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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere366
Silica in a state of shock320
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state295
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs267
Kaolinite’s many lives250
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases222
Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard221
Indigenous knowledge and volcanic disaster risk reduction199
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion166
Extreme weather event accountability164
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments157
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source155
Combined warming and rising CO2 limit phosphorus availability in rice paddies154
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life145
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment142
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition138
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks138
A new paradigm for understanding Earth’s marine ice sheets136
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites131
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature128
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs125
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome115
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight115
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010114
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest114
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure113
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers112
Arctic rivers tell tales of change112
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination111
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US110
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling110
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill109
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep107
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue106
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean104
Tightening the Sargassum belt102
The bedrock of forest drought101
Water isotope–temperature relationship variability across Antarctica set by atmospheric circulation97
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation92
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets90
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores89
Managing nitrogen for food and environment86
Author Correction: Antarctic ice-shelf collapse in Holocene driven by meltwater release feedbacks86
Fingerprints of stratospheric particle transport and fallout86
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years85
Multi-year La Niña–El Niño transition influenced Earth’s extreme energy uptake in 2022–202385
Contrasting trends in very large hail events and related economic losses across the globe83
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion82
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere81
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction79
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies77
Major terrestrial contribution to the dissolved organic carbon budget in the Arctic Ocean76
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes76
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming75
Small but mighty sperrylite74
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe73
Methane’s unknowns better known73
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum72
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas70
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine70
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities70
A conversation on air pollution in India69
Galactic messages carried by moissanite67
Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants67
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific66
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers65
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs64
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions64
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States63
Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland62
Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years61
Deep crustal relamination drives post-collisional magmatism61
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening61
Stratospheric cooling and amplification of radiative forcing with rising carbon dioxide60
Reduction of tropical cyclone-induced ocean carbon outgassing since 199359
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle59
Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood59
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics58
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services58
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires58
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements58
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene58
Increased terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage associated with global utility-scale photovoltaic installation57
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water57
Late Miocene cooling coupled to carbon dioxide with Pleistocene-like climate sensitivity56
The hidden warming effects of the degradation of tropical moist forests55
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought55
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming55
Atmosphere-altered sediments were recycled into the mantle across the Great Oxidation Event55
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes55
Oxygen-rich melt in deep magma oceans53
ENSO complexity controlled by zonal shifts in the Walker circulation52
Slow slip along the Hikurangi margin linked to fluid-rich sediments trailing subducting seamounts52
Spodumene’s energy journey52
Dissolved organic phosphorus concentrations in the surface ocean controlled by both phosphate and iron stress52
Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles52
Geophysical imaging of fluids in the Cascadia subduction zone51
Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation50
Long-distance migration and venting of methane from the base of the hydrate stability zone50
Anti-phased changes in Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength over orbital timescales50
Ocean iron fertilization from enhanced mid-ocean-ridge volcanism due to ice-age sea-level falls49
Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier49
Estimates of global marine plastic mass demystify the missing plastic paradox49
Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites49
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya49
Warmer shallow Atlantic during deglaciation and early Holocene due to weaker overturning circulation49
Large-scale mantle heterogeneity as a legacy of plate tectonic supercycles49
Groundwater springs formed during glacial retreat are a large source of methane in the high Arctic48
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe48
Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples48
Planetary science blasts off in China48
Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera48
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor48
Author Correction: Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation47
Warming and snow loss increase reliance on old groundwater in a Colorado River headwater45
Marine heatwaves are occurring globally below the sea surface with increasing frequency45
Sedimentary conditions drive modern pyrite burial flux to exceed oxidation45
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era45
Submarine talus may contribute to climate cooling45
Arctic Ocean’s wintertime mercury concentrations limited by seasonal loss on the shelf45
Proto-monsoon rainfall and greening in Central Asia due to extreme early Eocene warmth45
A fan-shaped subglacial basin province in East Antarctica formed by rotational extension44
Increased sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to decreasing CO2 across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition44
Diminished Ross Ice Shelf and West Antarctic Ice Sheet during Last Interglacial warming44
Rise in dust emissions from burned landscapes primarily driven by small fires43
Observed stratospheric mean age decrease consistent with circulation acceleration43
Mercury fluxes from hydrothermal venting at mid-ocean ridges constrained by measurements43
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation43
