Awards
The Most Cited Paper Award 2026
We are delighted to announce that The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Most cited paper award 2026 were presented to the top-two most cited papers published in 2023 and 2024. Based on the number of citations during 2025 acknowledged by Web of Science, these papers are:
First place
Cited count : 15
Review articles: Solid earth sciences
Published: September 18, 2023
An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: III—Comparison between models and observations
Peter E. van Keken, Cian R. Wilson
First place
Cited count : 15
Review articles: Atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences
Published: March 6, 2023
Climate-relevant properties of black carbon aerosols revealed by in situ measurements: a review
Nobuhiro Moteki
Article by the Recipient of the 4th Nishida Prize
The Most Downloaded Paper Award 2026
We are delighted to announce that The Progress in Earth and Planetary Science Most downloaded paper award 2026 were presented to the top-three most downloaded papers published in 2023 – 2025. Based on the number of accesses from January to December 2025, these papers are:
First place
download count：16,368
Research articles: Human geosciences
Published: August 21, 2023
Marine inundation history during the last 3000 years at Lake Kogare-ike, a coastal lake on the Pacific coast of central Japan
Yumi Shimada, Yuki Sawai, Dan Matsumoto, Koichiro Tanigawa, Kazumi Ito, Toru Tamura, Yuichi Namegaya, Masanobu Shishikura & Shigehiro Fujino
Second place
download count：5,849
Research articles: Atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences
Published: January 23, 2025
The greenhouse gas observation mission with Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle (GOSAT-GW): objectives, conceptual framework and scientific contributions
Hiroshi Tanimoto, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Yu Someya, Tamaki Fujinawa, Hirofumi Ohyama, Isamu Morino, Hisashi Yashiro, Takafumi Sugita, Satoshi Inomata, Astrid Müller, Tazu Saeki, Yukio Yoshida, Yosuke Niwa, Makoto Saito, Hibiki Noda, Yousuke Yamashita, Kohei Ikeda, Nobuko Saigusa, Toshinobu Machida, Matthias Max Frey, Hyunkwang Lim, Priyanka Srivastava, Yoshitaka Jin, Atsushi Shimizu, Tomoaki Nishizawa, Yugo Kanaya, Takashi Sekiya, Prabir Patra, Masayuki Takigawa, Jagat Bisht, Yasko Kasai & Tomohiro O. Sato
Third place
download count：5,217
Review articles: Biogeosciences
Published: July 20, 2023
Geological history of the land area between Okinawa Jima and Miyako Jima of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and its phylogeographical significance for the terrestrial organisms of these and adjacent islands
Nana Watanabe, Kohsaku Arai, Makoto Otsubo, Mamoru Toda, Atsushi Tominaga, Shun Chiyonobu, Tokiyuki Sato, Tadahiro Ikeda, Akio Takahashi, Hidetoshi Ota & Yasufumi Iryu
