blackburn's co-authors include C. P. Ridgers, J. G. Kirk, A. R. Bell, Arkady Gonoskov, M. Marklund, M. Marklund, Keith Bennett, Roland Duclous, C. S. Brady and T. D. Arber and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Tom Blackburn

34 papers receiving 998 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.

Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Blackburn Sweden	14	945	700	298	253	146	35	1.0k
Chris Harvey Sweden	15	935 1.0×	706 1.0×	268 0.9×	221 0.9×	155 1.1×	20	1.0k
E. N. Nerush Russia	15	1.1k 1.1×	757 1.1×	451 1.5×	313 1.2×	141 1.0×	32	1.1k
T. Koffas United States	4	822 0.9×	737 1.1×	186 0.6×	151 0.6×	127 0.9×	13	990
Jian-Xing Li China	16	647 0.7×	634 0.9×	184 0.6×	99 0.4×	138 0.9×	51	796
N. Elkina Germany	12	745 0.8×	566 0.8×	209 0.7×	201 0.8×	117 0.8×	19	895
Greger Torgrimsson Germany	20	979 1.0×	776 1.1×	102 0.3×	224 0.9×	138 0.9×	36	1.2k
Roland Duclous France	9	923 1.0×	675 1.0×	375 1.3×	273 1.1×	103 0.7×	14	1.0k
S. Boege United States	6	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	277 0.9×	216 0.9×	199 1.4×	8	1.4k
Matteo Tamburini Germany	11	1.0k 1.1×	498 0.7×	211 0.7×	188 0.7×	114 0.8×	22	1.1k
W. Ragg United States	4	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	276 0.9×	215 0.8×	185 1.3×	4	1.4k

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Seipt, D., et al.. (2025). Nonlinear Breit–Wheeler pair production using polarized photons from inverse Compton scattering. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 67(3). 35002–35002. 3 indexed citations

Bulanov, S. S., Tom Blackburn, S. V. Bulanov, et al.. (2024). Measuring signatures in photon angular spectra to distinguish nonlinear Compton scattering models. Physical review. A. 110(6). 2 indexed citations

Blackburn, Tom. (2024). Analytical solutions for quantum radiation reaction in high-intensity lasers. Physical review. A. 109(2). 4 indexed citations

Blackburn, Tom, et al.. (2024). Dependence of the number-weighted angular distribution of Compton-scattered photon beams on the laser intensity. Physical review. A. 110(2).

King, B., T. Heinzl, & Tom Blackburn. (2023). Strong field vacuum birefringence in plane wave pulses. The European Physical Journal C. 83(10). 5 indexed citations

Seipt, D., Marija Vranić, Thomas Grismayer, et al.. (2023). Parametric study of the polarization dependence of nonlinear Breit–Wheeler pair creation process using two laser pulses. Physics of Plasmas. 30(10). 6 indexed citations

Blackburn, Tom, et al.. (2023). Effect of electron-beam energy chirp on signatures of radiation reaction in laser-based experiments. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 26(10). 2 indexed citations

Blackburn, Tom, et al.. (2022). Achieving pair creation via linear and nonlinear Breit–Wheeler processes in dense plasmas irradiated by high-intensity laser pulses. Physics of Plasmas. 29(5). 3 indexed citations

Blackburn, Tom, Oleksandr Borysov, A. Hartin, et al.. (2022). New physics searches with an optical dump at LUXE. Physical review. D. 106(11). 9 indexed citations

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Blackburn, Tom, et al.. (2022). Mapping the power-law decay of high-harmonic spectra from few-cycle laser–solid interactions. Physics of Plasmas. 29(9). 5 indexed citations

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Blackburn, Tom, et al.. (2021). A single-laser scheme for observation of linear Breit–Wheeler electron–positron pair creation. New Journal of Physics. 23(11). 115005–115005. 21 indexed citations

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Streeter, M. J. V., C. D. Murphy, Tom Blackburn, et al.. (2021). Effect of laser temporal intensity skew on enhancing pair production in laser—electron-beam collisions. New Journal of Physics. 23(9). 95004–95004. 3 indexed citations

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Blackburn, Tom, Alexander J. MacLeod, Anton Ilderton, et al.. (2021). Self-absorption of synchrotron radiation in a laser-irradiated plasma. Physics of Plasmas. 28(5). 3 indexed citations

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Efimenko, E. S., et al.. (2021). Towards ML-Based Diagnostics of Laser–Plasma Interactions. Sensors. 21(21). 6982–6982. 3 indexed citations

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Blackburn, Tom, D. Seipt, S. S. Bulanov, & M. Marklund. (2020). Radiation beaming in the quantum regime. Physical review. A. 101(1). 20 indexed citations

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Blackburn, Tom, E. Gerstmayr, S. P. D. Mangles, & M. Marklund. (2020). Model-independent inference of laser intensity. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 23(6). 12 indexed citations

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Blackburn, Tom, Anton Ilderton, M. Marklund, & C. P. Ridgers. (2019). Reaching supercritical field strengths with intense lasers. New Journal of Physics. 21(5). 53040–53040. 40 indexed citations

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Blackburn, Tom, D. Seipt, S. S. Bulanov, & M. Marklund. (2018). Benchmarking semiclassical approaches to strong-field QED: Nonlinear Compton scattering in intense laser pulses. Physics of Plasmas. 25(8). 46 indexed citations

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Ridgers, C. P., Tom Blackburn, Dario Del Sorbo, et al.. (2017). Signatures of quantum effects on radiation reaction in laser–electron-beam collisions. Journal of Plasma Physics. 83(5). 44 indexed citations

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Blackburn, Tom, Arkady Gonoskov, & M. Marklund. (2016). Brilliant XUV radiation from laser-illuminated near-critical plasmas. arXiv (Cornell University). 2016. 1 indexed citations

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