OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 85. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability	1014
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes	590
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change	544
Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change	477
Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth	439
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right	422
Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change	392
Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation	369
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	329
Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes	312
A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change	307
Climate change impacts on renewable energy supply	303
Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework	299
A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure	260
Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s	252
Plant pathogen infection risk tracks global crop yields under climate change	246
A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda	236
A proposed global layout of carbon capture and storage in line with a 2 °C climate target	233
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being	206
A digital twin of Earth for the green transition	205
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	204
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink	203
Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades	201
Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era	198
Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	198

Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene	196
Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature	193
Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation	190
Climate change decisive for Asia’s snow meltwater supply	182
Anthropogenic emissions and urbanization increase risk of compound hot extremes in cities	180
Global multi-model projections of local urban climates	170
Climate change threatens terrestrial water storage over the Tibetan Plateau	165
Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands	164
Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming	158
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws	152
Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels	151
Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement	148
Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events	147
Aerosols in current and future Arctic climate	143
Winter melt trends portend widespread declines in snow water resources	140
Future increases in Arctic lightning and fire risk for permafrost carbon	135
Impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement	134
Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot	132
Future impacts of climate change on inland Ramsar wetlands	131
Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period	130
Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation	129
A social–ecological perspective on climate anxiety in children and adolescents	128
Business risk and the emergence of climate analytics	125
Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems	123
Day-to-day temperature variability reduces economic growth	122
Increased ENSO sea surface temperature variability under four IPCC emission scenarios	118
No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming	118
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting	116
Climate change risk to global port operations	115
Climate change increases global risk to urban forests	113
Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change	113
Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard	111
Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change	110
Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions	110
The blue carbon wealth of nations	109
Systematic review of the outcomes and trade-offs of ten types of decarbonization policy instruments	109
Stranded fossil-fuel assets translate to major losses for investors in advanced economies	108
Growing polarization around climate change on social media	106
Dryland productivity under a changing climate	105
Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies	105
COVID-19-induced low power demand and market forces starkly reduce CO2 emissions	105
Uncertain storage prospects create a conundrum for carbon capture and storage ambitions	105
Atmospheric dynamic constraints on Tibetan Plateau freshwater under Paris climate targets	103
Impact of high-speed rail on road traffic and greenhouse gas emissions	101
Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat	101
Zonally contrasting shifts of the tropical rain belt in response to climate change	100
Constraining the increased frequency of global precipitation extremes under warming	100
Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation	97
Estimating the global risk of anthropogenic climate change	97
Opposite response of strong and moderate positive Indian Ocean Dipole to global warming	96

Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	95
Temperatures that sterilize males better match global species distributions than lethal temperatures	94
Sources of uncertainty in long-term global scenarios of solar photovoltaic technology	92
Plausible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy with climate policy	91
Global changes in oceanic mesoscale currents over the satellite altimetry record	91
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming	90
Biophysical and economic constraints on China’s natural climate solutions	89
Weakened evidence for mid-latitude impacts of Arctic warming	86
Asymmetry in the climate–carbon cycle response to positive and negative CO2 emissions	86
A multi-model analysis of long-term emissions and warming implications of current mitigation efforts	86
Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity	85
Tradeoff of CO2 and CH4 emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown	85