North America: Top Cited Paper Award
Congratulations to the 2025 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 2022 to 2024.
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Astrophysics and Astronomy
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Dan Scolnic et al. |
| CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS | Steven L. Finkelstein et al. |
| A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS | Rebecca L.Larson et al. |
| Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES | Adam S. Jermyn, Evan B. Bauer, Josiah Schwab, R. Farmer, Warrick H. Ball, Earl P. Bellinger, Aaron Dotter, Meridith Joyce, Pablo Marchant, Joey S. G. Mombarg, William M. Wolf, Tin Long Sunny Wong, Giulia C. Cinquegrana, Eoin Farrell, R. Smolec, Anne Thoul, Matteo Cantiello, Falk Herwig, Odette Toloza, Lars Bildsten, Richard H. D. Townsend, and F. X. Timmes |
| The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning | PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC | Jane Rigby et al. |
| Performance of NIRCam on JWST in Flight | PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC | Marcia J. Rieke et al. |
Biomedical science
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Dynamic hyaluronic acid hydrogel with covalent linked gelatin as an anti-oxidative bioink for cartilage tissue engineering | BIOFABRICATION | Wen Shi, Fang Fang, Yunfan Kong, Sydney E Greer, Mitchell Kuss, Bo Liu, Wen Xue, Xiping Jiang, Paul Lovell, Aaron M Mohs, Andrew T Dudley, Tieshi Li and Bin Duan |
| CTformer: convolution-free Token2Token dilated vision transformer for low-dose CT denoising | PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY | Dayang Wang, Fenglei Fan, Zhan Wu, Rui Liu, Fei Wang and Hengyong Yu |
Environmental Science and Sustainability
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Siberian taiga and tundra fire regimes from 2001-2020 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS | Anna C Talucci, Michael M Loranty and Heather D Alexander |
Materials Science
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| Experimental and numerical investigations on hysteretic response of a multi-level SMA/lead rubber bearing seismic isolation system | SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES | Sasa Cao, Osman E Ozbulut, Fei Shi and Jiangdong Deng |
Physics
| Article Title | Journal | Author List |
| The statistical mechanics of near-BPS black holes | JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL | Matthew Heydeman, Luca V Iliesiu, Gustavo J Turiaci and Wenli Zhao |
| Overview of the SPARC physics basis towards the exploration of burning-plasma regimes in high-field, compact tokamaks | NUCLEAR FUSION | P. Rodriguez-Fernandez et al. |
