W. W. Lee

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

W. W. Lee is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, W. W. Lee has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 18 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in W. W. Lee's work include Magnetic confinement fusion research (22 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (18 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (10 papers). W. W. Lee is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic confinement fusion research (22 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (18 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (10 papers). W. W. Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States and Japan. W. W. Lee's co-authors include Zhihong Lin, W. M. Tang, T. S. Hahm, R. B. White, A. M. Dimits, P. H. Diamond, T.S. Hahm, R. A. Santoro, H. Okuda and John A. Krommes and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

W. W. Lee

22 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Turbulent Transport Reduction by Zonal Flows: Massively P... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Turbulent Transport Reduction by Zonal Flows: Massively Parallel Simulations
    1998 824 citations Zhihong Lin, T. S. Hahm et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
W. W. Lee United States 13 1.8k 1.5k 302 266 138 22 1.9k
B. N. Rogers United States 16 2.4k 1.3× 2.0k 1.3× 309 1.0× 551 2.1× 217 1.6× 23 2.6k
V. Grandgirard France 26 2.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.0× 330 1.1× 373 1.4× 235 1.7× 125 2.3k
S. Jolliet Switzerland 26 1.9k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 321 1.1× 468 1.8× 211 1.5× 60 2.0k
M. Ottaviani France 24 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 166 0.5× 337 1.3× 130 0.9× 58 1.5k
G. Dif‐Pradalier France 24 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 209 0.7× 349 1.3× 236 1.7× 101 1.8k
Z. Yan United States 27 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 289 1.0× 428 1.6× 207 1.5× 99 1.8k
Y. Nagayama Japan 22 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 328 1.1× 393 1.5× 291 2.1× 120 2.1k
R. J. Maqueda United States 23 2.0k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 229 0.8× 598 2.2× 300 2.2× 47 2.1k
L. Sugiyama United States 17 1.1k 0.6× 806 0.5× 162 0.5× 208 0.8× 203 1.5× 52 1.2k
A. Bottino Germany 29 2.2k 1.2× 1.8k 1.2× 486 1.6× 377 1.4× 176 1.3× 123 2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. W. Lee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W. W. Lee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W. W. Lee based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with W. W. Lee. W. W. Lee is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lee, W. W. & R. B. White. (2019). Finite Larmor radius effects at the high confinement mode pedestal and the related force-free steady state. Physics of Plasmas. 26(4). 1 indexed citations
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Lee, W. W. & R. B. White. (2017). Equilibrium potential well due to finite Larmor radius effects at the tokamak edge. Physics of Plasmas. 24(8). 7 indexed citations
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Lee, W. W.. (2016). Magnetohydrodynamics for collisionless plasmas from the gyrokinetic perspective. Physics of Plasmas. 23(7). 4 indexed citations
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Lee, W. W., Thomas G. Jenkins, & S. Ethier. (2010). A generalized weight-based particle-in-cell simulation scheme. Computer Physics Communications. 182(3). 564–569. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Weixing, T. S. Hahm, S. Ethier, et al.. (2009). Gyrokinetic Studies on Turbulence-Driven and Neoclassical Nondiffusive Toroidal-Momentum Transport and the Effect of Residual Fluctuations in StrongE×BShear. Physical Review Letters. 102(3). 35005–35005. 46 indexed citations
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Lee, W. W., et al.. (2009). On higher order corrections to gyrokinetic Vlasov–Poisson equations in the long wavelength limit. Physics of Plasmas. 16(4). 12 indexed citations
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Lin, Zhihong, T.S. Hahm, W. W. Lee, W. M. Tang, & P. H. Diamond. (1999). Effects of Collisional Zonal Flow Damping on Turbulent Transport. Physical Review Letters. 83(18). 3645–3648. 232 indexed citations
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Lin, Zhihong, T. S. Hahm, W. W. Lee, W. M. Tang, & R. B. White. (1998). Turbulent Transport Reduction by Zonal Flows: Massively Parallel Simulations. Science. 281(5384). 1835–1837. 824 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lin, Zhihong, W. M. Tang, & W. W. Lee. (1997). Neoclassical Transport in Enhanced Confinement Toroidal Plasmas. Physical Review Letters. 78(3). 456–459. 48 indexed citations
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Lin, Zhihong, W. M. Tang, & W. W. Lee. (1997). Large orbit neoclassical transport. Physics of Plasmas. 4(5). 1707–1713. 30 indexed citations
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Lin, Zhihong & W. W. Lee. (1995). Method for solving the gyrokinetic Poisson equation in general geometry. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 52(5). 5646–5652. 69 indexed citations
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Naitou, Hiroshi, et al.. (1995). Gyrokinetic simulation of internal kink modes. Physics of Plasmas. 2(11). 4257–4268. 32 indexed citations
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Dimits, A. M. & W. W. Lee. (1993). Partially Linearized Algorithms in Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation. Journal of Computational Physics. 107(2). 309–323. 137 indexed citations
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Dimits, A. M. & W. W. Lee. (1991). Nonlinear mechanisms for drift wave saturation and induced particle transport. Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics. 3(7). 1557–1569. 7 indexed citations
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Lee, W. W.. (1987). Gyrokinetic particle simulation model. Journal of Computational Physics. 72(1). 243–269. 372 indexed citations
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Krommes, John A., W. W. Lee, & C. Oberman. (1986). Equilibrium fluctuation energy of gyrokinetic plasma. The Physics of Fluids. 29(8). 2421–2425. 30 indexed citations
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Lee, W. W., M. S. Chance, & H. Okuda. (1981). Anomalous Transport Due to Shear Alfvén Waves. Physical Review Letters. 46(26). 1675–1678. 7 indexed citations
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Okuda, H., C. Z. Cheng, & W. W. Lee. (1981). Anomalous Diffusion and Ion Heating in the Presence of Electrostatic Hydrogen Cyclotron Instabilities. Physical Review Letters. 46(6). 427–430. 18 indexed citations
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Okuda, H., W. W. Lee, & A. T. Lin. (1979). Plasma diffusion due to magnetic field fluctuations. The Physics of Fluids. 22(10). 1899–1906. 18 indexed citations

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