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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ozone depletion over the Arctic affects spring climate in the Northern Hemisphere341
Silica in a state of shock296
Bridgmanite’s ferric iron content determined Earth’s oxidation state267
Huge submarine eruptions impact global climate but produce low atmospheric sulfur outputs253
Kaolinite’s many lives237
Oscillating Archean oxygen oases233
Subsidence signals unexpected seismic and tsunami hazard217
Indigenous knowledge and volcanic disaster risk reduction216
Author Correction: Tipping point in ice-sheet grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion184
Extreme weather event accountability160
Inhibition of phototrophic iron oxidation by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments156
Nitrogen fixation in the North Atlantic supported by Gulf Stream eddy-borne diazotrophs151
Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure150
Drought response of the boreal forest carbon sink is driven by understorey–tree composition149
Arc volcano activity driven by small-scale metasomatism of the magma source148
Combined warming and rising CO2 limit phosphorus availability in rice paddies140
A new paradigm for understanding Earth’s marine ice sheets137
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life132
Reduced phosphorus availability in paddy soils under atmospheric CO2 enrichment130
Scorched minerals in sedimentary rocks130
Frequent rainfall-induced new particle formation within the canopy in the Amazon rainforest124
Asymmetric impacts of forest gain and loss on tropical land surface temperature123
Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010122
Coastal methane emissions driven by aerotolerant methanogens using seaweed and seagrass metabolites121
Limited carbon cycling due to high-pressure effects on the deep-sea microbiome110
Air temperature — not just ocean warming — affects submarine melting of Greenland glaciers109
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight109
Arctic rivers tell tales of change108
The rise of the Tibetan Plateau was controlled by overriding plate mantle delamination106
Choppy seas for deep ocean drilling104
North Pacific response to warming sustains drought in the Southwest US104
Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill103
Episodic dynamic change linked to damage on the Thwaites Glacier Ice Tongue102
Elevated shallow water salinity in the deglacial Indian Ocean was sourced from the deep102
Multi-year La Niña–El Niño transition influenced Earth’s extreme energy uptake in 2022–2023101
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years100
Aerosol deposition underestimated over the global ocean96
Tightening the Sargassum belt95
Water isotope–temperature relationship variability across Antarctica set by atmospheric circulation94
Lowland river sinuosity on Earth and Mars set by the pace of meandering and avulsion91
Major terrestrial contribution to the dissolved organic carbon budget in the Arctic Ocean88
Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes87
Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming86
The bedrock of forest drought85
Palaeozoic cooling modulated by ophiolite weathering through organic carbon preservation85
Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets84
Cycling carbon with coccolithophores81
Fingerprints of stratospheric particle transport and fallout80
Managing nitrogen for food and environment80
Author Correction: Antarctic ice-shelf collapse in Holocene driven by meltwater release feedbacks79
Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction78
Observational evidence for Criegee intermediate oligomerization reactions relevant to aerosol formation in the troposphere76
Contrasting trends in very large hail events and related economic losses across the globe76
Regional rare-earth element supply and demand balanced with circular economy strategies75
Small but mighty sperrylite75
Increased frequency of multi-year El Niño–Southern Oscillation events across the Holocene73
Soil mosses provide critical ecosystem services across the globe73
Daytime heat stress is reduced by agricultural irrigation in North American cities72
Minimum turbidity levels for the maintenance of intertidal areas72
Bridgmanite across the lower mantle71
Spatial heterogeneity in post-fire vegetation productivity recovery and its drivers70
Reversing Earth’s carbon engine70
A conversation on air pollution in India69
Author Correction: Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions69
Himalayan glaciers threatened by frequent wildfires67
Galactic messages carried by moissanite66
Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening63
Late Miocene cooling coupled to carbon dioxide with Pleistocene-like climate sensitivity63
Detections of ultralow velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs63
Stratospheric cooling and amplification of radiative forcing with rising carbon dioxide62
Deep crustal relamination drives post-collisional magmatism62
Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming60
Reduction of tropical cyclone-induced ocean carbon outgassing since 199360
Regime shift in secondary inorganic aerosol formation and nitrogen deposition in the rural United States59
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements59
The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services59
Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years59
Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants58
Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood58
Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific58
Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum57
Early and late phases of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction marked by different atmospheric CO2 regimes56
Methane’s unknowns better known56
Increased terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage associated with global utility-scale photovoltaic installation54
