OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 83. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Warmth shifts symbionts	578
Hotspots for nitrogen	572
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers	410
High chances of rainbows	401
Making action the norm	353
Source–sink switch	344
Behaviour as leverage	318
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming	299
The year 2020	295
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change	281
Plants countering downpours	279
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change	265
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections	257
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets	249
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South	246
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity	238
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility	204
The value of values in climate science	198
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America	197
Attributing soybean production shocks	196
Glaciers give way to new coasts	194
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds	178
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab	173
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation	171
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change	165

Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake	165
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	164
National models of climate governance among major emitters	163
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	160
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South	157
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil	156
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation	151
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage	150
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes	148
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	143
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	143
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage	142
Bird–plant dispersal limits	138
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	138
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter	135
Tasty plants and helpful ants	134
Heated beetles	134
Crabs retreat from heat	132
The effects on children	132
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s	129
Going beyond averages	128
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points	125
Antarctic fast-ice trends	125
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes	123
Status of global coastal adaptation	122
Challenges of institutional adaptation	121
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators	121
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks	121
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change	117
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021	116
Labour reallocation as adaptation	115
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	112
Litigation needs the latest science	108
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs	108
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers	107
Buildings at risk	106
Biased reports of species range shifts	104
Interventions in education	102
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity	100
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production	99
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change	97
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming	97
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend	94
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere	93
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	92
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry	91
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol	91
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes	90
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas	89
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability	88

Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100	88
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy	88
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts	86
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	85
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation	85
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure	84
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding	84
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate	83