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A great deal of study is being carried out to cope with climate change. Very little attention has been paid to figure out the features of differences and similarities between the various researches related to climate change. This paper aims to find out the trend and characteristics of climate change research by using social network analysis. Also, the research attempts to explore some characteristics in climate change research with a forty-year time span, which is appropriate because many studies on climate change have been conducted since the late 1980s. Contents analysis and social network analysis are adopted as the methodology of this empirical study. This article reflects that various researches on climate change cover a wide range from engineering to social science. The results of the analysis also show that collaborative studies on climate change is actively performed in social science and humanities as well as natural science and engineering.