Nature Human Behaviour

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Human Behaviour is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Partner-choice genetics in Japan380
The circular economy is leaving workers behind356
Market exposure and human morality352
How to depolarize your students351
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England304
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution303
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe260
Defragmenting psychology245
Efficacy of digital interventions for smoking cessation by type and method: a systematic review and network meta-analysis233
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members232
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations231
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency210
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences199
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake195
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function176
How to protect privacy in open data169
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults157
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people145
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks142
Early-career-researcher-led best practices for social science and behavioural genetics141
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study138
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation137
The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism after 25 years129
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations128
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement123
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science120
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change119
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health116
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus116
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography115
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research109
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others108
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity108
Testing undue incentives108
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs105
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions104
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact104
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first102
Distinctive places make memories stick99
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark97
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture96
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science94
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk94
Human curriculum learning of a cue combination task94
Ancient DNA evidence for the history of the Albanians91
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour91
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages91
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci90
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution88
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable86
Corporate transformation is key to achieving zero waste86
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy84
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence84
The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA79
Generative AI predicts personality traits on the basis of open-ended narratives79
Improving academic mentorship practices79
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China78
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning77
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis76
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market76
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition75
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women75
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland74
Measuring thresholds for individual change can improve social change interventions74
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the proficiency and variability of mathematical ability in populations with autism spectrum disorder73
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI72
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization71
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis71
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth71
Universally memorable voices70
Signalling Palaeolithic identity69
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations69
In the shadow of war68
Menstruation myths67
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty67
Promoting human flourishing67
New US government open access policy67
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans67
Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon67
Academia at risk67
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study66
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles66
Polygenic overlap between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders and cross-ancestry validation66
Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans65
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding65
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry65
High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning65
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences64
How adults understand what young children say64
Retraction Note: Arrests and convictions but not sentence length deter terrorism in 28 European Union member states64
Temporal discounting is linked to economic stability and inequality64
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain64
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization63
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate62
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States62
Scientific publishing has a language problem62
US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty61
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis61
The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing61
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses59
Post-pandemic acceleration of demand for interpersonal skills58
Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health58
Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings57
Creative use of biobank data enables exploration of longstanding questions about bias57
Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness57
An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives57
It is time to revamp our approach to doctoral careers55
To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’54
New and re-emerging disease outbreaks can cause social conflict54
When diversity, equity and inclusion fail to globalize53
How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon53
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications53
‘Top of queue’ text messages increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in England53
Reply to: Corrections are effective for science misinformation52
Twelve thousand years of ritual practice52
Why we need a ‘psychology of science’52
Governments should optimize electric vehicle subsidies52
Talking openly about menstruation52
Why current menstrual policies do not work52
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries51
Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers51
How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs51
Building machines that learn and think with people50
A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France49
Climate change and human behaviour48
A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas48
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes48
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery48
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions48
DNA insights into Neolithic society47
Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities47
Broadening menstrual health approaches is key to improving adolescent outcomes47
Author Correction: Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries46
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful46
Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority46
State-led homophobia threatens African academic freedom46
This hot AI summer will impact Brazil’s democracy46
African researchers must be full participants in behavioural science research45
LLMs are not ready for editorial work45
Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon45
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China45
The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits44
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining social comparison as a behaviour change technique across the behavioural sciences44
Publisher Correction: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI44
Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows44
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)43
Causal inference on human behaviour42
Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform42
A large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China42
Precise individual measures of inhibitory control41
Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence41
Self-regulating arousal via pupil-based biofeedback40
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus40
Author Correction: Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory39
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents39
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation39
Long ties across networks accelerate the spread of social contagions39
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me39
Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks39
Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization39
Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition38
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable38
Economic burden of falls for 190 countries and territories from 2020 to 2050 based on health-augmented macroeconomic modelling38
Premature termination of unemployment benefits increased COVID-19 transmission and deaths in the USA38
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure38
The impact of private hosting on the integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany38
User control of search algorithms would improve science38
Author Correction: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters38
Spatial contexts with reliable neural representations support reinstatement of subsequently placed objects37
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries37
Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation37
Reproduction and replication at scale37
A manifesto for applying behavioural science37
Social media interventions to improve well-being37
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era36
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change36
Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning36
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset35
Representation and computation in visual working memory35
Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation35
No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry35
Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience35
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition35
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning35
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech35
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?34
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science34
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study34
Personalized digital tools boost smoking quit rates33
Sex difference in parental risk of suicide attempt during and after pregnancy in Sweden33
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population33
How to design and conduct a megastudy33
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable33
Emergency mental health co-responders reduce involuntary psychiatric detentions in the USA33
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations32
Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources32
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico32
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses32
Voices of experience32
Children reach consensus using flexible imitation and emergent roles in networks32
The chronospatial revolution in psychology31
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world31
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain31
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information31
Science communication with generative AI31
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less31
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners31
A systematic investigation reveals dissociable effects of ageing on implicit and explicit components of sensorimotor learning31
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex31
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge31
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation31
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries31
Large language models have the potential to level the playing field in consumer financial complaints31
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs30
Large-scale exome sequencing identified 18 novel genes for neuroticism in 394,005 UK-based individuals30
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)30
Intergenerational poverty persistence30
Population attributable fractions of a wide range of peripheral diseases for the burden of dementia30
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena30
Local news in Google News30
Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings30
A cluster-randomized trial of labelled cash transfers for uptake of care for chronic conditions among middle-aged and older adults in Burkina Faso30
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease30
Post a preprint of your next research paper30
Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe29
Author Correction: A meta-analysis of genetic effects associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions29
Human bias in algorithm design29
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA29
Author Correction: Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries29
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people29
Publisher Correction: In silico discovery of representational relationships across visual cortex29
Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support29
A behaviourally informed chatbot increases vaccination rates in Argentina more than a one-way reminder28
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother28
Remote delivery of STEM and entrepreneurship role models at scale changes college major choice in Ecuador28
Neurons in human pre-supplementary motor area encode key computations for value-based choice28
Spousal correlations for nine psychiatric disorders are consistent across cultures and persistent over generations28
COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility28
Priming of non-constituents reveals linguistic structure beyond grammar28
A large-scale comparison of divergent creativity in humans and large language models28
Self-orienting in human and machine learning28
Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking27
Observational and genetic evidence disagree on the association between loneliness and risk of multiple diseases27
Reply to: Methodological considerations for evaluating policy impacts on transgender and non-binary youth suicidality26
Modelling human behaviour in cognitive tasks with latent dynamical systems26
Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities26
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility26
Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans26
Modelling individual and cross-cultural variation in the mapping of emotions to speech prosody26
Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect: a Burden of Proof study26
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