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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere618
Silica in a state of shock436
Deformation-controlled long-period seismicity in low-cohesion volcanic sediments256
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks236
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion227
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes206
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest188
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment185
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust172
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight167
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010156
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature151
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites144
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome132
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state132
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases128
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source126
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs122
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life121
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs120
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure118
Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard117
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply115
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition115
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments113
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers112
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling108
Author Correction: Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation107
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores104
Arctic rivers tell tales of change101
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination100
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere99
Complexities of coastal resilience96
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US96
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep95
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion94
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill93
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter86
The bedrock of forest drought83
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation83
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years82
Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming82
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction81
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets78
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion77
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean77
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies76
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming76
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue75
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes74
Increased terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage associated with global utility-scale photovoltaic installation74
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs73
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers72
Small but mighty sperrylite71
A conversation on air pollution in India70
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific67
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe67
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas66
Methane’s unknowns better known66
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities65
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine63
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle63
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions62
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements62
Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood61
Galactic messages carried by moissanite60
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes60
Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years59
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene59
Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols59
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics59
Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland58
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming58
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services58
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States57
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires56
Late Miocene cooling coupled to carbon dioxide with Pleistocene-like climate sensitivity56
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening55
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought55
Sulfur isotopic signature of Earth established by planetesimal volatile evaporation55
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum54
Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants54
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water54
Geophysical imaging of fluids in the Cascadia subduction zone53
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade53
The hidden warming effects of the degradation of tropical moist forests52
Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples51
Sulfur evaporation in planetesimals51
Estimates of global marine plastic mass demystify the missing plastic paradox51
Atmosphere-altered sediments were recycled into the mantle across the Great Oxidation Event51
Oxygen-rich melt in deep magma oceans51
Warmer shallow Atlantic during deglaciation and early Holocene due to weaker overturning circulation51
Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation51
Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles50
Large-scale mantle heterogeneity as a legacy of plate tectonic supercycles50
Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier50
ENSO complexity controlled by zonal shifts in the Walker circulation48
Dissolved organic phosphorus concentrations in the surface ocean controlled by both phosphate and iron stress48
Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera48
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya47
Groundwater springs formed during glacial retreat are a large source of methane in the high Arctic47
Emergence of felsic crust and subaerial weathering recorded in Palaeoarchaean barite47
Slow slip along the Hikurangi margin linked to fluid-rich sediments trailing subducting seamounts47
Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites47
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe46
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor46
Planetary science blasts off in China46
Long-distance migration and venting of methane from the base of the hydrate stability zone46
Author Correction: Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation45
The problem with dolomite44
Observational constraints imply limited future Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening43
Arctic Ocean’s wintertime mercury concentrations limited by seasonal loss on the shelf42
Marine heatwaves are occurring globally below the sea surface with increasing frequency42
Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming42
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon42
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates42
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris41
Rise in dust emissions from burned landscapes primarily driven by small fires41
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation41
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise41
Production of Neoproterozoic banded iron formations in a partially ice-covered ocean40
Mercury fluxes from hydrothermal venting at mid-ocean ridges constrained by measurements40
Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion40
Grain-size-evolution controls on lithospheric weakening during continental rifting40
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era40
Increased urban ozone in heatwaves due to temperature-induced emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds39
The crystal timekeeper zircon39
Geological evidence for multiple climate transitions on Early Mars39
The mantle’s influence on the long-term behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field38
Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact38