Contrasting drivers of South Asian summer and winter monsoon evolution during the last deglaciation43
Observational constraints imply limited future Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening42
Production of Neoproterozoic banded iron formations in a partially ice-covered ocean42
The problem with dolomite41
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise41
The crystal timekeeper zircon41
Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion41
Geological evidence for multiple climate transitions on Early Mars41
Increased urban ozone in heatwaves due to temperature-induced emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds40
Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming40
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon40
Large-scale aggregation of humid heatwaves exacerbated by coastal oceanic warming40
Triggers of Chile’s mega-earthquakes39
The mantle’s influence on the long-term behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field39
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris39
Inversion modelling shows increasing hydrofluorocarbon emissions38
Author Correction: Fossil organic carbon utilization in marine Arctic fjord sediments by subsurface micro-organisms38
An extended pan-North African humid period within the warm Pliocene38
The far reach of fires38
A reduction in aerolized ammonium in the rural USA and increased ammonia deposition near emission hotspots38
Tackling helicopter research38
Estimation of hydrofluorocarbon emissions from China and other non-Annex I countries38
Presence of continental slivers in oceanic transform faults determined by rift inheritance38
Lessons from the Nile about rivers and society38
Drivers of global glacial erosion rates37
Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography37
Biogeochemistry of Earth before exoenzymes37
Widespread partial-depth hydrofractures in ice sheets driven by supraglacial streams37
Archaean oxygen oases driven by pulses of enhanced phosphorus recycling in the ocean37
Coupled decline in ocean pH and carbonate saturation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum37
Stress-driven recurrence and precursory moment-rate surge in caldera collapse earthquakes37
Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures36
Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands36
Episodic warm climates on early Mars primed by crustal hydration36
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events36
Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales36
Landfalling tropical cyclones accelerate due to land–sea thermal and roughness contrasts36
Widespread deoxygenation of freshwater ecosystems regularly reversed by nutrient management35
Atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment35
Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact35
Methane leakage through the sulfate–methane transition zone of the Baltic seabed35
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability34
The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling34
Enrichment of metastable iron minerals in global coastal wetlands34
Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth’s early biosphere34
Consumers of nitrite help nitrite accumulate in anoxic oceanic zones33
Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations33
Advancing geoscience with AI33
High-altitude glacier archives lost due to climate change-related melting33
Late Miocene onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica indicated by meteoric beryllium-10 in permafrost33
The extra climate benefits of solar farms33
Garnet the gift that keeps on giving32
A conversation on air pollution in China32
Global water security threatened by rising inequality31
Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations31
Climate impacts from North American boreal forest fires31
Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet31
Large-scale ice-shelf calving events follow prolonged amplifications in flexure31
Urban black-carbon radiative heating intensified by biogenic–anthropogenic interactions31
Upwelling of melt-depleted mantle under Iceland31
Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow on Venus consistent with active rifting31
Contribution of lake littoral zones to the continental carbon budget30
Connecting geology to ecology30
Permafrost cooled in winter by thermal bridging through snow-covered shrub branches30
Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries30
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters30
Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science29
Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability29
Fluctuating evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event29
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade29
The value of scientific ocean drilling for early career researchers29
Soil carbon sequestration enhanced by long-term nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization29
A rock record of H2 production in the ancient Earth29
Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes28
Moon’s crustal porosity records impact history28
Adapting to AI28
Composition of asteroid Bennu transformed by aqueous alteration28
Diurnal warming rectification in the tropical Pacific linked to sea surface temperature front28
Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid28
Mediterranean summer marine heatwaves triggered by weaker winds under subtropical ridges27
Widespread peat carbon losses driven by the 2025 Scottish megafire27
Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau driven by mantle delamination from the overriding plate27
Mitigating sinkhole hazards intensified by climate change27
Natural forest expansion is a larger carbon sink than secondary forests in moist tropics27
Utility of artificial intelligence in geoscience26
Formalization of co-review26
Warming beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf due to increased subpolar westerlies and reduced sea ice26
Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling25
Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon25
Phosphorus’s cosmic courier25
Positive correlation between wet-day frequency and intensity linked to universal precipitation drivers25
Rapid crustal transit of magmas beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift25
Noble gas evidence of a millennial-scale deep North Pacific palaeo-barometric anomaly25
Benthic δ18O records Earth’s energy imbalance25
Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift25
Multidecadal persistence of soil carbon gains on retired cropland following fertilizer cessation24
Addendum: Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets24
Carbon dioxide enrichment suppresses autotrophic nitrifiers in a rice ecosystem24
Save the data24
Carbon storage in coastal wetlands24
Inhibition of autotrophic nitrifiers in a nitrogen-rich paddy soil by elevated CO224
The Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau formed through plume–ridge interaction24
Author Correction: An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos24
Diminishing lake area across the northern permafrost zone24
Bombardment history of the Moon constrained by crustal porosity24
Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination23
Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest23
Asthenospheric low-velocity zone consistent with globally prevalent partial melting23
Global patterns of organic carbon transfer and accumulation across the land–ocean continuum constrained by radiocarbon data23
Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum23
Costs and benefits of halving nitrogen waste for global sustainable development goals23
Gas hydrate dissolution triggered by subglacial groundwater flushing during deglaciation23
Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification23
Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day23
Poleward migration of tropical cyclones over 1980–2024 is dominated by Pacific variability23
Mining mine wastes for sustainable value creation23
Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments23
Dust emission increases following large wildfires22
Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume22
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport22
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates22
A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow22
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