JNST Article Awards
We are honoured to present the Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology (JNST) Most Cited and Popular Article Awards 2018, to the following 9 respected papers. These two awards are presented to the first author of paper published in our journal that has contributed to raise the quality and enhanced the specialty of the journal in Nuclear Science and Technology field. This award is presented by the journal Editorial Board, supported by our publisher, Taylor & Francis.
All award winning papers are available free to view until 30 June 2019 via the Taylor & Francis landing page.
Detailed descriptions on the two awards are as follows:
(1) the JNST Most Cited Article Award
Established in the year 2012, given to the papers that are frequently cited directly by other research papers during the first 60 months of its publication, which was the year 2012 for this year's nomination.
(2) the JNST Most Popular Article Award
Newly established in year 2013. This award is given to the papers that are frequently downloaded by the readers of our journal. Articles published in year 2017(Vol.54) was the candidate for this year's nomination. The impact on free or Open Access articles has been taken into account during the award evaluation process.
JNST Most Cited Article Award 2018 :
- Chemical states of fallout radioactive Cs in the soils deposited at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident [Fukushima NPP Accident Related] Naofumi Kozai, Toshihiko Ohnuki, Makoto Arisaka, Masayuki Watanabe, Fuminori Sakamoto, Shinya Yamasaki & Mingyu Jiang
- Insights from review and analysis of the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident [Fukushima NPP Accident Related] Masashi Hirano, Taisuke Yonomoto, Masahiro Ishigaki, Norio Watanabe, Yu Maruyama, Yasuteru Sibamoto, Tadashi Watanabe & Kiyofumi Moriyama
- Equilibrium and kinetic studies of selective adsorption and separation for strontium using DtBuCH18C6 loaded resin Yan Wu, Seong-Yun Kim, Daisuke Tozawa, Tatsuya Ito, Tsutomu Tada, Keitaro Hitomi, Etsushu Kuraoka, Hiromichi Yamazaki & Keizo Ishii
- Neutron-capture cross-sections of 244Cm and 246Cm measured with an array of large germanium detectors in the ANNRI at J-PARC/MLF Atsushi Kimura, Toshiyuki Fujii, Satoshi Fukutani, Kazuyoshi Furutaka, Shinji Goko, Kaoru Y. Hara, Hideo Harada, Kentaro Hirose, Jun-ichi Hori, Masayuki Igashira, Takashi Kamiyama, Tatsuya Katabuchi, Tadahiro Kin, Koichi Kino, Fumito Kitatani, Yoshiaki Kiyanagi, Mitsuo Koizumi, Motoharu Mizumoto, Shoji Nakamura, Masayuki Ohta, Masumi Oshima, Koichi Takamiya & Yosuke Toh
- Analyses of core melt and re-melt in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors [Fukushima NPP Accident Related] Fumiya Tanabe
JNST Most Popular Article Award 2018:
- Long-term predictions of ambient dose equivalent rates after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident Sakae Kinase, Tomoyuki Takahashi & Kimiaki Saito
- Benchmark study of the recent version of the PHITS code Yosuke Iwamoto, Tatsuhiko Sato, Shintaro Hashimoto, Tatsuhiko Ogawa, Takuya Furuta, Shin-ichiro Abe, Takeshi Kai, Norihiro Matsuda, Ryuji Hosoyamada & Koji Niita
- Development of a short-term emergency assessment system of the marine environmental radioactivity around Japan Takuya Kobayashi, Hideyuki Kawamura, Katsuji Fujii & Yuki Kamidaira
- Monte Carlo optimization of an epithermal neutron flux monitor for BNCT Xingcai Guan, Isao Murata & Tieshan Wang
Past winners
the JNST Most Cited Article Award20162015201420132012
| Monte Carlo Simulation for Particle and gamma-Ray Emissions in Statistical Hauser-Feshbach Model | Toshihiko Kawano, Patrick Talou, Mark B. Chadwick & Takehito Watanabe |
| Development of Calculation Technique for Iterated Fission Probability and Reactor Kinetic Parameters Using Continuous-Energy Monte Carlo Method | Yasushi Nauchi & Takanori Kameyama |
| Countercurrent Gas-Liquid Flow in a PWR Hot Leg under Reflux Cooling (I) Air-Water Tests for 1/15-Scale Model of a PWR Hot Leg | Noritoshi Minami, Daisuke Nishiwaki, Toshifumi Nariai, Akio Tomiyama & Michio Murase |
| Reaction rate analyses for an accelerator-driven system with 14MeV neutrons in the Kyoto University critical assembly | Cheol Ho Pyeon, Hiroshi Shiga, Tsuyoshi Misawa, Tomohiko Iwasaki & Seiji Shiroya |
| First injection of spallation neutrons generated by high-energy protons into the Kyoto University critical assembly | Cheol Ho Pyeon, Tsuyoshi Misawa, Jae-Yong Lim, Hironobu Unesaki, Yoshihiro Ishi, Yasutoshi Kuriyama, Tomonori Uesugi, Yoshiharu Mori, Makoto Inoue, Ken Nakajima, Kaichiro Mishima & Seiji Shiroya |
| JENDL actinoid file 2008 | Osamu Iwamoto, Tsuneo Nakagawa, Naohiko Otuka, Satoshi Chiba, Keisuke Okumura, Go Chiba, Takaaki Ohsawa & Kazuyoshi Furutaka |
