OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Climate Change is 82. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Making action the norm	626
Source–sink switch	621
Warmth shifts symbionts	429
Hotspots for nitrogen	426
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers	376
Behaviour as leverage	319
High chances of rainbows	319
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change	298
Plants countering downpours	284
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming	278
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South	268
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change	263
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change	222
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	212
Transition risk in the banking sector	210
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America	196
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets	191
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake	182
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States	181
National models of climate governance among major emitters	178
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab	178
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation	175
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage	171
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility	167
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets	166

Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds	166
Glaciers give way to new coasts	165
Attributing soybean production shocks	160
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity	158
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South	156
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation	155
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil	153
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021	152
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change	151
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage	149
The value of values in climate science	146
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections	146
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes	142
Crabs retreat from heat	139
Tasty plants and helpful ants	138
Heated beetles	137
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter	137
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s	135
Biased reports of species range shifts	133
Interventions in education	131
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate	130
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021	129
Labour reallocation as adaptation	122
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments	122
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators	121
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change	117
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol	112
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks	110
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change	108
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes	108
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas	108
Antarctic fast-ice trends	106
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere	105
The effects on children	105
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs	103
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100	101
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers	100
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production	100
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes	99
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend	97
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience	97
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power	97
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding	97
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes	95
Challenges of institutional adaptation	94
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere	93
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability	92
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity	92
Status of global coastal adaptation	91
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy	90

Going beyond averages	89
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming	86
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry	86
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets	84
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts	84
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs	82
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points	82
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation	82
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation	82