Nature Human Behaviour

Article	Citations
A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)	2380
A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations	1170
Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	1013
Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions	992
Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19	561
Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists	488
Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	419
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	381
Assessing the risks of ‘infodemics’ in response to COVID-19 epidemics	299
A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use	295
The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers	274
A worldwide assessment of changes in adherence to COVID-19 protective behaviours and hypothesized pandemic fatigue	261
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil	257
Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks	254
Specification curve analysis	231
Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in low-income countries	221
Neighbourhood income and physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	217
Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America	211
Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis	205
Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution	198
A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions to improve mental wellbeing	193
Tracking and promoting the usage of a COVID-19 contact tracing app	158
Why lockdown and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to increase the social class achievement gap	155
Implications of the Russia–Ukraine war for global food security	153
The past, present and future of Registered Reports	150

Trust in science, social consensus and vaccine confidence	147
Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries	138
Bayesian Analysis Reporting Guidelines	135
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	133
A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime	131
Life expectancy changes since COVID-19	126
Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease	124
Revealing the multidimensional mental representations of natural objects underlying human similarity judgements	121
Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy	120
Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artificial intelligence	109
Psychophysical scaling reveals a unified theory of visual memory strength	109
A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19	106
Large socio-economic, geographic and demographic disparities exist in exposure to school closures	106
Integrated vaccination and physical distancing interventions to prevent future COVID-19 waves in Chinese cities	103
Mapping gene transcription and neurocognition across human neocortex	100
Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future	98
Initial evidence of research quality of registered reports compared with the standard publishing model	98
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries	94
Changing scientific meetings for the better	94
Population-scale longitudinal mapping of COVID-19 symptoms, behaviour and testing	93
Anti-intellectualism and the mass public’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	91
The rise of affectivism	87
To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?	87
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters	85
Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness	84
The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in big financial data	80
The genetic architecture of structural left–right asymmetry of the human brain	79
Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults	79
A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioural factors	79
Observed impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global trade	76
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic	75
Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository	74
Global evidence of expressed sentiment alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	74
Despite vaccination, China needs non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent widespread outbreaks of COVID-19 in 2021	73
A systematic literature review to clarify the concept of vaccine hesitancy	73
A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy	71
Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain	71
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses	71
Humans primarily use model-based inference in the two-stage task	70
Spatiotemporal dynamics of orthographic and lexical processing in the ventral visual pathway	70
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour	69
Why time poverty matters for individuals, organisations and nations	69
Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke	69
Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway	69
Intrinsic network architecture predicts the effects elicited by intracranial electrical stimulation of the human brain	68
An implicit memory of errors limits human sensorimotor adaptation	64
Paranoia and belief updating during the COVID-19 crisis	64
A general dimension of genetic sharing across diverse cognitive traits inferred from molecular data	63
Negativity drives online news consumption	62
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech	61

Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science	61
Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media	60
Neurocomputational mechanisms of prior-informed perceptual decision-making in humans	60
Dissecting polygenic signals from genome-wide association studies on human behaviour	59
Learning is inhibited by heat exposure, both internationally and within the United States	59
A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity	59
Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessment	59
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	58
Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia	57
Bad machines corrupt good morals	57
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty	56
The general fault in our fault lines	55
Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment	54
Intelligence, health and death	54
Gender stereotypes are reflected in the distributional structure of 25 languages	54
Symptom-level modelling unravels the shared genetic architecture of anxiety and depression	53
Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models	51
Coping with cascading collective traumas in the United States	51
State-level needs for social distancing and contact tracing to contain COVID-19 in the United States	51
Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research	51
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 cohort studies of social isolation, loneliness and mortality	50
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations	50
How bullying becomes a career tool	50
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake	50
Bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis identifies causal associations between relative carbohydrate intake and depression	49
A unified account of numerosity perception	49
Addressing racism and disparities in the biomedical sciences	48
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era	48
To select effective interventions for pro-environmental behaviour change, we need to consider determinants of behaviour	48
Aesthetic preference for art can be predicted from a mixture of low- and high-level visual features	47
Fresh teams are associated with original and multidisciplinary research	47
Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation	47
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy	46
Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions	46
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures	46
Hunters, busybodies and the knowledge network building associated with deprivation curiosity	45
Interventions to reduce partisan animosity	44
Large and persistent effects of green energy defaults in the household and business sectors	44
Speaking rhythmically can shape hearing	44
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries	44
A manifesto for applying behavioural science	44
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada	44
Semantic projection recovers rich human knowledge of multiple object features from word embeddings	43
The distributional effects of nudges	43
Reverse-engineering the cortical architecture for controlled semantic cognition	43
Training spatial cognition enhances mathematical learning in a randomized study of 17,000 children	43
Physical topography is associated with human personality	43
Increased air pollution exposure among the Chinese population during the national quarantine in 2020	43
Ten tips for overcoming language barriers in science	42
Air pollution as a determinant of food delivery and related plastic waste	42
Experimental evidence on learning using low-tech when school is out	42
Polarity of uncertainty representation during exploration and exploitation in ventromedial prefrontal cortex	42
Aspiring to greater intellectual humility in science	42
Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States	41
The impacts of remote learning in secondary education during the pandemic in Brazil	40
Changing occupational structures and residential segregation in New York, London and Tokyo	40
A rational model of the Dunning–Kruger effect supports insensitivity to evidence in low performers	40
Subjective confidence reflects representation of Bayesian probability in cortex	40
Unsupervised learning predicts human perception and misperception of gloss	40
A meta-analysis of emotional regulation outcomes in psychological interventions for youth with depression and anxiety	39
A hitchhiker’s guide to working with large, open-source neuroimaging datasets	39
Genetic correlates of socio-economic status influence the pattern of shared heritability across mental health traits	39
Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies	39
Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development	39
Information about action outcomes differentially affects learning from self-determined versus imposed choices	38
It’s time to reimagine sample diversity and retire the WEIRD dichotomy	38
The role of alpha oscillations in temporal binding within and across the senses	38
Knowledge diffusion in the network of international business travel	38
Multiscale temporal integration organizes hierarchical computation in human auditory cortex	38
Anterior prefrontal brain activity during emotion control predicts resilience to post-traumatic stress symptoms	37
The ConTraSt database for analysing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories	37
Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers	36
Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar	36
Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity	36
Children punish third parties to satisfy both consequentialist and retributive motives	35
Spontaneous synchronization of motion in pedestrian crowds of different densities	35
Understanding the removal of precise geotagging in tweets	35
Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration	35
Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology	35
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms	35