| Proposal of nondestructive radionuclide assay using a high-flux gamma-ray source and nuclear resonance fluorescence | Ryoichi Hajima, Takehito Hayakawa, Nobuhiro Kikuzawa and Eisuke Minehara |
| Static and kinetic experiments on accelerator-driven system with 14MeV neutrons in Kyoto University critical assembly | Cheol Ho Pyeon, Morgan Hervault, Tsuyoshi Misawa,Hironobu Unesaki, Tomohiko Iwasaki and Seiji Shiroya |
| Mathematica programs for the analysis of three-dimensional pore connectivity and anisotropic tortuosity of porous rocks using X-ray computed tomography image data | Yoshito Nakashima and Susumu Kamiya |
| Soil-to-plant transfer factors of stable elements and naturally occurring radionuclides (1) Upland field crops collected in Japan | Shigeo Uchida, Keiko Tagami and Ikuko Hirai |
| Extraction of various metal ions from nitric acid to n-dodecanen by Diglycolamide (DGA) compounds | Yuji Sasaki, Zhi-Xuan Zhu, Yumi Sugo and Takaumi Kimura |
| Development of a comprehensive code for nuclear data evaluation, CCONE, and validation using neutron-induced cross sections for uranium isotopes | Osamu Iwamoto |
| Out-of-pile and in-pile perfomance of advanded zirconium alloys (HANA) for high burn-up fuel | Yong Hwan Jeong, Sang-Yun Park, Myung-Ho Lee, Byung-Kwon Choi, Jong-Hyuk Baek, Jeong-Yong Park, Jun-Hwan Kim & Hyun-Gil Kim |
| Characteristics of oxidation reaction of rare-earth chlorides for precipitation in LiCl-KCl molten salt by oxygen sparging | Yong-Jun Cho, Hee-Chul Yang, Hee-Chul Eun, Eung-Ho Kim & In-Tae Kim |
| Delayed hydride crack velocity of zirconium alloys with the direction of an approach to temperature | Young Suk Kim, Kang Soo Kim & Yong Moo Cheong |
| Fuel and core design of super light water reactor with low leakage fuel loading pattern | Kazuhiro Kamei, Akifumi Yamaji, Yuki Ishiwatari, Yoshiaki Oka & Jie Liu |
2016201520142013
| Experimental study on combustion characteristics of sodium fire in a columnar flow? | Zhi-Gang Zhang, Kang-Wei Peng, Yan Huo & Ming Guo |
| Quantities of I-131 and Cs-137 in accumulated water in the basements of reactor buildings in process of core cooling at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants accident and its influence on late phase source terms?[Fukushima NPP Accident Related] | Akihide Hidaka & Jun Ishikawa |
| Distribution of radionuclides in surface seawater obtained by an aerial radiological survey?[Fukushima NPP Accident Related] | Yayoi Inomata, Michio Aoyama, Katsumi Hirose, Yukihisa Sanada, Tatsuo Torii, Takaki Tsubono, Daisuke Tsumune & Masatoshi Yamada |
| Characterization of solidified melt among materials of UO2?fuel and B4C control blade? | Masahide Takano, Tsuyoshi Nishi & Noriko Shirasu |
| Radiation protection lessons learned from the TEPCO Fukushima No.1 NPS accident? | Itsumasa Urabe, Takatoshi Hattori, Takeshi Iimoto & Sumi Yokoyama |
| Review of thermal-hydraulic researches in severe accidents in light water reactors | Isao Kataoka |
| Source term estimation of atmospheric release due to the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident by atmospheric and oceanic dispersion simulations | Takuya Kobayashi, Haruyasu Nagai, Masamichi Chino and Hideyuki Kawamura |
| Probabilistic common cause failure modeling for auxiliary feedwater system after the introduction of flood barriers | Xiaoyu Zheng, Akira Yamaguchi and Takashi Takata |
| Particle and heavy ion transport code System, PHITS, version 2.52 | Tatsuhiko Sato, Koji Niita, Norihiro Matsuda, Shintaro Hashimoto, Yosuke Iwamoto,Shusaku Noda, Tatsuhiko Ogawa, Hiroshi Iwase, Hiroshi Nakashima,Tokio Fukahori, Keisuke Okumura, Tetsuya Kai, Satoshi Chiba,Takuya Furuta and Lembit Sihver |
| Results of environmental radiation monitoring at the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, JAEA, following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident | Masanori Takeyasu, Masanao Nakano, Hiroki Fujita, Akira Nakada, Hitoshi Watanabe, Shuichi Sumiya and Sadaaki Furuta |
| Chemical states of fallout radioactive Cs in the soils deposited at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident | Naofumi Kozai, Toshihiko Ohnuki, Makoto Arisaka, Masayuki Watanabe, Fuminori Sakamoto, Shinya Yamasaki and Mingyu Jiang |
| Insights from review and analysis of the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident | Masashi Hirano, Taisuke Yonomoto, Masahiro Ishigaki, Norio Watanabe, Yu Maruyama, Yasuteru Sibamoto, Tadashi Watanabe and Kiyofumi Moriyama |
| Analyses of core melt and re-melt in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors | Fumiya Tanabe |
| Thermal properties of Three Mile Island Unit 2 core debris and simulated debris | Fumihisa Nagase and Hiroshi Uetsuka |