Nature Climate Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Climate Change is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 1950635
On our bookshelf523
Nomadic herders509
Marking a decade485
Ecosystem energy exchange416
Going way back365
Fluid connections356
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change349
Policies and investment307
The role of cross- and interdisciplinary climate research centres292
Groundwater recharge in a warming world279
Atmospheric circulation to constrain subtropical precipitation projections250
Avoiding misuses of energy-economic modelling in climate policymaking245
How energy transition affects jobs236
Towards scenario representation of adaptive capacity for global climate change assessments235
Source–sink switch233
How to move a cat226
Fossil-fuel stranded asset risks held by individuals in OECD countries and non-OECD governments221
Technology transfer initiatives219
On our bookshelf213
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks211
Soil carbon worldwide is reduced by an increasing number of global change stressors205
Soil organic carbon stocks potentially at risk of decline with organic farming expansion192
Climate-driven zooplankton shifts cause large-scale declines in food quality for fish186
Carbon taxes and inflation175
Mobilizing non-state actors for climate action through the global stocktake173
Global stocktake and the SDG midterm review as opportunities for integration172
Making action the norm156
Reaching Republicans on climate change156
Plants countering downpours153
Ineffective carbon offset152
Energy and socioeconomic system transformation through a decade of IPCC-assessed scenarios150
Plankton lose fats143
Shaming as pressure143
How scientists are grappling with the uncertain future of Antarctica’s melting ice140
Ghostly conduits138
Central America drying135
Effective land management strategies can help climate mitigation in China135
Competition’s role135
Behaviour as leverage135
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers134
Slimmed success for heated sperm133
Increasing double storms132
Ocean warming and warning131
Trophic level decoupling drives future changes in phytoplankton bloom phenology126
Fisheries track the future redistribution of marine species126
Deforestation poses deleterious effects to tree-climbing species under climate change126
Feasible climate mitigation123
Nation-wide mapping of tree-level aboveground carbon stocks in Rwanda117
Revisiting Copenhagen climate mitigation targets116
Carbon impacts116
Rising temperatures reduce the predictability of agricultural drought116
Governance modes113
Losing snow and value112
Hotspots for nitrogen109
A three-dimensional climate-smart conservation approach in the high seas109
Forests in focus107
Stronger and more drylines107
More than skin deep105
Private provisioning of public adaptation105
Faster melting from below105
Smallholders’ role103
Redistribution of snowmelt dependence and risks through international trade102
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance102
Future biological control101
High chances of rainbows99
Warmth shifts symbionts99
The citizens who chart changing climate98
Biodiversity reduces the advancement of leaf green-up with climate warming98
Support for structural solutions97
Careering ahead97
Global patterns and drivers of tropical aboveground carbon changes94
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties93
Pragmatic cost–benefit analysis for infrastructure resilience93
Climate change literacy in Africa93
Understanding eco-anxiety91
Ageing society in developed countries challenges carbon mitigation91
Impacts on tourism demand90
Tropical cyclone risk for global ecosystems in a changing climate88
Actions before agreement88
Wind changes enhance ENSO88
Bats show hibernation flexibility87
Engaging young generations in climate research86
Smoother sailing for Arctic ice86
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake85
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change82
Assessing nuclear phase-out80
Flexibility is needed in China’s national carbon market80
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility78
Acceleration of Drosophila subobscura evolutionary response to global warming in Europe77
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South77
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states76
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab76
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage75
Dynamic global monitoring needed to use restoration of forest cover as a climate solution75
Western North Pacific tropical cyclone activity modulated by phytoplankton feedback under global warming75
New insights into future tropical climate change74
Public attention and the Amazon73
Climate defines salamander adult form73
Glaciers give way to new coasts72
Plant–microbe interactions explain the surprising recovery of Arctic soil carbon stocks72
Improving future climate meetings71
A westward shift of heatwave hotspots caused by warming-enhanced land–air coupling70
Death by climate change69
Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia69
Risk transfers support adaptation69
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity68
Oceanic vertical migrators in a warming world67
Glasgow forest declaration needs new modes of data ownership67
Climate change and geohazards66
Reply to: Little evidence that Amazonian rainforests are approaching a tipping point66
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil66
Limited evidence that carbon tax rebates have increased public support for carbon pricing64
Carbon dioxide emissions from global overseas coal-fired power plants64
Studying climate stabilization at Paris Agreement levels64
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown63
Decadal increases in carbon uptake offset by respiratory losses across northern permafrost ecosystems62
Publisher Correction: Participating in a climate prediction market increases concern about global warming61
Global corporate tax competition challenges climate change mitigation61
Response to climate change can be altered by species competition61
How to align climate ambition and economic equality61
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change61
Author Correction: Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate61
Emergence of seasonal delay of tropical rainfall during 1979–201960
Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes60
Publisher Correction: Reflections and projections on a decade of climate science60
Committed future ice-shelf melt60
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation59
Ageing population and green space dynamics for climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia59
The historical social cost of fossil and industrial CO2 emissions59
Contextualizing cross-national patterns in household climate change adaptation58
The value of values in climate science58
Swallows shrink as climate warms57
The why and how of assigning responsibility for supply chain emissions57
Suppressed Atlantic Niño/Niña variability under greenhouse warming56