Triggers of Chile’s mega-earthquakes38
Author Correction: Fossil organic carbon utilization in marine Arctic fjord sediments by subsurface micro-organisms38
Proto-monsoon rainfall and greening in Central Asia due to extreme early Eocene warmth38
Atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment37
Lower oceanic crust formed by in situ melt crystallization revealed by seismic layering37
Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures37
Lessons from the Nile about rivers and society37
Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands37
An extended pan-North African humid period within the warm Pliocene37
Biogeochemistry of Earth before exoenzymes36
Stress-driven recurrence and precursory moment-rate surge in caldera collapse earthquakes36
Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth’s early biosphere36
Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography36
Presence of continental slivers in oceanic transform faults determined by rift inheritance36
A reduction in aerolized ammonium in the rural USA and increased ammonia deposition near emission hotspots36
Episodic warm climates on early Mars primed by crustal hydration35
Drivers of global glacial erosion rates35
Methane leakage through the sulfate–methane transition zone of the Baltic seabed35
Archaean oxygen oases driven by pulses of enhanced phosphorus recycling in the ocean35
Widespread partial-depth hydrofractures in ice sheets driven by supraglacial streams35
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events35
Tackling helicopter research35
Enrichment of metastable iron minerals in global coastal wetlands34
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability34
Decline in bulk deposition of air pollutants in China lags behind reductions in emissions34
Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales34
Coupled decline in ocean pH and carbonate saturation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum34
Aftershocks of megathrust earthquakes undergo a central shutdown and surrounding activation33
The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling33
Garnet the gift that keeps on giving33
Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations33
Top-down control on water subduction33
Author Correction: An unshakable carbon budget for the Himalaya33
Large-scale ice-shelf calving events follow prolonged amplifications in flexure32
The extra climate benefits of solar farms32
Contribution of lake littoral zones to the continental carbon budget32
Connecting geology to ecology32
A conversation on air pollution in China32
Upwelling of melt-depleted mantle under Iceland32
Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations32
Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet32
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters31
Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow on Venus consistent with active rifting31
An initial map of fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth’s inner core31
High-altitude glacier archives lost due to climate change-related melting31
Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries31
Soil carbon sequestration enhanced by long-term nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization31
Late Miocene onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica indicated by meteoric beryllium-10 in permafrost31
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade30
Advancing geoscience with AI30
Moon’s crustal porosity records impact history30
Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability30
A rock record of H2 production in the ancient Earth30
Permafrost cooled in winter by thermal bridging through snow-covered shrub branches30
Fluctuating evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event29
Diurnal warming rectification in the tropical Pacific linked to sea surface temperature front29
Benthic δ18O records Earth’s energy imbalance29
Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science29
Mediterranean summer marine heatwaves triggered by weaker winds under subtropical ridges29
The value of scientific ocean drilling for early career researchers29
Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau driven by mantle delamination from the overriding plate29
Utility of artificial intelligence in geoscience28
Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift28
Composition of asteroid Bennu transformed by aqueous alteration28
Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid28
Rapid crustal transit of magmas beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift28
Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon27
Sea-level stability over geological time owing to limited deep subduction of hydrated mantle27
Adapting to AI27
Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling27
Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes27
Positive correlation between wet-day frequency and intensity linked to universal precipitation drivers27
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration26
Phosphorus’s cosmic courier26
Author Correction: An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos26
Confronting the water potential information gap26
Long-term eruption forecasting26
Closed ocean gateways in the Canadian archipelago are key to glaciation in Scandinavia26
Warming beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf due to increased subpolar westerlies and reduced sea ice26
Noble gas evidence of a millennial-scale deep North Pacific palaeo-barometric anomaly26
Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day26
Mitigating sinkhole hazards intensified by climate change26
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
Save the data25
Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments25
Carbon storage in coastal wetlands25
Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum25
Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest25
The Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau formed through plume–ridge interaction25
Author Correction: Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing25
Multidecadal persistence of soil carbon gains on retired cropland following fertilizer cessation25
Bombardment history of the Moon constrained by crustal porosity24
Inhibition of autotrophic nitrifiers in a nitrogen-rich paddy soil by elevated CO224
Diminishing lake area across the northern permafrost zone24
Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination24
Asthenospheric low-velocity zone consistent with globally prevalent partial melting24
A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow24
Global patterns of organic carbon transfer and accumulation across the land–ocean continuum constrained by radiocarbon data24
Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume24
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates24
Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification23
Dust emission increases following large wildfires23
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport23
River capture enhances the uplift of Chomolungma22
Author Correction: Global emergent responses of stream microbial energetics to glacier shrinkage22
A high-resolution global model nails down the primary driving force of the India–Asia collision22
Publisher Correction: Atmospheric methane variability through the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation mainly controlled by tropical sources22
Tectonics of copper mineralization22
Solid Earth forcing of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events22
Satellite data show increased biomass carbon stocks in northern young forests22
Satellite data shows Antarctic Peninsula glaciers flow faster in summer22
Deglaciation drove seawater infiltration and slowed submarine groundwater discharge22
Global patterns in river water storage dependent on residence time22
Earth science looks to outer space22
Emergence of wind ripples controlled by mechanics of grain–bed impacts21
A partially molten mantle21
Indo-Pacific regional extremes aggravated by changes in tropical weather patterns21
Late Miocene Arctic warmth and terrestrial climate recorded by North Greenland speleothems21
Multi-decadal collapse of East Antarctica’s Conger–Glenzer Ice Shelf21
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