Carbon Brief has created the Cosmos 500 ranking for the most highly cited climate publications.

Carbon Brief has created the Cosmos 500 ranking for the most highly cited climate publications.

The Cosmos 500 ranking shows the most highly cited academics in Carbon Brief’s database, based on their citation score.

Analysis of Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database reveals the world’s leading “institutions” for climate research.

Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos is a major collaborative effort to build the world’s largest and most complete database of climate change research.

Welcome to the Project Cosmos homepage. The project was launched by Carbon Brief in June 2026 following an 18-month research and development effort. The aim: to build the world’s…

Carbon Brief explains how it built a major new database of climate science research and unveils a new ranking of the 500 most highly cited publications, authors and institutions…