Scientific Reports

Collection 10 March 2022

Top 100 in Earth Science

This collection highlights our most downloaded* Earth science papers published in 2021. Featuring authors from around the world, these papers showcase valuable research from an international community.

*Data obtained from SN Inights, which is based on Digital Science's Dimensions.

1-25

Alarming coastal vulnerability of the deltaic and sandy beaches of North Africa
- Abderraouf Hzami
- Essam Heggy
- Saâdi Abdeljaouad
ArticleOpen Access27 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
Anthropogenic drought dominates groundwater depletion in Iran
- Samaneh Ashraf
- Ali Nazemi
- Amir AghaKouchak
ArticleOpen Access28 Apr 2021 Scientific Reports
Detection of volcanic unrest onset in La Palma, Canary Islands, evolution and implications
- José Fernández
- Joaquín Escayo
- Eumenio Ancochea
ArticleOpen Access28 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
Earliest evidence of herd-living and age segregation amongst dinosaurs
- Diego Pol
- Adriana C. Mancuso
- Vincent Fernandez
ArticleOpen Access21 Oct 2021 Scientific Reports
Gradual onset of the Maunder Minimum revealed by high-precision carbon-14 analyses
- Hiroko Miyahara
- Fuyuki Tokanai
- Hideyuki Hotta
ArticleOpen Access9 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae
- Chris T. Barker
- David W. E. Hone
- Neil J. Gostling
ArticleOpen Access29 Sep 2021 Scientific Reports
Organic matter and water from asteroid Itokawa
- Q. H. S. Chan
- A. Stephant
- M. M. Grady
ArticleOpen Access4 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
The 20-million-year old lair of an ambush-predatory worm preserved in northeast Taiwan
- Yu-Yen Pan
- Masakazu Nara
- Shahin E. Dashtgard
ArticleOpen Access21 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
Age constraints for the Trachilos footprints from Crete
- Uwe Kirscher
- Haytham El Atfy
- Madelaine Böhme
ArticleOpen Access11 Oct 2021 Scientific Reports
An Italian dinosaur Lagerstätte reveals the tempo and mode of hadrosauriform body size evolution
- Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza
- Matteo Fabbri
- Federico Fanti
ArticleOpen Access2 Dec 2021 Scientific Reports
The first dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna, China
- Xiaolin Wang
- Kamila L. N. Bandeira
- Alexander W. A. Kellner
ArticleOpen Access12 Aug 2021 Scientific Reports
Accelerated mass loss of Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age
- Ethan Lee
- Jonathan L. Carrivick
- Lee E. Brown
ArticleOpen Access20 Dec 2021 Scientific Reports
