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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Making action the norm	657
Source–sink switch	652
Warmth shifts symbionts	433
Hotspots for nitrogen	390
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers	335
High chances of rainbows	329
Behaviour as leverage	312
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change	292
Plants countering downpours	290
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South	277
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change	268
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	236
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation	223
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake	217
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change	203
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil	203
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets	188
Transition risk in the banking sector	186
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America	186
Glaciers give way to new coasts	183
Attributing soybean production shocks	181
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South	180
National models of climate governance among major emitters	173
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation	167
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage	165

Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab	163
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity	162
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds	162
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming	160
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections	160
The value of values in climate science	157
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	154
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	152
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	149
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility	147
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	144
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes	140
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage	140
Crabs retreat from heat	139
Tasty plants and helpful ants	135
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter	134
Heated beetles	134
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s	127
Biased reports of species range shifts	126
Interventions in education	126
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021	125
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	123
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change	118
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol	118
Antarctic fast-ice trends	116
Challenges of institutional adaptation	113
The effects on children	113
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding	111
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power	109
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change	109
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend	107
Going beyond averages	106
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy	105
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming	103
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas	101
Identifying critical intervention points for the prevention of cascading climate impacts	99
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs	99
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes	99
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production	98
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points	96
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes	94
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate	94
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators	94
Duplicating genomes to survive the heat	93
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	92
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation	91
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100	89
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts	88
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry	85
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes	85

Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks	85
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere	85
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	84
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience	84
Status of global coastal adaptation	83
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability	83
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs	81
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation	81