Nature Geoscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Geoscience 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state379
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs345
Kaolinite’s many lives312
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases274
Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard265
Indigenous knowledge and volcanic disaster risk reduction232
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion229
Extreme weather event accountability209
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments176
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source164
Combined warming and rising CO2 limit phosphorus availability in rice paddies158
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment156
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks153
A new paradigm for understanding Earth’s marine ice sheets150
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight143
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest142
Silica in a state of shock136
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life136
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature134
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites122
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010121
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure120
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome118
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition117
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs117
Arctic rivers tell tales of change116
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers116
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination115
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US114
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling113
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill112
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep109
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean108
Tightening the Sargassum belt106
The bedrock of forest drought106
Water isotope–temperature relationship variability across Antarctica set by atmospheric circulation101
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation97
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets95
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores93
Managing nitrogen for food and environment92
Fingerprints of stratospheric particle transport and fallout91
Multi-year La Niña–El Niño transition influenced Earth’s extreme energy uptake in 2022–202388
Author Correction: Antarctic ice-shelf collapse in Holocene driven by meltwater release feedbacks88
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming87
Limited energy for microorganisms constrains carbon accrual in soil86
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes86
Contrasting trends in very large hail events and related economic losses across the globe85
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion82
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue80
Major terrestrial contribution to the dissolved organic carbon budget in the Arctic Ocean79
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction78
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies77
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere77
Small but mighty sperrylite75
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires74
Pyrochlore from fire to steel73
Increased terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage associated with global utility-scale photovoltaic installation73
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States73
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe72
Methane’s unknowns better known71
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas70
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum70
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities69
A conversation on air pollution in India67
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine67
Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants66
Galactic messages carried by moissanite66
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs64
Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years64
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions64
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers64
Deep crustal relamination drives post-collisional magmatism62
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle61
Stratospheric cooling and amplification of radiative forcing with rising carbon dioxide61
Reduction of tropical cyclone-induced ocean carbon outgassing since 199361
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements60
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water59
Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland58
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening58
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes58
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene58
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics57
Eastern Himalayan syntaxis formation controlled by slab flattening and crustal shear localization57
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services57
Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood57
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming57
The hidden warming effects of the degradation of tropical moist forests56
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought56
Atmosphere-altered sediments were recycled into the mantle across the Great Oxidation Event55
Oxygen-rich melt in deep magma oceans55
Spodumene’s energy journey54
ENSO complexity controlled by zonal shifts in the Walker circulation54
Long-distance migration and venting of methane from the base of the hydrate stability zone53
Anti-phased changes in Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength over orbital timescales52
Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation52
Estimates of global marine plastic mass demystify the missing plastic paradox52
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya51
Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera51
Slow slip along the Hikurangi margin linked to fluid-rich sediments trailing subducting seamounts50
Ocean iron fertilization from enhanced mid-ocean-ridge volcanism due to ice-age sea-level falls50
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor50
Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites49
Large-scale mantle heterogeneity as a legacy of plate tectonic supercycles49
Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles49
Warmer shallow Atlantic during deglaciation and early Holocene due to weaker overturning circulation49
Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier49
Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples48
Wide flanks of rift uplifts on Venus indicate recent rifting activity48
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe48
Planetary science blasts off in China47
Groundwater springs formed during glacial retreat are a large source of methane in the high Arctic47
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era46
Author Correction: Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation46
Marine heatwaves are occurring globally below the sea surface with increasing frequency46
Submarine talus may contribute to climate cooling46
Increased sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to decreasing CO2 across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition45
Warming and snow loss increase reliance on old groundwater in a Colorado River headwater45
Observed stratospheric mean age decrease consistent with circulation acceleration45
Diminished Ross Ice Shelf and West Antarctic Ice Sheet during Last Interglacial warming45
A fan-shaped subglacial basin province in East Antarctica formed by rotational extension45
Large-scale aggregation of humid heatwaves exacerbated by coastal oceanic warming44
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation44
Production of Neoproterozoic banded iron formations in a partially ice-covered ocean44
Rise in dust emissions from burned landscapes primarily driven by small fires44
Increased urban ozone in heatwaves due to temperature-induced emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds43
The crystal timekeeper zircon43
Geological evidence for multiple climate transitions on Early Mars43
Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion43
