Nature Geoscience

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Geoscience is 23. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Risk of pesticide pollution at the global scale459
Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources394
Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity356
Biochar in climate change mitigation266
Homogenization of the terrestrial water cycle242
Drivers of PM2.5 air pollution deaths in China 2002–2017202
Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium194
Amplified transboundary transport of haze by aerosol–boundary layer interaction in China179
Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability175
Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter165
Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves165
Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade163
Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China140
Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change128
The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements120
Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement116
The state of rock debris covering Earth’s glaciers115
Global distribution of sediment-hosted metals controlled by craton edge stability115
Increased carbon footprint of materials production driven by rise in investments113
The river–groundwater interface as a hotspot for arsenic release107
Rivers as the largest source of mercury to coastal oceans worldwide107
Ice velocity and thickness of the world’s glaciers107
Critical role of water in the formation of continental crust105
Moist heat stress extremes in India enhanced by irrigation102
Rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice in recent years hints at future change96
Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings96
Enhanced aerosol particle growth sustained by high continental chlorine emission in India93
Corona structures driven by plume–lithosphere interactions and evidence for ongoing plume activity on Venus91
Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration90
Artificial intelligence reconstructs missing climate information90
Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions87
Phosphorus as an integral component of global marine biogeochemistry85
Significant methane ebullition from alpine permafrost rivers on the East Qinghai–Tibet Plateau85
Permian–Triassic mass extinction pulses driven by major marine carbon cycle perturbations78
Arctic fires re-emerging77
Coupled anaerobic methane oxidation and reductive arsenic mobilization in wetland soils74
High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability74
Widespread subsidence and carbon emissions across Southeast Asian peatlands74
Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions73
Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming73
Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation73
Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing71
Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock70
Global carbon budget of reservoirs is overturned by the quantification of drawdown areas69
Atlantic and Pacific tropics connected by mutually interactive decadal-timescale processes69
Co-variation of silicate, carbonate and sulfide weathering drives CO2 release with erosion69
Widespread biomass burning smoke throughout the remote troposphere68
A biogeochemical–hydrological framework for the role of redox-active compounds in aquatic systems68
Recent recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation in the Ross Sea driven by climate anomalies66
Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budgets to guide climate policy66
Drought self-propagation in drylands due to land–atmosphere feedbacks65
A coupled model of episodic warming, oxidation and geochemical transitions on early Mars65
Secondary organic aerosol formed by condensing anthropogenic vapours over China’s megacities65
Molecular trade-offs in soil organic carbon composition at continental scale64
Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system64
Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course64
Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates62
Eurasian Ice Sheet collapse was a major source of Meltwater Pulse 1A 14,600 years ago62
Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion60
A shift in sulfur-cycle manipulation from atmospheric emissions to agricultural additions60
Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat58
Intensification of El Niño-induced atmospheric anomalies under greenhouse warming57
A nutrient control on marine anoxia during the end-Permian mass extinction56
Abrupt changes in the global carbon cycle during the last glacial period55
The Earth’s core as a reservoir of water55
Changes in Northern Hemisphere temperature variability shaped by regional warming patterns54
Mud in rivers transported as flocculated and suspended bed material54
Open ocean and coastal new particle formation from sulfuric acid and amines around the Antarctic Peninsula54
Equilibrium climate sensitivity above 5 °C plausible due to state-dependent cloud feedback53
Steady erosion rates in the Himalayas through late Cenozoic climatic changes52
Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe52
Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world51
Slip-rate-dependent friction as a universal mechanism for slow slip events51
