OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Human Behaviour is 62. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
How to protect privacy in open data	305
Partner-choice genetics in Japan	240
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults	239
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England	237
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students	234
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study	208
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members	203
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science	192
Efficacy of digital interventions for smoking cessation by type and method: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	184
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people	178
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation	162
How to depolarize your students	161
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography	161
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus	157
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations	151
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research	132
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health	126
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement	122
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations	113
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake	113
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia	112
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution	110
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences	110
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency	106
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks	103

Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change	100
Defragmenting psychology	96
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function	94
Market exposure and human morality	92
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe	91
The emergence of COVID-19 vaccine resistance depends on human choices	89
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence	88
Testing undue incentives	88
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci	87
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others	83
Global South cannot just live with COVID-19	83
Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship	83
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity	81
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth	81
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution	79
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning	75
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China	75
Improving academic mentorship practices	75
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis	74
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact	74
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland	73
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market	72
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk	72
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science	71
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis	70
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages	69
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark	69
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture	68
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions	67
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first	66
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations	65
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable	65
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy	64
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition	64
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI	64
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization	64
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour	63
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs	62