11,008 abstracts, from the Astronomy part of ADS (Astrophysics Data System, "a NASA-funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 5.0 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and ArXiv e-prints"), published between 1990 and 2005 on MHD (the plasma theory for which Alfvén was (largely) awarded his Nobel Prize in 1970).

If plasma theory were neglected or (worse) ignored by mainstream astronomers, who wrote those >11k papers?