The 2020 Editors’ Choice articles have been selected. Usually, five articles published in Hydrogeology Journal (HJ) are selected as highlights of each publishing year by our editorial team: Martin Appold, Jean-Christophe Comte, Jean-Michel Lemieux, Rui Ma, Maria-Theresia Schafmeister and Clifford Voss. However, this year we are highlighting six articles as it was difficult to not include all of these as winners. These Editors’ Choice articles are ones that we especially like for a variety of reasons. We selected these from among the ∼200 articles that appeared in the 2020 issues of HJ.

The six 2020 articles that we consider to be exceptional (listed in Table 1) are distinguished by a variety of positive attributes including: outstanding science, innovative approach, potentially important conclusions, important methodology, interesting field area or phenomenon, unusual topic, political/social/governance/historical/philosophical interest, challenging arguments, and so on. The HJ editors believe that readers will find these articles to be especially interesting and valuable. Read them and see if you agree with us that these are particularly interesting.

Table 1 Hydrogeology Journal’s 2020 Editors’ Choice articles
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Editors’ Choice articles are highlighted on the International Association of Hydrogeologists’ (IAH) website (https://iah.org/hydrogeology-journal/hj-editors-choice-articles) and via the IAH social media and News and Information magazine. Springer-Nature will grant the ones that are not already freely available online (open access) with free online access for a period of time in 2021 after this announcement.

Congratulations to all of these distinguished authors for their excellent articles!