Nature Human Behaviour

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Human Behaviour is 20. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Partner-choice genetics in Japan319
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults259
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England249
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students244
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations242
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences226
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe210
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members193
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science190
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus187
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function174
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health172
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography166
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people166
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study156
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia146
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research129
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation125
How to depolarize your students123
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution122
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency121
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change119
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks115
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement110
Efficacy of digital interventions for smoking cessation by type and method: a systematic review and network meta-analysis109
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations101
How to protect privacy in open data101
Defragmenting psychology101
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake100
Market exposure and human morality95
The emergence of COVID-19 vaccine resistance depends on human choices94
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence93
Testing undue incentives92
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others92
Global South cannot just live with COVID-1988
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity87
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning86
Improving academic mentorship practices84
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China83
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis83
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact81
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland80
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market79
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture77
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages77
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first77
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth74
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable74
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci73
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science73
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions73
Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship72
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs71
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI70
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women69
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution69
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark68
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis67
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk67
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy66
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations66
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization65
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition65
Universally memorable voices63
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences63
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour63
Signalling Palaeolithic identity63
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations62
Temporal discounting is linked to economic stability and inequality62
Polygenic overlap between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders and cross-ancestry validation61
High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning61
Promoting human flourishing61
In the shadow of war61
Academia at risk60
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain60
Rethinking routine airline testing during COVID-1959
Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon59
Menstruation myths58
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms57
New US government open access policy57
US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty56
How adults understand what young children say56
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States56
The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing55
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization55
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty55
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry54
Negativity bias, personality and political ideology54
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate54
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study54
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis54
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles53
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans53
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding52
Scientific publishing has a language problem52
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada52
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses51
An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives51
Talking openly about menstruation51
Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health51
Post-pandemic acceleration of demand for interpersonal skills51
Twelve thousand years of ritual practice50
Creative use of biobank data enables exploration of longstanding questions about bias50
Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness50
It is time to revamp our approach to doctoral careers49
Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings49
To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’48
When diversity, equity and inclusion fail to globalize47
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications47
New and re-emerging disease outbreaks can cause social conflict47
From lab to science policy advisor47
Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks46
A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France46
Governments should optimize electric vehicle subsidies46
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions46
‘Top of queue’ text messages increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in England46
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes45
How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs45
Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities45
Why we need a ‘psychology of science’45
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries45
Reply to: Corrections are effective for science misinformation45
How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon44
Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway44
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery44
Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers44
A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas44
Why current menstrual policies do not work43
Climate change and human behaviour43
Building machines that learn and think with people42
DNA insights into Neolithic society42
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries42
Author Correction: Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries41
Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority41
Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon41
Broadening menstrual health approaches is key to improving adolescent outcomes41
Sleep during travel balances individual sleep needs41
COVAX can still end COVID-19 vaccine apartheid41
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus40
Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows40
Publisher Correction: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI39
State-led homophobia threatens African academic freedom39
LLMs are not ready for editorial work39
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining social comparison as a behaviour change technique across the behavioural sciences38
Understanding the nature of science through COVID-19 reports38
Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform38
Registered reports for qualitative research38
Causal inference on human behaviour38
A large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China38
Precise individual measures of inhibitory control38
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful38
Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence38
Self-regulating arousal via pupil-based biofeedback37
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China37
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents37
This hot AI summer will impact Brazil’s democracy37
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory37
The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits37
When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity37
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research37
African researchers must be full participants in behavioural science research35
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation35
Long ties across networks accelerate the spread of social contagions34
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me34
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure34
Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization34
End bullying and harassment in academia34
Author Correction: Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training34
Author Correction: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters34
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)34
The impact of private hosting on the integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany33
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries33
Human value learning and representation reflect rational adaptation to task demands33
Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks33
Machines are not moral role models33
Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG32
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition32
A manifesto for applying behavioural science32
Representation and computation in visual working memory32
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning32
Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience31
Reproduction and replication at scale31
Author Correction: Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory31
Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation30
Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation30
No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry30
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable30
User control of search algorithms would improve science30
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech29
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era29
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change29
Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning29
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning29
Social media interventions to improve well-being28
Sex difference in parental risk of suicide attempt during and after pregnancy in Sweden28
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico28
How to design and conduct a megastudy28
Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition28
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world28
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations28
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?28
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset28
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation28
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners28
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study28
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information27
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less27
Developmental differences in memory reactivation relate to encoding and inference in the human brain27
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science27
The chronospatial revolution in psychology27
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population27
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable27
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge27
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease26
Personalized digital tools boost smoking quit rates26
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex26
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries26
Science communication with generative AI26
Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support25
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother25
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)25
Post a preprint of your next research paper25
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain25
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena25
Local news in Google News25
Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants24
Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk24
Intergenerational poverty persistence24
Self-orienting in human and machine learning24
Vaccine inequity is unethical24
Latent motives guide structure learning during adaptive social choice24
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA24
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs24
Deep learning in alternate reality24
Rainbows should reign not only on LGBTQ+ STEM Day24
Author Correction: Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries24
COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility23
Improving mobility data for infectious disease research23
Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities23
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people23
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility23
Observational and genetic evidence disagree on the association between loneliness and risk of multiple diseases23
Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking23
Human bias in algorithm design23
Modelling human behaviour in cognitive tasks with latent dynamical systems23
Spousal correlations for nine psychiatric disorders are consistent across cultures and persistent over generations23
Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe23
Author Correction: A meta-analysis of genetic effects associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions23
The formality effect23
Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses22
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