A fast-growing basal troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the latest Cretaceous of Europe
- Albert G. Sellés
- Bernat Vila
- Àngel Galobart
ArticleOpen Access1 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
A new ankylosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia and implications for paleoecology of armoured dinosaurs
- Jin-Young Park
- Yuong-Nam Lee
- Michael J. Polcyn
ArticleOpen Access25 Nov 2021 Scientific Reports
The effects of climate change on the Pleistocene rock art of Sulawesi
- J. Huntley
- M. Aubert
- A. Brumm
ArticleOpen Access13 May 2021 Scientific Reports
Novel and disappearing climates in the global surface ocean from 1800 to 2100
- Katie E. Lotterhos
- Áki J. Láruson
- Li-Qing Jiang
ArticleOpen Access26 Aug 2021 Scientific Reports
Regions of intensification of extreme snowfall under future warming
- Lennart Quante
- Sven N. Willner
- Anders Levermann
ArticleOpen Access17 Aug 2021 Scientific Reports
Global exposure to flooding from the new CMIP6 climate model projections
- Yukiko Hirabayashi
- Masahiro Tanoue
- Dai Yamazaki
ArticleOpen Access12 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
Fast-running theropods tracks from the Early Cretaceous of La Rioja, Spain
- Pablo Navarro-Lorbés
- Javier Ruiz
- Angélica Torices
ArticleOpen Access9 Dec 2021 Scientific Reports
Honing in on bioluminescent milky seas from space
- Steven D. Miller
- Steven H. D. Haddock
- SungHyun Nam
ArticleOpen Access29 Jul 2021 Scientific Reports
First high resolution chronostratigraphy for the early North African Acheulean at Casablanca (Morocco)
- Rosalia Gallotti
- Giovanni Muttoni
- Jean-Paul Raynal
ArticleOpen Access28 Jul 2021 Scientific Reports
New cladotherian mammal from southern Chile and the evolution of mesungulatid meridiolestidans at the dusk of the Mesozoic era
- Agustín G. Martinelli
- Sergio Soto-Acuña
- Alexander O. Vargas
ArticleOpen Access7 Apr 2021 Scientific Reports
New transitional fossil from late Jurassic of Chile sheds light on the origin of modern crocodiles
- Fernando E. Novas
- Federico L. Agnolin
- Marcelo P. Isasi
ArticleOpen Access22 Jul 2021 Scientific Reports
A decade-long silent ground subsidence hazard culminating in a metropolitan disaster in Maceió, Brazil
- Magdalena Vassileva
- Djamil Al-Halbouni
- Hans-Ulrich Wetzel
ArticleOpen Access8 Apr 2021 Scientific Reports
Application of hyperspectral remote sensing for supplementary investigation of polymetallic deposits in Huaniushan ore region, northwestern China
- Yu-qing Wan
- Yu-hai Fan
- Mou-shun Jin
ArticleOpen Access11 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports

