Nature Geoscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Geoscience is 21. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere593
Silica in a state of shock419
Deformation-controlled long-period seismicity in low-cohesion volcanic sediments251
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks220
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion216
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments201
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome179
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites179
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state157
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition156
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment147
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes141
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature140
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust136
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply127
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure127
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases123
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source116
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs116
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life115
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs114
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010109
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest109
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight109
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers108
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling104
Author Correction: Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation103
Arctic rivers tell tales of change102
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores102
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination98
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue98
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere97
Complexities of coastal resilience96
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion92
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep92
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US92
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill91
Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming86
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies83
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years82
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes81
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean80
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction78
The bedrock of forest drought78
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion77
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation77
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter76
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening74
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming74
Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood72
Increased terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage associated with global utility-scale photovoltaic installation71
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs70
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires69
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers69
Small but mighty sperrylite68
A conversation on air pollution in India67
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics67
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe66
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas65
Methane’s unknowns better known65
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle64
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities64
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine63
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions62
Galactic messages carried by moissanite61
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum61
Sulfur isotopic signature of Earth established by planetesimal volatile evaporation59
Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years58
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States58
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming58
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes57
Late Miocene cooling coupled to carbon dioxide with Pleistocene-like climate sensitivity57
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific57
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene56
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water56
Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland56
Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols54
Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants54
Geophysical imaging of fluids in the Cascadia subduction zone53
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought53
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services53
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
ENSO complexity controlled by zonal shifts in the Walker circulation51
Atmosphere-altered sediments were recycled into the mantle across the Great Oxidation Event51
Emergence of felsic crust and subaerial weathering recorded in Palaeoarchaean barite51
Estimates of global marine plastic mass demystify the missing plastic paradox50
Sulfur evaporation in planetesimals49
Warmer shallow Atlantic during deglaciation and early Holocene due to weaker overturning circulation49
Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation49
Large-scale mantle heterogeneity as a legacy of plate tectonic supercycles49
Oxygen-rich melt in deep magma oceans49
Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles48
Slow slip along the Hikurangi margin linked to fluid-rich sediments trailing subducting seamounts48
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 caldera47
Carbon fate in lowland rivers47
Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier46
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya46
Long-distance migration and venting of methane from the base of the hydrate stability zone46
Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites46
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor46
Groundwater springs formed during glacial retreat are a large source of methane in the high Arctic45
Marine heatwaves are occurring globally below the sea surface with increasing frequency45
Production of Neoproterozoic banded iron formations in a partially ice-covered ocean45
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe45
Planetary science blasts off in China44
Author Correction: Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation43
Proto-monsoon rainfall and greening in Central Asia due to extreme early Eocene warmth42
The problem with dolomite42
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates42
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation42
Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion42
Grain-size-evolution controls on lithospheric weakening during continental rifting41
Observational constraints imply limited future Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening41
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era40
Mercury fluxes from hydrothermal venting at mid-ocean ridges constrained by measurements40
Arctic Ocean’s wintertime mercury concentrations limited by seasonal loss on the shelf40
Rise in dust emissions from burned landscapes primarily driven by small fires40
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris40
Geological evidence for multiple climate transitions on Early Mars40
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise40
Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming40
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon39
The crystal timekeeper zircon39
Author Correction: Fossil organic carbon utilization in marine Arctic fjord sediments by subsurface micro-organisms38
Increased urban ozone in heatwaves due to temperature-induced emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds38
Triggers of Chile’s mega-earthquakes38
The mantle’s influence on the long-term behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field38
