Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Earth and Planetary Science Letters is 40. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Timescales of magma transport in the Columbia River flood basalts, determined by paleomagnetic data115
Wetted two-grain boundaries in olivine aggregates and seismic velocities in the oceanic upper mantle86
Clumped isotopes constrain thermogenic and secondary microbial methane origins in coal bed methane82
Transitions in subduction zone properties align with long-term topographic growth (Cascadia, USA)80
Long-term observation of electrical discharges during persistent Vulcanian activity68
Large sulfur isotope fractionation during abiotic consumption of hydrogen sulfide after cessation of bacterial growth in batch culture experiments of sulfate reducing bacteria67
Pressure- and temperature-dependent anharmonicity of MgO: Implications for the thermal conductivity of planetary mantles59
Corrigendum to “Discharge rate of explosive volcanic eruption controls runout distance of pyroclastic density currents” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 568 (2021) 117017]58
Chondrites as thermal and mechanical archives of accretion processes in the Solar protoplanetary disk57
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The effect of salinity on water 17O/16O ratios in brines53
Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals52
Hypocentral dependent shallow slip distribution and rupture extents along a strike-slip fault51
Garnet clinopyroxenite formation via amphibole-dehydration in continental arcs: Evidence from Fe isotopes49
Evolutionary dynamics of redox-sensitive minerals reveal details and possible regulatory mechanisms of Earth's oxygenation events49
Rapid pre-explosion increase in dome extrusion rate at La Soufrière, St. Vincent quantified from synthetic aperture radar backscatter48
Barium isotopes in stromatolites through deep-time: A novel tracer for metal cycling in the photic zone48
Changes in elastic wave velocity during brittle deformation of gabbro and peridotite: Implications for oceanic Moho reflectivity47
Strong potassium uptake in surface sediments of the Changjiang River Estuary and the East China Sea: Implications for authigenic processes and the marine potassium budget47
Seismically-derived porosity of deep-sea sediments over the last 74 Ma in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Implications for paleo-climate47
Zinc isotope evidence for carbonate alteration of oceanic crustal protoliths of cratonic eclogites47
High-resolution seismic imaging of the plate boundary in northern Baja California and southern California using double-pair double-difference tomography45
Contrasting Cu isotopes in mid-ocean ridge basalts and lower oceanic crust: Insights into the oceanic crustal magma plumbing systems45
New evidence for a long Rhaetian from a Panthalassan succession (Wrangell Mountains, Alaska) and regional differences in carbon cycle perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic transition44
Residence time of inertial particles in 3D thermal convection: Implications for magma reservoirs44
Reconstruction of the Virtual Geomagnetic Pole (VGP) path at high latitude for the last 22 kyr: The role of radial field flux patches as VGP attractor44
Unexpectedly narrower track diameter at site of fission event43
Strong effect of liquid Fe–S on elastic wave velocity of olivine aggregate: Implication for the low velocity anomaly at the base of the lunar mantle43
Effect of the liquid-vacuum transition on the relative abundances of amino and fatty acids sought as biosignatures on icy ocean worlds42
Uranium-series comminution ages constrain large catchment erosion and its response to climate change: A case study from the Changjiang42
Cadmium isotopic evidence for reduced deep-water marine primary productivity during the end-Permian mass extinction42
Earth's longest lava flows erupted from its largest igneous province: The submarine Ontong Java Plateau41
Thermodynamic modelling and chronometric dating of melting and refertilization in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle41
Formation of the massive bedded chert and coupled Silicon and Iron cycles during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition41
Along-strike variations in the fossil subduction zone of the Western Alps revealed by the CIFALPS seismic experiments and their implications for exhumation of (ultra-) high-pressure rocks41
Sedimentary and crustal structure of the US Gulf Coast revealed by Rayleigh wave and teleseismic P coda data with implications for continent rifting41
Probing Cretaceous-Paleogene crustal thickness in southern Tibet using quartz-zircon chronobarometry40
Miocene decoupling of surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau interior (Türkiye) and its modern mountainous margins40
The extraterrestrial dust accretion rate on Earth at Dome C, Antarctica: a fresh look with 3He40
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