Nature Climate Change

Top Research Topics at Nature Climate Change?

The journal mostly deals with topics like Climate change, Climatology, Ecology, Environmental resource management and Global warming. Topics in Climate change explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Biodiversity, Agriculture, Natural resource economics and Greenhouse gas. Natural resource economics and Climate change mitigation are closely related fields of research discussed in the journal.

Issues in Climatology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Climate model, Atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, Precipitation and Oceanography. Ecosystem and Ecology (disciplines) studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Ecology presented. The Environmental resource management study featured in it draws connections with the study of Adaptation (computer science).

• Climate change (32.04%)
• Climatology (19.34%)
• Ecology (11.53%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models (2241 citations)
• Global warming and changes in drought (1380 citations)
• A decade of weather extremes (1253 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Nature Climate Change:

The most cited publications cover a variety of subjects, including Climate change, Climatology, Global warming, Ecology and Environmental resource management. While Climate change is the key highlight in the journal papers, thet also covered some subjects on Greenhouse gas and Agriculture. The studies on Climatology discussed at the most cited articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Atmospheric sciences, Climate model, Meteorology, Precipitation and Oceanography.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

• Ecology
• Law
• Climate change

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Nature Climate Change mainly deals with areas of study such as Climate change, Climatology, Global warming, Natural resource economics and Climate model. The Climate change study featured falls within the larger field of Ecology. It tackles issues in Ecology, particularly in the topics of Biodiversity, Habitat and Ecosystem.

The study on Climatology presented in the journal intersects with the topics under Arctic. Studies on Natural resource economics discussed in Nature Climate Change link to the field of Climate change mitigation. The journal focuses on different Climate model studies like Climate sensitivity and Coupled model intercomparison project.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes (42 citations)
• Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change (26 citations)
• Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink (26 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Nature Climate Change (based on the number of publications) are:

• Alastair Brown (152 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Bronwyn Wake (118 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
• Monica Contestabile (69 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Olive Heffernan (66 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Anna Petherick (45 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Nature Climate Change (based on the number of publications) are:

• University of Exeter (126 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (111 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (92 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
• Stanford University (87 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 10 less than at the previous edition,
• ETH Zurich (85 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 20.63% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 32.77% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.60% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.73% of all publications and 33.90% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

• Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
• Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
• Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
• Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
• Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.