Most-cited Earth and Planetary Sciences papers of 2024, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Earth and Planetary Sciences research papers published in 2024, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things)
   Liam J. Revell · 2024 · 1,046 citations · Free PDF
2. Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally
   Scott Jasechko, Hansjörg Seybold et al. · 2024 · 708 citations · Free PDF
3. Formation and growth of fresh atmospheric aerosols: eight years of aerosol size distribution data from SMEAR II, Hyytiälä, Finland
   Miikka Dal Maso, Markku Kulmala et al. · 2024 · 671 citations
4. The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle
   Xingxing Kuang, Junguo Liu et al. · 2024 · 523 citations
5. Neural general circulation models for weather and climate
   Dmitrii Kochkov, Janni Yuval et al. · 2024 · 442 citations · Free PDF
6. Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning
   Ilan Price, Álvaro Sánchez‐González et al. · 2024 · 407 citations · Free PDF
7. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: A Breakthrough in Radar Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Land Surface Water
   Lee‐Lueng Fu, Tamlin M. Pavelsky et al. · 2024 · 357 citations · Free PDF
8. The ERA5 global reanalysis from 1940 to 2022
   Cornel Soci, Hans Hersbach et al. · 2024 · 335 citations
9. Implementation of the lake parameterisation scheme FLake into the numerical weather prediction model COSMO
   Dmitrii Mironov, Erdmann Heise et al. · 2024 · 261 citations
10. A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature
    Emily J. Judd, Jessica E. Tierney et al. · 2024 · 244 citations
11. Lithium: A review of applications, occurrence, exploration, extraction, recycling, analysis, and environmental impact
    Vysetti Balaram, M. Santosh et al. · 2024 · 229 citations
12. Accelerating growth of human coastal populations at the global and continent levels: 2000–2018
    Arthur G. Cosby, Viswadeep Lebakula et al. · 2024 · 222 citations · Free PDF
13. WeatherBench 2: A Benchmark for the Next Generation of Data‐Driven Global Weather Models
    Stephan Rasp, Stephan Hoyer et al. · 2024 · 217 citations · Free PDF
14. The Rise of Data-Driven Weather Forecasting: A First Statistical Assessment of Machine Learning–Based Weather Forecasts in an Operational-Like Context
    Zied Ben Bouallègue, Mariana Clare et al. · 2024 · 212 citations · Free PDF
15. 300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C
    Malcolm T. McCulloch, Amos Winter et al. · 2024 · 198 citations · Free PDF
16. Evaluation of an automatic algorithm for fitting the particle number size distributions
    Tareq Hussein, Miikka Dal Maso et al. · 2024 · 184 citations
17. Supershear triggering and cascading fault ruptures of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, earthquake doublet
    Chunmei Ren, Zexin Wang et al. · 2024 · 180 citations
18. Rain observations with a vertically looking Micro Rain Radar (MRR)
    Gerhard Peters, Bernd Michael Fischer et al. · 2024 · 179 citations
19. Widespread societal and ecological impacts from projected Tibetan Plateau lake expansion
    Fenglin Xu, Guoqing Zhang et al. · 2024 · 162 citations
20. Temperature-dependent emissions dominate aerosol and ozone formation in Los Angeles
    Eva Y. Pfannerstill, Caleb Arata et al. · 2024 · 160 citations
21. Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss
    Alexander R. Gottlieb, Justin Mankin · 2024 · 159 citations
22. Feasible Route to High-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Hydride Superconductivity
    Kapildeb Dolui, Lewis J. Conway et al. · 2024 · 154 citations · Free PDF
23. Rice’s trajectory from wild to domesticated in East Asia
    Jianping Zhang, Leping Jiang et al. · 2024 · 153 citations
24. Digitalizing cultural heritage through metaverse applications: challenges, opportunities, and strategies
    Dipima Buragohain, Yahui Meng et al. · 2024 · 152 citations
25. The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades
    Benjamin Dillon Hamlington, Ashley Bellas-Manley et al. · 2024 · 152 citations · Free PDF

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