Nature Geoscience

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(The median citation count of Nature Geoscience is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere326
Silica in a state of shock286
Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard253
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes249
A new paradigm for understanding Earth’s marine ice sheets243
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest222
Combined warming and rising CO2 limit phosphorus availability in rice paddies221
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome212
Indigenous knowledge and volcanic disaster risk reduction211
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state175
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion157
Kaolinite’s many lives150
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases147
Extreme weather event accountability147
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust146
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source144
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010132
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure132
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition130
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life125
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight125
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs123
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites122
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments121
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks110
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature110
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs107
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment106
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers105
Arctic rivers tell tales of change104
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination103
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US101
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter99
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean98
The bedrock of forest drought96
Tightening the Sargassum belt95
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling94
Author Correction: Antarctic ice-shelf collapse in Holocene driven by meltwater release feedbacks92
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes91
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion90
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill89
Multi-year La Niña–El Niño transition influenced Earth’s extreme energy uptake in 2022–202386
Water isotope–temperature relationship variability across Antarctica set by atmospheric circulation86
Major terrestrial contribution to the dissolved organic carbon budget in the Arctic Ocean86
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep83
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue81
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere81
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets81
Fingerprints of stratospheric particle transport and fallout79
Managing nitrogen for food and environment78
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores77
Contrasting trends in very large hail events and related economic losses across the globe75
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years75
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies74
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming73
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction73
Small but mighty sperrylite72
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation72
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe70
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements69
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening68
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes68
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water67
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene67
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas67
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities66
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle63
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine62
A conversation on air pollution in India59
Galactic messages carried by moissanite59
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions59
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires59
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers59
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum58
Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years58
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific58
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States58
Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants58
Methane’s unknowns better known58
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs57
Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland57
Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood55
Late Miocene cooling coupled to carbon dioxide with Pleistocene-like climate sensitivity55
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services55
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics55
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming55
Increased terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage associated with global utility-scale photovoltaic installation54
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought54
The hidden warming effects of the degradation of tropical moist forests53
Atmosphere-altered sediments were recycled into the mantle across the Great Oxidation Event53
Warmer shallow Atlantic during deglaciation and early Holocene due to weaker overturning circulation52
Oxygen-rich melt in deep magma oceans52
Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation51
Estimates of global marine plastic mass demystify the missing plastic paradox51
Slow slip along the Hikurangi margin linked to fluid-rich sediments trailing subducting seamounts51
Spodumene’s energy journey50
Anti-phased changes in Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength over orbital timescales50
Geophysical imaging of fluids in the Cascadia subduction zone50
Long-distance migration and venting of methane from the base of the hydrate stability zone49
ENSO complexity controlled by zonal shifts in the Walker circulation49
Groundwater springs formed during glacial retreat are a large source of methane in the high Arctic48
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya48
Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles48
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe48
Dissolved organic phosphorus concentrations in the surface ocean controlled by both phosphate and iron stress48
Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier47
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor47
Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera46
Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples46
Planetary science blasts off in China45
Large-scale mantle heterogeneity as a legacy of plate tectonic supercycles45
Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites45
The problem with dolomite44
Submarine talus may contribute to climate cooling44
Author Correction: Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation44
Mercury fluxes from hydrothermal venting at mid-ocean ridges constrained by measurements44
Marine heatwaves are occurring globally below the sea surface with increasing frequency44
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation44
Proto-monsoon rainfall and greening in Central Asia due to extreme early Eocene warmth44
The crystal timekeeper zircon44
Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion43
Grain-size-evolution controls on lithospheric weakening during continental rifting43
Production of Neoproterozoic banded iron formations in a partially ice-covered ocean43
Sedimentary conditions drive modern pyrite burial flux to exceed oxidation43
Warming and snow loss increase reliance on old groundwater in a Colorado River headwater42
Geological evidence for multiple climate transitions on Early Mars42
Rise in dust emissions from burned landscapes primarily driven by small fires42
Large-scale aggregation of humid heatwaves exacerbated by coastal oceanic warming42
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era42
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris41