26-50

The formation of araneiforms by carbon dioxide venting and vigorous sublimation dynamics under martian atmospheric pressure
- Lauren Mc Keown
- J. N. McElwaine
- M. R. Patel
ArticleOpen Access19 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
First record of a tomistomine crocodylian from Australia
- Jorgo Ristevski
- Gilbert J. Price
- Steven W. Salisbury
ArticleOpen Access9 Jun 2021 Scientific Reports
Spatiotemporal drought analysis by the standardized precipitation index (SPI) and standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) in Sichuan Province, China
- Changhong Liu
- Cuiping Yang
- Jiao Wang
ArticleOpen Access14 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
Greece and Turkey Shaken by African tectonic retreat
- Jiannan Meng
- Ozan Sinoplu
- Lu Wang
ArticleOpen Access22 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Earliest evidence of marine habitat use by mammals
- Anton F.-J. Wroblewski
- Bonnie E. Gulas-Wroblewski
ArticleOpen Access13 May 2021 Scientific Reports
Hazardous base surges of Taal’s 2020 eruption
- A. M. F. Lagmay
- M. I. R. Balangue-Tarriela
- N. Rosell II
ArticleOpen Access3 Aug 2021 Scientific Reports
The Souss lagerstätte of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco: discovery of the first Cambrian fossil lagerstätte from Africa
- Gerd Geyer
- Ed Landing
ArticleOpen Access4 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
Thermal evolution of Andean iron oxide–apatite (IOA) deposits as revealed by magnetite thermometry
- Gisella Palma
- Martin Reich
- Adam C. Simon
ArticleOpen Access16 Sep 2021 Scientific Reports
Multiple climate change-driven tipping points for coastal systems
- Patrick L. Barnard
- Jenifer E. Dugan
- Sam F. Iacobellis
ArticleOpen Access30 Jul 2021 Scientific Reports
Tracking the recent dynamics of Mt. Vesuvius from joint investigations of ground deformation, seismicity and geofluid circulation
- Ciro Ricco
- Simona Petrosino
- Paolo Madonia
ArticleOpen Access13 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
East Antarctica magnetically linked to its ancient neighbours in Gondwana
- Jörg Ebbing
- Yixiati Dilixiati
- Stephanie Scheiber-Enslin
ArticleOpen Access9 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Exceptional fossil assemblages confirm the existence of complex Early Triassic ecosystems during the early Spathian
- Christopher P. A. Smith
- Thomas Laville
- Arnaud Brayard
ArticleOpen Access4 Oct 2021 Scientific Reports
Long-term ocean acidification trends in coastal waters around Japan
- Hiroshi Ishida
- Ryosuke S. Isono
- Yutaka W. Watanabe
ArticleOpen Access3 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Increases in Great Lake winds and extreme events facilitate interbasin coupling and reduce water quality in Lake Erie
- Aidin Jabbari
- Josef D. Ackerman
- Yingming Zhao
ArticleOpen Access11 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Oceanic and super-deep continental diamonds share a transition zone origin and mantle plume transportation
- Luc S. Doucet
- Zheng-Xiang Li
- Hamed Gamal El Dien
ArticleOpen Access20 Aug 2021 Scientific Reports
Warming events projected to become more frequent and last longer across Antarctica
- Sarah Feron
- Raúl R. Cordero
- Pedro Llanillo
ArticleOpen Access1 Oct 2021 Scientific Reports
Increase in occurrence of large glacier-related landslides in the high mountains of Asia
- Jia Liu
- Yuming Wu
- Xing Gao
ArticleOpen Access15 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
Volcanic activity sparks the Arctic Oscillation
- Weizheng Qu
- Fei Huang
- Yong Cao
ArticleOpen Access4 Aug 2021 Scientific Reports
Enigmatic tracks of solitary sauropods roaming an extensive lacustrine megatracksite in Iberia
- Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor
- I. Díaz-Martínez
- D. Castanera
ArticleOpen Access20 Aug 2021 Scientific Reports
Predicting regional coastal sea level changes with machine learning
- Veronica Nieves
- Cristina Radin
- Gustau Camps-Valls
ArticleOpen Access7 Apr 2021 Scientific Reports
An early Devonian flora from the Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group) of South Africa
- Robert W. Gess
- Cyrille Prestianni
ArticleOpen Access4 Jun 2021 Scientific Reports
Magnitude of the 8.2 ka event freshwater forcing based on stable isotope modelling and comparison to future Greenland melting
- Wilton Aguiar
- Katrin J. Meissner
- Mauricio M. Mata
ArticleOpen Access9 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
High mercury accumulation in deep-ocean hadal sediments
- Hamed Sanei
- Peter M. Outridge
- Ronnie N. Glud
ArticleOpen Access26 May 2021 Scientific Reports
Evaluation of multi-hazard map produced using MaxEnt machine learning technique
- Narges Javidan
- Ataollah Kavian
- Jesús Rodrigo-Comino
ArticleOpen Access22 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
The role of volcanic-derived clays in the preservation of Ediacaran biota from the Itajaí Basin (ca. 563 Ma, Brazil)
- Bruno Becker-Kerber
- Abderrazak El Albani
- Mírian L. A. F. Pacheco
ArticleOpen Access3 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports

