Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Earth and Planetary Science Letters is 39. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Timescales of magma transport in the Columbia River flood basalts, determined by paleomagnetic data86
Wetted two-grain boundaries in olivine aggregates and seismic velocities in the oceanic upper mantle82
Clumped isotopes constrain thermogenic and secondary microbial methane origins in coal bed methane81
Large sulfur isotope fractionation during abiotic consumption of hydrogen sulfide after cessation of bacterial growth in batch culture experiments of sulfate reducing bacteria69
Transitions in subduction zone properties align with long-term topographic growth (Cascadia, USA)69
Pressure- and temperature-dependent anharmonicity of MgO: Implications for the thermal conductivity of planetary mantles61
Chondrites as thermal and mechanical archives of accretion processes in the Solar protoplanetary disk60
Corrigendum to “Discharge rate of explosive volcanic eruption controls runout distance of pyroclastic density currents” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 568 (2021) 117017]60
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Contrasting Cu isotopes in mid-ocean ridge basalts and lower oceanic crust: Insights into the oceanic crustal magma plumbing systems51
Zinc isotope evidence for carbonate alteration of oceanic crustal protoliths of cratonic eclogites51
Barium isotopes in stromatolites through deep-time: A novel tracer for metal cycling in the photic zone50
Earth's longest lava flows erupted from its largest igneous province: The submarine Ontong Java Plateau50
Evolutionary dynamics of redox-sensitive minerals reveal details and possible regulatory mechanisms of Earth's oxygenation events50
Residence time of inertial particles in 3D thermal convection: Implications for magma reservoirs49
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 attractor49
Unexpectedly narrower track diameter at site of fission event48
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 mantle47
Uranium-series comminution ages constrain large catchment erosion and its response to climate change: A case study from the Changjiang45
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 rocks45
Thermodynamic modelling and chronometric dating of melting and refertilization in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle45
Garnet clinopyroxenite formation via amphibole-dehydration in continental arcs: Evidence from Fe isotopes44
Sedimentary and crustal structure of the US Gulf Coast revealed by Rayleigh wave and teleseismic P coda data with implications for continent rifting44
Probing Cretaceous-Paleogene crustal thickness in southern Tibet using quartz-zircon chronobarometry43
Strong potassium uptake in surface sediments of the Changjiang River Estuary and the East China Sea: Implications for authigenic processes and the marine potassium budget43
Spatiotemporal dominance of afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation revealed by four decades of post-1973 Luhuo earthquake observations43
Miocene decoupling of surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau interior (Türkiye) and its modern mountainous margins43
New evidence for a long Rhaetian from a Panthalassan succession (Wrangell Mountains, Alaska) and regional differences in carbon cycle perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic transition43
The extraterrestrial dust accretion rate on Earth at Dome C, Antarctica: a fresh look with 3He42
The effect of salinity on water 17O/16O ratios in brines41
Seismically-derived porosity of deep-sea sediments over the last 74 Ma in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Implications for paleo-climate40
Interference of ocean and land mass changes in seasonal crustal deformation of coastal stations: A case study in northern Australia40
Insights into the environment surrounding the subduction megathrust using teleseismic P-to-S and P-to-P scattered phases40
Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals40
MgO miscibility in liquid iron40
Decadal change of the Apulia microplate motion preceding the M 6.4, 26 November 2019 Durrës (Albania) earthquake40
Rapid pre-explosion increase in dome extrusion rate at La Soufrière, St. Vincent quantified from synthetic aperture radar backscatter39
Hypocentral dependent shallow slip distribution and rupture extents along a strike-slip fault39
Accessory mineral microstructure and chronology reveals no evidence for late heavy bombardment on the asteroid 4-Vesta39
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