Nature Human Behaviour

Article	Citations
A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)	2543
A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations	1232
Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	1059
Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions	1020
Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	438
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
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	233
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	222
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
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	164
The past, present and future of Registered Reports	162
Tracking and promoting the usage of a COVID-19 contact tracing app	162
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
Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artificial intelligence	127
A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19	119
Mapping gene transcription and neurocognition across human neocortex	113
Large socio-economic, geographic and demographic disparities exist in exposure to school closures	112
Initial evidence of research quality of registered reports compared with the standard publishing model	109
Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future	109
Integrated vaccination and physical distancing interventions to prevent future COVID-19 waves in Chinese cities	106
The rise of affectivism	102
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries	99
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses	99
Changing scientific meetings for the better	98
Anti-intellectualism and the mass public’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	95
Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models	91
To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?	91
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters	90
A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioural factors	90
The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in big financial data	87
Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults	87
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
Global evidence of expressed sentiment alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	80
A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy	80
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech	80
Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain	80
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour	80
The genetic architecture of structural left–right asymmetry of the human brain	79
Observed impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global trade	79
Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke	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
Dissecting polygenic signals from genome-wide association studies on human behaviour	65
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty	64
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of cash transfers on subjective well-being and mental health in low- and middle-income countries	63
Neurocomputational mechanisms of prior-informed perceptual decision-making in humans	63
Symptom-level modelling unravels the shared genetic architecture of anxiety and depression	63
The general fault in our fault lines	62
Bad machines corrupt good morals	62
Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media	61
Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia	61
Intelligence, health and death	61

Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessment	60
Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research	59
Bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis identifies causal associations between relative carbohydrate intake and depression	59
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations	59
A manifesto for applying behavioural science	58
To select effective interventions for pro-environmental behaviour change, we need to consider determinants of behaviour	58
Interventions to reduce partisan animosity	56
How bullying becomes a career tool	55
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era	54
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake	53
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures	53
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries	53
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy	52
Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation	52
Fresh teams are associated with original and multidisciplinary research	51
Semantic projection recovers rich human knowledge of multiple object features from word embeddings	51
Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States	51
Aesthetic preference for art can be predicted from a mixture of low- and high-level visual features	51
Large and persistent effects of green energy defaults in the household and business sectors	49
Reverse-engineering the cortical architecture for controlled semantic cognition	48
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada	48
Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions	48
It’s time to reimagine sample diversity and retire the WEIRD dichotomy	47
Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development	46
Hunters, busybodies and the knowledge network building associated with deprivation curiosity	46
Training spatial cognition enhances mathematical learning in a randomized study of 17,000 children	45
Unsupervised learning predicts human perception and misperception of gloss	45
Ten tips for overcoming language barriers in science	45
Increased air pollution exposure among the Chinese population during the national quarantine in 2020	45
A hitchhiker’s guide to working with large, open-source neuroimaging datasets	45
Aspiring to greater intellectual humility in science	45
A meta-analysis of emotional regulation outcomes in psychological interventions for youth with depression and anxiety	44
The distributional effects of nudges	44
Genetic correlates of socio-economic status influence the pattern of shared heritability across mental health traits	43
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition	43
Subjective confidence reflects representation of Bayesian probability in cortex	43
Experimental evidence on learning using low-tech when school is out	43
The impacts of remote learning in secondary education during the pandemic in Brazil	42
The role of alpha oscillations in temporal binding within and across the senses	42
A rational model of the Dunning–Kruger effect supports insensitivity to evidence in low performers	41
Multiscale temporal integration organizes hierarchical computation in human auditory cortex	41
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms	40
Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers	40
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes	40
Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology	39
The ConTraSt database for analysing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories	39
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory	38
A transdiagnostic network for psychiatric illness derived from atrophy and lesions	38
Short- and medium-term impacts of strict anti-contagion policies on non-COVID-19 mortality in China	38
The future of human behaviour research	38
Spontaneous synchronization of motion in pedestrian crowds of different densities	38
Anterior prefrontal brain activity during emotion control predicts resilience to post-traumatic stress symptoms	37
Capturing the objects of vision with neural networks	37
Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity	37
Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar	37
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents	36
Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration	36
Putative rhythms in attentional switching can be explained by aperiodic temporal structure	36
Multivariate genome-wide analysis of education, socioeconomic status and brain phenome	36
Reducing bias, increasing transparency and calibrating confidence with preregistration	36
A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration	35
Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in humans	35
Neuroscience of trauma and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	35
Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul	35
Children punish third parties to satisfy both consequentialist and retributive motives	35
Different computations underlie overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention	35
Addressing the digital skills gap for future education	34
Science skepticism reduced compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place policies in the United States	34
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning	34
The cost of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
The globalizability of temporal discounting	34
A dynamic normalization model of temporal attention	33
Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018	33
Gender inequality and self-publication are common among academic editors	33
Physiological synchrony is associated with attraction in a blind date setting	33
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information	33
Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games	32
A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism	32
Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis	31
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans	31