51-75

Sea-level stands from the Western Mediterranean over the past 6.5 million years
- Oana A. Dumitru
- Jacqueline Austermann
- Bogdan P. Onac
ArticleOpen Access21 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
Archean continental crust formed by magma hybridization and voluminous partial melting
- Juan David Hernández-Montenegro
- Richard M. Palin
- David Hernández-Uribe
ArticleOpen Access4 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Why Australia was not wet during spring 2020 despite La Niña
- Eun-Pa Lim
- Debra Hudson
- Griffith Young
ArticleOpen Access16 Sep 2021 Scientific Reports
Decratonization by rifting enables orogenic reworking and transcurrent dispersal of old terranes in NE Brazil
- Carlos E. Ganade
- Roberto F. Weinberg
- Iago S. Costa
ArticleOpen Access11 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Sedimentology, petrography, and reservoir quality of the Zarga and Ghazal formations in the Keyi oilfield, Muglad Basin, Sudan
- Yousif M. Makeen
- Xuanlong Shan
- Daijun Fan
ArticleOpen Access12 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
The impact of atmospheric rivers on rainfall in New Zealand
- Jingxiang Shu
- Asaad Y. Shamseldin
- Evan Weller
ArticleOpen Access12 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Decrease in volume and density of foraminiferal shells with progressing ocean acidification
- Azumi Kuroyanagi
- Takahiro Irie
- Kazuhiko Fujita
ArticleOpen Access7 Oct 2021 Scientific Reports
Future behavior of wind wave extremes due to climate change
- Hector Lobeto
- Melisa Menendez
- Iñigo J. Losada
ArticleOpen Access12 Apr 2021 Scientific Reports
El Niño Modoki can be mostly predicted more than 10 years ahead of time
- X. San Liang
- Fen Xu
- Feng Zhang
ArticleOpen Access9 Sep 2021 Scientific Reports
Exquisite air sac histological traces in a hyperpneumatized nanoid sauropod dinosaur from South America
- Tito Aureliano
- Aline M. Ghilardi
- Mathew J. Wedel
ArticleOpen Access17 Dec 2021 Scientific Reports
Climate and the latitudinal limits of subtropical reef development
- Lauren T. Toth
- William F. Precht
- Richard B. Aronson
ArticleOpen Access22 Jun 2021 Scientific Reports
Statistics of seismicity to investigate the Campi Flegrei caldera unrest
- A. Tramelli
- C. Godano
- G. Chiodini
ArticleOpen Access30 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Southward growth of Mauna Loa’s dike-like magma body driven by topographic stress
- Bhuvan Varugu
- Falk Amelung
ArticleOpen Access10 May 2021 Scientific Reports
Rifted margins classification and forcing parameters
- F. Sapin
- J.-C. Ringenbach
- C. Clerc
ArticleOpen Access14 Apr 2021 Scientific Reports
Tipping points induced by parameter drift in an excitable ocean model
- Stefano Pierini
- Michael Ghil
ArticleOpen Access27 May 2021 Scientific Reports
Groundwater extraction-induced seismicity around Delhi region, India
- Deepak K. Tiwari
- Birendra Jha
- Naresh K. Vissa
ArticleOpen Access12 May 2021 Scientific Reports
Pteropods make thinner shells in the upwelling region of the California Current Ecosystem
- Lisette Mekkes
- Willem Renema
- Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg
ArticleOpen Access18 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
Twenty-first-century projections of shoreline change along inlet-interrupted coastlines
- Janaka Bamunawala
- Roshanka Ranasinghe
- Ad van der Spek
ArticleOpen Access7 Jul 2021 Scientific Reports
Hydro-climatic changes of wetlandscapes across the world
- I. Åhlén
- G. Vigouroux
- J. Jarsjö
ArticleOpen Access2 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
Ensemble bias correction of climate simulations: preserving internal variability
- Pradeebane Vaittinada Ayar
- Mathieu Vrac
- Alain Mailhot
ArticleOpen Access4 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
Greenland-wide inventory of ice marginal lakes using a multi-method approach
- Penelope How
- Alexandra Messerli
- Jonathan L. Carrivick
ArticleOpen Access24 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
Explaining the trends and variability in the United States tornado records using climate teleconnections and shifts in observational practices
- Niloufar Nouri
- Naresh Devineni
- Reza Khanbilvardi
ArticleOpen Access18 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
Utilizing distributed acoustic sensing and ocean bottom fiber optic cables for submarine structural characterization
- Feng Cheng
- Benxin Chi
- Jonathan B. Ajo-Franklin
ArticleOpen Access10 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Projected plastic waste loss scenarios between 2000 and 2030 into the largest freshwater-lake system in Southeast Asia
- Alexander Matthew David Finnegan
- Christos Gouramanis
ArticleOpen Access16 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
Transient motion of the largest landslide on earth, modulated by hydrological forces
- Gökhan Aslan
- Marcello De Michele
- Ziyadin Cakir
ArticleOpen Access17 May 2021 Scientific Reports