Methane leakage through the sulfate–methane transition zone of the Baltic seabed37
Episodic warm climates on early Mars primed by crustal hydration37
Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact37
Biogeochemistry of Earth before exoenzymes36
Widespread partial-depth hydrofractures in ice sheets driven by supraglacial streams36
An extended pan-North African humid period within the warm Pliocene36
Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth’s early biosphere36
Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures36
Lessons from the Nile about rivers and society35
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability35
A reduction in aerolized ammonium in the rural USA and increased ammonia deposition near emission hotspots35
Stress-driven recurrence and precursory moment-rate surge in caldera collapse earthquakes34
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events34
Coupled decline in ocean pH and carbonate saturation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum34
Tackling helicopter research34
Lower oceanic crust formed by in situ melt crystallization revealed by seismic layering34
Presence of continental slivers in oceanic transform faults determined by rift inheritance34
Drivers of global glacial erosion rates33
Decline in bulk deposition of air pollutants in China lags behind reductions in emissions33
Atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment33
Archaean oxygen oases driven by pulses of enhanced phosphorus recycling in the ocean33
Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands33
Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography33
Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales33
Enrichment of metastable iron minerals in global coastal wetlands33
Aftershocks of megathrust earthquakes undergo a central shutdown and surrounding activation33
Author Correction: An unshakable carbon budget for the Himalaya32
Connecting geology to ecology32
Garnet the gift that keeps on giving32
The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling32
Top-down control on water subduction32
Large-scale ice-shelf calving events follow prolonged amplifications in flexure32
Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations32
Permafrost cooled in winter by thermal bridging through snow-covered shrub branches31
Late Miocene onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica indicated by meteoric beryllium-10 in permafrost31
The extra climate benefits of solar farms31
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade31
Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet31
Upwelling of melt-depleted mantle under Iceland31
Advancing geoscience with AI31
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters30
Contribution of lake littoral zones to the continental carbon budget30
An initial map of fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth’s inner core30
Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations30
High-altitude glacier archives lost due to climate change-related melting30
Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries30
Soil carbon sequestration enhanced by long-term nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization30
Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability30
A conversation on air pollution in China29
Moon’s crustal porosity records impact history29
Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow on Venus consistent with active rifting29
Sea-level stability over geological time owing to limited deep subduction of hydrated mantle29
A rock record of H2 production in the ancient Earth29
Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science29
Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes28
Confronting the water potential information gap28
Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling28
The value of scientific ocean drilling for early career researchers28
Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon28
Positive correlation between wet-day frequency and intensity linked to universal precipitation drivers27
Benthic δ18O records Earth’s energy imbalance27
Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau driven by mantle delamination from the overriding plate27
Diurnal warming rectification in the tropical Pacific linked to sea surface temperature front27
Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift27
Fluctuating evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event27
Mediterranean summer marine heatwaves triggered by weaker winds under subtropical ridges27
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration26
Mitigating sinkhole hazards intensified by climate change26
Rapid crustal transit of magmas beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift26
Author Correction: Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing26
Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid26
Utility of artificial intelligence in geoscience26
Warming beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf due to increased subpolar westerlies and reduced sea ice26
Adapting to AI26
Composition of asteroid Bennu transformed by aqueous alteration26
Closed ocean gateways in the Canadian archipelago are key to glaciation in Scandinavia25
Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day25
Phosphorus’s cosmic courier25
The Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau formed through plume–ridge interaction25
Noble gas evidence of a millennial-scale deep North Pacific palaeo-barometric anomaly25
Long-term eruption forecasting25
Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume25
Author Correction: An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos25
Save the data24
Multidecadal persistence of soil carbon gains on retired cropland following fertilizer cessation24
Global patterns of organic carbon transfer and accumulation across the land–ocean continuum constrained by radiocarbon data24
Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification24
Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum24
Carbon dioxide enrichment suppresses autotrophic nitrifiers in a rice ecosystem24
Bombardment history of the Moon constrained by crustal porosity24
Carbon storage in coastal wetlands24
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates23
Asthenospheric low-velocity zone consistent with globally prevalent partial melting23
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport23
Dust emission increases following large wildfires23
Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination23
Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments23
Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru23
Diminishing lake area across the northern permafrost zone23
A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow23
Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest23
Inhibition of autotrophic nitrifiers in a nitrogen-rich paddy soil by elevated CO223
Satellite data shows Antarctic Peninsula glaciers flow faster in summer22
Satellite data show increased biomass carbon stocks in northern young forests22
Publisher Correction: Atmospheric methane variability through the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation mainly controlled by tropical sources22
A partially molten mantle22
Earth science looks to outer space22
Tectonics of copper mineralization22
Emergence of wind ripples controlled by mechanics of grain–bed impacts21
River capture enhances the uplift of Chomolungma21
Constraining aerosol deposition over the global ocean21
Persistent late Permian to Early Triassic warmth linked to enhanced reverse weathering21
Machine learning in Earth and environmental science requires education and research policy reforms21
Multi-decadal collapse of East Antarctica’s Conger–Glenzer Ice Shelf21
Annual variations in phytoplankton biomass driven by small-scale physical processes21
Author Correction: Global emergent responses of stream microbial energetics to glacier shrinkage21
Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation21
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