Nature Human Behaviour

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Human Behaviour is 22. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Partner-choice genetics in Japan337
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England284
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students278
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members252
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia248
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations221
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus216
The circular economy is leaving workers behind202
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency200
Efficacy of digital interventions for smoking cessation by type and method: a systematic review and network meta-analysis195
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science188
Market exposure and human morality187
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution180
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study164
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults143
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences143
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation135
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research132
How to depolarize your students128
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people125
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake123
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function122
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe119
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks118
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement118
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations116
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health110
How to protect privacy in open data109
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography108
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change101
Defragmenting psychology101
The emergence of COVID-19 vaccine resistance depends on human choices100
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence99
Testing undue incentives96
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others95
Global South cannot just live with COVID-1994
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity93
Improving academic mentorship practices92
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations90
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk89
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions88
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis87
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs85
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth83
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour82
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning81
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy81
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact80
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis80
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China80
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first79
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market79
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages78
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture76
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution75
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science75
Corporate transformation is key to achieving zero waste74
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland74
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark73
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable72
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci72
Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship72
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women70
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization70
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition70
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI70
Universally memorable voices69
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations66
Signalling Palaeolithic identity66
Temporal discounting is linked to economic stability and inequality64
High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning64
Polygenic overlap between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders and cross-ancestry validation63
In the shadow of war63
Academia at risk63
Promoting human flourishing63
Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon62
Rethinking routine airline testing during COVID-1962
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry61
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate61
Scientific publishing has a language problem61
New US government open access policy61
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty61
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding61
How adults understand what young children say60
Negativity bias, personality and political ideology60
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms59
Menstruation myths59
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain59
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences59
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis58
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization58
US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty58
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States58
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study57
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada57
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles57
The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing56
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses56
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans56
Post-pandemic acceleration of demand for interpersonal skills55
Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health55
Talking openly about menstruation55
An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives53
Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness53
Twelve thousand years of ritual practice52
Creative use of biobank data enables exploration of longstanding questions about bias52
Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings51
It is time to revamp our approach to doctoral careers51
To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’51
A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France50
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications50
‘Top of queue’ text messages increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in England50
New and re-emerging disease outbreaks can cause social conflict50
When diversity, equity and inclusion fail to globalize50
From lab to science policy advisor50
How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon49
Why current menstrual policies do not work49
How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs49
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery48
Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers48
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries47
Building machines that learn and think with people47
Reply to: Corrections are effective for science misinformation47
Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities47
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries47
Climate change and human behaviour46
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes46
Why we need a ‘psychology of science’46
Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway45
Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks45
Governments should optimize electric vehicle subsidies45
A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas44
Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority43
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions43
COVAX can still end COVID-19 vaccine apartheid43
DNA insights into Neolithic society43
Broadening menstrual health approaches is key to improving adolescent outcomes43
LLMs are not ready for editorial work42
Author Correction: Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries42
Publisher Correction: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI42
Registered reports for qualitative research42
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)41
Understanding the nature of science through COVID-19 reports41
State-led homophobia threatens African academic freedom41
A large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China41
This hot AI summer will impact Brazil’s democracy41
Sleep during travel balances individual sleep needs41
The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits41
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful41
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China40
When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity40
Causal inference on human behaviour39
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus39
Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows39
Precise individual measures of inhibitory control39
African researchers must be full participants in behavioural science research38
Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon38
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research38
Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform38
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining social comparison as a behaviour change technique across the behavioural sciences38
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents37
Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence37
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation37
End bullying and harassment in academia36
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me36
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory36
Self-regulating arousal via pupil-based biofeedback36
Author Correction: Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training35
No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry35
Long ties across networks accelerate the spread of social contagions35
Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks35
Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization35
Author Correction: Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory34
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change34
Author Correction: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters34
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable34
Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning34
Reproduction and replication at scale34
Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation34
User control of search algorithms would improve science34
Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience33
Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition33
The impact of private hosting on the integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany33
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning33
Machines are not moral role models33
Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation33
Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG32
Social media interventions to improve well-being32
A manifesto for applying behavioural science32
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure32
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era32
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries32
Human value learning and representation reflect rational adaptation to task demands32
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech32
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition32
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?31
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning31
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study31
Representation and computation in visual working memory31
Sex difference in parental risk of suicide attempt during and after pregnancy in Sweden31
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset31
Science communication with generative AI30
Emergency mental health co-responders reduce involuntary psychiatric detentions in the USA30
Personalized digital tools boost smoking quit rates30
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations30
How to design and conduct a megastudy30
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses30
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science29
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world29
The chronospatial revolution in psychology29
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease29
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena29
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population29
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico29
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less29
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners29
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable29
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge28
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries28
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation28
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information28
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex28
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain28
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)28
Deep learning in alternate reality27
Local news in Google News27
Vaccine inequity is unethical27
Post a preprint of your next research paper27
Self-orienting in human and machine learning27
Intergenerational poverty persistence27
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother27
Author Correction: Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries27
Improving mobility data for infectious disease research26
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs26
COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility26
Author Correction: A meta-analysis of genetic effects associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions26
Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk26
Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support26
The formality effect26
Efficient coding of numbers explains decision bias and noise26
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people26
Modelling human behaviour in cognitive tasks with latent dynamical systems25
A behaviourally informed chatbot increases vaccination rates in Argentina more than a one-way reminder25
The colonial legacy of herbaria25
Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking25
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA25
Neurons in human pre-supplementary motor area encode key computations for value-based choice25
Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants25
A large-scale comparison of divergent creativity in humans and large language models25
Large-scale exome sequencing identified 18 novel genes for neuroticism in 394,005 UK-based individuals25
0.29961800575256