Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

The Most Cited Paper Award 2025

A review on slow earthquakes in the Japan TrenchTomoaki Nishikawa, Satoshi Ide & Takuya Nishimura

Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite 2 (GOSAT-2): mission overview
Ryoichi Imasu, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Masakatsu Nakajima, Yukio Yoshida, Kei Shiomi, Isamu Morino, Naoko Saitoh, Yosuke Niwa, Yu Someya, Yu Oishi, Makiko Hashimoto, Hibiki Noda, Kouki Hikosaka, Osamu Uchino, Shamil Maksyutov, Hiroshi Takagi, Haruma Ishida, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Teruyuki Nakajima & Chong Shi

The Most Downloaded Paper Award 2025

Ambient noise multimode surface wave tomography
Kiwamu Nishida, Ryota Takagi & Akiko Takeo

Si- versus Mg-metasomatism at the crust–mantle interface: insights from experiments, natural observations and geochemical modeling
Atsushi Okamoto & Ryosuke Oyanagi

Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite 2 (GOSAT-2): mission overview
Ryoichi Imasu, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Masakatsu Nakajima, Yukio Yoshida, Kei Shiomi, Isamu Morino, Naoko Saitoh, Yosuke Niwa, Yu Someya, Yu Oishi, Makiko Hashimoto, Hibiki Noda, Kouki Hikosaka, Osamu Uchino, Shamil Maksyutov, Hiroshi Takagi, Haruma Ishida, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Teruyuki Nakajima & Chong Shi

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Neuer InhaltPEPS promotes Review Articles which may serve as useful contents of summaries of the newest developments in the wide fields of Earth and Planetary Science.

We have released the 4th edition of a collection of abstracts of the published PEPS Review Articles.

We hope you will walk through this collection and find useful for your research interest.

Impact Factor 2022

We are pleased to announce that PEPS has now received new Impact Factor (IF2022) of 3.9(3.934) -up from last year's 3.875- and 5year Impact Factor of 4.1(up from last year's 3.841). In addition, CiteScore has increased from 6.4 to 7.0. Together with other metrics, such as the number of downloads, this achievement shows the community appreciation towards the journal. We would like to thank everyone for contributing to this progress and for supporting us in our mission to play a major role for the future of geosciences. Also, we welcome your paper submission that contribute to the advancement of Earth and planetary science.

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (PEPS), a peer-reviewed open access e-journal, was launched by the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) in 2014. This international journal is devoted to high-quality original articles, reviews and papers with full data attached in the research fields of space and planetary sciences, atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences, human geosciences, solid earth sciences, and biogeosciences. PEPS promotes excellent review articles and welcomes articles with electronic attachments including videos, animations, and large original data files. PEPS also encourages papers with full data attached: papers with full data attached are scientific articles that preserve the full detailed raw research data and metadata which were gathered in their preparation and make these data freely available to the research community for further analysis.

Call for papers

Predictability of the Variable Solar-Terrestrial Coupling – PRESTO: Five-Year Overview
Starting: 1 October 2025
Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026

Carbonates: their precipitation, sedimentation, reef/platform formation, and diagenesis
Starting: 20 September 2025
Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026

Integrated Biospheric Science for Managing Global Climate
Starting: 1 August 2025
Submission Deadline: 31 March 2026

Research contributing to the estimation of the area of the so-called "Black Rain" caused by the atomic bombs
Starting: 15 November 2024
Submission deadline: 31 December 2025

Biogeochemical Studies on Atmosphere, Ocean, and their Interaction in the western North Pacific region

Past variability of Asian monsoon and its influence on surrounding regions on various timescales

Water-carbon cycles and terrestrial changes in the Arctic and subarctic regions

Geophysical Properties and Transport Processes in the Deep Crust and Mantle

10 years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake: A milestone of solid earth science

Thermal, dynamical, and chemical processes in our early Solar System

Quaternary and Future Earth: Harmonious Coexistence of Climate and Humans

Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact – VarSITI – 5-year summary review

Stratigraphy and paleoclimatic/paleoenviromental evolution across the Early–Middle Pleistocene* transition in the Chiba composite section, Japan, and other reference sections in East Asia

Projection and impact assessment of global change

Conservation of geoheritage and cultural heritage; properties, weathering processes, damage assessment and non-destructive evaluation

Subduction-zone megathrust earthquakes: New perspectives from insitu data & laboratory analyses

Ionospheric Plasma Bubble Seeding and Development

Evolution and variability of Asian Monsoon and its linkage with Cenozoic global cooling

Asian monsoon hydroclimate

High-definition topographic and geophysical data in geosciences

High-Pressure Earth and Planetary Science in the last and next decade

Land-Ocean Linkages under the Influence of the Asian Monsoon

Multidisciplinary Researches on Deep Interiors of the Earth and Planets

Understanding of the Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES II) - SCOSTEP’s International Program (2009 – 2013)