North America: Top Cited Paper Award

Congratulations to the 2024 Top Cited Paper Award winners from North America. These awards are presented to papers in the top one per cent of the most-cited articles recently published in our journals* with corresponding authors based in North America.

We congratulate all the authors on this outstanding achievement!

You can find the full list of top cited papers for each subject category below.

*We use data from Web of Science to identify the top cited papers during the period of 2021 to 2023.

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Astronomy and Astrophysics

Article Title	Journal	Author list
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS	Gabriella Agazie et al
The Pantheon plus Analysis: Cosmological Constraints	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL	Dillon Brout et al
Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z & AP; 10-12 Revealed by JWST	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS	Rohan P. Naidu et al
2021 Census of Interstellar, Circumstellar, Extragalactic, Protoplanetary Disk, and Exoplanetary Molecules	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES	Brett A. McGuire
PSR J0952-0607: The Fastest and Heaviest Known Galactic Neutron Star	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS	Roger W. Romani, D. Kandel, Alexei V. Filippenko, Thomas G. Brink, and WeiKang Zheng
The JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides DE440 and DE441	ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL	Ryan S. Park, William M. Folkner, James G. Williams, and Dale H. Boggs
The Hipparcos-Gaia Catalog of Accelerations: Gaia EDR3 Edition	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES	Timothy D. Brandt
The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES	The CHIME/FRB Collaboration et al
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ~ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS	Steven L. Finkelstein et al
CASA, Common Astronomy Software Applications for Radio Astronomy	PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC	The CASA Team et al

Biosciences

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Roadmap: proton therapy physics and biology	PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY	Harald Paganetti et al
Full field-of-view, high-resolution, photon-counting detector CT: technical assessment and initial patient experience	PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY	Kishore Rajendran et al
Super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy based on a high frame-rate clinical ultrasound scanner: an in-human feasibility study	PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY	Chengwu Huang et al
Tunabot Flex: a tuna-inspired robot with body flexibility improves high-performance swimming	BIOINSPIRATION & BIOMIMETICS	Carl H White, George V Lauder and Hilary Bart-Smith
EEG-inception: an accurate and robust end-to-end neural network for EEG-based motor imagery classification	JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING	Ce Zhang, Young-Keun Kim and Azim Eskandarian
Biofabrication of endothelial cell, dermal fibroblast, and multilayered keratinocyte layers for skin tissue engineering	BIOFABRICATION	Natan R Barros et al
The Argo: a high channel count recording system for neural recording in vivo	JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING	Kunal Sahasrabuddhe et al
A novel tumor-immune microenvironment (TIME)-on-Chip mimics three dimensional neutrophil-tumor dynamics and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)-mediated collective tumor invasion	BIOFABRICATION	Vikram Surendran, Dylan Rutledge, Ramair Colmon and Arvind Chandrasekaran
Multi-material digital light processing bioprinting of hydrogel-based microfluidic chips	BIOFABRICATION	Anant Bhusal, Elvan Dogan, Hai-Anh Nguyen, Olga Labutina, Daniel Nieto, Ali Khademhosseini and Amir K Miri
Fabrication of MSC-laden composites of hyaluronic acid hydrogels reinforced with MEW scaffolds for cartilage repair	BIOFABRICATION	Jonathan H Galarraga et al

Energy Materials

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Perspective-Structure and Stability of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase on Silicon Anodes of Lithium-ion Batteries	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	Jongjung Kim, Oh B. Chae and Brett L. Lucht
Challenging Practices of Algebraic Battery Life Models through Statistical Validation and Model Identification via Machine-Learning	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	Paul Gasper, Kevin Gering, Eric Dufek and Kandler Smith
Impact of Catalyst Ink Dispersing Solvent on PEM Fuel Cell Performance and Durability	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	Chao Lei et al
Ionomer Optimization for Water Uptake and Swelling in Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyzer: Hydrogen Evolution Electrode	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	Garrett Huang, Mrinmay Mandal, Noor Ul Hassan, Katelyn Groenhout, Alexandra Dobbs, William E. Mustain and Paul A. Kohl
High-Current Density Durability of Pt/C and PtCo/C Catalysts at Similar Particle Sizes in PEMFCs	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	Nagappan Ramaswamy, Swami Kumaraguru, Wenbin Gu, Ratandeep Singh Kukreja, Kang Yu, Daniel Groom and Paulo Ferreira
Transport Phenomena in Low Temperature Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	Alexandra J. Ringsby, Kara D. Fong, Julian Self, Helen K. Bergstrom, Bryan D. McCloskey and Kristin A. Persson
Perspective-Electrolyte Design for Aqueous Batteries: From Ultra-High Concentration to Low Concentration?	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	Jijian Xu and Chunsheng Wang
Performance of Commercial Li-Ion Cells for Future NASA Missions and Aerospace Applications	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	F. C. Krause, J. P. Ruiz, S. C. Jones, E. J. Brandon, E. C. Darcy, C. J. Iannello and R. V. Bugga
Graded multifunctional piezoelectric metastructures for wideband vibration attenuation and energy harvestin g	SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES	M Alshaqaq and A Erturk
Kirigami auxetic structure for high efficiency power harvesting in self-powered and wireless structural health monitoring systems	SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES	Saman Farhangdoust, Gary Georgeson, Jeong-Beom Ihn and Fu-Kuo Chang

