Nature Human Behaviour

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Human Behaviour is 19. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students437
How to protect privacy in open data291
Partner-choice genetics in Japan238
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members229
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults223
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England218
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography216
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution199
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency195
Market exposure and human morality191
How to depolarize your students175
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations170
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study157
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health153
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation152
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia149
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe147
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function123
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change119
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus108
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science107
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks107
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations106
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research105
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement103
Defragmenting psychology100
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences96
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake94
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people93
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence89
The emergence of COVID-19 vaccine resistance depends on human choices86
Testing undue incentives85
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci85
Global South cannot just live with COVID-1984
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk84
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science81
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland80
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market80
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth79
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable78
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women77
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI74
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages73
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition73
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions73
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis72
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact71
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution70
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning68
Improving academic mentorship practices68
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China67
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis65
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others65
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy64
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first64
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization63
Capturing the objects of vision with neural networks62
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity62
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark62
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs62
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour61
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture61
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences60
Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship60
Signalling Palaeolithic identity60
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations60
US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty59
Menstruation myths59
Universally memorable voices58
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations57
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles57
Temporal discounting is linked to economic stability and inequality57
Academia at risk57
Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon56
In the shadow of war56
How adults understand what young children say55
Rethinking routine airline testing during COVID-1954
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty53
Promoting human flourishing52
Polygenic overlap between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders and cross-ancestry validation52
New US government open access policy52
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study51
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States51
Negativity bias, personality and political ideology50
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry50
Scientific publishing has a language problem49
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding49
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms49
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans49
The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing49
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis49
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada48
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization48
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain48
High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning48
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses48
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate48
Talking openly about menstruation47
Creative use of biobank data enables exploration of longstanding questions about bias46
Twelve thousand years of ritual practice46
Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings46
Post-pandemic acceleration of demand for interpersonal skills46
From lab to science policy advisor46
To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’45
It is time to revamp our approach to doctoral careers45
‘Top of queue’ text messages increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in England45
How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs44
When diversity, equity and inclusion fail to globalize44
An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives44
Searching for active ingredients to combat youth anxiety and depression44
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications44
Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness44
New and re-emerging disease outbreaks can cause social conflict44
Why current menstrual policies do not work43
How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon43
Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health43
Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers42
A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas41
Why we need a ‘psychology of science’41
Building machines that learn and think with people41
Governments should optimize electric vehicle subsidies41
Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities40
Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks40
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions40
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes39
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries39
Climate change and human behaviour39
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery39
Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway39
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries38
Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority38
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory38
DNA insights into Neolithic society38
Sleep during travel balances individual sleep needs38
This hot AI summer will impact Brazil’s democracy38
Author Correction: Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries38
The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits38
Broadening menstrual health approaches is key to improving adolescent outcomes38
Understanding the nature of science through COVID-19 reports37
State-led homophobia threatens African academic freedom37
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus37
COVAX can still end COVID-19 vaccine apartheid37
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful36
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining social comparison as a behaviour change technique across the behavioural sciences36
Causal inference on human behaviour36
Precise individual measures of inhibitory control36
Registered reports for qualitative research35
Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon35
African researchers must be full participants in behavioural science research35
A large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China35
Publisher Correction: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI35
Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows35
Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence35
When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity35
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China35
Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people35
Self-regulating arousal via pupil-based biofeedback34
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)34
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents34
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research34
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation34
LLMs are not ready for editorial work34
Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform34
End bullying and harassment in academia33
Author Correction: Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training33
Author Correction: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters33
Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization33
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me33
Long ties across networks accelerate the spread of social contagions33
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning32
Representation and computation in visual working memory32
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure32
Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition32
Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks32
Description, prediction, explanation31
Author Correction: Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory31
Human value learning and representation reflect rational adaptation to task demands31
Machines are not moral role models31
Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning31
Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience31
Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG30
User control of search algorithms would improve science30
Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation30
Social media interventions to improve well-being29
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning29
Reproduction and replication at scale29
A manifesto for applying behavioural science29
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change29
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable29
How to design and conduct a megastudy28
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era28
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition28
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset28
Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation28
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech28
No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry28
Developmental differences in memory reactivation relate to encoding and inference in the human brain27
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?27
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less27
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge27
Rapid neural reorganization during retrieval practice predicts subsequent long-term retention and false memory27
Prioritize systemic approaches for young people’s mental health27
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science27
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations27
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico27
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable26
Science communication with generative AI26
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex26
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study26
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation26
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners26
The chronospatial revolution in psychology26
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information26
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries25
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain25
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world25
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population25
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease25
Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support24
Intergenerational poverty persistence24
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)24
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena24
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother24
Post a preprint of your next research paper24
Self-orienting in human and machine learning23
Deep learning in alternate reality23
Local news in Google News23
Large-scale exome sequencing identified 18 novel genes for neuroticism in 394,005 UK-based individuals23
Vaccine inequity is unethical23
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA23
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs23
Author Correction: Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries23
Rainbows should reign not only on LGBTQ+ STEM Day23
Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe22
Science skepticism reduced compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place policies in the United States22
Latent motives guide structure learning during adaptive social choice22
Observational and genetic evidence disagree on the association between loneliness and risk of multiple diseases22
Modelling individual and cross-cultural variation in the mapping of emotions to speech prosody22
Author Correction: A meta-analysis of genetic effects associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions22
Efficient coding of numbers explains decision bias and noise22
A behaviourally informed chatbot increases vaccination rates in Argentina more than a one-way reminder22
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people22
COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility21
Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk21
Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities21
The formality effect21
Human bias in algorithm design21
Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants21
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility21
The colonial legacy of herbaria21
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