OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 81. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Warmth shifts symbionts	542
Hotspots for nitrogen	522
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers	383
Ecosystem energy exchange	378
High chances of rainbows	374
Making action the norm	332
Source–sink switch	314
Behaviour as leverage	298
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity	275
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming	269
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South	259
The year 2020	255
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change	246
Plants countering downpours	245
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change	221
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections	220
Attributing soybean production shocks	220
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake	208
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South	193
Glaciers give way to new coasts	186
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility	183
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets	174
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation	174
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil	164
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	160

Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change	155
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab	151
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation	150
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage	149
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds	149
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes	147
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage	145
Emergence of seasonal delay of tropical rainfall during 1979–2019	143
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	140
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America	140
The value of values in climate science	139
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	136
National models of climate governance among major emitters	135
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	134
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	130
Bird–plant dispersal limits	128
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter	126
Heated beetles	125
Tasty plants and helpful ants	124
Crabs retreat from heat	123
The effects on children	121
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate	119
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s	119
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy	115
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming	114
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere	114
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100	113
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts	113
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021	112
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change	112
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators	112
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	109
Labour reallocation as adaptation	109
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs	107
Litigation needs the latest science	106
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change	106
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers	104
Buildings at risk	103
Biased reports of species range shifts	102
Interventions in education	101
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes	99
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol	95
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas	95
Antarctic fast-ice trends	95
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity	95
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure	94
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points	94
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry	92
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	92
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience	92

Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes	88
Status of global coastal adaptation	87
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes	84
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability	84
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power	83
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding	83
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation	81
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks	81