Most-cited Earth and Planetary Sciences papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Earth and Planetary Sciences research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)
   Ronald Gelaro, Will McCarty et al. · 2017 · 9,079 citations
2. Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas
   Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Olaf Conrad et al. · 2017 · 3,645 citations
3. Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of Marsupials: Not as “Primitive” as Expected
   Sandra Esmeralda Dos Santos, Jairo Porfírio et al. · 2017 · 2,645 citations
4. A Review of Global Precipitation Data Sets: Data Sources, Estimation, and Intercomparisons
   Qiaohong Sun, Chiyuan Miao et al. · 2017 · 1,956 citations
5. MIX: a mosaic Asian anthropogenic emission inventory under the international collaboration framework of the MICS-Asia and HTAP
   Meng Li, Qiang Zhang et al. · 2017 · 1,627 citations
6. The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation
   T. Markus, Tom Neumann et al. · 2017 · 1,384 citations
7. The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Overview, System Efforts, and Future Directions
   Jordan G. Powers, Joseph B. Klemp et al. · 2017 · 1,323 citations
8. Anthropogenic emission inventories in China: a review
   Meng Li, Huan Liu et al. · 2017 · 1,312 citations
9. Vertically extensive and unstable magmatic systems: A unified view of igneous processes
   K. V. Cashman, R. S. J. Sparks et al. · 2017 · 1,247 citations
10. Methods for Summarizing Radiocarbon Datasets
    Christopher Bronk Ramsey · 2017 · 1,184 citations · Free PDF
11. How many species of mammals are there?
    Connor Burgin, Jocelyn P. Colella et al. · 2017 · 1,128 citations
12. MSWEP: 3-hourly 0.25° global gridded precipitation (1979–2015) by merging gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data
    Hylke E. Beck, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk et al. · 2017 · 1,115 citations · Free PDF
13. Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing
    Manish Shrivastava, Christopher D. Cappa et al. · 2017 · 1,070 citations
14. Potential high- T c superconducting lanthanum and yttrium hydrides at high pressure
    Hanyu Liu, Ivan I. Naumov et al. · 2017 · 1,069 citations
15. BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation
    Mathieu Morlighem, Christopher N. Williams et al. · 2017 · 1,003 citations · Free PDF
16. Hydrogen Clathrate Structures in Rare Earth Hydrides at High Pressures: Possible Route to Room-Temperature Superconductivity
    Feng Peng, Ying Sun et al. · 2017 · 959 citations
17. Doubling of coastal flooding frequency within decades due to sea-level rise
    Sean Vitousek, Patrick L. Barnard et al. · 2017 · 929 citations · Free PDF
18. A new map of permafrost distribution on the Tibetan Plateau
    Defu Zou, Lin Zhao et al. · 2017 · 925 citations · Free PDF
19. Greater role for Atlantic inflows on sea-ice loss in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean
    Igor V. Polyakov, Andrey V. Pnyushkov et al. · 2017 · 914 citations
20. Global-scale evaluation of 22 precipitation datasets using gauge observations and hydrological modeling
    Hylke E. Beck, Noemi Vergopolan et al. · 2017 · 895 citations
21. Global anthropogenic emissions of particulate matter including black carbon
    Zbigniew Klimont, Kaarle Kupiainen et al. · 2017 · 879 citations
22. Improved estimates of ocean heat content from 1960 to 2015
    Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth et al. · 2017 · 875 citations
23. Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years
    Gavin L. Foster, Dana L. Royer et al. · 2017 · 872 citations · Free PDF
24. Zircon: The Metamorphic Mineral
    Daniela Rubatto · 2017 · 810 citations
25. Seaweed production: overview of the global state of exploitation, farming and emerging research activity
    Alejandro H. Buschmann, Carolina Camus et al. · 2017 · 762 citations

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