Nature Human Behaviour

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Human Behaviour is 24. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Partner-choice genetics in Japan370
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students346
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function337
The circular economy is leaving workers behind300
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus295
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study290
Market exposure and human morality265
How to depolarize your students254
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks237
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England229
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution228
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science225
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation200
How to protect privacy in open data188
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults177
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences169
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change156
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health154
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency146
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members142
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations141
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement136
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research133
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe130
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations127
Defragmenting psychology125
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people115
Efficacy of digital interventions for smoking cessation by type and method: a systematic review and network meta-analysis115
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography115
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake114
Testing undue incentives110
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others108
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity106
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions104
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs104
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact103
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition101
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable99
Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship97
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first95
Distinctive places make memories stick93
Corporate transformation is key to achieving zero waste91
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution91
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning91
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence91
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market90
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis90
Improving academic mentorship practices89
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI87
Generative AI predicts personality traits on the basis of open-ended narratives87
Measuring thresholds for individual change can improve social change interventions85
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China85
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth83
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland81
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark80
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture78
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages78
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science78
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour77
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the proficiency and variability of mathematical ability in populations with autism spectrum disorder76
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci75
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy75
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women74
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization72
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis71
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk71
Signalling Palaeolithic identity70
Universally memorable voices70
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations69
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences69
High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning69
Promoting human flourishing67
In the shadow of war67
Academia at risk67
Menstruation myths65
Negativity bias, personality and political ideology65
New US government open access policy65
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty65
Retraction Note: Arrests and convictions but not sentence length deter terrorism in 28 European Union member states64
Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon64
How adults understand what young children say64
Representational dynamics during extinction of fear memories in the human brain64
Scientific publishing has a language problem64
Polygenic overlap between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders and cross-ancestry validation63
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization63
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles63
US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty62
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study62
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry62
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate62
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans62
The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing62
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis61
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding61
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States61
Temporal discounting is linked to economic stability and inequality60
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses59
Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health58
Post-pandemic acceleration of demand for interpersonal skills58
An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives57
Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness57
Creative use of biobank data enables exploration of longstanding questions about bias56
Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings56
To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’55
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications55
It is time to revamp our approach to doctoral careers55
New and re-emerging disease outbreaks can cause social conflict55
When diversity, equity and inclusion fail to globalize53
Governments should optimize electric vehicle subsidies52
Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers52
A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France52
Talking openly about menstruation52
Reply to: Corrections are effective for science misinformation52
‘Top of queue’ text messages increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in England52
Twelve thousand years of ritual practice51
How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon51
Why current menstrual policies do not work51
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery51
Climate change and human behaviour50
Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities50
Why we need a ‘psychology of science’50
Building machines that learn and think with people49
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions49
How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs48
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries48
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes48
DNA insights into Neolithic society47
Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority47
A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas47
Broadening menstrual health approaches is key to improving adolescent outcomes47
Author Correction: Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries46
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful46
Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform45
A large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China45
Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence45
Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon45
This hot AI summer will impact Brazil’s democracy45
Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows44
The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits44
African researchers must be full participants in behavioural science research44
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China43
State-led homophobia threatens African academic freedom43
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)43
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus43
Causal inference on human behaviour43
Precise individual measures of inhibitory control42
Publisher Correction: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI42
LLMs are not ready for editorial work42
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining social comparison as a behaviour change technique across the behavioural sciences42
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation41
Self-regulating arousal via pupil-based biofeedback41
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents41
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me39
Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization39
Long ties across networks accelerate the spread of social contagions38
Author Correction: Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training38
Author Correction: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters38
Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks38
Author Correction: Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory38
Human value learning and representation reflect rational adaptation to task demands37
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure37
Premature termination of unemployment benefits increased COVID-19 transmission and deaths in the USA37
Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning37
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable37
User control of search algorithms would improve science37
Representation and computation in visual working memory36
No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry36
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change36
Spatial contexts with reliable neural representations support reinstatement of subsequently placed objects36
Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition36
Economic burden of falls for 190 countries and territories from 2020 to 2050 based on health-augmented macroeconomic modelling36
Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience36
Reproduction and replication at scale36
The impact of private hosting on the integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany36
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition36
Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation35
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning35
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset35
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of social norms messaging approaches for improving health behaviours in developed countries35
Social media interventions to improve well-being35
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?35
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech35
Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation35
A manifesto for applying behavioural science35
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era35
How to design and conduct a megastudy34
Sex difference in parental risk of suicide attempt during and after pregnancy in Sweden34
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study34
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science34
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations34
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world34
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses34
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners33
Emergency mental health co-responders reduce involuntary psychiatric detentions in the USA33
Voices of experience33
Personalized digital tools boost smoking quit rates33
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico32
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge32
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information31
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population31
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries31
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain31
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less31
The chronospatial revolution in psychology31
Large language models have the potential to level the playing field in consumer financial complaints31
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation31
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex31
Author Correction: Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries30
Post a preprint of your next research paper30
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease30
Science communication with generative AI30
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs30
Local news in Google News30
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable30
Author Correction: A meta-analysis of genetic effects associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and co-occurring conditions30
Intergenerational poverty persistence30
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)30
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena30
Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect: a Burden of Proof study29
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother29
Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe29
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people29
Efficient coding of numbers explains decision bias and noise29
A behaviourally informed chatbot increases vaccination rates in Argentina more than a one-way reminder29
Modelling human behaviour in cognitive tasks with latent dynamical systems29
Publisher Correction: In silico discovery of representational relationships across visual cortex29
The colonial legacy of herbaria29
The formality effect28
Human bias in algorithm design28
Spousal correlations for nine psychiatric disorders are consistent across cultures and persistent over generations28
COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility28
Priming of non-constituents reveals linguistic structure beyond grammar28
A large-scale comparison of divergent creativity in humans and large language models28
Neurons in human pre-supplementary motor area encode key computations for value-based choice28
Large-scale exome sequencing identified 18 novel genes for neuroticism in 394,005 UK-based individuals28
Improving mobility data for infectious disease research28
Observational and genetic evidence disagree on the association between loneliness and risk of multiple diseases27
A cluster-randomized trial of labelled cash transfers for uptake of care for chronic conditions among middle-aged and older adults in Burkina Faso27
Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz27
Modelling individual and cross-cultural variation in the mapping of emotions to speech prosody27
Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support27
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA27
Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking27
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility27
Self-orienting in human and machine learning27
Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk27
Lessons learnt from registration of biomedical research26
Stress-induced avoidance in mood disorders26
Nearly a quarter of tenure-track faculty have a parent with a PhD26
The social ladder to wellbeing26
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