''Nature Climate Change'' is a monthly

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published by

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covering all aspects of research on

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, the current

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, especially its effects. It was established in 2011 as the continuation of ''Nature Reports Climate Change'', itself established in 2007. Its first

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was Olive Heffernan and the journal's current

Bronwyn Wake Bronwyn Wake is an Australian scientist and the editor in chief of Nature Climate Change. Education Wake has a first class honors degree in Antarctic studies and a PhD in trace element biogeochemistry. She undertook postgraduate research at th ...

. According to the ''

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'', the journal had a 2023

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of 30.3.

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