''IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science'' is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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published monthly by the
IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...
. The journal covers
and engineering, including but not limited to
magnetohydrodynamics
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD; also called magneto-fluid dynamics or hydromagnetics) is the study of the magnetic properties and behaviour of electrically conducting fluids. Examples of such magnetofluids include plasmas, liquid metals ...
,
thermionics
Thermionic emission is the liberation of electrons from an electrode by virtue of its temperature (releasing of energy supplied by heat). This occurs because the thermal energy given to the charge carrier overcomes the work function of the ...
,
space plasma
The interplanetary medium (IPM) or interplanetary space consists of the mass and energy which fills the Solar System, and through which all the larger Solar System bodies, such as planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets, move. The IPM sto ...
and plasma-wave interactions. Its current editor-in-chief is Steven J. Gitomer, Senior Research Scientist at
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, i ...
.
The journal was established in 1973. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', it has a 2020
impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...
of 1.222.
[ In between 2000 and 2004, it was ranked as number 10 for the impact factor in "Physics - Fluids & Plasmas" by Thomson.]
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