Awards
The Most Cited Paper Award 2025
We are delighted to announce that The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Most cited paper award 2025 were presented to the top-two most cited papers published in 2022 and 2023. Based on the number of citations during 2024 acknowledged by Web of Science, these papers are:
First place
Cited count : 25
review: Solid earth sciences
Published: January 3, 2023
A review on slow earthquakes in the Japan Trench
Tomoaki Nishikawa, Satoshi Ide, Takuya Nishimura

Second place
Cited count : 15
review: Atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences
Published: July 3, 2023
Greenhouse gases observing satellite 2 (GOSAT-2): Mission overview
Ryoichi Imasu, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Masakatsu Nakajima, Yukio Yoshida, Kei Shiomi, Isamu Morino, Naoko Saitoh, Yosuke Niwa, Yu Someya, Yu Oishi, Makiko Hashimoto, Hibiki Noda, Kouki Hikosaka, Osamu Uchino, Shamil Maksyutov, Hiroshi Takagi, Haruma Ishida, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Teruyuki Nakajima & Chong Shi

The Most Downloaded Paper Award 2025
We are delighted to announce that The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Most downloaded paper award 2025 were presented to the top-three most downloaded papers published in 2022 – 2024. Based on the number of accesses from January to December 2024, these papers are:
First place
download count:5,290
review: Solid earth sciences
Published: February 7, 2024
Ambient noise multimode surface wave tomography
Kiwamu Nishida, Ryota Takagi, Akiko Takeo

Second place
download count:4,049
review: Solid earth sciences
Published: July 18, 2023
Si- versus Mg-metasomatism at the crust–mantle interface: Insights from experiments, natural observations and geochemical modeling
Atsushi Okamoto, Ryosuke Oyanagi

Third place
download count:3,766
review: Atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences
Published: July 3, 2023
Greenhouse gases observing satellite 2 (GOSAT-2): Mission overview
Ryoichi Imasu, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Masakatsu Nakajima, Yukio Yoshida, Kei Shiomi, Isamu Morino, Naoko Saitoh, Yosuke Niwa, Yu Someya, Yu Oishi, Makiko Hashimoto, Hibiki Noda, Kouki Hikosaka, Osamu Uchino, Shamil Maksyutov, Hiroshi Takagi, Haruma Ishida, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Teruyuki Nakajima & Chong Shi
