OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 82. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Source–sink switch	792
Warmth shifts symbionts	371
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers	316
High chances of rainbows	295
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South	286
Why longer seasons with climate change may not increase tree growth	270
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity	251
Glaciers give way to new coasts	240
Attributing soybean production shocks	237
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	236
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility	210
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage	203
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets	200
Behaviour as leverage	197
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America	195
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds	194
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab	193
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections	187
Plants countering downpours	186
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	180
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South	174
Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience	171
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage	168
Paris Agreement after 10 years	164
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	164

Transition risk in the banking sector	161
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change	158
National models of climate governance among major emitters	151
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming	147
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes	141
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	140
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change	138
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake	136
Crabs retreat from heat	135
Tasty plants and helpful ants	135
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter	134
Heated beetles	131
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s	130
Biased reports of species range shifts	128
Interventions in education	127
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators	126
The effects on children	123
Pathways to a safer planet	118
Discrepancies in national inventories reveal a large emissions gap in the wastewater sector	116
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol	116
Challenges of institutional adaptation	113
Going beyond averages	113
Technological advances mitigate the impact of climate change on electric vehicle battery lifetimes	112
Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change	110
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability	107
Research that captures a changing world	107
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks	105
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change	103
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation	102
Identifying critical intervention points for the prevention of cascading climate impacts	101
Duplicating genomes to survive the heat	101
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100	100
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs	100
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change	98
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate	97
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas	97
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming	97
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry	96
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production	96
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere	96
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts	96
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes	95
Status of global coastal adaptation	94
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power	93
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy	92
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes	91
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	90
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points	89
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	89
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs	87

Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes	87
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation	86
Emergency loan	86
Tidal melt	86
The costs of flexible sale of reserves	85
Net greenhouse gas source	82
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts	82