76-100

2019‒2020 Australian bushfire air particulate pollution and impact on the South Pacific Ocean
- Mengyu Li
- Fang Shen
- Xuerong Sun
ArticleOpen Access10 Jun 2021 Scientific Reports
Response of the Indian summer monsoon to global warming, solar geoengineering and its termination
- Mansi Bhowmick
- Saroj Kanta Mishra
- Popat Salunke
ArticleOpen Access7 May 2021 Scientific Reports
Atmosphere similarity patterns in boreal summer show an increase of persistent weather conditions connected to hydro-climatic risks
- Peter Hoffmann
- Jascha Lehmann
- Fred F. Hattermann
ArticleOpen Access24 Nov 2021 Scientific Reports
Relevant methane emission to the atmosphere from a geological gas manifestation
- Adriano Mazzini
- Alessandra Sciarra
- Alwi Husein
ArticleOpen Access18 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
Saharan dust and giant quartz particle transport towards Iceland
- György Varga
- Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserová
- Agusta Helgadottir
ArticleOpen Access4 Jun 2021 Scientific Reports
Contracting eastern African C₄ grasslands during the extinction of Paranthropus boisei
- Rhonda L. Quinn
- Christopher J. Lepre
ArticleOpen Access30 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Role of warm ocean conditions and the MJO in the genesis and intensification of extremely severe cyclone Fani
- Vineet Kumar Singh
- M. K. Roxy
- Medha Deshpande
ArticleOpen Access11 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
The latitudinal dependence in the trend of snow event to precipitation event ratio
- Shangyong Shi
- Guosheng Liu
ArticleOpen Access13 Sep 2021 Scientific Reports
Different triggers for the two pulses of mass extinction across the Permian and Triassic boundary
- Guoshan Li
- Wei Liao
- Zhongping Lai
ArticleOpen Access23 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Hydrological droughts in the southern Andes (40–45°S) from an ensemble experiment using CMIP5 and CMIP6 models
- Rodrigo Aguayo
- Jorge León-Muñoz
- Aldo Montecinos
ArticleOpen Access9 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Dating the landscape evolution around the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave
- Kim Genuite
- Jean-Jacques Delannoy
- Pierre Voinchet
ArticleOpen Access26 Apr 2021 Scientific Reports
Transition from continental rifting to oceanic spreading in the northern Red Sea area
- Sami El Khrepy
- Ivan Koulakov
- Ayman N. Qadrouh
ArticleOpen Access10 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
A case study on TBM cutterhead temperature monitoring and mud cake formation discrimination method
- Jie Fu
- Yimin Xia
- Laikuang Lin
ArticleOpen Access7 Oct 2021 Scientific Reports
Groundwater recharge potential zonation using an ensemble of machine learning and bivariate statistical models
- Maryam Sadat Jaafarzadeh
- Naser Tahmasebipour
- Hamed Rouhani
ArticleOpen Access10 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Spatial–temporal characterization of rainfall in Pakistan during the past half-century (1961–2020)
- Ghaffar Ali
- Muhammad Sajjad
- Hafiza Nayab Gul
ArticleOpen Access25 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Applicability of a nationwide flood forecasting system for Typhoon Hagibis 2019
- Wenchao Ma
- Yuta Ishitsuka
- Kei Yoshimura
ArticleOpen Access13 May 2021 Scientific Reports
Shocked quartz in distal ejecta from the Ries impact event (Germany) found at ~ 180 km distance, near Bernhardzell, eastern Switzerland
- Sanna Holm-Alwmark
- Carl Alwmark
- Beda A. Hofmann
ArticleOpen Access2 Apr 2021 Scientific Reports
Performance of high resolution (400 m) PM_2.5 forecast over Delhi
- Chinmay Jena
- Sachin D. Ghude
- M. Rajeevan
ArticleOpen Access18 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
Projection of key meteorological hazard factors in Xiongan new area of Hebei Province, China
- Dapeng Huang
- Yaoming Liao
- Zhenyu Han
ArticleOpen Access21 Sep 2021 Scientific Reports
European cephalopods distribution under climate-change scenarios
- Alexandre Schickele
- Patrice Francour
- Virginie Raybaud
ArticleOpen Access16 Feb 2021 Scientific Reports
Interannual variability of the frequency of MJO phases and its association with two types of ENSO
- Panini Dasgupta
- M. K. Roxy
- Abirlal Metya
ArticleOpen Access2 Jun 2021 Scientific Reports
Origin of pyrite nodules at the top of the nantuo diamictites, Southern China
- Changjie Liu
- Ying Lin
ArticleOpen Access21 Sep 2021 Scientific Reports
New fossil discoveries illustrate the diversity of past terrestrial ecosystems in New Caledonia
- Romain Garrouste
- Jérôme Munzinger
- André Nel
ArticleOpen Access15 Sep 2021 Scientific Reports
Galápagos upwelling driven by localized wind–front interactions
- Alexander Forryan
- Alberto C. Naveira Garabato
- Alexander R. Hearn
ArticleOpen Access14 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
Plasma shielding removes prior magnetization record from impacted rocks near Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Gunther Kletetschka
- Radana Kavkova
- Hakan Ucar
ArticleOpen Access17 Nov 2021 Scientific Reports

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