Nature Climate Change

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Climate Change is 20. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Warmth shifts symbionts542
Hotspots for nitrogen522
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers383
Ecosystem energy exchange378
High chances of rainbows374
Making action the norm332
Source–sink switch314
Behaviour as leverage298
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity275
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming269
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South259
The year 2020255
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change246
Plants countering downpours245
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change221
Attributing soybean production shocks220
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections220
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake208
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South193
Glaciers give way to new coasts186
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility183
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets174
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation174
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil164
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets160
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change155
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab151
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation150
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds149
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage149
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes147
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage145
Emergence of seasonal delay of tropical rainfall during 1979–2019143
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change140
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America140
The value of values in climate science139
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets136
National models of climate governance among major emitters135
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States134
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021130
Bird–plant dispersal limits128
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter126
Heated beetles125
Tasty plants and helpful ants124
Crabs retreat from heat123
The effects on children121
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate119
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s119
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy115
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming114
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere114
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts113
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100113
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change112
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators112
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021112
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments109
Labour reallocation as adaptation109
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs107
Litigation needs the latest science106
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change106
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers104
Buildings at risk103
Biased reports of species range shifts102
Interventions in education101
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes99
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas95
Antarctic fast-ice trends95
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity95
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol95
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points94
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure94
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere92
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience92
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry92
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes88
Status of global coastal adaptation87
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability84
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes84
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding83
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power83
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation81
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks81
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets80
Going beyond averages79
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production79
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend78
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation77
Tidal melt76
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases75
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors75
Why residual emissions matter right now75
Framing resilience75
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change75
The costs of flexible sale of reserves74
More rain, less often74
Net greenhouse gas source73
To achieve deep cuts in US emissions, state-driven policy is only slightly more expensive than nationally uniform policy73
Emergency loan73
The Global South is the climate movement’s unsung leader72
The mortality cost of climate change72
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints71
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts70
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades70
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters70
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa69
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes68
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205068
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction67
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs67
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes67
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities67
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average66
The Global Stocktake at COP2866
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws65
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry65
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration64
Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus64
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system64
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data62
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide61
A question of the sexes61
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing61
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change61
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming61
Free riding in climate protests61
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change61
National adaptation plans60
Consider physiology when translocating animals59
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming58
Drought and electricity56
Warming spins up the Southern Ocean56
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates56
Art of communicating56
Climate change debates55
Author Correction: Counterbalancing influences of aerosols and greenhouse gases on atmospheric rivers55
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes55
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience54
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling54
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling54
Data under duress53
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies52
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting52
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes52
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature52
Near-term transition and longer-term physical climate risks of greenhouse gas emissions pathways52
The increasing relevance of phenology to conservation52
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201351
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world51
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds51
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply51
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans51
Soil carbon is the blind spot of European national GHG inventories51
Shifting rains50
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake50
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change50
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation50
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation50
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence50
Firm emissions reduction50
Most people prefer constant carbon costs over increasing cost schedules even if costs are high49
Science-based targets49
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203049
Big homes hinder emission cuts49
Changing spatial extent49
The need to consider residual risk48
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties48
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy48
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical48
Double jeopardy for fish diversity48
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming48
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction47
Potential hydropower contribution to mitigate climate risk and build resilience in Africa47
Small step funding models fit better for climate research47
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation47
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire47
African perspectives on climate change research47
Mountain rivers warming46
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees46
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model45
Advancing transdisciplinary adaptation research practice45
The carbon dioxide removal gap45
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research45
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk44
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users44
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates43
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions42
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide42
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought41
Different framing41
Social-media tracks41
Expanding rivers on the Greenland ice sheet’s surface drain more meltwater into the sea41
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts41
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning40
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem40
Rough years ahead40
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies40
Funding African-led climate initiatives40
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation39
The forest is not yet lost39
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes39
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths39
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system39
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer39
Author Correction: The blue carbon wealth of nations39
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere38
A deep dive into climate connectivity38
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies38
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance38
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges38
Peaking productivity by 206038
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C38
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise37
Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations37
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change37
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate36
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being36
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes36
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe36
Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal36
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being35
Policies and investment35
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide35
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance35
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C35
Understanding eco-anxiety35
Reaching Republicans on climate change34
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks34
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change34
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties34
Plankton lose fats34
Nomadic herders34
New insights into future tropical climate change34
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states34
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195034
Careering ahead34
Spring phenology alters vegetation drought recovery34
Bats show hibernation flexibility34
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile33
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection33
Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum33
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific32
Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes32
Contextualizing cross-national patterns in household climate change adaptation32
Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data32
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice31
Ocean warming and warning31
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown31
Future warming from global food consumption30
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production30
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