Nature Geoscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Geoscience 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
Silica in a state of shock566
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere397
Wetter and drier regions as large-scale tree restoration shifts water fluxes238
Deformation-controlled long-period seismicity in low-cohesion volcanic sediments208
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks187
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion185
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments166
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs156
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source141
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases135
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment132
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state128
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature122
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life119
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs119
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest118
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure117
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome110
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010106
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply105
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition104
Constraint on net primary productivity of the global ocean by Argo oxygen measurements98
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight98
High water content of arc magmas recorded in cumulates from subduction zone lower crust96
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling96
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers94
Great Plains storm intensity since the last glacial controlled by spring surface warming93
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US90
The bedrock of forest drought89
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination88
Author Correction: Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation87
Author Correction: Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter87
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores86
Complexities of coastal resilience85
Arctic rivers tell tales of change85
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation82
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction81
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue79
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years78
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion78
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes77
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming75
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere72
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill71
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies70
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion70
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics69
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific67
Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols67
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States66
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers65
A conversation on air pollution in India65
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas65
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming65
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine64
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions63
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe62
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities62
Galactic messages carried by moissanite62
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle62
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs62
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening59
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water58
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires58
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene57
Decreasing subseasonal temperature variability in the northern extratropics attributed to human influence57
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum57
Increased terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage associated with global utility-scale photovoltaic installation56
Late Miocene cooling coupled to carbon dioxide with Pleistocene-like climate sensitivity56
Methane’s unknowns better known56
Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years54
Sulfur isotopic signature of Earth established by planetesimal volatile evaporation54
Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants54
Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood54
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services53
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes53
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought53
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade52
Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland52
Atmosphere-altered sediments were recycled into the mantle across the Great Oxidation Event51
The hidden warming effects of the degradation of tropical moist forests51
Geophysical imaging of fluids in the Cascadia subduction zone51
Sulfur evaporation in planetesimals50
Slow slip along the Hikurangi margin linked to fluid-rich sediments trailing subducting seamounts49
ENSO complexity controlled by zonal shifts in the Walker circulation49
Oxygen-rich melt in deep magma oceans49
Emergence of felsic crust and subaerial weathering recorded in Palaeoarchaean barite49
Estimates of global marine plastic mass demystify the missing plastic paradox48
Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation47
Large-scale mantle heterogeneity as a legacy of plate tectonic supercycles47
Long-distance migration and venting of methane from the base of the hydrate stability zone47
Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles47
Carbon fate in lowland rivers47
Emergence of Southern Hemisphere stratospheric circulation changes in response to ozone recovery47
Dissolved organic phosphorus concentrations in the surface ocean controlled by both phosphate and iron stress46
Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier46
Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites45
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya45
Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera44
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe44
Warmer shallow Atlantic during deglaciation and early Holocene due to weaker overturning circulation43
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor43
The crystal timekeeper zircon43
Groundwater springs formed during glacial retreat are a large source of methane in the high Arctic43
Production of Neoproterozoic banded iron formations in a partially ice-covered ocean42
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise42
Marine heatwaves are occurring globally below the sea surface with increasing frequency42
Author Correction: Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation42
Planetary science blasts off in China42
Grain-size-evolution controls on lithospheric weakening during continental rifting41
Geological evidence for multiple climate transitions on Early Mars41
Proto-monsoon rainfall and greening in Central Asia due to extreme early Eocene warmth41
The problem with dolomite40
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates40
Observational constraints imply limited future Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening39
Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming39
Rise in dust emissions from burned landscapes primarily driven by small fires39
Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion39
Mercury fluxes from hydrothermal venting at mid-ocean ridges constrained by measurements38
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon38
Arctic Ocean’s wintertime mercury concentrations limited by seasonal loss on the shelf38
Increased urban ozone in heatwaves due to temperature-induced emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds38
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era38
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation37
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris37
Triggers of Chile’s mega-earthquakes36
The mantle’s influence on the long-term behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field36
