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Most Cited and Accessed Paper Awards

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science is very pleased to be able to present you the ‘PEPS Most Cited Paper Awards 2023’ and the ‘PEPS Most Downloaded Paper Awards 2023’. 
Congratulations on the success of the papers to the respective authors.


The Most Cited Paper Awards 2023


 

This award is presented to one or more highly cited papers published between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021. Only citations in papers which are published during 2022 are counted, and these citations must be acknowledged by Web of Science.

* Please note that once a paper has been awarded, it will not be received again for the same award.

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-020-00405-4
Review 
Marine microplastics as vectors of major ocean pollutants and its hazards to the marine ecosystem and humans 

Tan Suet May Amelia, Wan Mohd Afiq Wan Mohd Khalik, Meng Chuan Ong, Yi Ta Shao, Hui-Juan Pan & Kesaven Bhubalan 

Published: 22 January 2021
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:12
Cited count in 2022 (based on WoS): 62

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-019-0311-0
Research 
Soil salinity assessment by using near-infrared channel and Vegetation Soil Salinity Index derived from Landsat 8 OLI data: a case study in the Tra Vinh Province, Mekong Delta, Vietnam 

Kim-Anh Nguyen, Yuei-An Liou, Ha-Phuong Tran, Phi-Phung Hoang & Thanh-Hung Nguyen

Published: 6 January 2020
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:1
Cited count in 2022 (based on WoS): 22

3
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-020-00402-7
Paper with full data attached 
Nationwide urban ground deformation monitoring in Japan using Sentinel-1 LiCSAR products and LiCSBAS 

Yu Morishita
Published: 12 January 2021
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:6
Cited count in 2022 (based on WoS): 21


The Most Downloaded Paper Awards 2023


This award is presented to one or more papers published between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2022 with the highest number of downloaded in 2022.
* Please note that once a paper has been awarded, it will not be received again for the same award.

1
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-020-00369-5
Review 
Two decades of Earth system modeling with an emphasis on Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate (MIROC) 

Michio Kawamiya, Tomohiro Hajima, Kaoru Tachiiri, Shingo Watanabe & Tokuta Yokohata

Published: 20 October 2020
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:64
Accessed and downloaded count in 2022: 3,302


2
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-021-00418-7
Review 
Identifying key processes and sectors in the interaction between climate and socio-economic systems: a review toward integrating Earth–human systems

Kaoru Tachiiri, Xuanming Su & Ken’ichi Matsumoto

Published: 08 April 2021
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:24
Accessed and downloaded count in 2022: 3,203

Past winners of the Most Cited and Accessed Paper Awards
 

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    3.9 - 2-year Impact Factor
    4.1 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.529 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    1.143 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    9 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    160 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    575,570 downloads
    1,124 Altmetric mentions

Society affiliation

  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science is affiliated with the Japan Geoscience Union.

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