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Journal of Plasma Physics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ13739467 ↗
Source-derived summary

Journal of Plasma Physics is a peer-reviewed and open access scientific journal published bimonthly by Cambridge University Press. Established in 1967, it covers research on plasma physics, with a focus on magnetically confined plasmas, inertial confinement fusion, space physics and astrophysical plasmas. Its current editor-in-chief is Alex Schekochihin (University of Oxford).

Former editors-in-chief of the journal include George H. Miley (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Padma Kant Shukla (Ruhr University Bochum), Bill Dorland (University of Maryland, College Park) and Nuno Loureiro (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences

EBSCO databases

Ei Compendex

Inspec

ProQuest databases

Science Citation Index Expanded

Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 2.5.

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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Plasma Physics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.