OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 84. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Source–sink switch	850
Warmth shifts symbionts	345
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers	310
High chances of rainbows	309
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South	281
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity	270
Glaciers give way to new coasts	260
Attributing soybean production shocks	231
Behaviour as leverage	229
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds	224
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab	215
Paris Agreement after 10 years	215
Plants countering downpours	212
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	193
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South	191
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes	190
Transition risk in the banking sector	190
Warming erodes climate connectivity for terrestrial vertebrates	184
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage	180
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets	179
Shifts in experiencing downpours	173
Attributing carbon to capital owners	163
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	158
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage	158
Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience	156

Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	155
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake	154
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America	151
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming	150
Why longer seasons with climate change may not increase tree growth	147
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change	146
Ecological novelty induced by climate change	144
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections	141
National models of climate governance among major emitters	139
Tasty plants and helpful ants	135
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter	133
Heated beetles	133
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s	128
Biased reports of species range shifts	126
Interventions in education	122
Pathways to a safer planet	120
The effects on children	120
Going beyond averages	119
Technological advances mitigate the impact of climate change on electric vehicle battery lifetimes	117
Research that captures a changing world	116
Identifying critical intervention points for the prevention of cascading climate impacts	116
Duplicating genomes to survive the heat	114
Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change	113
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100	113
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming	111
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change	110
Challenges of institutional adaptation	110
Early signs that the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism is reshaping EU–India steel trade	109
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate	108
Discrepancies in national inventories reveal a large emissions gap in the wastewater sector	108
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators	107
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes	106
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power	106
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs	104
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points	104
Targeted tropical forest restoration can offset deforestation-induced water flux losses	104
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change	102
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production	101
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy	101
Status of global coastal adaptation	100
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation	100
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks	100
Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population	98
Increasing tropical cyclone rainfall and landslide risk in Southern California	97
Canopy-mediated climate feedbacks in the boreal continuous permafrost zone	97
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	95
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes	93
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts	93
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes	92
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	92

The rich bear their fair share of climate costs	90
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability	90
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation	88
Net greenhouse gas source	85
Emergency loan	85
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa	85
The costs of flexible sale of reserves	85
Promising climate progress from net-zero ambitions to the Paris Agreement goal	84
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system	84
Responsible carbon accounting	84