Environmental Sciences

Article Title	Journal	Author List
How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	James Doss-Gollin, David J Farnham, Upmanu Lall and Vijay Modi
IPCC baseline scenarios have over-projected CO₂ emissions and economic growth	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Matthew G Burgess, Justin Ritchie, John Shapland and Roger Pielke Jr
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Mark Lynas, Benjamin Z Houlton and Simon Perry
Plausible 2005-2050 emissions scenarios project between 2°C and 3°C of warming by 2100	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Roger Pielke Jr, Matthew G Burgess and Justin Ritchie
Assessing the sequestration time scales of some ocean-based carbon dioxide reduction strategies	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	D A Siegel, T DeVries, S C Doney and T Bell
Exploring the exceptional performance of a deep learning stream temperature model and the value of streamflow data	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Farshid Rahmani, Kathryn Lawson, Wenyu Ouyang, Alison Appling, Samantha Oliver and Chaopeng Shen
GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Ralph Dubayah et al
Pervasive changes in stream intermittency across the United States	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Samuel C Zipper et al
Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Heather Kropp et al
Reduction in human activity can enhance the urban heat island: insights from the COVID-19 lockdown	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	TC Chakraborty, Chandan Sarangi and Xuhui Lee

Machine Learning

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Roadmap on Machine learning in electronic structure	ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE	H J Kulik et al

Materials

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Elucidating the Role of Hydroxide Electrolyte on Anion-Exchange-Membrane Water Electrolyzer Performance	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	Jiangjin Liu, Zhenye Kang, Dongguo Li, Magnolia Pak, Shaun M. Alia, Cy Fujimoto, Guido Bender, Yu Seung Kim and Adam Z. Weber
4.4 kV β-Ga₂O₃ MESFETs with power figure of merit exceeding 100 MW cm^-2	APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS	Arkka Bhattacharyya, Shivam Sharma, Fikadu Alema, Praneeth Ranga, Saurav Roy, Carl Peterson, Geroge Seryogin, Andrei Osinsky, Uttam Singisetti and Sriram Krishnamoorthy
Growth and characterization of metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy-grown beta-(Al_xGa_1-x)₂O₃/β-Ga₂O₃ heterostructure channels	APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS	Praneeth Ranga, Arkka Bhattacharyya, Adrian Chmielewski, Saurav Roy, Rujun Sun, Michael A. Scarpulla, Nasim Alem and Sriram Krishnamoorthy
130 mA mm^-1 β-Ga₂O₃ metal semiconductor field effect transistor with low-temperature metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy-regrown ohmic contacts	APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS	Arkka Bhattacharyya, Saurav Roy, Praneeth Ranga, Daniel Shoemaker, Yiwen Song, James Spencer Lundh, Sukwon Choi and Sriram Krishnamoorthy
Fiber optic quench detection for large-scale HTS magnets demonstrated on VIPER cable during high-fidelity testing at the SULTAN facility	SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY	Erica E Salazar et al
RF acoustic microsystems based on suspended lithium niobate thin films: advances and outlook	JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING	Ruochen Lu and Songbin Gong
Next generation electronics on the ultrawide-bandgap aluminum nitride platform	SEMICONDUCTOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	Austin Lee Hickman, Reet Chaudhuri, Samuel James Bader, Kazuki Nomoto, Lei Li, James C M Hwang, Huili Grace Xing and Debdeep Jena
Screening current rotation effects: SCIF and strain in REBCO magnets	SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY	D Kolb-Bond, M Bird, I R Dixon, T Painter, J Lu, K L Kim, K M Kim, R Walsh and F Grilli
Advances in Nb₃Sn superconducting radiofrequency cavities towards first practical accelerator applications	SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY	S Posen, J Lee, D N Seidman, A Romanenko, B Tennis, O S Melnychuk and D A Sergatskov
Computer simulation of microstructure development in powder-bed additive manufacturing with crystallographic texture	MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING	J G Pauza, W A Tayon and A D Rollett