Global nitrous acid emissions and levels of regional oxidants enhanced by wildfires51
Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom49
Valley formation on early Mars by subglacial and fluvial erosion49
A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation49
Back-propagating supershear rupture in the 2016 Mw 7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake47
Confronting the water potential information gap47
Global patterns of daily CO2 emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-1947
Carbon and nitrogen cycling in Yedoma permafrost controlled by microbial functional limitations47
Large-scale thermal unrest of volcanoes for years prior to eruption46
Future warming exacerbated by aged-soot effect on cloud formation46
Slip rate deficit and earthquake potential on shallow megathrusts45
Calcium carbonate dissolution patterns in the ocean45
Projections of tropical heat stress constrained by atmospheric dynamics44
Synergistic effects of four climate change drivers on terrestrial carbon cycling44
Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage43
A tree of Indo-African mantle plumes imaged by seismic tomography43
Manage fire regimes, not fires43
Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions43
Marsh resilience to sea-level rise reduced by storm-surge barriers in the Venice Lagoon43
Global water availability boosted by vegetation-driven changes in atmospheric moisture transport43
Biological nitrogen fixation detected under Antarctic sea ice42
Chesapeake Bay acidification buffered by spatially decoupled carbonate mineral cycling42
Distinct formation history for deep-mantle domains reflected in geochemical differences42
Global chemical weathering dominated by continental arcs since the mid-Palaeozoic41
Formation of necromass-derived soil organic carbon determined by microbial death pathways41
Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply40
Fluvial organic carbon cycling regulated by sediment transit time and mineral protection40
Persistent orbital influence on millennial climate variability through the Pleistocene40
Abundant nitrite-oxidizing metalloenzymes in the mesopelagic zone of the tropical Pacific Ocean40
Potential impacts of atmospheric microplastics and nanoplastics on cloud formation processes39
Biogenic particles formed in the Himalaya as an important source of free tropospheric aerosols39
Arctic sea-ice loss fuels extreme European snowfall39
Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability39
Disproportionate control on aerosol burden by light rain39
Dominant role of mineral dust in cirrus cloud formation revealed by global-scale measurements39
A further source of Tokyo earthquakes and Pacific Ocean tsunamis39
The role of environmental factors in the long-term evolution of the marine biological pump38
Winter particulate pollution severity in North China driven by atmospheric teleconnections38
Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion38
Heinrich Stadial aridity forced Mediterranean-wide glacier retreat in the last cold stage37
Suppression of surface ozone by an aerosol-inhibited photochemical ozone regime37
Microbial methylation potential of mercury sulfide particles dictated by surface structure37
Sinking enhances the degradation of organic particles by marine bacteria36
Coupled Southern Ocean cooling and Antarctic ice sheet expansion during the middle Miocene36
Spatiotemporal clustering of great earthquakes on a transform fault controlled by geometry36
Impacts of hydrothermal plume processes on oceanic metal cycles and transport36
Global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust controlled by biological soil crusts36
Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes36
A UK perspective on tackling the geoscience racial diversity crisis in the Global North36
Superionic iron oxide–hydroxide in Earth’s deep mantle36
Explosive or effusive style of volcanic eruption determined by magma storage conditions35
A fundamental role of carbonate–sulfate melts in the formation of iron oxide–apatite deposits35
Calibrating the marine turbidite palaeoseismometer using the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake35
Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends35
Distinct slab interfaces imaged within the mantle transition zone33
Eruptive activity of the Santorini Volcano controlled by sea-level rise and fall33
Conservation slows down emission increase from a tropical peatland in Indonesia33
Amplified warming of extreme temperatures over tropical land32
Amazonian forest degradation must be incorporated into the COP26 agenda32
Pacific shoreline erosion and accretion patterns controlled by El Niño/Southern Oscillation32
Recent north magnetic pole acceleration towards Siberia caused by flux lobe elongation32
A world view of pesticides31
Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols31
Constraint on net primary productivity of the global ocean by Argo oxygen measurements31
Impact of warmer climate periods on flood hazard in the European Alps31
Subduction megathrust heterogeneity characterized from 3D seismic data31
Temperature control on CO2 emissions from the weathering of sedimentary rocks31
The vertical structure of CO in the Martian atmosphere from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter31
Large subglacial source of mercury from the southwestern margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet31
Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight31
