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Climatic Change is a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature, covering Climate variability and models, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Climate change impacts on agriculture.

PublisherSpringer Nature
Reference styleNumbered (Springer Basic)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C (2023) A representative article title. Climatic Change 12:45–58

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Publishes research inClimate variability and models Climate Change Policy and Economics Climate change impacts on agriculture Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
ISSN0165-0009
Citation impact (2-yr)4.16
h-index281
i10-index5,496
Total citations507,772
Article processing charge$3,990
Top institutions publishing hereNSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Journal websitewww.springer.com
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Papers published in Climatic Change per year

288
2014
270
2015
284
2016
247
2017
211
2018
276
2019
328
2020
317
2021
197
2022
190
2023
176
2024
249
2025

Citation impact of Climatic Change by publication year

22.8K
2014
15.5K
2015
18.9K
2016
12.1K
2017
12.2K
2018
13.5K
2019
11K
2020
10K
2021
4.3K
2022
2.9K
2023
1.5K
2024
688
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Climatic Change

The representative concentration pathways: an overview

Detlef P. van Vuuren, Jae Edmonds, Mikiko Kainuma et al. · 4 Aug 2011

This paper summarizes the development process and main characteristics of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), a set of four new pathways developed for the climate modeling community as a basis for long-term and near-term modeling experiments. The four RCPs together span the range of year 2100 radiative forcing values found in the open literature, i.e.…

7,991 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300

Malte Meinshausen, Steven J. Smith, Katherine Calvin et al. · 8 Aug 2011

We present the greenhouse gas concentrations for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and their extensions beyond 2100, the Extended Concentration Pathways (ECPs). These projections include all major anthropogenic greenhouse gases and are a result of a multi-year effort to produce new scenarios for climate change research. We combine a suite of atmospheric concentration observations and…

3,773 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions

Keywan Riahi, Shilpa Rao, Volker Krey et al. · 12 Aug 2011

This paper summarizes the main characteristics of the RCP8.5 scenario. The RCP8.5 combines assumptions about high population and relatively slow income growth with modest rates of technological change and energy intensity improvements, leading in the long term to high energy demand and GHG emissions in absence of climate change policies. Compared to the total set…

2,890 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways

Brian C. O’Neill, Elmar Kriegler, Keywan Riahi et al. · 14 Oct 2013

The new scenario framework for climate change research envisions combining pathways of future radiative forcing and their associated climate changes with alternative pathways of socioeconomic development in order to carry out research on climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation. Here we propose a conceptual framework for how to define and develop a set of Shared…

2,763 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Climatic Change template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Climatic Change use?
Climatic Change uses Numbered (Springer Basic) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C (2023) A representative article title. Climatic Change 12:45–58
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