Most-cited Earth and Planetary Sciences papers of 2019, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Earth and Planetary Sciences research papers published in 2019, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Permafrost is warming at a global scale
   Boris K. Biskaborn, Sharon L. Smith et al. · 2019 · 2,080 citations · Free PDF
2. Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017
   Eric J. Rignot, J. Mouginot et al. · 2019 · 1,652 citations
3. The CAMS reanalysis of atmospheric composition
   Antje Inness, Melanie Ades et al. · 2019 · 1,488 citations · Free PDF
4. Evidence for Superconductivity above 260 K in Lanthanum Superhydride at Megabar Pressures
   Maddury S. Somayazulu, Muhtar Ahart et al. · 2019 · 1,473 citations · Free PDF
5. Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part II: Projected Response to Anthropogenic Warming
   Thomas R. Knutson, Suzana J. Camargo et al. · 2019 · 1,352 citations
6. New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding
   Scott Kulp, Benjamin Strauss · 2019 · 1,282 citations · Free PDF
7. Northern Hemisphere permafrost map based on TTOP modelling for 2000–2016 at 1 km2 scale
   Jaroslav Obu, Sebastian Westermann et al. · 2019 · 1,229 citations
8. Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation
   Nathan S. Upham, Jacob A. Esselstyn et al. · 2019 · 1,213 citations · Free PDF
9. Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change
   Byron D. Tapley, MICHAEL M. WATKINS et al. · 2019 · 1,099 citations · Free PDF
10. Emission of trace gases and aerosols from biomass burning – an updated assessment
    Meinrat Otto Andreae · 2019 · 1,095 citations · Free PDF
11. Highly Oxygenated Organic Molecules (HOM) from Gas-Phase Autoxidation Involving Peroxy Radicals: A Key Contributor to Atmospheric Aerosol
    Federico Bianchi, Theo Kurtén et al. · 2019 · 1,087 citations
12. Severe haze in northern China: A synergy of anthropogenic emissions and atmospheric processes
    Zhisheng An, Ru‐Jin Huang et al. · 2019 · 1,018 citations
13. Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system
    Laura Slivinski, Gilbert P. Compo et al. · 2019 · 1,013 citations · Free PDF
14. Synthesis of clathrate cerium superhydride CeH9 at 80-100 GPa with atomic hydrogen sublattice
    Nilesh P. Salke, M. Mahdi Davari Esfahani et al. · 2019 · 1,007 citations · Free PDF
15. Global Bathymetry and Topography at 15 Arc Sec: SRTM15+
    Brook Tozer, David T. Sandwell et al. · 2019 · 1,007 citations
16. The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO 2 from 1994 to 2007
    Nicolas Gruber, Dominic Clement et al. · 2019 · 994 citations · Free PDF
17. Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018
    J. Mouginot, Eric J. Rignot et al. · 2019 · 983 citations · Free PDF
18. FaultSeg3D: Using synthetic data sets to train an end-to-end convolutional neural network for 3D seismic fault segmentation
    Xinming Wu, Luming Liang et al. · 2019 · 898 citations
19. The ECMWF operational ensemble reanalysis–analysis system for ocean and sea ice: a description of the system and assessment
    Hao Zuo, Magdalena Balmaseda et al. · 2019 · 885 citations · Free PDF
20. Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017
    Jason Eric Box, William Colgan et al. · 2019 · 870 citations
21. Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes
    Carsten Rahbek, Michael K. Borregaard et al. · 2019 · 822 citations
22. A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers
    Neil J. Holbrook, Hillary A. Scannell et al. · 2019 · 773 citations · Free PDF
23. Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses
    Paul Kapp, Peter G. DeCelles · 2019 · 760 citations
24. A 40-y record reveals gradual Antarctic sea ice increases followed by decreases at rates far exceeding the rates seen in the Arctic
    Claire L. Parkinson · 2019 · 729 citations
25. Regional Estimates of Chemical Composition of Fine Particulate Matter Using a Combined Geoscience-Statistical Method with Information from Satellites, Models, and Monitors
    Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin et al. · 2019 · 726 citations

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