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Carbon Brief has launched Project Cosmos, a comprehensive database containing over 1.8 million climate change publications connected by 40 million citation relationships, representing more than a century of climate research. The project, developed over 18 months with academic collaboration, aims to map the scientific community's foundational climate knowledge through rankings of the most cited publications, authors, and institutions (the Cosmos 500). The database will enable analysis of how research focus has evolved over time and help identify knowledge gaps for future study.
Why it matters
This resource provides researchers, policymakers, and the public with unprecedented access to the full scope of climate science literature, enabling better understanding of consensus areas and research priorities. By identifying knowledge gaps and tracking research trends, it can help direct future scientific efforts and inform evidence-based climate policy.
Understand the Science
Carbon Brief’s Project Cosmos is a major collaborative effort to build the world’s largest and most complete database of climate change research.
The Cosmos database – which features more than 1.8m individual publications linked by 40m citation relationships – captures the vast body of human knowledge about climate change that has accumulated over more than a century of academic study.
Cosmos is a major new resource, which has taken more than 18 months to research and build, with help and guidance from a specialist team of academics.
Carbon Brief embarked on Project Cosmos to map and analyse the scientific community’s foundational knowledge about climate change.
This includes, at first, ranking the most highly cited academic publications, authors and institutions.
Together, this series of rankings is known as the Cosmos 500.
But, over time, the database will reveal, for example, how interest in different areas of climate science has changed over time, plus identify potential knowledge gaps and, thus, opportunities for future research.
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