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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Making action the norm657
Source–sink switch652
Warmth shifts symbionts433
Hotspots for nitrogen390
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers335
High chances of rainbows329
Behaviour as leverage312
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change292
Plants countering downpours290
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South277
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change268
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets236
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation223
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake217
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil203
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change203
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets188
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America186
Transition risk in the banking sector186
Glaciers give way to new coasts183
Attributing soybean production shocks181
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South180
National models of climate governance among major emitters173
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation167
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage165
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab163
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity162
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds162
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming160
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections160
The value of values in climate science157
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States154
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021152
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets149
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility147
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change144
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes140
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage140
Crabs retreat from heat139
Tasty plants and helpful ants135
Heated beetles134
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter134
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s127
Interventions in education126
Biased reports of species range shifts126
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021125
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments123
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol118
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change118
Antarctic fast-ice trends116
The effects on children113
Challenges of institutional adaptation113
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding111
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power109
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change109
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend107
Going beyond averages106
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy105
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming103
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas101
Identifying critical intervention points for the prevention of cascading climate impacts99
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs99
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes99
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production98
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points96
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes94
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate94
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators94
Duplicating genomes to survive the heat93
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere92
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation91
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 210089
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts88
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks85
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere85
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry85
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes85
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets84
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience84
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability83
Status of global coastal adaptation83
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation81
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs81
Tidal melt80
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors80
More rain, less often79
Emergency loan79
The costs of flexible sale of reserves79
Net greenhouse gas source78
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa78
Free riding in climate protests77
Private sector investments in climate change adaptation75
The Global South is the climate movement’s unsung leader75
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters74
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes73
The mortality cost of climate change73
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades72
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities71
The Global Stocktake at COP2871
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change70
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints70
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change70
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205070
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average70
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change70
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts69
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction69
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases68
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry68
Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus68
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration67
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming67
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system66
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide66
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing66
Why residual emissions matter right now66
Consider physiology when translocating animals65
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes65
National adaptation plans65
Drought and electricity65
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws65
Warming spins up the Southern Ocean64
Art of communicating64
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates64
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience63
Author Correction: Counterbalancing influences of aerosols and greenhouse gases on atmospheric rivers63
Plant processes matter62
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies62
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes62
Data under duress62
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature62
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201361
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world61
Scope for waterfowl to speed up migration to a warming Arctic60
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming60
Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire60
Climate change debates60
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes57
Climate change raises costs for European forestry57
Soil carbon is the blind spot of European national GHG inventories56
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans56
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling56
Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments55
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds55
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change55
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply54
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence54
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling54
Near-term transition and longer-term physical climate risks of greenhouse gas emissions pathways53
Anticipating climate impacts on nutrition through climate–crop nutrient modelling53
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation52
Firm emissions reduction52
The increasing relevance of phenology to conservation52
Shifting rains52
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting52
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy51
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical51
Science-based targets51
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties51
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation51
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction51
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation50
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire50
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees50
Mountain rivers warming50
The carbon dioxide removal gap49
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming48
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought48
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research47
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates47
Advancing transdisciplinary adaptation research practice47
Small step funding models fit better for climate research46
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users46
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203045
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model45
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world45
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake45
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide45
African perspectives on climate change research44
Big homes hinder emission cuts44
Potential hydropower contribution to mitigate climate risk and build resilience in Africa44
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts44
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk44
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions44
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies43
Social-media tracks43
Expanding rivers on the Greenland ice sheet’s surface drain more meltwater into the sea43
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system42
The forest is not yet lost42
Current and future methane emissions from boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes42
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C41
A deep dive into climate connectivity41
The promise and limitations of using GenAI to reduce climate scepticism41
Funding African-led climate initiatives41
Mountain glaciers will lose their cooling capacity as they shrink41
Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets41
Rough years ahead41
Author Correction: Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments40
Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations40
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change40
Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal40
Development policy affects coastal flood exposure in China more than sea-level rise39
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation39
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes39
Peaking productivity by 206039
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance39
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem39
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies39
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer38
Emerging risks along Arctic coastlines38
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths38
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise37
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being37
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate37
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges37
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C37
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes37
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide37
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe37
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere36
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being36
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning35
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance34
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change34
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks34
Policies and investment34
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown34
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195034
Understanding eco-anxiety34
Careering ahead34
Flood-induced selective migration patterns examined33
Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation33
Bats show hibernation flexibility33
Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming33
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile33
Spring phenology alters vegetation drought recovery33
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production32
Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data32
Ocean warming and warning32
Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash32
Energy and socioeconomic system transformation through a decade of IPCC-assessed scenarios31
A framework for considering justice aspects in integrated wildfire risk management31
Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia31
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection31
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model31
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice31
Future warming from global food consumption31
Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum30
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states30
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties30
0.056088924407959