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Top 50 Physics, Earth, Planetary Sciences Papers of 2019 | Nature Communications

The Nature Communications team is pleased to announce the most read* articles from 2019 in physics as well as Earth and planetary sciences. Featuring authors from around the world, these papers highlight valuable research from an international community.
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In 2019, Nature Communications published over 5,500 articles. We have put together a collection of our Top 50 articles across physics and Earth and planetary sciences from last year, covering the fields of astronomy and astrophysics, plasma physics, atmospheric sciences and much more.

Congratulations to all authors who contributed to these highly valuable research papers!

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* Based on data from Google Analytics, covering January-December 2019 (data has been normalized to account for articles published later in the year)


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