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(The median citation count of Nature Geoscience is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Silica in a state of shock530
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere358
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes299
Deformation-controlled long-period seismicity in low-cohesion volcanic sediments224
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks197
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion183
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments177
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition165
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs150
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source150
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases145
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs137
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature126
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life123
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest120
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome119
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust115
Constraint on net primary productivity of the global ocean by Argo oxygen measurements114
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure112
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight110
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply101
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 201098
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment97
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling95
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers95
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill94
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion93
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination93
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter90
Author Correction: Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation89
The bedrock of forest drought84
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores83
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion82
Complexities of coastal resilience81
Arctic rivers tell tales of change81
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction80
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation80
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue79
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming79
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years78
Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming78
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes77
Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe77
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere77
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies73
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific72
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene71
Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols70
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming68
Late Miocene cooling coupled to carbon dioxide with Pleistocene-like climate sensitivity67
A conversation on air pollution in India66
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum65
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers65
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes64
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas64
Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood64
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions62
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine62
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water60
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities60
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle59
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe59
Galactic messages carried by moissanite58
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs58
Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland57
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics57
Sulfur isotopic signature of Earth established by planetesimal volatile evaporation57
Methane’s unknowns better known56
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services55
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires55
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade54
Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants54
Decreasing subseasonal temperature variability in the northern extratropics attributed to human influence54
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought53
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States52
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening52
Geophysical imaging of fluids in the Cascadia subduction zone52
Atmosphere-altered sediments were recycled into the mantle across the Great Oxidation Event51
The hidden warming effects of the degradation of tropical moist forests51
Dry corridors opened by fire and low CO2 in Amazonian rainforest during the Last Glacial Maximum51
Oxygen-rich melt in deep magma oceans50
Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles50
Sulfur evaporation in planetesimals50
Long-distance migration and venting of methane from the base of the hydrate stability zone49
Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera48
Carbon fate in lowland rivers48
Estimates of global marine plastic mass demystify the missing plastic paradox47
ENSO complexity controlled by zonal shifts in the Walker circulation47
Emergence of Southern Hemisphere stratospheric circulation changes in response to ozone recovery47
Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation47
Dissolved organic phosphorus concentrations in the surface ocean controlled by both phosphate and iron stress47
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe46
Large-scale mantle heterogeneity as a legacy of plate tectonic supercycles46
Groundwater springs formed during glacial retreat are a large source of methane in the high Arctic46
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya45
Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites45
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor45
Slow slip along the Hikurangi margin linked to fluid-rich sediments trailing subducting seamounts45
Emergence of felsic crust and subaerial weathering recorded in Palaeoarchaean barite45
Planetary science blasts off in China44
The crystal timekeeper zircon44
The problem with dolomite44
Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier44
Production of Neoproterozoic banded iron formations in a partially ice-covered ocean44
Grain-size-evolution controls on lithospheric weakening during continental rifting43
Marine heatwaves are occurring globally below the sea surface with increasing frequency43
Author Correction: Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation42
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation42
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era41
Mercury fluxes from hydrothermal venting at mid-ocean ridges constrained by measurements41
Geological evidence for multiple climate transitions on Early Mars41
Arctic Ocean’s wintertime mercury concentrations limited by seasonal loss on the shelf41
Increased urban ozone in heatwaves due to temperature-induced emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds41
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates41
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris40
Proto-monsoon rainfall and greening in Central Asia due to extreme early Eocene warmth39
Observational constraints imply limited future Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening39
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon38
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise38
The mantle’s influence on the long-term behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field37
Episodic warm climates on early Mars primed by crustal hydration37
Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion37
An extended pan-North African humid period within the warm Pliocene36
Atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment36
Methane leakage through the sulfate–methane transition zone of the Baltic seabed36
Author Correction: Fossil organic carbon utilization in marine Arctic fjord sediments by subsurface micro-organisms36
Lessons from the Nile about rivers and society36
A reduction in aerolized ammonium in the rural USA and increased ammonia deposition near emission hotspots36
