Nature Climate Change

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Climate Change is 20. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Warmth shifts symbionts653
Hotspots for nitrogen528
Winter sea-ice growth in the Arctic impeded by more frequent atmospheric rivers509
Ecosystem energy exchange428
High chances of rainbows371
Making action the norm370
Source–sink switch368
Behaviour as leverage315
Precipitation efficiency constraint on climate change307
Financials threaten to undermine the functioning of emissions markets288
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds260
Intense and prolonged subsurface marine heatwaves pose risk to biodiversity258
Antarctic meteorites threatened by climate warming250
Plant–microbe interactions underpin contrasting enzymatic responses to wetland drainage243
Enhance climate technology deployment in the Global South242
Human-induced borealization leads to the collapse of Bering Sea snow crab236
The year 2020229
Author Correction: Storing frozen water to adapt to climate change223
Plants countering downpours216
Reconciling widely varying estimates of the global economic impacts from climate change216
Atmospheric circulation-constrained model sensitivity recalibrates Arctic climate projections206
Glaciers give way to new coasts199
Essential but challenging climate change education in the Global South184
Increased attention to water is key to adaptation180
Leveraging social cognition to promote effective climate change mitigation177
Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets161
Attributing soybean production shocks161
Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake160
Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change158
Cross-border CO2 transport decreases public acceptance of carbon capture and storage148
Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes144
Climate change increases resource-constrained international immobility144
National models of climate governance among major emitters144
The value of values in climate science143
Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States142
Renewable energy certificates threaten the integrity of corporate science-based targets138
Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021137
Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America135
Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil135
Emergence of seasonal delay of tropical rainfall during 1979–2019134
Bird–plant dispersal limits132
Climate polarization is increasing on Twitter130
Heated beetles129
Tasty plants and helpful ants128
‘Hot’ coffee taste test124
Crabs retreat from heat121
The effects on children121
Empowering citizen-led adaptation to systemic climate change risks120
Pacific tropical instability waves have intensified since the 1990s120
Energy from buildings is key to a warming climate118
A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry117
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure114
Quantifying global potential for coral evolutionary response to climate change110
The intensification of winter mid-latitude storm tracks in the Southern Hemisphere108
The next generation of machine learning for tracking adaptation texts108
Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production108
Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100107
Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere107
A net-zero target compels a backward induction approach to climate policy105
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity105
Increasing surface runoff from Greenland’s firn areas104
Going beyond averages104
Unique thermal sensitivity imposes a cold-water energetic barrier for vertical migrators104
Author Correction: Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change103
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh 1961–2021102
Labour reallocation as adaptation101
Author Correction: Potential impacts and challenges of border carbon adjustments98
Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs96
wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change96
Limited accountability and awareness of corporate emissions target outcomes96
Litigation needs the latest science94
Greenhouse gases strengthen atmospheric rivers93
Biased reports of species range shifts93
Buildings at risk93
Interventions in education91
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets90
Embedding climate change education into higher-education programmes90
Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend89
Global mitigation opportunities for the life cycle of natural gas-fired power87
Accounting for Pacific climate variability increases projected global warming87
Ambiguity of early warning signals for climate tipping points82
Increased exposure of coastal cities to sea-level rise due to internal climate variability81
Deciphering the multiple effects of climate warming on the temporal shift of leaf unfolding80
Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes80
Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation79
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience79
Antarctic fast-ice trends79
Status of global coastal adaptation78
Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol78
Philosophers reinforce economists’ support for climate change mitigation77
Tidal melt77
A multi-model assessment of inequality and climate change75
Soils worldwide suffer from the combined effects of multiple global change factors75
Framing resilience75
The Global Stocktake at COP2874
Regenerative living cities and the urban climate–biodiversity–wellbeing nexus73
Flexible foraging behaviour increases predator vulnerability to climate change73
Widespread irreversible changes in surface temperature and precipitation in response to CO2 forcing72
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes72
Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction72
Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes72
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide71
Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change70
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system70
Urban heat islands increase or reduce mortality in different cities69
More rain, less often68
Emergency loan67
The costs of flexible sale of reserves67
Ice core records suggest that Antarctica is warming faster than the global average67
Net greenhouse gas source67
Free riding in climate protests66
The Global South is the climate movement’s unsung leader66
To achieve deep cuts in US emissions, state-driven policy is only slightly more expensive than nationally uniform policy66
The mortality cost of climate change65
Author Correction: Feasibility of peak temperature targets in light of institutional constraints64
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades63
Author Correction: National models of climate governance among major emitters63
Cascading impacts of climate change on child survival and health in Africa63
Global corporate tax competition leads to unintended yet non-negligible climate impacts63
Pathways towards 90% decarbonization of aviation by 205062
Plant-by-plant decarbonization strategies for the global steel industry61
Climate services promise better decisions but mainly focus on better data61
Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming61
Impacts of climate change-related human migration on infectious diseases60
Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration60
Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws60
Why residual emissions matter right now60
National adaptation plans59
A question of the sexes59
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming58
Consider physiology when translocating animals58
Pacific climate variability biases constrained warming projections towards low estimates58
Climate change exacerbates almost two-thirds of pathogenic diseases affecting humans57
Drought and electricity57
Warming spins up the Southern Ocean56
Art of communicating56
Author Correction: Counterbalancing influences of aerosols and greenhouse gases on atmospheric rivers55
Extreme heat disproportionately exacerbates health issues by threatening fresh food supply55
Climate change debates54
Temperature effect on erosion-induced disturbances to soil organic carbon cycling54
Limited net poleward movement of reef species over a decade of climate extremes54
Wheat breeding strategies for increased climate resilience54
Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world53
Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling53
Data under duress52
Soil carbon is the blind spot of European national GHG inventories52
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies52
Perspectives of UK adolescents on the youth climate strikes52
A framework for national scenarios with varying emission reductions52
Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence51
The increasing relevance of phenology to conservation51
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation51
Climate change experiences raise environmental concerns and promote Green voting51
Gains and losses in forest cover have asymmetric effects on land surface temperature50
Accelerated warming in the North Pacific since 201350
Temperature optima of a natural diatom population increases as global warming proceeds50
Tropical forest restoration under future climate change49
Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake49
Shifting rains49
Firm emissions reduction49
Near-term transition and longer-term physical climate risks of greenhouse gas emissions pathways49
A mix of reforestation methods offers more cost-effective climate mitigation49
Most people prefer constant carbon costs over increasing cost schedules even if costs are high48
Science-based targets48
Nature-based solutions can pave the way to carbon-neutral cities in 203048
Big homes hinder emission cuts48
Changing spatial extent48
Caution in the use of populism to describe distributional considerations of climate policy47
Seeing carbon dioxide emissions through the trees47
A more quiescent deep ocean under global warming47
Words for climate change are powerful but not magical47
Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide47
Publisher Correction: Sea surface warming patterns drive hydrological sensitivity uncertainties47
African perspectives on climate change research46
The need to consider residual risk46
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought46
Double jeopardy for fish diversity46
Small step funding models fit better for climate research46
Understanding and overcoming climate obstruction45
Advancing transdisciplinary adaptation research practice45
Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation45
The carbon dioxide removal gap45
Terrestrial carbon dynamics in an era of increasing wildfire44
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users44
Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model44
Potential hydropower contribution to mitigate climate risk and build resilience in Africa44
Assessing the impacts of fertility and retirement policies on China’s carbon emissions44
Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk44
Upper environmental pCO2 drives sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates43
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research43
Expanding rivers on the Greenland ice sheet’s surface drain more meltwater into the sea42
Mountain rivers warming42
Different framing41
Bringing health out of the clinic and into the courts41
Social-media tracks40
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning40
Warming hotspots induced by more eddies40
The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem40
Rough years ahead40
Author Correction: Distributional labour challenges and opportunities for decarbonizing the US power system39
Funding African-led climate initiatives39
Publisher Correction: Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades38
A deep dive into climate connectivity38
Author Correction: The blue carbon wealth of nations38
Climate change ‘heard’ in the ocean depths38
The forest is not yet lost38
Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes37
Major step up in carbon capture and storage needed to keep warming below 2 °C37
Reconciling disagreement on global river flood changes in a warming climate37
Subsurface heatwaves in lakes37
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being37
Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide37
Higher temperature extremes exacerbate negative disease effects in a social mammal37
Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies37
Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change37
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges36
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise36
Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations36
Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation36
Cost-effective adaptation strategies to rising river flood risk in Europe36
Temperatures that sterilize males better match global species distributions than lethal temperatures35
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance35
300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C35
Sea-ice decline could keep zooplankton deeper for longer35
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being35
Nomadic herders34
Understanding eco-anxiety34
Climate wealth borrowing by countries since 195034
Policies and investment34
Future reversal of warming-enhanced vegetation productivity in the Northern Hemisphere34
Plankton lose fats34
Classifying different national approaches to climate governance34
Peaking productivity by 206034
Lake temperature and nutrient levels interact to reorganize ecological networks34
New insights into future tropical climate change33
Bats show hibernation flexibility33
Reaching Republicans on climate change33
Effective domestic climate policies to protect small island states33
Deforestation may cause more widespread ectotherm population decline under climate change33
Careering ahead33
Energy and socioeconomic system transformation through a decade of IPCC-assessed scenarios33
Fossil fuel subsidy reforms have become more fragile32
Threat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model32
Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection32
Sea-level rise causes shorebird population collapse before habitats drown32
A framework for considering justice aspects in integrated wildfire risk management32
Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production32
Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice31
Negotiating Nile infrastructure management should consider climate change uncertainties31
Contextualizing cross-national patterns in household climate change adaptation31
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