OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 81. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Warmth shifts symbionts	653
Hotspots for nitrogen	528
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers	509
Ecosystem energy exchange	428
High chances of rainbows	371
Making action the norm	370
Source–sink switch	368
Behaviour as leverage	315
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change	307
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets	288
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds	260
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity	258
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming	250
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage	243
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South	242
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab	236
The year 2020	229
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change	223
Plants countering downpours	216
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change	216
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections	206
Glaciers give way to new coasts	199
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South	184
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation	180
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation	177

Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	161
Attributing soybean production shocks	161
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake	160
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	158
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage	148
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes	144
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility	144
National models of climate governance among major emitters	144
The value of values in climate science	143
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	142
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	138
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	137
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America	135
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil	135
Emergence of seasonal delay of tropical rainfall during 1979–2019	134
Bird–plant dispersal limits	132
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter	130
Heated beetles	129
Tasty plants and helpful ants	128
‘Hot’ coffee taste test	124
Crabs retreat from heat	121
The effects on children	121
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks	120
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s	120
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate	118
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry	117
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure	114
Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change	110
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere	108
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts	108
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production	108
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100	107
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	107
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy	105
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity	105
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas	104
Going beyond averages	104
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators	104
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change	103
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021	102
Labour reallocation as adaptation	101
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	98
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs	96
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change	96
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes	96
Litigation needs the latest science	94
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers	93
Biased reports of species range shifts	93
Buildings at risk	93
Interventions in education	91

Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	90
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes	90
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend	89
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power	87
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming	87
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points	82
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability	81