Mathematical Science

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Algorithms for solving high dimensional PDEs: from nonlinear Monte Carlo to machine learning	NONLINEARITY	Weinan E, Jiequn Han and Arnulf Jentzen
Deep double descent: where bigger models and more data hurt*	JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT	Preetum Nakkiran, Gal Kaplun, Yamini Bansal, Tristan Yang, Boaz Barak and Ilya Sutskever

Nanosciences

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Strain engineering 2D MoS₂ with thin film stress capping layers	2D MATERIALS	Tara Peña, Shoieb A Chowdhury, Ahmad Azizimanesh, Arfan Sewaket, Hesam Askari and Stephen M Wu
Magnetism and spin dynamics in room-temperature van der Waals magnet Fe₅GeTe₂	2D MATERIALS	Laith Alahmed et al
Reduced thermal conductivity of supported and encased monolayer and bilayer MoS₂	2D MATERIALS	Alexander J Gabourie, Saurabh V Suryavanshi, Amir Barati Farimani and Eric Pop
Near-infrared emitting graphene quantum dots synthesized from reduced graphene oxide for in vitro/in vivo/ex vivo bioimaging applications	2D MATERIALS	Md Tanvir Hasan, Bong Han Lee, Ching-Wei Lin, Ainsley McDonald-Boyer, Roberto Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Satvik Vasireddy, Uyanga Tsedev, Jeffery Coffer, Angela M Belcher and Anton V Naumov

Physics

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Local, expressive, quantum-number-preserving VQE ansätze for fermionic systems	NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS	Gian-Luca R Anselmetti, David Wierichs, Christian Gogolin and Robert M Parrish
Superdiffusion in spin chains	JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT	Vir B Bulchandani, Sarang Gopalakrishnan and Enej Ilievski
The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO): a white paper	JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION	The PUEO collaboration et al
The 2022 Plasma Roadmap: low temperature plasma science and technology	JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS	I Adamovich et al
Distance measures in gravitational-wave astrophysics and cosmology	CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY	Hsin-Yu Chen, Daniel E Holz, John Miller, Matthew Evans, Salvatore Vitale and Jolien Creighton
Improved band gaps and structural properties from Wannier-Fermi-Löwdin self-interaction corrections for periodic systems	JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER	Ravindra Shinde, Sharma S R K C Yamijala and Bryan M Wong
Revealing the structure of light pseudoscalar mesons at the electron-ion collider	JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS	J Arrington et al
The pr esent and future status of heavy neutral leptons	JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS	Asli M Abdullahi et al
The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC	JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS	Jonathan L Feng et al
Detection of impact on aircraft composite structure using machine learning techniques	MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	Li Ai, Vafa Soltangharaei, Mahmoud Bayat, Michel Van Tooren and Paul Ziehl

Quantum

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Large gradients via correlation in random parameterized quantum circuits	QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	Tyler Volkoff and Patrick J Coles
Searching for new physics using optically levitated sensors	QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	David C Moore and Andrew A Geraci
Qubit coupled cluster singles and doubles variational quantum eigensolver ansatz for electronic structure calculations	QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	Rongxin Xia and Sabre Kais
Achieving a quantum smart workforce	QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	Clarice D Aiello et al

Reviews

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Review-“Knees” in Lithium-Ion Battery Aging Trajectories	JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY	Peter M. Attia et al
Quantum many-body scars and Hilbert space fragmentation: a review of exact results	REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS	Sanjay Moudgalya, B Andrei Bernevig and Nicolas Regnault
A review of direct air capture (DAC): scaling up commercial technologies and innovating for the future	PROGRESS IN ENERGY	Noah McQueen, Katherine Vaz Gomes, Colin McCormick, Katherine Blumanthal, Maxwell Pisciotta and Jennifer Wilcox

Sustainability

Article Title	Journal	Author List
Heat stress on agricultural workers exacerbates crop impacts of climate change	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Cicero Z de Lima, Jonathan R Buzan, Frances C Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Matthew Huber and Thomas W Hertel
Machine learning improves predictions of agricultural nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions from intensively managed cropping systems	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Debasish Saha, Bruno Basso and G Philip Robertson
The environmental footprint of data centers in the United States	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Md Abu Bakar Siddik, Arman Shehabi and Landon Marston
Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Daniel A Kane, Mark A Bradford, Emma Fuller, Emily E Oldfield and Stephen A Wood
Existing fossil fuel extraction would warm the world beyond 1.5 °C	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS	Kelly Trout, Greg Muttitt, Dimitri Lafleur, Thijs Van de Graaf, Roman Mendelevitch, Lan Mei and Malte Meinshausen