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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Warmth shifts symbionts	607
Hotspots for nitrogen	600
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers	418
High chances of rainbows	415
Making action the norm	367
Source–sink switch	309
Behaviour as leverage	307
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming	288
The year 2020	278
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change	261
Plants countering downpours	257
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change	255
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South	210
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity	208
Attributing soybean production shocks	205
Glaciers give way to new coasts	198
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	184
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South	179
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage	178
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation	176
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change	169
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake	169
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	168
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab	167
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections	162

Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility	161
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America	157
Transition risk in the banking sector	157
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets	154
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil	150
The value of values in climate science	148
National models of climate governance among major emitters	147
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage	146
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	145
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds	144
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	142
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation	141
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	141
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes	139
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter	135
Tasty plants and helpful ants	133
Heated beetles	133
Crabs retreat from heat	133
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s	131
The effects on children	131
Going beyond averages	128
Challenges of institutional adaptation	126
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes	126
Antarctic fast-ice trends	126
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas	124
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming	119
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol	117
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry	112
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change	112
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding	107
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation	105
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100	104
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate	103
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere	102
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points	101
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers	101
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure	99
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators	96
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change	95
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	94
Biased reports of species range shifts	94
Labour reallocation as adaptation	94
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs	94
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021	94
Interventions in education	94
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	91
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy	90
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production	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	88

Status of global coastal adaptation	86
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability	86
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes	85
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes	85
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks	84
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts	82
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity	81
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	81