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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 2024’ and the ‘PEPS Most Downloaded Paper Awards 2024’. 
Congratulations on the success of the papers to the respective authors.

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


The Most Cited Paper Awards 2024


 

The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Most cited paper award 2024 were presented to the top-two most cited papers published in 2021 and 2022.

Based on the number of citations during 2023 acknowledged by Web of Science, these papers are:


1
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-021-00426-7
Review [Space and planetary sciences]
Earth-affecting solar transients: a review of progresses in solar cycle 24

Jie Zhang, Manuela Temmer, Nat Gopalswamy, Olga Malandraki, Nariaki V. Nitta, Spiros Patsourakos, Fang Shen, Bojan Vršnak, Yuming Wang, David Webb, Mihir I. Desai, Karin Dissauer, Nina Dresing, Mateja Dumbović, Xueshang Feng, Stephan G. Heinemann, Monica Laurenza, Noé Lugaz & Bin Zhuang

Published: 04 October 2021
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:56
Cited count in 2023 (based on WoS): 26
 

2
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-021-00414-x
Review [Human geosciences]
A review of theoretical salt weather ring studies for stone heritage

Chiaki T. Oguchi & Swe Yu

Published: 7 May 2021
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2021 8:32
Cited count in 2023 (based on WoS): 20


The Most Downloaded Paper Awards 2024


We are delighted to announce that The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Most downloaded paper award 2024 were presented to the top-three most downloaded papers published in 2021 – 2023.
Based on the number of accesses from January to December 2023, these papers are:

1
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00528-W

Review [Solid earth sciences]
A review on slow earthquakes in the Japan Trench

Tomoaki Nishikawa, Satoshi Ide & Takuya Nishimura

Published: 3 January 2023
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:1
Accessed and downloaded count in 2023: 10,199


2
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-020-00402-7

Paper with full data attached [Solid earth sciences]
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
Accessed and downloaded count in 2023: 4,136


3

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00494-3

Research [Atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences]

Climatic zonation of Egypt based on high-resolution dataset using image clustering technique

Mohammed Magdy Hamed, Mohamed Salem Nashwan & Shamsuddin Shahid 

Published: 17 June 2022

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:35

Accessed and downloaded count in 2023: 3,898



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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