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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Warmth shifts symbionts558
Hotspots for nitrogen549
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers395
High chances of rainbows392
Making action the norm389
Source–sink switch342
Behaviour as leverage325
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity305
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming288
The year 2020279
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change269
Plants countering downpours266
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change253
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections250
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage233
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage233
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil224
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets198
National models of climate governance among major emitters190
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South190
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes184
Attributing soybean production shocks184
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation169
Glaciers give way to new coasts169
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets163
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab159
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds158
The value of values in climate science155
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets154
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake154
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility149
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South147
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation147
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America145
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change144
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States141
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change139
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021138
Bird–plant dispersal limits135
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter130
Heated beetles129
Tasty plants and helpful ants128
Crabs retreat from heat128
The effects on children125
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s123
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes123
Antarctic fast-ice trends123
Going beyond averages122
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend122
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure117
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021116
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change116
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators116
Labour reallocation as adaptation115
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments115
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs114
Litigation needs the latest science109
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers107
Buildings at risk104
Interventions in education103
Biased reports of species range shifts103
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding102
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere100
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy99
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation98
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol97
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas96
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity96
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points94
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts93
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power91
Status of global coastal adaptation87
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production86
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere86
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change85
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming85
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes83
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets83
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate82
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability81
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 210080
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks78
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes78
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry78
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation77
Framing resilience77
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience77
Tidal melt77
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs76
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases76
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors76
The Global Stocktake at COP2875
The costs of flexible sale of reserves74
Net greenhouse gas source74
More rain, less often74
Emergency loan74
The mortality cost of climate change73
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts72
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints72
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters71
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities71
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades71
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205071
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing70
Free riding in climate protests70
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration70
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming69
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change68
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa67
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change66
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average66
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes66
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change65
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction65
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide64
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data63
Why residual emissions matter right now63
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes62
Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus62
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws61
To achieve deep cuts in US emissions, state-driven policy is only slightly more expensive than nationally uniform policy61
The Global South is the climate movement’s unsung leader61
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry60
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system60
A question of the sexes59
National adaptation plans58
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming58
Consider physiology when translocating animals58
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates57
Drought and electricity57
Art of communicating56
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience55
Warming spins up the Southern Ocean55
Climate change debates55
Author Correction: Counterbalancing influences of aerosols and greenhouse gases on atmospheric rivers55
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling54
Plant processes matter54
Data under duress54
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans54
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling54
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes54
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201353
The increasing relevance of phenology to conservation53
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes53
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world52
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies52
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature52
Soil carbon is the blind spot of European national GHG inventories52
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change52
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply52
Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments52
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting51
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds51
Shifting rains51
Near-term transition and longer-term physical climate risks of greenhouse gas emissions pathways51
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence51
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation51
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation50
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203049
Firm emissions reduction49
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties49
Science-based targets49
Big homes hinder emission cuts49
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming48
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy48
Double jeopardy for fish diversity47
The need to consider residual risk47
Small step funding models fit better for climate research46
African perspectives on climate change research46
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction46
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees46
Potential hydropower contribution to mitigate climate risk and build resilience in Africa46
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation45
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake45
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire45
Advancing transdisciplinary adaptation research practice45
Mountain rivers warming45
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users44
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model44
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk43
The carbon dioxide removal gap43
Most people prefer constant carbon costs over increasing cost schedules even if costs are high43
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates42
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical42
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research42
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide41
Social-media tracks41
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought41
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts41
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions41
Expanding rivers on the Greenland ice sheet’s surface drain more meltwater into the sea41
Different framing41
The forest is not yet lost40
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies40
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system40
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem40
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths39
Author Correction: The blue carbon wealth of nations39
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning38
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being38
Funding African-led climate initiatives38
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance38
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation38
Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets38
Author Correction: Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments38
Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations37
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change37
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C37
Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal36
A deep dive into climate connectivity36
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer36
Peaking productivity by 206036
Rough years ahead36
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C35
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate35
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise35
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges35
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies35
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide35
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes35
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being35
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe35
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes35
Plankton lose fats34
Understanding eco-anxiety34
Policies and investment34
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere34
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance34
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195033
Careering ahead33
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks33
New insights into future tropical climate change33
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states33
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change33
Bats show hibernation flexibility32
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific31
Recent reduced abyssal overturning and ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin31
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production31
Flood-induced selective migration patterns examined31
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model31
Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum31
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection30
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties30
Spring phenology alters vegetation drought recovery30
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile30
Ocean warming and warning29
Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming29
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown29
Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data29
Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation28
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