Nature Human Behaviour

Article	Citations
Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response	2798
A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)	2221
A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations	1120
Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	955
Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions	953
Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19	549
Global supply-chain effects of COVID-19 control measures	492
Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists	472
Applying principles of behaviour change to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission	410
Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	403
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	371
Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world	342
COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0)	288
Assessing the risks of ‘infodemics’ in response to COVID-19 epidemics	283
A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use	254
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil	252
A worldwide assessment of changes in adherence to COVID-19 protective behaviours and hypothesized pandemic fatigue	243
The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers	231
Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks	224
Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology	218
Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition	218
Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in low-income countries	210
Neighbourhood income and physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	205
A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States	203
Specification curve analysis	203

Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America	188
Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis	186
The end of social confinement and COVID-19 re-emergence risk	181
Pandemic publishing poses a new COVID-19 challenge	177
Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution	176
A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions to improve mental wellbeing	173
Tracking and promoting the usage of a COVID-19 contact tracing app	151
Why lockdown and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to increase the social class achievement gap	149
The past, present and future of Registered Reports	138
Implications of the Russia–Ukraine war for global food security	138
Trust in science, social consensus and vaccine confidence	133
Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk	124
Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries	117
A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime	116
Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy	115
Bayesian Analysis Reporting Guidelines	113
Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease	112
Revealing the multidimensional mental representations of natural objects underlying human similarity judgements	110
Life expectancy changes since COVID-19	107
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	106
What the stock market tells us about the post-COVID-19 world	105
Integrated vaccination and physical distancing interventions to prevent future COVID-19 waves in Chinese cities	101
Psychophysical scaling reveals a unified theory of visual memory strength	99
Large socio-economic, geographic and demographic disparities exist in exposure to school closures	95
How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online	94
Initial evidence of research quality of registered reports compared with the standard publishing model	93
Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artificial intelligence	92
Population-scale longitudinal mapping of COVID-19 symptoms, behaviour and testing	91
A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19	88
Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future	86
Mapping gene transcription and neurocognition across human neocortex	84
Anti-intellectualism and the mass public’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	84
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries	83
A registered replication study on oxytocin and trust	83
To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?	82
Changing scientific meetings for the better	82
Mapping global variation in human mobility	80
The rise of affectivism	78
Using genetics for social science	78
Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness	75
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters	75
Despite vaccination, China needs non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent widespread outbreaks of COVID-19 in 2021	73
Observed impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global trade	71
Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults	70
A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioural factors	70
The genetic architecture of structural left–right asymmetry of the human brain	68
Underestimating digital media harm	68
The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in big financial data	68
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic	67
Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository	66

Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway	66
Global evidence of expressed sentiment alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	66
Intrinsic network architecture predicts the effects elicited by intracranial electrical stimulation of the human brain	64
Spatiotemporal dynamics of orthographic and lexical processing in the ventral visual pathway	64
Humans primarily use model-based inference in the two-stage task	63
Why time poverty matters for individuals, organisations and nations	63
A systematic literature review to clarify the concept of vaccine hesitancy	63
Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke	62
A general dimension of genetic sharing across diverse cognitive traits inferred from molecular data	61
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour	61
Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain	60
Dissecting polygenic signals from genome-wide association studies on human behaviour	60
Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media	58
Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessment	58
Chimpanzee ethnography reveals unexpected cultural diversity	57
An implicit memory of errors limits human sensorimotor adaptation	57
Why loot boxes could be regulated as gambling	57
Paranoia and belief updating during the COVID-19 crisis	56
A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy	54
Neurocomputational mechanisms of prior-informed perceptual decision-making in humans	52
When COVID-19 meets centralized, personalized power	52
Governments cannot just ‘follow the science’ on COVID-19	51
The general fault in our fault lines	51
Gender stereotypes are reflected in the distributional structure of 25 languages	51
Bad machines corrupt good morals	51
Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science	51
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses	50
Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia	50
State-level needs for social distancing and contact tracing to contain COVID-19 in the United States	49
Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment	48
A unified account of numerosity perception	48
Learning is inhibited by heat exposure, both internationally and within the United States	48
How bullying becomes a career tool	48
Social goods dilemmas in heterogeneous societies	47
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake	47
Coping with cascading collective traumas in the United States	46
Dissociable mechanisms govern when and how strongly reward attributes affect decisions	46
Symptom-level modelling unravels the shared genetic architecture of anxiety and depression	46
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech	46
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	46
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty	46
Intelligence, health and death	46
Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research	45
Addressing racism and disparities in the biomedical sciences	45
A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity	45
Negativity drives online news consumption	43
Fresh teams are associated with original and multidisciplinary research	42
Physical topography is associated with human personality	42
Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions	42
Aesthetic preference for art can be predicted from a mixture of low- and high-level visual features	42
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era	41
Increased air pollution exposure among the Chinese population during the national quarantine in 2020	41
Hunters, busybodies and the knowledge network building associated with deprivation curiosity	41
Large and persistent effects of green energy defaults in the household and business sectors	40
Ten tips for overcoming language barriers in science	40
Memorability of words in arbitrary verbal associations modulates memory retrieval in the anterior temporal lobe	40
Training spatial cognition enhances mathematical learning in a randomized study of 17,000 children	40
A rational model of the Dunning–Kruger effect supports insensitivity to evidence in low performers	39
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures	39
Unsupervised learning predicts human perception and misperception of gloss	39
Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States	39
Reverse-engineering the cortical architecture for controlled semantic cognition	39
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations	39
The role of alpha oscillations in temporal binding within and across the senses	38
Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation	38
The distributional effects of nudges	38
Changing occupational structures and residential segregation in New York, London and Tokyo	38
Genetic correlates of socio-economic status influence the pattern of shared heritability across mental health traits	37
Exposure to peers’ pro-diversity attitudes increases inclusion and reduces the achievement gap	37
Speaking rhythmically can shape hearing	36
Information about action outcomes differentially affects learning from self-determined versus imposed choices	36
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada	36
Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar	36
Air pollution as a determinant of food delivery and related plastic waste	36
Polarity of uncertainty representation during exploration and exploitation in ventromedial prefrontal cortex	36
Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers	35
Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies	35
To select effective interventions for pro-environmental behaviour change, we need to consider determinants of behaviour	35
Understanding the removal of precise geotagging in tweets	35
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries	35

