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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students1354
How (not) to appeal394
Defragmenting psychology377
How to protect privacy in open data310
Partner-choice genetics in Japan280
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution244
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members216
How to depolarize your students214
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults202
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England195
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research188
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement185
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study183
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations174
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations174
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia173
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency165
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science165
Market exposure and human morality146
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences145
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation137
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe134
Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science132
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function129
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake128
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health126
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change122
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks117
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people113
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence112
The emergence of COVID-19 vaccine resistance depends on human choices109
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity104
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci102
Testing undue incentives98
Indian scientists tackle the infodemic97
Global South cannot just live with COVID-1997
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark96
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition93
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis85
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs84
Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship82
Technology may change cognition without necessarily harming it81
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour80
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization79
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable78
Capturing the objects of vision with neural networks77
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact76
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland75
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution75
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market72
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science72
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning72
Improving academic mentorship practices71
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first70
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis70
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture70
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China70
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others70
Ten tips for overcoming language barriers in science69
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages66
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women66
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI65
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy64
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations62
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions62
Signalling Palaeolithic identity61
The human costs of COVID-19 policy failures in India60
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences60
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study60
Menstruation myths60
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty59
Polygenic overlap between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders and cross-ancestry validation59
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis59
Academia at risk56
The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing54
US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty54
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding54
Negativity bias, personality and political ideology53
Universally memorable voices53
Scientific publishing has a language problem52
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans52
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles52
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States51
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations51
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate51
How adults understand what young children say50
In the shadow of war50
Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon50
Temporal discounting is linked to economic stability and inequality50
New US government open access policy50
Rethinking routine airline testing during COVID-1949
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms48
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization47
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses47
Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games46
Talking openly about menstruation46
Promoting human flourishing46
Why current menstrual policies do not work46
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada46
Creative use of biobank data enables exploration of longstanding questions about bias45
Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings45
Post-pandemic acceleration of demand for interpersonal skills45
Twelve thousand years of ritual practice44
New and re-emerging disease outbreaks can cause social conflict44
From lab to science policy advisor44
To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’43
Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers43
A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas43
Why we need a ‘psychology of science’43
What the mind is43
How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs43
It is time to revamp our approach to doctoral careers43
Building machines that learn and think with people42
Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development42
‘Top of queue’ text messages increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in England42
Searching for active ingredients to combat youth anxiety and depression42
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications41
Governments should optimize electric vehicle subsidies41
When diversity, equity and inclusion fail to globalize41
Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks41
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries41
Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway41
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes41
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery40
Climate change and human behaviour40
Registered reports for qualitative research39
Author Correction: Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries39
The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits39
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research39
DNA insights into Neolithic society39
Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority38
State-led homophobia threatens African academic freedom38
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful38
COVAX can still end COVID-19 vaccine apartheid37
Broadening menstrual health approaches is key to improving adolescent outcomes37
This hot AI summer will impact Brazil’s democracy37
Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon36
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation36
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)36
Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence36
Understanding the nature of science through COVID-19 reports36
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory36
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China36
Self-regulating arousal via pupil-based biofeedback35
Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–201835
Neutral models are a tool, not a syndrome34
African researchers must be full participants in behavioural science research34
Sleep during travel balances individual sleep needs34
Publisher Correction: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI34
Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows33
Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people33
When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity33
A large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China33
LLMs are not ready for editorial work33
It’s time to reimagine sample diversity and retire the WEIRD dichotomy33
Causal inference on human behaviour33
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents32
Author Correction: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters32
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me32
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition31
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure31
End bullying and harassment in academia31
Author Correction: Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training31
Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition30
Description, prediction, explanation30
Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks30
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable30
Author Correction: Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory30
Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization30
Long ties across networks accelerate the spread of social contagions30
Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning29
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change29
Machines are not moral role models29
Reproduction and replication at scale29
Human value learning and representation reflect rational adaptation to task demands29
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning29
Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG29
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning29
A manifesto for applying behavioural science29
Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation29
Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation29
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
Representation and computation in visual working memory28
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era28
Not all machines are created equal28
Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience28
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study27
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world27
Developmental differences in memory reactivation relate to encoding and inference in the human brain27
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico27
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less27
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset27
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science27
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?27
How to design and conduct a megastudy27
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge27
Prioritize systemic approaches for young people’s mental health27
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners26
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population26
A worldwide assessment of changes in adherence to COVID-19 protective behaviours and hypothesized pandemic fatigue26
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena26
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex26
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease26
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable26
Now is the time to reassess fieldwork-based research26
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation25
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)25
Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support25
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information25
Rapid neural reorganization during retrieval practice predicts subsequent long-term retention and false memory25
Improving mobility data for infectious disease research25
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain25
Science communication with generative AI25
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother25
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries25
Rainbows should reign not only on LGBTQ+ STEM Day24
Intergenerational poverty persistence24
Local news in Google News24
Large-scale exome sequencing identified 18 novel genes for neuroticism in 394,005 UK-based individuals24
Modelling human behaviour in cognitive tasks with latent dynamical systems24
Post a preprint of your next research paper24
Efficient coding of numbers explains decision bias and noise23
Deep learning in alternate reality23
The formality effect23
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA23
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs23
A behaviourally informed chatbot increases vaccination rates in Argentina more than a one-way reminder23
Vaccine inequity is unethical22
Publisher Correction: Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions22
Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities22
Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants22
Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk22
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: Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries22
Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect: a Burden of Proof study22
The distributional effects of nudges22
Self-orienting in human and machine learning21
The colonial legacy of herbaria21
Science skepticism reduced compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place policies in the United States21
Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses21
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people21
Language evolution in China20
Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans20
Stress-induced avoidance in mood disorders20
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility20
Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future20
Author Correction: US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty20
Latent motives guide structure learning during adaptive social choice20
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