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise41
Observational constraints imply limited future Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening41
Increased urban ozone in heatwaves due to temperature-induced emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds41
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon40
Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming40
An extended pan-North African humid period within the warm Pliocene39
Arctic Ocean’s wintertime mercury concentrations limited by seasonal loss on the shelf39
Triggers of Chile’s mega-earthquakes39
Lessons from the Nile about rivers and society39
The mantle’s influence on the long-term behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field39
Tackling helicopter research38
Drivers of global glacial erosion rates38
Presence of continental slivers in oceanic transform faults determined by rift inheritance38
Biogeochemistry of Earth before exoenzymes38
Lower oceanic crust formed by in situ melt crystallization revealed by seismic layering38
Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures37
Stress-driven recurrence and precursory moment-rate surge in caldera collapse earthquakes37
Author Correction: Fossil organic carbon utilization in marine Arctic fjord sediments by subsurface micro-organisms37
Archaean oxygen oases driven by pulses of enhanced phosphorus recycling in the ocean36
Enrichment of metastable iron minerals in global coastal wetlands36
Inversion modelling shows increasing hydrofluorocarbon emissions36
Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales36
Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography36
Estimation of hydrofluorocarbon emissions from China and other non-Annex I countries36
The far reach of fires36
Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact35
A reduction in aerolized ammonium in the rural USA and increased ammonia deposition near emission hotspots35
Widespread partial-depth hydrofractures in ice sheets driven by supraglacial streams35
Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands35
Methane leakage through the sulfate–methane transition zone of the Baltic seabed34
Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth’s early biosphere34
Landfalling tropical cyclones accelerate due to land–sea thermal and roughness contrasts34
Atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment34
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events34
Upwelling of melt-depleted mantle under Iceland33
Aftershocks of megathrust earthquakes undergo a central shutdown and surrounding activation33
Episodic warm climates on early Mars primed by crustal hydration33
Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations33
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability33
The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling33
Coupled decline in ocean pH and carbonate saturation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum33
Large-scale ice-shelf calving events follow prolonged amplifications in flexure32
The extra climate benefits of solar farms32
Garnet the gift that keeps on giving32
Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability32
Consumers of nitrite help nitrite accumulate in anoxic oceanic zones32
High-altitude glacier archives lost due to climate change-related melting32
Permafrost cooled in winter by thermal bridging through snow-covered shrub branches31
Advancing geoscience with AI31
Connecting geology to ecology31
Global water security threatened by rising inequality31
Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries31
Late Miocene onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica indicated by meteoric beryllium-10 in permafrost31
A conversation on air pollution in China30
Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations30
Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet30
Climate impacts from North American boreal forest fires30
Urban black-carbon radiative heating intensified by biogenic–anthropogenic interactions30
Contribution of lake littoral zones to the continental carbon budget29
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade29
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters29
The value of scientific ocean drilling for early career researchers28
Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow on Venus consistent with active rifting28
Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science28
Soil carbon sequestration enhanced by long-term nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization28
Rapid crustal transit of magmas beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift28
A rock record of H2 production in the ancient Earth28
Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling27
Mediterranean summer marine heatwaves triggered by weaker winds under subtropical ridges27
Composition of asteroid Bennu transformed by aqueous alteration27
Warming beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf due to increased subpolar westerlies and reduced sea ice27
Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon27
Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift27
Mitigating sinkhole hazards intensified by climate change27
Fluctuating evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event27
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration27
Adapting to AI26
Noble gas evidence of a millennial-scale deep North Pacific palaeo-barometric anomaly26
Utility of artificial intelligence in geoscience26
Moon’s crustal porosity records impact history26
Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau driven by mantle delamination from the overriding plate26
Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes26
Diurnal warming rectification in the tropical Pacific linked to sea surface temperature front26
Positive correlation between wet-day frequency and intensity linked to universal precipitation drivers26
Benthic δ18O records Earth’s energy imbalance26
Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid26
Phosphorus’s cosmic courier25
Author Correction: An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos25
Closed ocean gateways in the Canadian archipelago are key to glaciation in Scandinavia25
Save the data25
The Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau formed through plume–ridge interaction25
Carbon dioxide enrichment suppresses autotrophic nitrifiers in a rice ecosystem25
Long-term eruption forecasting25
Bombardment history of the Moon constrained by crustal porosity24
Inhibition of autotrophic nitrifiers in a nitrogen-rich paddy soil by elevated CO224
Asthenospheric low-velocity zone consistent with globally prevalent partial melting24
Costs and benefits of halving nitrogen waste for global sustainable development goals24
Poleward migration of tropical cyclones over 1980–2024 is dominated by Pacific variability24
Multidecadal persistence of soil carbon gains on retired cropland following fertilizer cessation24
Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day24
Addendum: Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets24
Carbon storage in coastal wetlands24
Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum23
A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow23
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport23
Diminishing lake area across the northern permafrost zone23
Mining mine wastes for sustainable value creation23
Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination23
Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume23
Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification23
River capture enhances the uplift of Chomolungma22
Global patterns of organic carbon transfer and accumulation across the land–ocean continuum constrained by radiocarbon data22
Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest22
A high-resolution global model nails down the primary driving force of the India–Asia collision22
Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments22
Satellite data show increased biomass carbon stocks in northern young forests22
Dust emission increases following large wildfires22
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates22
Distribution of lunar surface water dependent on latitude and regolith maturity21
Annual variations in phytoplankton biomass driven by small-scale physical processes21
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