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    Awards

    The Most Cited Paper Award 2020

    We are delighted to announce that The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Most cited paper award 2020 were presented to the top-three most cited papers published in 2017 – 2018.

    Based on the number of citations during 2019 acknowledged by Web of Science, these papers are:

    First place Cited count : 21

    Research [Interdisciplinary research]

    Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean)

    Christian Betzler, Gregor P. Eberli, Thomas Lüdmann, Jesús Reolid, Dick Kroon, John J. G. Reijmer, Peter K. Swart, James D. Wright, Jeremy R. Young, Carlos A. Alvarez-Zarikian, Montserrat Alonso-García, Or M. Bialik, Clara L. Blättler, Junhua Adam Guo, Sébastien Haffen, Senay Horozal, Mayuri Inoue, Luigi Jovane, Luca Lanci, Juan Carlos, Anna Ling Hui Mee,Masatoshi Nakakuni, Bejugam Nagender Nath, Kaoru Niino, Loren M. Petruny, Santi D. Pratiwi, Angela L. Slagle, Craig R. Sloss, Xiang Su and Zhengquan Yao

    Published: 22 January 2018

    SpringerOpen

    Second place Cited count : 12

    Review [Solid earth sciences]

    Structural context and variation of ocean plate stratigraphy, Franciscan Complex, California: insight into mélange origins and subduction-accretion processes

    John Wakabayashi

    Published: 7 July 2017

    SpringerOpen

    Third place Cited count : 10

    Research [Human geosciences]

    Landslides triggered by an earthquake and heavy rainfalls at Aso volcano, Japan, detected by UAS and SfM-MVS photogrammetry

    Hitoshi Saito, Shoichiro Uchiyama, Yuichi S. Hayakawa and Hiroyuki Obanawa

    Published: 1 March 2018

    SpringerOpen

    Third place Cited count : 10

    Paper with full data attached [Interdisciplinary research]

    High-resolution and high-precision correlation of dark and light layers in the Quaternary hemipelagic sediments of the Japan Sea recovered during IODP Expedition 346

    Ryuji Tada, Tomohisa Irino, Ken Ikehara, Akinori Karasuda, Saiko Sugisaki, Chuang Xuan, Takuya Sagawa, Takuya Itaki, Yoshimi Kubota, Song Lu, Arisa Seki, Richard W Murray, Carlos Alvarez-Zarikian, William T. Jr Anderson, Maria-Angela Bassetti, Bobbi J. Brace, Steven C. Clemens, Marcio H. da Costa Gurgel, Gerald R. Dickens, Ann G. Dunlea, Stephen J. Gallagher, Liviu Giosan, Andrew C.G. Henderson, Ann E. Holbourn, Christopher W. Kinsley, Gwang Soo Lee, Kyung Eun Lee, Johanna Lofi, Christina I.C.D. Lopes, Mariem Saavedra Pellitero, Larry C. Peterson, Raj K. Singh, Samuel Toucanne, Shimng Wan, Hongbo Zheng and Martin Ziegler

    Published: 26 March 2018

    SpringerOpen