Nature Human Behaviour

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Human Behaviour is 21. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Partner-choice genetics in Japan332
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England275
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students267
How to protect privacy in open data244
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members238
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography217
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia201
How to depolarize your students198
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study194
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function184
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people182
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change175
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus173
The circular economy is leaving workers behind169
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution158
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency135
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation134
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults128
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences126
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake123
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health121
Market exposure and human morality117
Efficacy of digital interventions for smoking cessation by type and method: a systematic review and network meta-analysis117
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks115
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations114
Defragmenting psychology111
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement105
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research104
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations103
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science98
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe97
The emergence of COVID-19 vaccine resistance depends on human choices95
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence93
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others92
Testing undue incentives92
Global South cannot just live with COVID-1991
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity91
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning89
Improving academic mentorship practices88
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China87
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis85
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact85
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market83
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages82
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture80
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science79
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first79
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution79
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs78
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable77
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland76
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions73
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark73
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci72
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis72
Corporate transformation is key to achieving zero waste72
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI72
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk72
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women71
Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship71
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations71
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy70
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization68
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour68
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth67
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition66
Universally memorable voices65
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences64
Signalling Palaeolithic identity64
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations63
In the shadow of war63
Temporal discounting is linked to economic stability and inequality63
High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning63
Academia at risk61
Promoting human flourishing61
Polygenic overlap between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders and cross-ancestry validation61
Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon60
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty59
Rethinking routine airline testing during COVID-1959
US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty59
New US government open access policy59
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis57
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry57
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States57
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles57
Menstruation myths57
Negativity bias, personality and political ideology57
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study57
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses56
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate56
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada56
Scientific publishing has a language problem56
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans56
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization55
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain55
The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing55
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding55
How adults understand what young children say55
Talking openly about menstruation53
Post-pandemic acceleration of demand for interpersonal skills53
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms53
An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives52
Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health52
Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness51
Creative use of biobank data enables exploration of longstanding questions about bias51
Twelve thousand years of ritual practice50
Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings50
It is time to revamp our approach to doctoral careers50
From lab to science policy advisor49
To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’49
New and re-emerging disease outbreaks can cause social conflict49
When diversity, equity and inclusion fail to globalize48
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications48
How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon47
How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs47
Reply to: Corrections are effective for science misinformation47
A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France47
Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities47
‘Top of queue’ text messages increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in England47
Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks46
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries46
Why current menstrual policies do not work46
A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas45
Climate change and human behaviour45
Why we need a ‘psychology of science’45
Building machines that learn and think with people44
Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers44
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes44
Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway44
Governments should optimize electric vehicle subsidies43
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery43
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries43
COVAX can still end COVID-19 vaccine apartheid42
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions42
Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority42
Broadening menstrual health approaches is key to improving adolescent outcomes42
DNA insights into Neolithic society42
African researchers must be full participants in behavioural science research41
Author Correction: Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries41
Publisher Correction: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI40
A large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China40
State-led homophobia threatens African academic freedom40
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful40
Registered reports for qualitative research40
LLMs are not ready for editorial work40
Causal inference on human behaviour40
This hot AI summer will impact Brazil’s democracy39
The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits39
When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity39
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining social comparison as a behaviour change technique across the behavioural sciences38
Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon38
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus38
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China38
Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence37
Precise individual measures of inhibitory control37
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation37
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents37
Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows37
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)36
Self-regulating arousal via pupil-based biofeedback35
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research35
Understanding the nature of science through COVID-19 reports35
End bullying and harassment in academia35
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory35
Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform35
Sleep during travel balances individual sleep needs35
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
Human value learning and representation reflect rational adaptation to task demands34
Long ties across networks accelerate the spread of social contagions34
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me34
Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks34
Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization34
Machines are not moral role models33
User control of search algorithms would improve science32
Reproduction and replication at scale32
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries32
Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience32
Author Correction: Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory32
Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation32
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable32
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure31
Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning31
The impact of private hosting on the integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany31
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning31
Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation31
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning30
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era30
Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition30
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change30
Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG30
No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry30
Representation and computation in visual working memory30
Social media interventions to improve well-being30
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition30
Sex difference in parental risk of suicide attempt during and after pregnancy in Sweden29
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study29
A manifesto for applying behavioural science29
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population29
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset29
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?29
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech29
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex28
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico28
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain28
Emergency mental health co-responders reduce involuntary psychiatric detentions in the USA28
Personalized digital tools boost smoking quit rates28
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses28
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners28
The chronospatial revolution in psychology28
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations28
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries28
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge28
How to design and conduct a megastudy27
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease27
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation27
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world27
Science communication with generative AI27
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science27
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena27
Deep learning in alternate reality26
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information26
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother26
Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk26
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)26
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less26
Post a preprint of your next research paper26
Intergenerational poverty persistence26
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable26
Local news in Google News26
Author Correction: Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries25
Improving mobility data for infectious disease research25
Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support25
Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking25
Self-orienting in human and machine learning25
Spousal correlations for nine psychiatric disorders are consistent across cultures and persistent over generations25
Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants25
Vaccine inequity is unethical25
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs25
Author Correction: A meta-analysis of genetic effects associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions25
Modelling individual and cross-cultural variation in the mapping of emotions to speech prosody25
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA24
Human bias in algorithm design24
Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe24
Publisher Correction: In silico discovery of representational relationships across visual cortex24
Efficient coding of numbers explains decision bias and noise24
Large-scale exome sequencing identified 18 novel genes for neuroticism in 394,005 UK-based individuals24
Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect: a Burden of Proof study24
The colonial legacy of herbaria24
Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future23
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