High-resolution imaging of a sediment core reconstructs past monsoon seasonality42
Mercury fluxes from hydrothermal venting at mid-ocean ridges constrained by measurements42
The problem with dolomite42
Sedimentary conditions drive modern pyrite burial flux to exceed oxidation41
Observational constraints imply limited future Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening41
Contrasting drivers of South Asian summer and winter monsoon evolution during the last deglaciation41
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris41
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise41
Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming41
Proto-monsoon rainfall and greening in Central Asia due to extreme early Eocene warmth41
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon41
Triggers of Chile’s mega-earthquakes40
The mantle’s influence on the long-term behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field40
An extended pan-North African humid period within the warm Pliocene40
Tackling helicopter research39
Lessons from the Nile about rivers and society39
A reduction in aerolized ammonium in the rural USA and increased ammonia deposition near emission hotspots39
Presence of continental slivers in oceanic transform faults determined by rift inheritance38
Estimation of hydrofluorocarbon emissions from China and other non-Annex I countries38
Author Correction: Fossil organic carbon utilization in marine Arctic fjord sediments by subsurface micro-organisms38
Inversion modelling shows increasing hydrofluorocarbon emissions38
Biogeochemistry of Earth before exoenzymes38
The far reach of fires38
Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact37
Stress-driven recurrence and precursory moment-rate surge in caldera collapse earthquakes37
Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales37
Widespread deoxygenation of freshwater ecosystems regularly reversed by nutrient management37
Atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment36
Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands36
Episodic warm climates on early Mars primed by crustal hydration36
Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth’s early biosphere36
Enrichment of metastable iron minerals in global coastal wetlands36
Coupled decline in ocean pH and carbonate saturation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum36
Widespread partial-depth hydrofractures in ice sheets driven by supraglacial streams36
Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography36
Archaean oxygen oases driven by pulses of enhanced phosphorus recycling in the ocean35
Landfalling tropical cyclones accelerate due to land–sea thermal and roughness contrasts35
Methane leakage through the sulfate–methane transition zone of the Baltic seabed34
Drivers of global glacial erosion rates34
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability34
The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling34
Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures34
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events34
Climate impacts from North American boreal forest fires33
Consumers of nitrite help nitrite accumulate in anoxic oceanic zones33
Garnet the gift that keeps on giving33
Late Miocene onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica indicated by meteoric beryllium-10 in permafrost33
Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations33
The extra climate benefits of solar farms33
Connecting geology to ecology32
Contribution of lake littoral zones to the continental carbon budget32
Large-scale ice-shelf calving events follow prolonged amplifications in flexure32
European summer drying largely driven by atmospheric circulation changes since the 1980s32
Upwelling of melt-depleted mantle under Iceland32
Deep convection only temporarily intensified by aerosols32
High-altitude glacier archives lost due to climate change-related melting31
Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability31
Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow on Venus consistent with active rifting31
Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations31
A conversation on air pollution in China31
Urban black-carbon radiative heating intensified by biogenic–anthropogenic interactions31
Advancing geoscience with AI30
Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet30
Global water security threatened by rising inequality30
Soil carbon sequestration enhanced by long-term nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization30
Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries30
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters29
Composition of asteroid Bennu transformed by aqueous alteration29
A rock record of H2 production in the ancient Earth29
Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science29
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade29
Fluctuating evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event29
Rapid crustal transit of magmas beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift28
Diurnal warming rectification in the tropical Pacific linked to sea surface temperature front28
Benthic δ18O records Earth’s energy imbalance28
Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid28
Warming beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf due to increased subpolar westerlies and reduced sea ice27
Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift27
Adapting to AI27
Mitigating sinkhole hazards intensified by climate change26
Widespread peat carbon losses driven by the 2025 Scottish megafire26
Formalization of co-review26
Utility of artificial intelligence in geoscience26
Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes26
Natural forest expansion is a larger carbon sink than secondary forests in moist tropics25
Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling25
Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon25
Continental-scale fern savannah wildfires during end-Triassic greenhouse warming25
Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau driven by mantle delamination from the overriding plate25
Mediterranean summer marine heatwaves triggered by weaker winds under subtropical ridges25
Positive correlation between wet-day frequency and intensity linked to universal precipitation drivers25
The value of scientific ocean drilling for early career researchers25
Noble gas evidence of a millennial-scale deep North Pacific palaeo-barometric anomaly25
Multidecadal persistence of soil carbon gains on retired cropland following fertilizer cessation24
Inhibition of autotrophic nitrifiers in a nitrogen-rich paddy soil by elevated CO224
Phosphorus’s cosmic courier24
Author Correction: An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos24
Carbon dioxide enrichment suppresses autotrophic nitrifiers in a rice ecosystem24
Addendum: Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets24
Save the data24
The Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau formed through plume–ridge interaction24
A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow23
Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification23
Costs and benefits of halving nitrogen waste for global sustainable development goals23
Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum23
Gas hydrate dissolution triggered by subglacial groundwater flushing during deglaciation23
Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day23
Mining mine wastes for sustainable value creation23
Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest23
Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination23
Carbon storage in coastal wetlands23
Diminishing lake area across the northern permafrost zone22
Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume22
Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments22
Global patterns of organic carbon transfer and accumulation across the land–ocean continuum constrained by radiocarbon data22
Dust emission increases following large wildfires22
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport22
Emerging insights on oceanic intraplate volcanism22
Asthenospheric low-velocity zone consistent with globally prevalent partial melting22
Poleward migration of tropical cyclones over 1980–2024 is dominated by Pacific variability22
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates22
A partially molten mantle21
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