Nature Climate Change

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Climate Change is 21. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Warmth shifts symbionts578
Hotspots for nitrogen572
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers410
High chances of rainbows401
Making action the norm353
Source–sink switch344
Behaviour as leverage318
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming299
The year 2020295
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change281
Plants countering downpours279
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change265
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections257
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets249
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South246
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity238
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility204
The value of values in climate science198
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America197
Attributing soybean production shocks196
Glaciers give way to new coasts194
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds178
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab173
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation171
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change165
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake165
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets164
National models of climate governance among major emitters163
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets160
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South157
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil156
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation151
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage150
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes148
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021143
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States143
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage142
Bird–plant dispersal limits138
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change138
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter135
Tasty plants and helpful ants134
Heated beetles134
The effects on children132
Crabs retreat from heat132
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s129
Going beyond averages128
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points125
Antarctic fast-ice trends125
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes123
Status of global coastal adaptation122
Challenges of institutional adaptation121
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators121
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks121
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change117
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021116
Labour reallocation as adaptation115
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments112
Litigation needs the latest science108
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs108
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers107
Buildings at risk106
Biased reports of species range shifts104
Interventions in education102
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity100
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production99
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming97
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change97
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend94
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere93
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere92
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol91
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry91
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes90
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas89
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 210088
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy88
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability88
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts86
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets85
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation85
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure84
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding84
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate83
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power82
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes79
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience78
Tidal melt78
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation78
Framing resilience77
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors77
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs77
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases77
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change76
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction76
The Global Stocktake at COP2876
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change76
To achieve deep cuts in US emissions, state-driven policy is only slightly more expensive than nationally uniform policy75
More rain, less often73
Net greenhouse gas source73
The costs of flexible sale of reserves73
Emergency loan73
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints72
The mortality cost of climate change72
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts70
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters70
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades69
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205068
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa68
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities68
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average67
The Global South is the climate movement’s unsung leader67
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes65
Free riding in climate protests64
Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus63
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change63
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration63
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming62
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data61
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry61
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system61
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws61
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide61
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes59
Why residual emissions matter right now59
A question of the sexes59
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing59
National adaptation plans58
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates58
Consider physiology when translocating animals58
Author Correction: Counterbalancing influences of aerosols and greenhouse gases on atmospheric rivers57
Drought and electricity57
Warming spins up the Southern Ocean57
Climate change debates57
Art of communicating57
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling56
The increasing relevance of phenology to conservation56
Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments56
Data under duress56
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience56
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans56
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes55
Plant processes matter55
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature55
Near-term transition and longer-term physical climate risks of greenhouse gas emissions pathways54
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world54
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply54
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming53
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies53
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds53
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence53
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201353
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes53
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change52
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting52
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling52
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation52
Soil carbon is the blind spot of European national GHG inventories51
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation50
Shifting rains50
Firm emissions reduction49
Science-based targets49
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy48
The need to consider residual risk48
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203048
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties48
Double jeopardy for fish diversity48
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model47
Most people prefer constant carbon costs over increasing cost schedules even if costs are high47
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk47
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought47
Small step funding models fit better for climate research46
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions46
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees46
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world46
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction46
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical46
Mountain rivers warming45
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake45
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation45
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users44
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide44
Advancing transdisciplinary adaptation research practice44
African perspectives on climate change research43
Potential hydropower contribution to mitigate climate risk and build resilience in Africa43
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire43
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates42
The carbon dioxide removal gap42
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research42
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming41
Big homes hinder emission cuts41
Expanding rivers on the Greenland ice sheet’s surface drain more meltwater into the sea41
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts40
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies40
Different framing40
Social-media tracks40
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem39
Author Correction: The blue carbon wealth of nations39
The forest is not yet lost39
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system39
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths39
A deep dive into climate connectivity38
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning38
Author Correction: Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments38
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C38
Peaking productivity by 206038
Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets38
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes37
Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations37
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise37
Rough years ahead37
Funding African-led climate initiatives37
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance37
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies37
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation37
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer37
Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal37
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide36
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes36
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate36
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe36
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change36
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being36
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance35
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges35
Understanding eco-anxiety35
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C35
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere35
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being35
Plankton lose fats34
Policies and investment34
Careering ahead34
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195034
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks34
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states33
Bats show hibernation flexibility33
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change33
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties32
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection32
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific31
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile31
Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming31
Flood-induced selective migration patterns examined31
Spring phenology alters vegetation drought recovery30
Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data30
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model30
Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes30
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production30
Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum29
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice29
Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia29
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