An extended pan-North African humid period within the warm Pliocene36
Author Correction: Fossil organic carbon utilization in marine Arctic fjord sediments by subsurface micro-organisms36
Lessons from the Nile about rivers and society36
Stress-driven recurrence and precursory moment-rate surge in caldera collapse earthquakes35
Widespread partial-depth hydrofractures in ice sheets driven by supraglacial streams35
Lower oceanic crust formed by in situ melt crystallization revealed by seismic layering35
Archaean oxygen oases driven by pulses of enhanced phosphorus recycling in the ocean34
Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures34
Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands34
Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography33
A reduction in aerolized ammonium in the rural USA and increased ammonia deposition near emission hotspots33
Atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment33
Biogeochemistry of Earth before exoenzymes33
Episodic warm climates on early Mars primed by crustal hydration33
Tackling helicopter research33
Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales32
Aftershocks of megathrust earthquakes undergo a central shutdown and surrounding activation32
Decline in bulk deposition of air pollutants in China lags behind reductions in emissions32
Coupled decline in ocean pH and carbonate saturation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum32
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events32
Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact32
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability32
Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth’s early biosphere32
Methane leakage through the sulfate–methane transition zone of the Baltic seabed32
Top-down control on water subduction31
Connecting geology to ecology31
Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations31
Advancing geoscience with AI31
An initial map of fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth’s inner core31
The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling31
Author Correction: An unshakable carbon budget for the Himalaya31
Garnet the gift that keeps on giving31
Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations31
Upwelling of melt-depleted mantle under Iceland30
Large-scale ice-shelf calving events follow prolonged amplifications in flexure30
Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow on Venus consistent with active rifting30
High-altitude glacier archives lost due to climate change-related melting30
A conversation on air pollution in China30
Permafrost cooled in winter by thermal bridging through snow-covered shrub branches30
The extra climate benefits of solar farms30
Late Miocene onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica indicated by meteoric beryllium-10 in permafrost30
Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability29
Moon’s crustal porosity records impact history29
Utility of artificial intelligence in geoscience29
Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries29
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade29
A rock record of H2 production in the ancient Earth29
Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science29
The value of scientific ocean drilling for early career researchers29
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters29
Mitigating sinkhole hazards intensified by climate change29
Fluctuating evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event29
Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet29
Positive correlation between wet-day frequency and intensity linked to universal precipitation drivers28
Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau driven by mantle delamination from the overriding plate28
Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes28
Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling28
Confronting the water potential information gap28
Sea-level stability over geological time owing to limited deep subduction of hydrated mantle28
Diurnal warming rectification in the tropical Pacific linked to sea surface temperature front28
Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon28
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration28
Warming beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf due to increased subpolar westerlies and reduced sea ice27
Adapting to AI27
Benthic δ18O records Earth’s energy imbalance27
Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift27
Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid27
Long-term eruption forecasting26
Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day26
Phosphorus’s cosmic courier26
Closed ocean gateways in the Canadian archipelago are key to glaciation in Scandinavia26
Noble gas evidence of a millennial-scale deep North Pacific palaeo-barometric anomaly26
The Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau formed through plume–ridge interaction26
Author Correction: Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing26
Big potential for tiny droplets26
Carbon dioxide enrichment suppresses autotrophic nitrifiers in a rice ecosystem26
Save the data25
A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow25
Bombardment history of the Moon constrained by crustal porosity25
Author Correction: An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos25
Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination25
Global patterns of organic carbon transfer and accumulation across the land–ocean continuum constrained by radiocarbon data24
Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru24
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport24
Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum24
Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments24
Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification24
Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume24
Inhibition of autotrophic nitrifiers in a nitrogen-rich paddy soil by elevated CO224
Diminishing lake area across the northern permafrost zone24
ENSO-driven coupled megadroughts in North and South America over the last millennium24
Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest24
Asthenospheric low-velocity zone consistent with globally prevalent partial melting24
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates24
Carbon concentration increases with depth of melting in Earth’s upper mantle24
Satellite data show increased biomass carbon stocks in northern young forests23
Tectonics of copper mineralization23
Millennial and centennial CO2 release from the Southern Ocean during the last deglaciation23
Dust emission increases following large wildfires23
Earth science looks to outer space23
Publisher Correction: Atmospheric methane variability through the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation mainly controlled by tropical sources23
Indo-Pacific regional extremes aggravated by changes in tropical weather patterns23
A partially molten mantle23
Satellite data shows Antarctic Peninsula glaciers flow faster in summer23
River capture enhances the uplift of Chomolungma23
Persistent late Permian to Early Triassic warmth linked to enhanced reverse weathering22
Communicating the link between climate change and extreme rain events22
Southeast Asian ecological dependency on Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennium22
Global patterns in river water storage dependent on residence time22
Rapid night-time nanoparticle growth in Delhi driven by biomass-burning emissions21
Coral bleaching and mortality overestimated in projections based on Degree Heating Months21
Sensitivity of Holocene East Antarctic productivity to subdecadal variability set by sea ice21
Multi-decadal collapse of East Antarctica’s Conger–Glenzer Ice Shelf21
Author Correction: Global emergent responses of stream microbial energetics to glacier shrinkage21
Eruptive activity of the Santorini Volcano controlled by sea-level rise and fall21
Annual variations in phytoplankton biomass driven by small-scale physical processes21
Widespread societal and ecological impacts from projected Tibetan Plateau lake expansion21
Machine learning in Earth and environmental science requires education and research policy reforms21
Solid Earth forcing of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events21
Emergence of wind ripples controlled by mechanics of grain–bed impacts21
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