Nature Climate Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Climate Change is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Making action the norm684
Source–sink switch675
Warmth shifts symbionts438
Hotspots for nitrogen402
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers326
High chances of rainbows303
Behaviour as leverage290
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change281
Plants countering downpours249
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South236
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change223
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets216
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change213
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab198
Transition risk in the banking sector196
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South192
Paris Agreement after 10 years191
Glaciers give way to new coasts188
Attributing soybean production shocks184
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation173
The value of values in climate science172
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets170
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds167
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity167
National models of climate governance among major emitters166
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming166
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections161
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation160
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage156
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change156
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage151
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake150
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility148
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets142
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States142
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America137
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021136
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes135
Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience134
Why longer seasons with climate change may not increase tree growth132
Crabs retreat from heat131
Tasty plants and helpful ants128
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter125
Heated beetles124
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s122
Biased reports of species range shifts121
Interventions in education115
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change113
Antarctic fast-ice trends112
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments111
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100111
The effects on children111
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming109
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change107
Challenges of institutional adaptation104
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas102
Identifying critical intervention points for the prevention of cascading climate impacts101
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs101
Duplicating genomes to survive the heat100
Going beyond averages99
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators98
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes96
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy95
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding94
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points94
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power92
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate92
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production89
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes87
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere87
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks87
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability86
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation85
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts85
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol83
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes83
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere82
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience81
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets81
Status of global coastal adaptation80
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry80
Pathways to a safer planet80
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation79
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs79
Tidal melt77
More rain, less often76
Emergency loan75
The costs of flexible sale of reserves74
Net greenhouse gas source73
The Global South is the climate movement’s unsung leader73
Free riding in climate protests72
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts72
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades72
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa72
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters72
The mortality cost of climate change72
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities72
Private sector investments in climate change adaptation71
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors71
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints71
The Global Stocktake at COP2871
Why residual emissions matter right now70
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change70
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change70
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205070
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws68
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes68
Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus67
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming67
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases67
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes67
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average67
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide67
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing66
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system66
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction66
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration65
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry65
Hidden deep soil moisture droughts64
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change64
Consider physiology when translocating animals63
National adaptation plans62
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates61
Drought and electricity61
Art of communicating60
Data under duress59
Plant processes matter58
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans58
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature58
Scope for waterfowl to speed up migration to a warming Arctic57
Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire57
Climate change debates57
Climate change raises costs for European forestry56
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience56
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes55
Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments55
Near-term transition and longer-term physical climate risks of greenhouse gas emissions pathways55
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes55
Soil carbon is the blind spot of European national GHG inventories55
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling55
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling54
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies54
Anticipating climate impacts on nutrition through climate–crop nutrient modelling53
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply53
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds53
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming52
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world52
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting52
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201352
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change52
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation51
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence51
The increasing relevance of phenology to conservation50
Firm emissions reduction49
Shifting rains49
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation48
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties48
Science-based targets48
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy47
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical47
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction46
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake46
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees46
Big homes hinder emission cuts46
Small step funding models fit better for climate research46
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation46
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world46
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire45
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research45
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought45
Mountain rivers warming45
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates45
African perspectives on climate change research45
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk44
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide44
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203044
Widespread revisions of self-reported emissions by major US corporations44
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model43
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming43
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions43
The carbon dioxide removal gap43
Potential hydropower contribution to mitigate climate risk and build resilience in Africa42
Negative verbal probabilities undermine communication of climate science42
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users42
Social-media tracks41
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts41
The forest is not yet lost41
Expanding rivers on the Greenland ice sheet’s surface drain more meltwater into the sea41
Funding African-led climate initiatives41
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system41
A deep dive into climate connectivity41
Development policy affects coastal flood exposure in China more than sea-level rise40
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C40
Emerging risks along Arctic coastlines40
Author Correction: Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments40
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem39
Current and future methane emissions from boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes39
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning39
Mountain glaciers will lose their cooling capacity as they shrink39
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths39
Rough years ahead39
Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal39
Peaking productivity by 206039
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges38
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes38
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe38
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation38
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise38
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies37
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance37
Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets37
Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations37
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C36
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide36
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere35
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change35
Artificial light reduces ecosystem carbon sinks35
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate35
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes35
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195035
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer35
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies35
The promise and limitations of using GenAI to reduce climate scepticism35
Policies and investment34
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance34
Careering ahead33
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks33
Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash32
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown32
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice32
Bats show hibernation flexibility32
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model32
Flood-induced selective migration patterns examined32
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change32
Understanding eco-anxiety32
Spring phenology alters vegetation drought recovery32
Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum32
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection31
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile31
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states31
Emergence of climate change in the tropical Pacific31
Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia31
Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes31
Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data31
Energy and socioeconomic system transformation through a decade of IPCC-assessed scenarios30
A framework for considering justice aspects in integrated wildfire risk management30
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production30
Contextualizing cross-national patterns in household climate change adaptation30
Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation30
Ocean warming and warning29
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