Nature Climate Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Climate Change is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Making action the norm707
Source–sink switch443
Warmth shifts symbionts413
Hotspots for nitrogen330
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers322
High chances of rainbows299
Behaviour as leverage289
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change258
Plants countering downpours250
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity230
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming226
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change218
Paris Agreement after 10 years205
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South205
Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience200
Why longer seasons with climate change may not increase tree growth199
Glaciers give way to new coasts198
Attributing soybean production shocks189
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation185
The value of values in climate science177
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets176
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation176
Transition risk in the banking sector171
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage170
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake169
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets167
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections167
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets166
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility166
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change156
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change155
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds152
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab148
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021145
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States144
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America140
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South140
National models of climate governance among major emitters138
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes138
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage137
Crabs retreat from heat132
Tasty plants and helpful ants131
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter130
Heated beetles128
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s123
Biased reports of species range shifts118
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change116
Interventions in education116
Pathways to a safer planet115
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry113
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs113
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere112
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate112
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy109
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding108
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points107
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production106
The effects on children104
Identifying critical intervention points for the prevention of cascading climate impacts102
Duplicating genomes to survive the heat98
Challenges of institutional adaptation96
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas96
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change96
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 210094
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments94
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts93
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators92
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks91
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol91
Going beyond averages89
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes89
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets88
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere88
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming88
Status of global coastal adaptation86
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes86
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability85
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes84
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power82
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation81
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs80
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience80
More rain, less often79
Tidal melt79
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation79
Emergency loan78
Net greenhouse gas source77
The Global South is the climate movement’s unsung leader77
The costs of flexible sale of reserves77
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa76
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts76
Free riding in climate protests75
The mortality cost of climate change75
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change74
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades74
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing73
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205073
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters72
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases72
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints72
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities72
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change71
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors71
Hidden deep soil moisture droughts71
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average70
Why residual emissions matter right now70
The Global Stocktake at COP2870
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes69
Private sector investments in climate change adaptation68
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change67
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide67
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming67
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system67
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction67
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws66
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry66
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration66
Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus65
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes64
National adaptation plans63
Consider physiology when translocating animals63
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates61
Drought and electricity61
Plant processes matter60
Art of communicating60
Data under duress60
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature59
Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire59
Climate change debates59
Scope for waterfowl to speed up migration to a warming Arctic58
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience58
Climate change raises costs for European forestry58
Anticipating climate impacts on nutrition through climate–crop nutrient modelling56
Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments56
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world56
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans56
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply56
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling55
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling55
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes54
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds54
The increasing relevance of phenology to conservation54
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes54
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming53
Overlooked toll of climate change on migrant children in the Americas53
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change53
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation52
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201351
Soil carbon is the blind spot of European national GHG inventories51
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies50
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence50
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting50
Shifting rains49
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy49
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation49
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties49
Science-based targets49
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical49
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction48
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation48
Big homes hinder emission cuts48
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees47
Widespread revisions of self-reported emissions by major US corporations47
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203047
Mountain rivers warming46
Negative verbal probabilities undermine communication of climate science46
Structural lock-ins in tourism decarbonization and the alternative46
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users46
Small step funding models fit better for climate research46
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought46
African perspectives on climate change research46
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake46
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model45
Rivers accelerate and slow as temperatures rise45
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire45
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research45
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world44
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming44
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide44
Firm emissions reduction44
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk44
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates44
Potential hydropower contribution to mitigate climate risk and build resilience in Africa43
Expanding rivers on the Greenland ice sheet’s surface drain more meltwater into the sea43
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts43
Social-media tracks43
The carbon dioxide removal gap43
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions43
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths42
The forest is not yet lost42
Emerging risks along Arctic coastlines42
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system42
Development policy affects coastal flood exposure in China more than sea-level rise42
A deep dive into climate connectivity41
Funding African-led climate initiatives41
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C41
Author Correction: Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments40
Mountain glaciers will lose their cooling capacity as they shrink40
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies40
Peaking productivity by 206040
Rough years ahead40
Current and future methane emissions from boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes39
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning39
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies39
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide38
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer38
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation38
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem38
Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal37
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes37
The promise and limitations of using GenAI to reduce climate scepticism37
Artificial light reduces ecosystem carbon sinks37
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges37
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes36
Resolving the changing pace of Arctic rivers36
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise36
Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets36
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change35
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe35
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere35
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance35
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C35
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate35
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance34
Careering ahead34
Policies and investment34
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks34
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195034
Bats show hibernation flexibility33
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states33
Understanding eco-anxiety33
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change33
Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum33
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection33
Flood-induced selective migration patterns examined33
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile33
Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes33
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model32
Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data32
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown32
A framework for considering justice aspects in integrated wildfire risk management32
Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash32
Future warming from global food consumption31
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific31
Energy and socioeconomic system transformation through a decade of IPCC-assessed scenarios31
Ocean warming and warning31
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties31
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice30
Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming30
Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation30
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