OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Human Behaviour is 60. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students	425
How to protect privacy in open data	324
Partner-choice genetics in Japan	279
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members	247
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults	235
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England	214
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus	213
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks	213
Market exposure and human morality	204
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia	195
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health	188
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations	186
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency	168
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution	157
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research	153
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography	144
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change	143
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement	142
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people	140
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function	120
How to depolarize your students	115
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations	105
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe	105
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study	105
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science	103

COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake	101
Defragmenting psychology	95
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation	92
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences	90
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence	89
The emergence of COVID-19 vaccine resistance depends on human choices	88
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci	86
Testing undue incentives	84
Global South cannot just live with COVID-19	84
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland	84
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations	83
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science	81
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour	78
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact	78
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk	78
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution	77
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning	76
Improving academic mentorship practices	73
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China	73
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis	72
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others	71
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first	70
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity	68
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization	68
Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship	68
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture	67
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs	65
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages	64
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women	64
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis	63
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy	62
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market	62
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions	62
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth	61
Capturing the objects of vision with neural networks	61
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable	60
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark	60
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI	60
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition	60