OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Climate Change is 59. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services	607
Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics	422
Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change	354
Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006	313
Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather	300
Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave	296
Taking climate model evaluation to the next level	270
Meta-analyses of factors motivating climate change adaptation behaviour	248
Carbon dioxide emissions continue to grow amidst slowly emerging climate policies	244
Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world	231
Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios	226
The evidence for motivated reasoning in climate change preference formation	215
Drivers of declining CO2 emissions in 18 developed economies	205
Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world	205
Ecological memory modifies the cumulative impact of recurrent climate extremes	202
Hydrologic implications of vegetation response to elevated CO2 in climate projections	182
Strengthening tropical Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient consistent with rising greenhouse gases	177
Global patterns and dynamics of climate–groundwater interactions	175
Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass	174
Krill (Euphausia superba) distribution contracts southward during rapid regional warming	173
A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production	173
Robustness and uncertainties in global multivariate wind-wave climate projections	161
Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990	157
Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decades of atmospheric inversion	155
A reconciled estimate of the influence of Arctic sea-ice loss on recent Eurasian cooling	150
Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region	150
Increasing impacts of extreme droughts on vegetation productivity under climate change	146
Minimal influence of reduced Arctic sea ice on coincident cold winters in mid-latitudes	145
Persistent acceleration in global sea-level rise since the 1960s	143
Progressing emergent constraints on future climate change	130
Grounding nature-based climate solutions in sound biodiversity science	124
Latest climate models confirm need for urgent mitigation	124
Sea-level driven land conversion and the formation of ghost forests	123
A revival of Indian summer monsoon rainfall since 2002	120
Early sowing systems can boost Australian wheat yields despite recent climate change	119
Constraining glacier elevation and mass changes in South America	114
Global trends in carbon sinks and their relationships with CO2 and temperature	114
Amazonian rainforest tree mortality driven by climate and functional traits	111
Unchanged frequency of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya	108
Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions	108
Tracking global climate change adaptation among governments	107
Evolutionary response of the egg hatching date of a herbivorous insect under climate change	106
Climate migration myths	105
Consumers underestimate the emissions associated with food but are aided by labels	104
Children can foster climate change concern among their parents	101
Rapid growth in greenhouse gas emissions from the adoption of industrial-scale aquaculture	99
The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions	96
Agricultural non-CO2 emission reduction potential in the context of the 1.5 °C target	96
Intact and managed peatland soils as a source and sink of GHGs from 1850 to 2100	95
Halving warming with idealized solar geoengineering moderates key climate hazards	94
Summer weather becomes more persistent in a 2 °C world	93
Nudging out support for a carbon tax	92
Prospects for powering past coal	90
Potential for low-cost carbon dioxide removal through tropical reforestation	90
Changing risks of simultaneous global breadbasket failure	89
Ocean community warming responses explained by thermal affinities and temperature gradients	88
Increased snowfall over the Antarctic Ice Sheet mitigated twentieth-century sea-level rise	87
Anthropogenic forcing dominates global mean sea-level rise since 1970	85
Amazonian tree species threatened by deforestation and climate change	78
Towards operational predictions of the near-term climate	77
Learning about urban climate solutions from case studies	75
Natural variability of Southern Ocean convection as a driver of observed climate trends	75
A research roadmap for quantifying non-state and subnational climate mitigation action	75
Shifting habitats expose fishing communities to risk under climate change	71
The private sector’s climate change risk and adaptation blind spots	68
A pathway design framework for national low greenhouse gas emission development strategies	68
Reconciling opposing Walker circulation trends in observations and model projections	66
Is adaptation success a flawed concept?	66
Temperature patterns and mechanisms influencing coral bleaching during the 2016 El Niño	66
Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s	65
The broader importance of #FridaysForFuture	65
Asserting the climate benefits of the coal-to-gas shift across temporal and spatial scales	65
Sea surface temperature variability in the southwest tropical Pacific since AD 1649	64
Increased global nitrous oxide emissions from streams and rivers in the Anthropocene	64
Potential adaptive strategies for 29 sub-Saharan crops under future climate change	63
Evidence-based strategies to combat scientific misinformation	62
An emergent constraint on future Arctic sea-ice albedo feedback	62
Prediction of unprecedented biological shifts in the global ocean	62
Climate damages and adaptation potential across diverse sectors of the United States	61
Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period	60
Madden–Julian oscillation changes under anthropogenic warming	60
Widespread increase of boreal summer dry season length over the Congo rainforest	59
Phenology of nocturnal avian migration has shifted at the continental scale	59