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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Warmth shifts symbionts607
Hotspots for nitrogen600
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers418
High chances of rainbows415
Making action the norm367
Source–sink switch309
Behaviour as leverage307
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming288
The year 2020278
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change261
Plants countering downpours257
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change255
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South210
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity208
Attributing soybean production shocks205
Glaciers give way to new coasts198
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets184
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South179
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage178
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation176
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake169
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change169
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change168
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab167
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections162
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility161
Transition risk in the banking sector157
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America157
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets154
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil150
The value of values in climate science148
National models of climate governance among major emitters147
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage146
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021145
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds144
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets142
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States141
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation141
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes139
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter135
Heated beetles133
Crabs retreat from heat133
Tasty plants and helpful ants133
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s131
The effects on children131
Going beyond averages128
Antarctic fast-ice trends126
Challenges of institutional adaptation126
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes126
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas124
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming119
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol117
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change112
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry112
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding107
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation105
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100104
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate103
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere102
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points101
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers101
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure99
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators96
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change95
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs94
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–202194
Interventions in education94
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments94
Biased reports of species range shifts94
Labour reallocation as adaptation94
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere91
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production90
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy90
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend89
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power88
Status of global coastal adaptation86
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability86
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes85
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes85
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks84
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts82
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets81
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity81
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience80
Tidal melt79
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation79
Framing resilience79
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors78
The costs of flexible sale of reserves77
More rain, less often77
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs77
Net greenhouse gas source76
Emergency loan76
The mortality cost of climate change76
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts75
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints75
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters74
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades74
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities73
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average72
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa71
Free riding in climate protests71
The Global Stocktake at COP2869
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205067
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change65
To achieve deep cuts in US emissions, state-driven policy is only slightly more expensive than nationally uniform policy65
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming65
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction65
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration64
Why residual emissions matter right now64
Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus64
The Global South is the climate movement’s unsung leader64
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry63
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system63
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases63
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing62
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change62
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide61
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes61
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes61
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws61
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change61
A question of the sexes61
Consider physiology when translocating animals60
National adaptation plans60
Warming spins up the Southern Ocean59
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates59
Art of communicating59
Drought and electricity59
Climate change debates58
Author Correction: Counterbalancing influences of aerosols and greenhouse gases on atmospheric rivers58
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience58
Plant processes matter57
Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments57
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature57
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes57
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling57
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans56
Data under duress56
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming55
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds55
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes54
The increasing relevance of phenology to conservation54
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies54
Soil carbon is the blind spot of European national GHG inventories54
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world54
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation53
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence53
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling53
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply52
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change52
Near-term transition and longer-term physical climate risks of greenhouse gas emissions pathways51
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201351
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting51
Shifting rains50
Science-based targets49
Firm emissions reduction49
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation49
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy48
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical48
Most people prefer constant carbon costs over increasing cost schedules even if costs are high48
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world48
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties48
The need to consider residual risk48
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions48
Big homes hinder emission cuts47
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk47
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users47
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model46
Small step funding models fit better for climate research45
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming45
Mountain rivers warming45
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction45
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees45
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation44
Advancing transdisciplinary adaptation research practice44
African perspectives on climate change research43
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research42
Potential hydropower contribution to mitigate climate risk and build resilience in Africa42
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought42
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide42
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203042
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire42
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts41
The carbon dioxide removal gap41
Different framing41
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake41
Social-media tracks41
Expanding rivers on the Greenland ice sheet’s surface drain more meltwater into the sea41
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates41
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system40
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies40
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise39
Author Correction: The blue carbon wealth of nations39
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change39
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide39
Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets39
Peaking productivity by 206039
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes39
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths39
The forest is not yet lost39
Funding African-led climate initiatives38
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C38
Author Correction: Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments38
A deep dive into climate connectivity38
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies38
Rough years ahead38
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem37
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges37
Current and future methane emissions from boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes37
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation37
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer37
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes37
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe36
Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal36
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance36
Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations35
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate35
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C35
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning35
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere35
Understanding eco-anxiety34
Policies and investment34
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being34
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance34
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being34
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change33
Plankton lose fats33
Careering ahead33
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195033
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states33
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks33
Bats show hibernation flexibility32
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection32
A framework for considering justice aspects in integrated wildfire risk management32
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties32
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific32
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile31
Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming31
Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes31
Flood-induced selective migration patterns examined31
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production31
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice31
Contextualizing cross-national patterns in household climate change adaptation31
Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia30
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown30
Energy and socioeconomic system transformation through a decade of IPCC-assessed scenarios30
Spring phenology alters vegetation drought recovery30
Warmth worries workers29
Future warming from global food consumption29
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