OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 80. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Making action the norm	707
Source–sink switch	443
Warmth shifts symbionts	413
Hotspots for nitrogen	330
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers	322
High chances of rainbows	299
Behaviour as leverage	289
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change	258
Plants countering downpours	250
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity	230
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming	226
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change	218
Paris Agreement after 10 years	205
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South	205
Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience	200
Why longer seasons with climate change may not increase tree growth	199
Glaciers give way to new coasts	198
Attributing soybean production shocks	189
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation	185
The value of values in climate science	177
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation	176
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	176
Transition risk in the banking sector	171
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage	170
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake	169

Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections	167
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	167
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility	166
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets	166
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	156
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change	155
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds	152
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab	148
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	145
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	144
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America	140
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South	140
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes	138
National models of climate governance among major emitters	138
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage	137
Crabs retreat from heat	132
Tasty plants and helpful ants	131
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter	130
Heated beetles	128
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s	123
Biased reports of species range shifts	118
Interventions in education	116
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change	116
Pathways to a safer planet	115
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs	113
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry	113
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	112
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate	112
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy	109
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding	108
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points	107
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production	106
The effects on children	104
Identifying critical intervention points for the prevention of cascading climate impacts	102
Duplicating genomes to survive the heat	98
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas	96
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change	96
Challenges of institutional adaptation	96
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	94
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100	94
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts	93
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators	92
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks	91
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol	91
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes	89
Going beyond averages	89
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere	88
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming	88
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	88
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes	86

Status of global coastal adaptation	86
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability	85
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes	84
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power	82
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation	81
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience	80
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs	80