Nature Human Behaviour

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Human Behaviour is 23. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Partner-choice genetics in Japan444
The circular economy is leaving workers behind404
How to depolarize your students388
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England387
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution372
How to protect privacy in open data314
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults285
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks269
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus263
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change262
The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism after 25 years243
Early-career-researcher-led best practices for social science and behavioural genetics238
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members235
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science218
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography208
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health197
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations160
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function160
Market exposure and human morality154
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe151
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency143
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation140
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations138
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences134
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study133
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people131
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research127
Efficacy of digital interventions for smoking cessation by type and method: a systematic review and network meta-analysis126
Defragmenting psychology121
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement121
Testing undue incentives115
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others114
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions112
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity112
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact110
Distinctive places make memories stick109
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark103
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science102
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture102
Corporate transformation is key to achieving zero waste101
Improving academic mentorship practices100
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable99
Measuring thresholds for individual change can improve social change interventions98
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence98
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the proficiency and variability of mathematical ability in populations with autism spectrum disorder97
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China96
Generative AI predicts personality traits on the basis of open-ended narratives96
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis91
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning91
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first89
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution88
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci83
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages83
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth83
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market82
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women81
Ancient DNA evidence for the history of the Albanians81
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis79
The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA79
Human curriculum learning of a cue combination task78
Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure78
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland77
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour77
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk77
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition77
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy77
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization76
Universally memorable voices75
Signalling Palaeolithic identity75
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations74
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate72
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States72
Scientific publishing has a language problem72
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization71
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis71
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study70
Academia at risk70
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry70
Polygenic overlap between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders and cross-ancestry validation70
Promoting human flourishing70
Menstruation myths70
Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon69
How adults understand what young children say69
US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty68
Retraction Note: Arrests and convictions but not sentence length deter terrorism in 28 European Union member states68
High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning68
Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans68
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty67
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences67
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans65
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain65
New US government open access policy64
US funding cuts offer a rare chance to remodel Global North–Global South research collaboration63
The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing63
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles61
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding60
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses60
Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health59
Post-pandemic acceleration of demand for interpersonal skills59
An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives59
Creative use of biobank data enables exploration of longstanding questions about bias58
Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness58
It is time to revamp our approach to doctoral careers58
Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings58
To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’57
New and re-emerging disease outbreaks can cause social conflict57
When diversity, equity and inclusion fail to globalize56
Why we need a ‘psychology of science’56
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications56
‘Top of queue’ text messages increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in England56
Talking openly about menstruation55
Climate change and human behaviour54
Twelve thousand years of ritual practice54
LGBTQ laws and public opinion change54
Reply to: Corrections are effective for science misinformation54
A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France53
Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers53
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery53
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries53
Why current menstrual policies do not work53
Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities52
Governments should optimize electric vehicle subsidies52
How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs51
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions51
How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon51
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes51
Building machines that learn and think with people51
A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas51
Broadening menstrual health approaches is key to improving adolescent outcomes50
DNA insights into Neolithic society50
A life-course map of health risks associated with exposure to second-hand smoke50
Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority49
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus48
Author Correction: Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries48
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful47
LLMs are not ready for editorial work47
African researchers must be full participants in behavioural science research47
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining social comparison as a behaviour change technique across the behavioural sciences46
Publisher Correction: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI46
The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits46
This hot AI summer will impact Brazil’s democracy45
A large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China45
Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform45
State-led homophobia threatens African academic freedom44
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation44
Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence43
Self-regulating arousal via pupil-based biofeedback43
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)42
Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows42
Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon42
Precise individual measures of inhibitory control41
Causal inference on human behaviour41
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents41
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me41
Spatial contexts with reliable neural representations support reinstatement of subsequently placed objects40
Long ties across networks accelerate the spread of social contagions40
Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks40
Author Correction: Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory40
Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization40
The impact of private hosting on the integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany39
Reproduction and replication at scale39
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable39
Premature termination of unemployment benefits increased COVID-19 transmission and deaths in the USA39
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning39
Economic burden of falls for 190 countries and territories from 2020 to 2050 based on health-augmented macroeconomic modelling39
User control of search algorithms would improve science39
Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition38
Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience38
Genome-wide association studies of infant and toddler temperament in European and multi-ancestry populations38
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries38
Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation38
Social media interventions to improve well-being38
Author Correction: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters37
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change37
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech37
No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry37
A manifesto for applying behavioural science37
Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation37
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era37
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition37
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure36
Representation and computation in visual working memory36
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset36
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?35
Sex difference in parental risk of suicide attempt during and after pregnancy in Sweden35
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses35
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge35
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study35
Emergency mental health co-responders reduce involuntary psychiatric detentions in the USA35
Voices of experience35
Personalized digital tools boost smoking quit rates35
How to design and conduct a megastudy35
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science35
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners35
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico34
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less34
Children reach consensus using flexible imitation and emergent roles in networks34
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population34
Large language models have the potential to level the playing field in consumer financial complaints34
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain34
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease33
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information33
Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources33
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable33
The chronospatial revolution in psychology32
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations32
A systematic investigation reveals dissociable effects of ageing on implicit and explicit components of sensorimotor learning32
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)31
Science communication with generative AI31
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation31
Intergenerational poverty persistence31
Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings31
Post a preprint of your next research paper31
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex31
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena31
Local news in Google News31
Large-scale exome sequencing identified 18 novel genes for neuroticism in 394,005 UK-based individuals31
The colonial legacy of herbaria31
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world31
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries31
Modelling human behaviour in cognitive tasks with latent dynamical systems31
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs31
Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz31
Neurons in human pre-supplementary motor area encode key computations for value-based choice30
Human bias in algorithm design30
Improving mobility data for infectious disease research30
A cluster-randomized trial of labelled cash transfers for uptake of care for chronic conditions among middle-aged and older adults in Burkina Faso30
Priming of non-constituents reveals linguistic structure beyond grammar29
Self-orienting in human and machine learning29
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people29
Author Correction: Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries29
Author Correction: A meta-analysis of genetic effects associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions29
Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support29
Publisher Correction: In silico discovery of representational relationships across visual cortex29
Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking28
Population attributable fractions of a wide range of peripheral diseases for the burden of dementia28
COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility28
Modelling individual and cross-cultural variation in the mapping of emotions to speech prosody28
A behaviourally informed chatbot increases vaccination rates in Argentina more than a one-way reminder28
The formality effect28
Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe28
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother28
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA28
Bridging the divide in motor learning research28
Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses28
A large-scale comparison of divergent creativity in humans and large language models27
Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect: a Burden of Proof study27
Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities27
Seeing racial avoidance on New York City streets27
Nearly a quarter of tenure-track faculty have a parent with a PhD27
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