It’s time to reimagine sample diversity and retire the WEIRD dichotomy	35
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy	35
Aspiring to greater intellectual humility in science	35
Interventions to reduce partisan animosity	34
Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development	34
Subjective confidence reflects representation of Bayesian probability in cortex	34
Experimental evidence on learning using low-tech when school is out	34
Bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis identifies causal associations between relative carbohydrate intake and depression	34
The ConTraSt database for analysing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories	33
A hitchhiker’s guide to working with large, open-source neuroimaging datasets	33
Multiscale temporal integration organizes hierarchical computation in human auditory cortex	33
Semantic projection recovers rich human knowledge of multiple object features from word embeddings	32
Children punish third parties to satisfy both consequentialist and retributive motives	32
The impacts of remote learning in secondary education during the pandemic in Brazil	32
Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology	32
Short- and medium-term impacts of strict anti-contagion policies on non-COVID-19 mortality in China	31
Spontaneous synchronization of motion in pedestrian crowds of different densities	31
Putative rhythms in attentional switching can be explained by aperiodic temporal structure	31
Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration	31
Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity	31
Knowledge diffusion in the network of international business travel	31
Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models	30
Multivariate genome-wide analysis of education, socioeconomic status and brain phenome	30
Evidence accumulation during perceptual decisions in humans varies as a function of dorsal frontoparietal organization	30
Different computations underlie overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention	30
Author Correction: Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	30
A meta-analysis of emotional regulation outcomes in psychological interventions for youth with depression and anxiety	30
A dynamic normalization model of temporal attention	30
Physiological synchrony is associated with attraction in a blind date setting	29
Science skepticism reduced compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place policies in the United States	29
Investigating the effect of changing parameters when building prediction models for post-stroke aphasia	29
Anterior prefrontal brain activity during emotion control predicts resilience to post-traumatic stress symptoms	29
Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games	29
Climate shaped how Neolithic farmers and European hunter-gatherers interacted after a major slowdown from 6,100 bce to 4,500 bce	28
A transdiagnostic network for psychiatric illness derived from atrophy and lesions	28
A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration	28
Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in humans	28
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 cohort studies of social isolation, loneliness and mortality	28
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms	28
Complacency, panic, and the value of gentle rule enforcement in addressing pandemics	27
The future of human behaviour research	27
A manifesto for applying behavioural science	27
Evolution of resistance to COVID-19 vaccination with dynamic social distancing	27
Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul	27
Actually, natural is neutral	27
Neuroscience of trauma and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	27
Improving the precision of intranasal oxytocin research	26
Deep neural network models of sound localization reveal how perception is adapted to real-world environments	26
Calibrating the experimental measurement of psychological attributes	26
Gender inequality and self-publication are common among academic editors	26
Geometric models reveal behavioural and neural signatures of transforming experiences into memories	26
Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures	26
Addressing the digital skills gap for future education	26
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning	25
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition	25
Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis	25
Capturing the objects of vision with neural networks	25
Auditing local news presence on Google News	25
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory	25
Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people	24
Dissociating conscious and unconscious influences on visual detection effects	24
Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018	24
Reducing bias, increasing transparency and calibrating confidence with preregistration	24
Multi-task reinforcement learning in humans	24
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes	24
Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings	23
Healthful choices depend on the latency and rate of information accumulation	23
An evolutionary explanation for ineffective altruism	23
Evidence against benefits from cognitive training and transcranial direct current stimulation in healthy older adults	23
Context matters for affective chronometry	22
Public use and public funding of science	22
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information	22
Banks, alternative institutions and the spatial–temporal ecology of racial inequality in US cities	22
The spatiotemporal neural dynamics of object location representations in the human brain	21
The association between vaccination status identification and societal polarization	21
The influence of pay transparency on (gender) inequity, inequality and the performance basis of pay	21
Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training	21
Genetic loci shared between major depression and intelligence with mixed directions of effect	21
Ages for Australia’s oldest rock paintings	21
Author Correction: A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations	21
Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women’s mood, behaviour and vital signs	21
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI	21
Learning metrics on spectrotemporal modulations reveals the perception of musical instrument timbre	20
Tracking developmental differences in real-world social attention across adolescence, young adulthood and older adulthood	20
Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses	20
Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviours and norms	20
The globalizability of temporal discounting	20
Detecting and modelling real percolation and phase transitions of information on social media	20
Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG	20
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans	20
Third-party punishment by preverbal infants	19
Genetic analysis of dietary intake identifies new loci and functional links with metabolic traits	19
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility	19
Mass-scale emotionality reveals human behaviour and marketplace success	19
The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19	19