Triggers of Chile’s mega-earthquakes36
Lower oceanic crust formed by in situ melt crystallization revealed by seismic layering35
Stress-driven recurrence and precursory moment-rate surge in caldera collapse earthquakes35
Archaean oxygen oases driven by pulses of enhanced phosphorus recycling in the ocean35
Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth’s early biosphere34
Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact34
Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands34
Decline in bulk deposition of air pollutants in China lags behind reductions in emissions33
Widespread partial-depth hydrofractures in ice sheets driven by supraglacial streams33
Coupled decline in ocean pH and carbonate saturation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum32
Biogeochemistry of Earth before exoenzymes32
Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures32
Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide31
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events31
Aftershocks of megathrust earthquakes undergo a central shutdown and surrounding activation31
Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales31
Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography31
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability31
Tackling helicopter research31
Author Correction: An unshakable carbon budget for the Himalaya30
Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations30
Late Miocene onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica indicated by meteoric beryllium-10 in permafrost30
Top-down control on water subduction30
Garnet the gift that keeps on giving30
Advancing geoscience with AI30
An initial map of fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth’s inner core30
The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling30
Publisher Correction: Megathrusts exhumed29
Connecting geology to ecology29
Fire enhances forest degradation within forest edge zones in Africa29
Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries29
A conversation on air pollution in China29
Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow on Venus consistent with active rifting29
Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations29
Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability29
Upwelling of melt-depleted mantle under Iceland28
A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation28
A rock record of H2 production in the ancient Earth28
Disrupt and demystify the unwritten rules of graduate school28
High-altitude glacier archives lost due to climate change-related melting28
Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet28
Adapting to AI28
Moon’s crustal porosity records impact history28
Permafrost cooled in winter by thermal bridging through snow-covered shrub branches28
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters28
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade28
The value of scientific ocean drilling for early career researchers28
Warming beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf due to increased subpolar westerlies and reduced sea ice27
Mitigating sinkhole hazards intensified by climate change27
Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science27
Benthic δ18O records Earth’s energy imbalance27
Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon27
Utility of artificial intelligence in geoscience27
Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau driven by mantle delamination from the overriding plate27
Confronting the water potential information gap27
Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling27
Fluctuating evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event27
Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift27
Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid27
Diurnal warming rectification in the tropical Pacific linked to sea surface temperature front27
Positive correlation between wet-day frequency and intensity linked to universal precipitation drivers27
Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes27
Sea-level stability over geological time owing to limited deep subduction of hydrated mantle26
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration26
Closed ocean gateways in the Canadian archipelago are key to glaciation in Scandinavia26
Author Correction: Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing26
Returning lands to nature26
Big potential for tiny droplets26
Author Correction: An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos25
Long-term eruption forecasting25
Noble gas evidence of a millennial-scale deep North Pacific palaeo-barometric anomaly25
The Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau formed through plume–ridge interaction25
Phosphorus’s cosmic courier25
Carbon dioxide enrichment suppresses autotrophic nitrifiers in a rice ecosystem25
Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru25
Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination25
Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day25
Asthenospheric low-velocity zone consistent with globally prevalent partial melting24
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates24
Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum24
Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume24
Bombardment history of the Moon constrained by crustal porosity24
Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification24
Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments24
Inhibition of autotrophic nitrifiers in a nitrogen-rich paddy soil by elevated CO224
A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow24
Carbon concentration increases with depth of melting in Earth’s upper mantle24
Global patterns of organic carbon transfer and accumulation across the land–ocean continuum constrained by radiocarbon data23
Diminishing lake area across the northern permafrost zone23
Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest23
ENSO-driven coupled megadroughts in North and South America over the last millennium23
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport22
Satellite data shows Antarctic Peninsula glaciers flow faster in summer22
River capture enhances the uplift of Chomolungma22
Indo-Pacific regional extremes aggravated by changes in tropical weather patterns22
A partially molten mantle22
Solid Earth forcing of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events22
Multi-decadal collapse of East Antarctica’s Conger–Glenzer Ice Shelf22
Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation22
Global patterns in river water storage dependent on residence time22
Tectonics of copper mineralization22
Satellite data show increased biomass carbon stocks in northern young forests22
Earth science looks to outer space22
Contribution of background seismicity to forearc uplift22
Coral bleaching and mortality overestimated in projections based on Degree Heating Months22
Publisher Correction: Atmospheric methane variability through the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation mainly controlled by tropical sources22
Dust emission increases following large wildfires22
Machine learning in Earth and environmental science requires education and research policy reforms21
Annual variations in phytoplankton biomass driven by small-scale physical processes21
Communicating the link between climate change and extreme rain events21
Sensitivity of Holocene East Antarctic productivity to subdecadal variability set by sea ice21
Rapid night-time nanoparticle growth in Delhi driven by biomass-burning emissions21
Emergence of wind ripples controlled by mechanics of grain–bed impacts21
Persistent late Permian to Early Triassic warmth linked to enhanced reverse weathering21
Fires jeopardize world’s carbon sinks20
Eruptive activity of the Santorini Volcano controlled by sea-level rise and fall20
Author Correction: Geological evidence for high H2 production from komatiites in the Archaean20
Dissolution resolution20
Widespread societal and ecological impacts from projected Tibetan Plateau lake expansion20
Widespread longitudinal snow dunes in Antarctica shaped by sintering20
First seismic detections of natural impacts linked to craters on another planet20
Southeast Asian ecological dependency on Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennium20
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