OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Human Behaviour is 65. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Judgements of bias vary with observers’ political ideology and targets’ characteristics	1341
Differences between male and female height in Early Neolithic Europe are likely to have been driven by culture	384
The mental health effects of the tenure track system in China	363
How (not) to appeal	306
Not all machines are created equal	277
Global North and South must work hand in glove to stop COVID-19	271
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners	236
Examining the replicability of online experiments selected by a decision market	212
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement	210
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences	199
Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries	193
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students	184
Clues to crime in ivory DNA	179
Human neonates learn to recognize speech sounds on the first day of life	174
Redefining the ‘arsenal of democracy’	169
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a test for international law	168
Why and how science should respect the dignity and rights of all humans	166
Travel bans erode global trust	163
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?	153
Genes influence parental investment in their child from conception to writing a will	143
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake	138
Healthy lifestyle is linked to gains in disease-free life expectancy in China	135
A quantitative analysis of intensification in the ethnographic record	131
Author Correction: Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States	123
The Dunning-Kruger effect revisited	122

Potential solutions for discrimination in STEM	122
Author Correction: Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in humans	117
Research on registered report research	113
Detecting and modelling real percolation and phase transitions of information on social media	112
A selection pressure landscape for 870 human polygenic traits	111
Medical science must address health disparities amongst different ethnic groups	102
Global crime trends during COVID-19	102
Computational audits combat disparities in recognition	101
Academic freedom and the paradox of tolerance	101
Author Correction: Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	99
Ocean sustainability for all requires deeper behavioural research	96
Author Correction: Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks	95
Promoting computational psychiatry in China	90
Vaccine inequality benefits no one	88
Patient traits shape health-care stakeholders’ choices on how to best allocate life-saving care	86
Author Correction: Equity, diversity and inclusion are foundational research skills	82
Foundations of intuitive power analyses in children and adults	81
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia	81
Publisher Correction: Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning	78
Why we need an archaeology of menstruation	78
The promises and perils of crime prediction	77
Partner-choice genetics in Japan	76
Race, academic achievement and the issue of inequitable motivational payoff	75
How to protect privacy in open data	75
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population	75
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world	74
The clinical implications of climate change for mental health	72
Author Correction: A quasi-comprehensive exploration of the mechanisms of spatial working memory	71
Efficient stabilization of imprecise statistical inference through conditional belief updating	71
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries	70
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science	70
Uncertainty aversion predicts the neural expansion of semantic representations	68
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset	68
The importance of accounting for off-task behaviours during data collection	68
Individual risk attitudes arise from noise in neurocognitive magnitude representations	67
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation	67
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution	67
We must invest in behavioural economics for the HIV response	67
A belief systems analysis of fraud beliefs following the 2020 US election	67
Genetic associations with parental investment from conception to wealth inheritance in six cohorts	67