Public use and public funding of science	31
Evolution of resistance to COVID-19 vaccination with dynamic social distancing	31
Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses	31
Author Correction: Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	31
Improving the precision of intranasal oxytocin research	31
Deep neural network models of sound localization reveal how perception is adapted to real-world environments	31
The spatiotemporal neural dynamics of object location representations in the human brain	30
Ages for Australia’s oldest rock paintings	30
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health	29
Detecting and modelling real percolation and phase transitions of information on social media	29
Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures	29
A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of the acoustic features of infant-directed speech	29
Banks, alternative institutions and the spatial–temporal ecology of racial inequality in US cities	29
Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings	28
The influence of pay transparency on (gender) inequity, inequality and the performance basis of pay	28
Name-based demographic inference and the unequal distribution of misrecognition	28
Multi-task reinforcement learning in humans	27
Geometric models reveal behavioural and neural signatures of transforming experiences into memories	27
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI	27
The association between vaccination status identification and societal polarization	27
Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people	27
Distinct regions of the striatum underlying effort, movement initiation and effort discounting	27
Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits	26
Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women’s mood, behaviour and vital signs	26
Mass-scale emotionality reveals human behaviour and marketplace success	26
How to think about whether misinformation interventions work	26
Calibrating the experimental measurement of psychological attributes	26
Propaganda, authoritarianism and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	26
A meta-analysis of genetic effects associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions	26
Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG	26
Dissociating conscious and unconscious influences on visual detection effects	26
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate	26
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility	26
The representational dynamics of perceived voice emotions evolve from categories to dimensions	25
The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19	25
Genetic loci shared between major depression and intelligence with mixed directions of effect	25
Replicable brain–phenotype associations require large-scale neuroimaging data	25
Healthful choices depend on the latency and rate of information accumulation	25
Identifying modifiable factors and their joint effect on dementia risk in the UK Biobank	24
Increased and biased deliberation in social anxiety	24
The Einstein effect provides global evidence for scientific source credibility effects and the influence of religiosity	24
Earliest evidence for human use of tobacco in the Pleistocene Americas	24
Seven steps toward more transparency in statistical practice	24
Neuronal activity in the human amygdala and hippocampus enhances emotional memory encoding	24
Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training	24
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research	24
Third-party punishment by preverbal infants	24
Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample	24
Sense of agency for intracortical brain–machine interfaces	24
Theta oscillations shift towards optimal frequency for cognitive control	24
Structural and functional asymmetry of the neonatal cerebral cortex	24
Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviours and norms	23
Data, measurement and empirical methods in the science of science	23
Author Correction: A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations	23
Interacting spiral wave patterns underlie complex brain dynamics and are related to cognitive processing	23
Learning metrics on spectrotemporal modulations reveals the perception of musical instrument timbre	23
A model of working memory for latent representations	23
The clinical implications of climate change for mental health	23
Tracking developmental differences in real-world social attention across adolescence, young adulthood and older adulthood	22
Framing economic inequality and policy as group disadvantages (versus group advantages) spurs support for action	22
The latent structure of global scientific development	22
Activation network mapping for integration of heterogeneous fMRI findings	22
Rapid learning of a phonemic discrimination in the first hours of life	22
Reconsidering evidence of moral contagion in online social networks	22
The Dunning-Kruger effect revisited	22
Emotion prediction errors guide socially adaptive behaviour	22
Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections	22
Neural responses to affective speech, including motherese, map onto clinical and social eye tracking profiles in toddlers with ASD	22
Officer bias, over-patrolling and ethnic disparities in stop and search	21
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour	21
Adaptation mitigates the negative effect of temperature shocks on household consumption	21
Imprecise neural computations as a source of adaptive behaviour in volatile environments	21
Creativity in the age of generative AI	21
The transmission of pottery technology among prehistoric European hunter-gatherers	21
Genetic underpinnings of risky behaviour relate to altered neuroanatomy	21
Group identities can undermine social tipping after intervention	21
A unified online test battery for cognitive impulsivity reveals relationships with real-world impulsive behaviours	20
Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants	20
Equity, diversity and inclusion are foundational research skills	20
A brain-based general measure of attention	20
Strategic COVID-19 vaccine distribution can simultaneously elevate social utility and equity	20
The colonial legacy of herbaria	20
AI will never convey the essence of human empathy	19
There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reducing infection risk	19
Mendelian randomization evidence for the causal effects of socio-economic inequality on human longevity among Europeans	19
Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries	19
A meta-analysis on the affect regulation function of real-time self-injurious thoughts and behaviours	19
The cultural evolution of love in literary history	19
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex	19
Testing cognitive theories with multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data	19
Genetic analysis of dietary intake identifies new loci and functional links with metabolic traits	19
A selection pressure landscape for 870 human polygenic traits	19
A meta-analysis of correction effects in science-relevant misinformation	18
Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production	18
Potential solutions for discrimination in STEM	18