Strong 2023–2024 El Niño generated by ocean dynamics54
Glacier retreat alters downstream fjord ecosystem structure and function in Greenland54
Carbon dioxide sink in the Arctic Ocean from cross-shelf transport of dense Barents Sea water54
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought53
The hidden warming effects of the degradation of tropical moist forests53
Estimates of global marine plastic mass demystify the missing plastic paradox52
Warmer shallow Atlantic during deglaciation and early Holocene due to weaker overturning circulation52
Atmosphere-altered sediments were recycled into the mantle across the Great Oxidation Event52
Oxygen-rich melt in deep magma oceans52
Spodumene’s energy journey51
Dissolved organic phosphorus concentrations in the surface ocean controlled by both phosphate and iron stress51
ENSO complexity controlled by zonal shifts in the Walker circulation51
Slow slip along the Hikurangi margin linked to fluid-rich sediments trailing subducting seamounts50
Geophysical imaging of fluids in the Cascadia subduction zone50
Anti-phased changes in Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength over orbital timescales49
Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation49
Hazardous explosive eruptions of a recharging multi-cyclic island arc caldera48
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe48
Onset of the Earth’s hydrological cycle four billion years ago or earlier48
Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor47
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya47
Long-distance migration and venting of methane from the base of the hydrate stability zone47
Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites47
Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles47
Groundwater springs formed during glacial retreat are a large source of methane in the high Arctic47
Large-scale mantle heterogeneity as a legacy of plate tectonic supercycles46
Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples46
Planetary science blasts off in China46
Sedimentary conditions drive modern pyrite burial flux to exceed oxidation45
The crystal timekeeper zircon45
Grain-size-evolution controls on lithospheric weakening during continental rifting45
Submarine talus may contribute to climate cooling45
Author Correction: Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation45
Production of Neoproterozoic banded iron formations in a partially ice-covered ocean45
Oxygenation of the Earth aided by mineral–organic carbon preservation44
The problem with dolomite44
Large-scale aggregation of humid heatwaves exacerbated by coastal oceanic warming43
Observational constraints imply limited future Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening43
Warming and snow loss increase reliance on old groundwater in a Colorado River headwater43
Arctic Ocean’s wintertime mercury concentrations limited by seasonal loss on the shelf43
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era43
Marine heatwaves are occurring globally below the sea surface with increasing frequency43
Rise in dust emissions from burned landscapes primarily driven by small fires42
Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise42
Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion42
Mercury fluxes from hydrothermal venting at mid-ocean ridges constrained by measurements41
Increased urban ozone in heatwaves due to temperature-induced emissions of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds40
Increased sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to decreasing CO2 across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition40
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris40
Proto-monsoon rainfall and greening in Central Asia due to extreme early Eocene warmth40
Diminished Ross Ice Shelf and West Antarctic Ice Sheet during Last Interglacial warming40
Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming39
Global crop production increase by soil organic carbon39
The mantle’s influence on the long-term behaviour of Earth’s magnetic field39
Geological evidence for multiple climate transitions on Early Mars39
Triggers of Chile’s mega-earthquakes38
Author Correction: Fossil organic carbon utilization in marine Arctic fjord sediments by subsurface micro-organisms38
An extended pan-North African humid period within the warm Pliocene38
Tackling helicopter research38
Lessons from the Nile about rivers and society38
Stress-driven recurrence and precursory moment-rate surge in caldera collapse earthquakes37
Archaean oxygen oases driven by pulses of enhanced phosphorus recycling in the ocean37
Presence of continental slivers in oceanic transform faults determined by rift inheritance37
Biogeochemistry of Earth before exoenzymes37
Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures37
Lower oceanic crust formed by in situ melt crystallization revealed by seismic layering37
A reduction in aerolized ammonium in the rural USA and increased ammonia deposition near emission hotspots37
Inversion modelling shows increasing hydrofluorocarbon emissions36
Regional but not global temperature variability underestimated by climate models at supradecadal timescales36
Widespread partial-depth hydrofractures in ice sheets driven by supraglacial streams36
Estimation of hydrofluorocarbon emissions from China and other non-Annex I countries36
Landfalling tropical cyclones accelerate due to land–sea thermal and roughness contrasts36
The far reach of fires36
Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact36
Coupled decline in ocean pH and carbonate saturation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum36
Drivers of global glacial erosion rates35
Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography35
Methane leakage through the sulfate–methane transition zone of the Baltic seabed35
Cryptic degassing and protracted greenhouse climates after flood basalt events35
Episodic warm climates on early Mars primed by crustal hydration34
Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands34
