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    Awards

    The Most Accessed Paper Award 2018

    We are delighted to announce that The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Most accessed paper award 2018 were presented to the top-three most accessed papers published in 2016 – 2017.

    Based on the number of accesses until December 2017, these papers are:

    First place Accessed count : 4,015

    Review [Interdisciplinary research]

    Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon and its potential linkage with uplift of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau

    Ryuji Tada, Hongbo Zheng and Peter D. Clift

    Published: 9 February 2016

    SpringerOpen

    Second place Accessed count : 3,689

    Review [Solid earth sciences]

    Philippine Sea Plate inception, evolution, and consumption with special emphasis on the early stages of Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction

    Serge Lallemand

    Published: 12 May 2016

    SpringerOpen

    Third place Accessed count : 3,674

    Review [Solid earth sciences]

    New parameter of roundness R: circularity corrected by aspect ratio

    Yasuhiro Takashimizu and Maiko Iiyoshi

    Published: 20 January 2016

    SpringerOpen