OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Human Behaviour is 67. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)	2526
A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations	1222
Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	1053
Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions	1020
Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	436
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	396
A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use	322
Assessing the risks of ‘infodemics’ in response to COVID-19 epidemics	306
The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers	302
Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks	287
A worldwide assessment of changes in adherence to COVID-19 protective behaviours and hypothesized pandemic fatigue	276
Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis	230
Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in low-income countries	226
Neighbourhood income and physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	222
Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America	221
A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions to improve mental wellbeing	220
Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution	219
Implications of the Russia–Ukraine war for global food security	175
Why lockdown and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to increase the social class achievement gap	169
The past, present and future of Registered Reports	162
Tracking and promoting the usage of a COVID-19 contact tracing app	162
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	159
Bayesian Analysis Reporting Guidelines	156
Trust in science, social consensus and vaccine confidence	156
Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries	149

A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime	141
Life expectancy changes since COVID-19	140
Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease	136
Revealing the multidimensional mental representations of natural objects underlying human similarity judgements	132
Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artificial intelligence	127
Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy	122
A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19	119
Large socio-economic, geographic and demographic disparities exist in exposure to school closures	112
Mapping gene transcription and neurocognition across human neocortex	111
Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future	109
Initial evidence of research quality of registered reports compared with the standard publishing model	109
Integrated vaccination and physical distancing interventions to prevent future COVID-19 waves in Chinese cities	106
The rise of affectivism	102
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses	99
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries	99
Changing scientific meetings for the better	98
Anti-intellectualism and the mass public’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	95
To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?	91
A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioural factors	90
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters	90
Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults	87
The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in big financial data	87
Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models	85
A systematic literature review to clarify the concept of vaccine hesitancy	85
Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository	84
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic	81
A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy	80
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour	80
Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain	80
Global evidence of expressed sentiment alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	80
Observed impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global trade	79
The genetic architecture of structural left–right asymmetry of the human brain	79
Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke	78
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech	78
Spatiotemporal dynamics of orthographic and lexical processing in the ventral visual pathway	76
Negativity drives online news consumption	75
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 cohort studies of social isolation, loneliness and mortality	74
Despite vaccination, China needs non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent widespread outbreaks of COVID-19 in 2021	74
Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway	73
Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science	71
Paranoia and belief updating during the COVID-19 crisis	68
A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity	68
An implicit memory of errors limits human sensorimotor adaptation	67