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

A review on slow earthquakes in the Japan Trench

Tomoaki Nishikawa, Satoshi Ide, Takuya Nishimura

Articles on SPEPS

Abstracts

SpringerOpen

Second place

Cited count : 15

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

Abstracts

SpringerOpen

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

Ambient noise multimode surface wave tomography

Kiwamu Nishida, Ryota Takagi, Akiko Takeo

Abstracts

SpringerOpen

Second place

download count:4,049

Si- versus Mg-metasomatism at the crust–mantle interface: Insights from experiments, natural observations and geochemical modeling

Atsushi Okamoto, Ryosuke Oyanagi

Abstracts

SpringerOpen

Third place

download count:3,766

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

Abstracts

SpringerOpen