On August 24th, 2018, RAA Editorial Office received a notification from IOP Publishing, which says that one of our articles titled “The first data release (DR1) of the LAMOST regular survey” by A-Li LUO et al., published at 2015, RAA, 15, 1095, has been approved the Top Cited Author Award.

The award is for corresponding authors from China for work published across the entire IOP Publishing portfolio in the past three years from 2015 to 2017. It celebrates the researchers who have published the top 1% of the most-cited papers in each subject category including Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Materials, Mathematics, Biosciences and Environmental Sciences.

Details of the award announcement can be accessed at http://ioppublishing.org/china-top-cited-author-award/.