Most-cited Earth and Planetary Sciences papers of 2021, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Earth and Planetary Sciences research papers published in 2021, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Anomalous collapses of Nares Strait ice arches leads to enhanced export of Arctic sea ice
   G. W. K. Moore, Stephen Howell et al. · 2021 · 5,162 citations · Free PDF
2. IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols
   Laurence Noel Warr · 2021 · 1,131 citations · Free PDF
3. Skilful precipitation nowcasting using deep generative models of radar
   Suman V. Ravuri, Karel Lenc et al. · 2021 · 1,013 citations · Free PDF
4. Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Database Created by the China Meteorological Administration
   Xiaoqin Lu, Hui Yu et al. · 2021 · 768 citations · Free PDF
5. Gravitational circulation in straits and estuaries
   Donald V. Hansen, Maurice Rattray · 2021 · 701 citations
6. An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: The Seas Come In and the Seas Go Out
   Christopher R. Scotese · 2021 · 692 citations
7. The ERA5 global reanalysis: Preliminary extension to 1950
   Bill Bell, Hans Hersbach et al. · 2021 · 690 citations
8. The Copernicus Global 1/12° Oceanic and Sea Ice GLORYS12 Reanalysis
   Lellouche Jean-Michel, Greiner Eric et al. · 2021 · 674 citations · Free PDF
9. FES2014 global ocean tide atlas: design and performance
   Florent Lyard, Damien J. Allain et al. · 2021 · 670 citations · Free PDF
10. Physics-informed machine learning: case studies for weather and climate modelling
    Karthik Kashinath, Mohamed Elhafiz Mustafa et al. · 2021 · 666 citations
11. Can deep learning beat numerical weather prediction?
    Martin G. Schultz, Clara Betancourt et al. · 2021 · 569 citations
12. Abating ammonia is more cost-effective than nitrogen oxides for mitigating PM 2.5 air pollution
    Baojing Gu, Lin Zhang et al. · 2021 · 567 citations
13. Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum
    Matthew Osman, Jessica E. Tierney et al. · 2021 · 564 citations · Free PDF
14. Superconductivity up to 243 K in the yttrium-hydrogen system under high pressure
    P. P. Kong, Vasily S. Minkov et al. · 2021 · 535 citations · Free PDF
15. Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions
    Jillian C. Dunic, Christopher James Brown et al. · 2021 · 508 citations
16. Anomalous High‐Temperature Superconductivity in YH 6
    Ivan A. Troyan, Dmitrii V. Semenok et al. · 2021 · 467 citations · Free PDF
17. ATMOSPHERIC RADIOCARBON FOR THE PERIOD 1950–2019
    Quan Hua, Jocelyn Christine Turnbull et al. · 2021 · 455 citations · Free PDF
18. Reduced microbial stability in the active layer is associated with carbon loss under alpine permafrost degradation
    Minghui Wu, Shengyun Chen et al. · 2021 · 437 citations
19. Ground-based validation of the Copernicus Sentinel-5P TROPOMI NO 2 measurements with the NDACC ZSL-DOAS, MAX-DOAS and Pandonia global networks
    Tijl Verhoelst, Steven Compernolle et al. · 2021 · 435 citations · Free PDF
20. Ice Inhibition for Cryopreservation: Materials, Strategies, and Challenges
    Tie Chang, Gang Zhao · 2021 · 422 citations
21. Ozone pollution in the North China Plain spreading into the late-winter haze season
    Ke Li, Daniel J. Jacob et al. · 2021 · 417 citations
22. The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model versions 5.3 and 5.3.1: system updates and evaluation
    K. Wyat Appel, Jesse Owen Bash et al. · 2021 · 414 citations · Free PDF
23. Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks
    Umakant Mishra, Gustaf Hugelius et al. · 2021 · 391 citations · Free PDF
24. Fly ash properties, characterization, and applications: A review
    Seham Soliman Alterary, Narguess Hossameldin Marei · 2021 · 368 citations
25. High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s
    Atanu Bhattacharya, Tobias Bolch et al. · 2021 · 367 citations · Free PDF

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