Spring phenology alters vegetation drought recovery56
Exposure to international trade lowers green voting and worsens environmental attitudes56
Antarctic sea-ice expansion and Southern Ocean cooling linked to tropical variability56
Low-carbon warfare56
Frost risk by dwindling snow cover56
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South55
Selection counteracts developmental plasticity in body-size responses to climate change54
Wetland emissions on the rise54
The role of the scientific community in strengthening disability-inclusive climate resilience53
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming53
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets52
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds52
Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming51
A candle burning from both ends51
Autumn cooling paused increased CO2 release in central Eurasia51
Halting generative AI advancements may slow down progress in climate research51
Climate-driven disturbances amplify forest drought sensitivity51
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets50
Alpine burrow-sharing mammals and birds show similar population-level climate change risks50
Protect rights and advance gender equality to mitigate climate change49
Risk of isolation increases the expected burden from sea-level rise49
Reply to: Evidence lacking for a pending collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation49
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice49
The year 202048
Skiing feedbacks warm the climate48
Author Correction: Boreal forest biomass accumulation is not increased by two decades of soil warming48
Publisher Correction: Climate mitigation through Indigenous forest management48
Child brains respond to climate change48
Enhanced policy adequacy facilitates national climate adaptation tracking across Africa48
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage48
Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands47
Water loss over the Tibetan Plateau endangers water supply security for Asian populations47
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific47
Publisher Correction: Carbon tariffs47
Recent reduced abyssal overturning and ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin47
Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon47
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change47
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections47
Water use in a changing world46
Expert review of the science underlying nature-based climate solutions45
Just Energy Transition Partnerships and the future of coal45
Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields45
The emerging human influence on the seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature45
Emissions rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic44
Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels44
A framework for considering justice aspects in integrated wildfire risk management44
An underestimated negative cloud feedback from cloud lifetime changes44
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets44
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes44
Realizing the social value of impermanent carbon credits43
Revisiting the promise of carbon labelling43
Reproducibility crisis and gravitation towards a consensus in ocean acidification research43
Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation43
Cooperative adaptive management of the Nile River with climate and socio-economic uncertainties42
Projections of multiple climate-related coastal hazards for the US Southeast Atlantic42
Present-day North Atlantic salinity constrains future warming of the Northern Hemisphere42
Data-driven reconstruction reveals large-scale ocean circulation control on coastal sea level42
Climate change engagement of scientists41
Asymmetries in the Southern Ocean contribution to global heat and carbon uptake41
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile41
Demand-side strategies key for mitigating material impacts of energy transitions41
How the USA can benefit from risk-based premiums combined with flood protection40
Extreme weather events have strong but different impacts on plant and insect phenology40
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation39
Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation depend on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls39
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States39
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change39
Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum38
Uncertain storage prospects create a conundrum for carbon capture and storage ambitions38
National models of climate governance among major emitters38
Definitions and implications of climate-neutral aviation38
Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts38
Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data38
Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature37
Reflections and projections on a decade of climate science37
Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau37
Climate and land-use changes reduce the benefits of terrestrial protected areas37
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America37
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production37
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–202136
China’s bulk material loops can be closed but deep decarbonization requires demand reduction36
Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems35
Future warming from global food consumption35
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model35
Global patterns of geo-ecological controls on the response of soil respiration to warming35
Boreal–Arctic wetland methane emissions modulated by warming and vegetation activity34
Embracing climate emotions to advance higher education34
Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict34
Widespread misestimates of greenhouse gas emissions suggest low carbon competence34
Adaptation funding34
Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies34
Asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature34
Expansion of organic farming could reduce soil organic carbon stocks33
Biased reports of species range shifts33
Limited buttressing on Thwaites33
Wind influences the onset of a seasonally sea-ice-free Arctic33
Resource and geospatial diversity could mitigate climate-induced risks in Africa’s power systems33
Tax carbon cautiously for sub-Saharan Africa33
Changing the Earth’s tune33
Antarctic fast-ice trends33
Mature oak forests retain the capacity of young forests to respond to elevated CO233
Interventions in education33
Prudential regulation tools32
Stretching the sky32
Banking on change32
Indonesian palm oil32
Pan-African simulations32
Warmth worries workers32
Out and allied at work32
Connecting the soil and the soul32
Mangrove forests are facing challenges from global seawater density changes32
Vultures for climate31
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter31
Bird–plant dispersal limits31
Heated beetles31
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