| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The representative concentration pathways: an overview | Climatic Change | 2011 | 5,871 |
| 2 | The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300 | Climatic Change | 2011 | 2,948 |
| 3 | RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions | Climatic Change | 2011 | 2,168 |
| 4 | Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change? | Climatic Change | 2009 | 1,812 |
| 5 | A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways | Climatic Change | 2014 | 1,698 |
| 6 | Observational Evidence of Recent Change in the Northern High-Latitude Environment | Climatic Change | 2000 | 1,690 |
| 7 | Climate Change Risk Perception and Policy Preferences: The Role of Affect, Imagery, and Values | Climatic Change | 2006 | 1,583 |
| 8 | Hydrologic Implications of Dynamical and Statistical Approaches to Downscaling Climate Model Outputs | Climatic Change | 2004 | 1,503 |
| 9 | DECADAL VARIATIONS IN CLIMATE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION | Climatic Change | 1997 | 1,438 |
| 10 | Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments: An Evolution of Conceptual Thinking | Climatic Change | 2006 | 1,341 |
| 11 | The Arctic’s rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: a research synthesis | Climatic Change | 2012 | 1,277 |
| 12 | Albedo Enhancement by Stratospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution to Resolve a Policy Dilemma? | Climatic Change | 2006 | 1,265 |
| 13 | RCP4.5: a pathway for stabilization of radiative forcing by 2100 | Climatic Change | 2011 | 1,238 |
| 14 | Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions | Climatic Change | 2005 | 1,219 |
| 15 | The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of Years Ago | Climatic Change | 2003 | 1,214 |
| 16 | Future extreme events in European climate: an exploration of regional climate model projections | Climatic Change | 2007 | 1,178 |
| 17 | Estimates of gross and net fluxes of carbon between the biosphere and the atmosphere from biomass burning | Climatic Change | 1980 | 1,171 |
| 18 | Extreme events in a changing climate: Variability is more important than averages | Climatic Change | 1992 | 1,101 |
| 19 | Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands | Climatic Change | 2011 | 1,080 |
| 20 | Robust estimation of background noise and signal detection in climatic time series | Climatic Change | 1996 | 1,053 |
| 21 | Methane and the greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations | Climatic Change | 2011 | 1,035 |
| 22 | Recent Rapid Regional Climate Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula | Climatic Change | 2003 | 1,009 |
| 23 | Going to the Extremes | Climatic Change | 2006 | 966 |
| 24 | A summary of the PRUDENCE model projections of changes in European climate by the end of this century | Climatic Change | 2007 | 936 |
| 25 | Climatic Change in Mountain Regions: A Review of Possible Impacts | Climatic Change | 2003 | 904 |
| 26 | An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability | Climatic Change | 2000 | 898 |
| 27 | Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the CMIP5 ensemble | Climatic Change | 2013 | 887 |
| 28 | The Arctic Amplification Debate | Climatic Change | 2006 | 883 |
| 29 | Climate Change and Global Wine Quality | Climatic Change | 2005 | 879 |
| 30 | Experience-Based and Description-Based Perceptions of Long-Term Risk: Why Global Warming does not Scare us (Yet) | Climatic Change | 2006 | 857 |
| 31 | The Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrology and Water Resources of the Colorado River Basin | Climatic Change | 2004 | 825 |
| 32 | RCP2.6: exploring the possibility to keep global mean temperature increase below 2°C | Climatic Change | 2011 | 759 |
| 33 | Recent and Future Climate Change in Northwest China | Climatic Change | 2007 | 749 |
| 34 | Public Views on Climate Change: European and USA Perspectives | Climatic Change | 2006 | 745 |
| 35 | The present and future role of coastal wetland vegetation in protecting shorelines: answering recent challenges to the paradigm | Climatic Change | 2011 | 740 |
| 36 | Evolution of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of air pollutants at global and regional scales during the 1980–2010 period | Climatic Change | 2011 | 740 |
| 37 | Global Climatic Impacts of a Collapse of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation | Climatic Change | 2002 | 736 |
| 38 | Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S., 2002–2010 | Climatic Change | 2012 | 727 |
| 39 | The impacts of climate change on river flood risk at the global scale | Climatic Change | 2016 | 716 |
| 40 | Future Area Burned in Canada | Climatic Change | 2005 | 709 |
| 41 | Estimating the Impact of Global Change on Flood and Drought Risks in Europe: A Continental, Integrated Analysis | Climatic Change | 2006 | 670 |
| 42 | Stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at low levels: an assessment of reduction strategies and costs | Climatic Change | 2007 | 658 |
| 43 | Climate benefits of changing diet | Climatic Change | 2009 | 640 |
| 44 | Changes in Fire and Climate in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula (Mediterranean Basin) | Climatic Change | 2004 | 624 |
| 45 | An intercomparison of regional climate simulations for Europe: assessing uncertainties in model projections | Climatic Change | 2007 | 616 |
| 46 | Evaluating the performance and utility of regional climate models: the PRUDENCE project | Climatic Change | 2007 | 606 |
| 47 | Mechanisms of shrubland expansion: land use, climate or CO2? | Climatic Change | 1995 | 604 |
| 48 | Changes in Snowmelt Runoff Timing in Western North America under a `Business as Usual' Climate Change Scenario | Climatic Change | 2004 | 603 |
| 49 | An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate | Climatic Change | 2007 | 602 |
| 50 | Permafrost Degradation and Ecological Changes Associated with a WarmingClimate in Central Alaska | Climatic Change | 2001 | 601 |
