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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 2022’ and the ‘PEPS Most Downloaded Paper Awards 2022’. 
Congratulations on the success of the papers to the respective authors.


The Most Cited Paper Awards 2022


This award is presented to one or more highly cited papers published between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2020. Only citations in papers which are published during 2021 are counted, and these citations must be acknowledged by Web of Science.


Research 
Global and Arctic effective radiative forcing of anthropogenic gases and aerosols in MRI-ESM2.0 

Naga Oshima, Seiji Yukimoto, Makoto Deushi, Tsuyoshi Koshiro, Hideaki Kawai, Taichu Y. Tanaka & Kohei Yoshida 

Published: 10 August 2020
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:38
Cited count in 2021 (based on WoS): 15


Review
Day-to-day and short-term variabilities in the equatorial plasma bubble/spread F irregularity seeding and development

Mangalathayil Ali Abdu

Published: 01 February 2019
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2019 6:11
Cited count in 2021 (based on WoS): 14


Review
Perspective on the response of marine calcifiers to global warming and ocean acidification – Behavior of corals and foraminifera in a high CO2 world “hot house”

Hodaka Kawahata, Kazuhiko Fujita, Akira Iguchi, Mayuri Inoue, Shinya Iwasaki, Azumi Kuroyanagi, Ayumi Maeda, Takuya Manaka, Kazuyoshi Moriya, Haruka Takagi, Takashi Toyofuku, Toshihiro Yoshimura & Atsushi Suzuki

Published: 17 January 2019
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2019 6:5
Cited count in 2021 (based on WoS): 13



The Most Downloaded Paper Awards 2022


This award is presented to one or more highly accessed and downloaded papers published between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 with accessed being counted up to the end of 2021.


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
Accessed and downloaded count from the published date to 31 December 2021: 15,249


Research 
A full sequence of the Matuyama–Brunhes geomagnetic reversal in the Chiba composite section, Central Japan

Yuki Haneda, Makoto Okada, Yusuke Suganuma & Takahiro Kitamura 

Published: 01 September 2020
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2020 7:44
Accessed and downloaded count from the published date to 31 December 2021: 5,943


Review [Space and planetary sciences]
Terrestrial planet compositions controlled by accretion disk magnetic field

William F. McDonough & Takashi Yoshizaki 

Published: 02 July 2021
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:39
Accessed and downloaded count from the published date to 31 December 2021: 5,366
 

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