Atmospheric new particle formation from the CERN CLOUD experiment33
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability33
Underestimated burden of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in global surface waters and groundwaters33
Enrichment of metastable iron minerals in global coastal wetlands33
Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade33
Aftershocks of megathrust earthquakes undergo a central shutdown and surrounding activation33
Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth’s early biosphere33
The palaeoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling33
Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow on Venus consistent with active rifting32
Steady threefold Arctic amplification of externally forced warming masked by natural variability32
Geometric controls on cascading rupture of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet32
Soil carbon sequestration enhanced by long-term nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization32
Widespread and systematic effects of fire on plant–soil water relations32
Upwelling of melt-depleted mantle under Iceland32
Consumers of nitrite help nitrite accumulate in anoxic oceanic zones31
Connecting geology to ecology31
Large-scale ice-shelf calving events follow prolonged amplifications in flexure31
Urban black-carbon radiative heating intensified by biogenic–anthropogenic interactions31
Advancing geoscience with AI30
Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations30
Garnet the gift that keeps on giving30
High-altitude glacier archives lost due to climate change-related melting30
Late Miocene onset of hyper-aridity in East Antarctica indicated by meteoric beryllium-10 in permafrost29
Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries29
The extra climate benefits of solar farms29
Climate impacts from North American boreal forest fires29
Global water security threatened by rising inequality29
Permafrost cooled in winter by thermal bridging through snow-covered shrub branches29
A conversation on air pollution in China29
Contribution of lake littoral zones to the continental carbon budget28
Collaboration between women helps close the gender gap in ice core science28
Rapid crustal transit of magmas beneath the Main Ethiopian Rift28
A rock record of H2 production in the ancient Earth28
The value of scientific ocean drilling for early career researchers28
Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift27
Utility of artificial intelligence in geoscience27
Mediterranean summer marine heatwaves triggered by weaker winds under subtropical ridges27
Composition of asteroid Bennu transformed by aqueous alteration27
Fluctuating evolution of seawater oxygen before the Great Oxidation Event27
Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau driven by mantle delamination from the overriding plate26
Benthic δ18O records Earth’s energy imbalance26
Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes26
Adapting to AI26
Warming beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf due to increased subpolar westerlies and reduced sea ice26
Positive correlation between wet-day frequency and intensity linked to universal precipitation drivers26
Moon’s crustal porosity records impact history26
Diurnal warming rectification in the tropical Pacific linked to sea surface temperature front26
Mitigating sinkhole hazards intensified by climate change26
Pollution drives multidecadal decline in subarctic methanesulfonic acid26
Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon25
Closed ocean gateways in the Canadian archipelago are key to glaciation in Scandinavia25
Widespread peat carbon losses driven by the 2025 Scottish megafire25
Noble gas evidence of a millennial-scale deep North Pacific palaeo-barometric anomaly25
Phosphorus’s cosmic courier25
Long-term carbon storage in shelf sea sediments reduced by intensive bottom trawling25
The Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau formed through plume–ridge interaction25
Save the data24
Multidecadal persistence of soil carbon gains on retired cropland following fertilizer cessation24
Costs and benefits of halving nitrogen waste for global sustainable development goals24
Author Correction: An ongoing satellite–ring cycle of Mars and the origins of Phobos and Deimos24
Long-term eruption forecasting24
Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination24
Poleward migration of tropical cyclones over 1980–2024 is dominated by Pacific variability24
Carbon dioxide enrichment suppresses autotrophic nitrifiers in a rice ecosystem24
A West Antarctic grounding-zone environment shaped by episodic water flow24
Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day23
Addendum: Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets23
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates23
Gas hydrate dissolution triggered by subglacial groundwater flushing during deglaciation23
Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments23
Oxygenation of the Baltoscandian shelf linked to Ordovician biodiversification23
Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest23
Bombardment history of the Moon constrained by crustal porosity23
Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume23
Mining mine wastes for sustainable value creation23
Global patterns of organic carbon transfer and accumulation across the land–ocean continuum constrained by radiocarbon data23
Carbon storage in coastal wetlands23
Asthenospheric low-velocity zone consistent with globally prevalent partial melting22
Dust emission increases following large wildfires22
Inhibition of autotrophic nitrifiers in a nitrogen-rich paddy soil by elevated CO222
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport22
Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum22
Tectonics of copper mineralization22
Diminishing lake area across the northern permafrost zone22
A partially molten mantle21
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