Putative rhythms in attentional switching can be explained by aperiodic temporal structure	34
A transdiagnostic network for psychiatric illness derived from atrophy and lesions	34
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes	33
Capturing the objects of vision with neural networks	33
Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games	33
Different computations underlie overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention	33
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory	33
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition	33
A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration	32
Multivariate genome-wide analysis of education, socioeconomic status and brain phenome	32
Neuroscience of trauma and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	32
Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul	32
Short- and medium-term impacts of strict anti-contagion policies on non-COVID-19 mortality in China	32
A dynamic normalization model of temporal attention	32
Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis	31
Physiological synchrony is associated with attraction in a blind date setting	31
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning	31
The future of human behaviour research	31
Climate shaped how Neolithic farmers and European hunter-gatherers interacted after a major slowdown from 6,100 bce to 4,500 bce	31
Improving the precision of intranasal oxytocin research	30
Science skepticism reduced compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place policies in the United States	30
Ages for Australia’s oldest rock paintings	30
Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in humans	30
Evolution of resistance to COVID-19 vaccination with dynamic social distancing	29
Author Correction: Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	29
Public use and public funding of science	28
Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018	28
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents	27
Evidence against benefits from cognitive training and transcranial direct current stimulation in healthy older adults	27
Deep neural network models of sound localization reveal how perception is adapted to real-world environments	27
Addressing the digital skills gap for future education	27
Complacency, panic, and the value of gentle rule enforcement in addressing pandemics	27
Gender inequality and self-publication are common among academic editors	27
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information	27
Auditing local news presence on Google News	27
The globalizability of temporal discounting	27
Reducing bias, increasing transparency and calibrating confidence with preregistration	27
Multi-task reinforcement learning in humans	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
Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people	26
A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism	26
The spatiotemporal neural dynamics of object location representations in the human brain	26
Calibrating the experimental measurement of psychological attributes	26
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans	26
The influence of pay transparency on (gender) inequity, inequality and the performance basis of pay	25
Dissociating conscious and unconscious influences on visual detection effects	25
Name-based demographic inference and the unequal distribution of misrecognition	25
Healthful choices depend on the latency and rate of information accumulation	25
Banks, alternative institutions and the spatial–temporal ecology of racial inequality in US cities	24
Realistic modelling of information spread using peer-to-peer diffusion patterns	24
Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings	24
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI	24
An evolutionary explanation for ineffective altruism	24
The association between vaccination status identification and societal polarization	24
Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses	24
Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training	23
The representational dynamics of perceived voice emotions evolve from categories to dimensions	23
Genetic loci shared between major depression and intelligence with mixed directions of effect	23
The cost of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG	23
Author Correction: A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations	23
Propaganda, authoritarianism and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	23
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health	23
Increased and biased deliberation in social anxiety	23
Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women’s mood, behaviour and vital signs	23
Mass-scale emotionality reveals human behaviour and marketplace success	23
Tracking developmental differences in real-world social attention across adolescence, young adulthood and older adulthood	22
Divisive normalization does influence decisions with multiple alternatives	22
A model of working memory for latent representations	22
Distinct regions of the striatum underlying effort, movement initiation and effort discounting	22
Learning metrics on spectrotemporal modulations reveals the perception of musical instrument timbre	22
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research	22
Detecting and modelling real percolation and phase transitions of information on social media	22
A unified online test battery for cognitive impulsivity reveals relationships with real-world impulsive behaviours	21
Adaptation mitigates the negative effect of temperature shocks on household consumption	21
The latent structure of global scientific development	21
Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviours and norms	21
Inferring latent learning factors in large-scale cognitive training data	21
Earliest evidence for human use of tobacco in the Pleistocene Americas	21
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility	21
Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections	21
Emotion prediction errors guide socially adaptive behaviour	21
Evidence of general economic principles of bargaining and trade from 2,000 classroom experiments	21
The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19	21
The Einstein effect provides global evidence for scientific source credibility effects and the influence of religiosity	21
Seven steps toward more transparency in statistical practice	20
Officer bias, over-patrolling and ethnic disparities in stop and search	20
Interacting spiral wave patterns underlie complex brain dynamics and are related to cognitive processing	20
Framing economic inequality and policy as group disadvantages (versus group advantages) spurs support for action	20
Third-party punishment by preverbal infants	20
Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants	20
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate	20
Imprecise neural computations as a source of adaptive behaviour in volatile environments	20
The clinical implications of climate change for mental health	20