Rapid glacier retreat rates observed in West Antarctica30
Orange hydrogen is the new green30
Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation30
Effect of tectonic processes on biosphere–geosphere feedbacks across a convergent margin30
Active crustal differentiation beneath the Rio Grande Rift30
Surface characteristics of the Zhurong Mars rover traverse at Utopia Planitia29
Springtime arctic ozone depletion forces northern hemisphere climate anomalies29
Atlantic circulation change still uncertain29
A pole-to-equator ocean overturning circulation on Enceladus29
Drivers of river reactivation in North Africa during the last glacial cycle29
Cyclical geothermal unrest as a precursor to Iceland’s 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption29
Postseismic geodetic signature of cold forearc mantle in subduction zones29
Antarctic ice-shelf advance driven by anomalous atmospheric and sea-ice circulation29
Carbon concentration increases with depth of melting in Earth’s upper mantle29
Global patterns of water storage in the rooting zones of vegetation29
Deep-sea eruptions boosted by induced fuel–coolant explosions28
Direct astronomical influence on abrupt climate variability28
Localized fault-zone dilatancy and surface inelasticity of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes28
Experimental evidence for lava-like mud flows under Martian surface conditions28
Carbon fixation rates in groundwater similar to those in oligotrophic marine systems28
Implications of the iron oxide phase transition on the interiors of rocky exoplanets28
Last glacial atmospheric CO2 decline due to widespread Pacific deep-water expansion28
Drought resistance enhanced by tree species diversity in global forests28
Decline in bulk deposition of air pollutants in China lags behind reductions in emissions27
Arctic Ocean stratification set by sea level and freshwater inputs since the last ice age27
Earth’s Great Oxidation Event facilitated by the rise of sedimentary phosphorus recycling27
Sea spray as an obscured source for marine cloud nuclei27
Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances27
Agricultural drought over water-scarce Central Asia aggravated by internal climate variability27
Possible link between Earth’s rotation rate and oxygenation27
Quantifying the physical processes leading to atmospheric hot extremes at a global scale27
Machine learning reveals climate forcing from aerosols is dominated by increased cloud cover26
Dry late accretion inferred from Venus’s coupled atmosphere and internal evolution26
Oceanic transform fault seismicity and slip mode influenced by seawater infiltration26
Upper-plate controls on subduction zone geometry, hydration and earthquake behaviour26
Twentieth-century Azores High expansion unprecedented in the past 1,200 years26
Nonlinear forcing of climate on mountain denudation during glaciations26
Marine organic carbon burial increased forest fire frequency during Oceanic Anoxic Event 226
Atmospheric CO2 control of spontaneous millennial-scale ice age climate oscillations26
Oxygen priming induced by elevated CO2 reduces carbon accumulation and methane emissions in coastal wetlands25
Sub-aerial talik formation observed across the discontinuous permafrost zone of Alaska25
Influence of biogenic emissions from boreal forests on aerosol–cloud interactions25
Methane hydrate dissociation across the Oligocene–Miocene boundary25
Global dominance of tectonics over climate in shaping river longitudinal profiles25
Stress, rigidity and sediment strength control megathrust earthquake and tsunami dynamics25
Risks to carbon storage from land-use change revealed by peat thickness maps of Peru25
Multi-decadal trends in Antarctic sea-ice extent driven by ENSO–SAM over the last 2,000 years25
Rates of protoplanetary accretion and differentiation set nitrogen budget of rocky planets25
Paleofloods stage a comeback25
Recent strengthening of snow and ice albedo feedback driven by Antarctic sea-ice loss25
Fire enhances forest degradation within forest edge zones in Africa25
Boosting geoscience data sharing in China24
Regulation of ionospheric plasma velocities by thermospheric winds24
A poorly mixed mantle transition zone and its thermal state inferred from seismic waves24
Continuum of earthquake rupture speeds enabled by oblique slip24
Subslab heterogeneity and giant megathrust earthquakes24
Reservoir CO2 and CH4 emissions and their climate impact over the period 1900–206024
Materials and pathways of the organic carbon cycle through time24
Slab-derived devolatilization fluids oxidized by subducted metasedimentary rocks24
Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe24
Pyrogenic carbon decomposition critical to resolving fire’s role in the Earth system24
Correlation of porosity variations and rheological transitions on the southern Cascadia megathrust24
Transient ocean oxygenation at end-Permian mass extinction onset shown by thallium isotopes23
Emergence of Southern Hemisphere stratospheric circulation changes in response to ozone recovery23
Archaean seafloors shallowed with age due to radiogenic heating in the mantle23
A seawater-sulfate origin for early Earth’s volcanic sulfur23
Accrual of widespread rock damage from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes23
Preferential localized thinning of lithospheric mantle in the melt-poor Malawi Rift23
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