Nature Climate Change

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Climate Change is 22. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Source–sink switch792
Warmth shifts symbionts371
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers316
High chances of rainbows295
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South286
Why longer seasons with climate change may not increase tree growth270
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity251
Glaciers give way to new coasts240
Attributing soybean production shocks237
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change236
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility210
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage203
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets200
Behaviour as leverage197
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America195
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds194
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab193
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections187
Plants countering downpours186
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets180
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South174
Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience171
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage168
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States164
Paris Agreement after 10 years164
Transition risk in the banking sector161
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change158
National models of climate governance among major emitters151
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming147
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes141
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets140
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change138
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake136
Tasty plants and helpful ants135
Crabs retreat from heat135
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter134
Heated beetles131
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s130
Biased reports of species range shifts128
Interventions in education127
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators126
The effects on children123
Pathways to a safer planet118
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol116
Discrepancies in national inventories reveal a large emissions gap in the wastewater sector116
Going beyond averages113
Challenges of institutional adaptation113
Technological advances mitigate the impact of climate change on electric vehicle battery lifetimes112
Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change110
Research that captures a changing world107
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability107
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks105
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change103
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation102
Duplicating genomes to survive the heat101
Identifying critical intervention points for the prevention of cascading climate impacts101
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs100
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100100
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change98
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas97
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming97
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate97
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere96
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts96
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry96
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production96
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes95
Status of global coastal adaptation94
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power93
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy92
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes91
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere90
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets89
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points89
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes87
The rich bear their fair share of climate costs87
Tidal melt86
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation86
Emergency loan86
The costs of flexible sale of reserves85
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts82
Net greenhouse gas source82
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205081
Free riding in climate protests81
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average80
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities79
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors78
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters77
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades76
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints76
The mortality cost of climate change75
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction74
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration74
The expanding Indo-Pacific freshwater pool and changing freshwater pathway in the South Indian Ocean73
Private sector investments in climate change adaptation73
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases73
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide72
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system71
Promising climate progress from net-zero ambitions to the Paris Agreement goal71
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa70
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing70
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes70
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change70
Why residual emissions matter right now69
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry69
Hidden deep soil moisture droughts68
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes68
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming67
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change67
Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus66
The Global Stocktake at COP2865
Consider physiology when translocating animals65
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change65
National adaptation plans65
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates64
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans64
Art of communicating64
Plant processes matter63
Climate change raises costs for European forestry62
Climate change debates62
Anticipating climate impacts on nutrition through climate–crop nutrient modelling61
Building façade photovoltaics enhance global climate resilience61
Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire61
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature60
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience60
Overlooked toll of climate change on migrant children in the Americas60
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling60
Emergent climate change signals within Antarctic sea ice and associated ecosystems59
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming59
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes59
Vegetation recovery following retrogressive thaw slumps across northern tundra regions57
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling57
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes56
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation56
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies56
Data under duress54
Scope for waterfowl to speed up migration to a warming Arctic54
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply54
Drought and electricity54
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world53
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence53
Shifting rains52
Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments52
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds52
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation52
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201352
Science-based targets51
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy51
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties49
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical49
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation49
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users49
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming49
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake49
Structural lock-ins in tourism decarbonization and the alternative49
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203048
Small step funding models fit better for climate research48
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide48
Negative verbal probabilities undermine communication of climate science47
African perspectives on climate change research47
Mountain rivers warming47
Coastal flood risk to European surface transport infrastructure at different global warming levels46
Rivers accelerate and slow as temperatures rise46
Big homes hinder emission cuts46
Communicating the need for climate action46
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions46
Potential hydropower contribution to mitigate climate risk and build resilience in Africa46
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees45
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought45
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research45
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction45
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world44
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire44
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk44
The carbon dioxide removal gap43
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model43
Widespread revisions of self-reported emissions by major US corporations43
Social-media tracks42
Expanding rivers on the Greenland ice sheet’s surface drain more meltwater into the sea42
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts42
A deep dive into climate connectivity41
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths41
The forest is not yet lost41
Mountain glaciers will lose their cooling capacity as they shrink40
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system40
Rough years ahead40
Author Correction: Recommendations for producing knowledge syntheses to inform climate change assessments40
Peaking productivity by 206040
Artificial light reduces ecosystem carbon sinks40
Resolving the changing pace of Arctic rivers40
Funding African-led climate initiatives39
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes39
Emerging risks along Arctic coastlines39
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C39
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies38
Defining transformational adaptation and why it matters38
Growing cropland emissions38
Climate policy feasibility across Europe relies on the conditional middle38
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes37
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change37
Development policy affects coastal flood exposure in China more than sea-level rise37
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies37
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges36
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise36
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem36
The promise and limitations of using GenAI to reduce climate scepticism36
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe36
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C36
Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets36
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide35
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate35
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation35
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer35
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance35
Current and future methane emissions from boreal-Arctic wetlands and lakes35
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning35
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere35
Bats show hibernation flexibility34
Careering ahead34
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195034
Flood-induced selective migration patterns examined34
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks34
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change34
Policies and investment34
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production33
Understanding eco-anxiety33
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile33
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties33
More eddying of subtropical western boundary currents boosts stratification and cools shelf seas33
Cost and emissions pathways towards net-zero climate impacts in aviation33
Reorienting climate litigation in a time of backlash33
Spring phenology alters vegetation drought recovery32
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice32
Energy and socioeconomic system transformation through a decade of IPCC-assessed scenarios32
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states32
Principles for a post-growth scenario of ambitious mitigation and high human well-being32
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection32
Early-career researchers reflect on influential papers32
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown32
Coal-exit alliance must confront freeriding sectors to propel Paris-aligned momentum31
Inconsistent national reports undercount wastewater emissions31
Future warming from global food consumption31
Recent reduced abyssal overturning and ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin31
Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes31
Ocean warming and warning31
A framework for considering justice aspects in integrated wildfire risk management31
Tracking artificial intelligence in climate inventions with patent data31
Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia31
Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming31
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance31
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