Nature Human Behaviour

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Human Behaviour is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Judgements of bias vary with observers’ political ideology and targets’ characteristics1341
Differences between male and female height in Early Neolithic Europe are likely to have been driven by culture384
The mental health effects of the tenure track system in China363
How (not) to appeal306
Not all machines are created equal277
Global North and South must work hand in glove to stop COVID-19271
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners236
Examining the replicability of online experiments selected by a decision market212
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement210
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences199
Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries193
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students184
Clues to crime in ivory DNA179
Human neonates learn to recognize speech sounds on the first day of life174
Redefining the ‘arsenal of democracy’169
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a test for international law168
Why and how science should respect the dignity and rights of all humans166
Travel bans erode global trust163
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 will143
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake138
Healthy lifestyle is linked to gains in disease-free life expectancy in China135
A quantitative analysis of intensification in the ethnographic record131
Author Correction: Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States123
The Dunning-Kruger effect revisited122
Potential solutions for discrimination in STEM122
Author Correction: Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in humans117
Research on registered report research113
Detecting and modelling real percolation and phase transitions of information on social media112
A selection pressure landscape for 870 human polygenic traits111
Medical science must address health disparities amongst different ethnic groups102
Global crime trends during COVID-19102
Academic freedom and the paradox of tolerance101
Computational audits combat disparities in recognition101
Author Correction: Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA99
Ocean sustainability for all requires deeper behavioural research96
Author Correction: Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks95
Promoting computational psychiatry in China90
Vaccine inequality benefits no one88
Patient traits shape health-care stakeholders’ choices on how to best allocate life-saving care86
Author Correction: Equity, diversity and inclusion are foundational research skills82
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia81
Foundations of intuitive power analyses in children and adults81
Publisher Correction: Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning78
Why we need an archaeology of menstruation78
The promises and perils of crime prediction77
Partner-choice genetics in Japan76
Race, academic achievement and the issue of inequitable motivational payoff75
How to protect privacy in open data75
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population75
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world74
The clinical implications of climate change for mental health72
Author Correction: A quasi-comprehensive exploration of the mechanisms of spatial working memory71
Efficient stabilization of imprecise statistical inference through conditional belief updating71
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries70
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science70
Uncertainty aversion predicts the neural expansion of semantic representations68
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset68
The importance of accounting for off-task behaviours during data collection68
Individual risk attitudes arise from noise in neurocognitive magnitude representations67
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation67
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution67
We must invest in behavioural economics for the HIV response67
A belief systems analysis of fraud beliefs following the 2020 US election67
Genetic associations with parental investment from conception to wealth inheritance in six cohorts67
Neuroscience evidence counters a rape myth62
Governments should measure pain when assessing societal wellbeing62
Trait correlations in human couples60
Quantifying the human impact of Melbourne’s 111-day hard lockdown experiment on the adult population60
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function59
Intermediate levels of scientific knowledge are associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes towards science59
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks59
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation58
Violence trends in the ancient Middle East between 12,000 and 400 bce58
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe57
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members57
Images with harder-to-reconstruct visual representations leave stronger memory traces57
Intracranial electroencephalography reveals effector-independent evidence accumulation dynamics in multiple human brain regions57
Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020–202256
Reply to: Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise55
Make abandoned research publicly available52
Hate crime towards minoritized groups increases as they increase in sized-based rank52
Prevent upwards bullying and abuse of reporting systems52
Misinformation and children’s fact-checking51
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults51
Future coexistence with great apes will require major changes to policy and practice50
Fact-checker warning labels are effective even for those who distrust fact-checkers50
How to depolarize your students50
Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth50
Greater variability in judgements of the value of novel ideas50
Common neural choice signals can emerge artefactually amid multiple distinct value signals49
Long ties accelerate noisy threshold-based contagions48
Preventing eating disorders in the LGBTQ+ community48
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study47
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England47
Human olfactory perception embeds fine temporal resolution within a single sniff46
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less46
Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income46
Consumption patterns in prehistoric Europe are consistent with modern economic behaviour44
Maternal adiposity and perinatal and offspring outcomes: an umbrella review43
Gene × environment effects and mediation involving adverse childhood events, mood and anxiety disorders, and substance dependence43
Distributed representations of behaviour-derived object dimensions in the human visual system43
How developments in natural language processing help us in understanding human behaviour43
Ethical challenges in translating brain–computer interfaces43
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science42
Racial biases in polygraphs and their legal implications42
Science communication with generative AI42
How to design and conduct a megastudy42
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge42
Human culture is uniquely open-ended rather than uniquely cumulative42
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico42
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex41
The future of human behaviour research41
Navigating India’s rich diversity in social psychological research41
Cultural diversity is crucial for African neuroethics41
Measuring trustworthiness is crucial for medical AI tools40
Prioritize systemic approaches for young people’s mental health40
Humanitarian instinct against humanitarian bureaucracy40
Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures40
Now is the time to reassess fieldwork-based research40
Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul40
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health40
Supporting computational reproducibility through code review40
Defragmenting psychology39
From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts in communications by US politicians39
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people39
Replay shapes abstract cognitive maps for efficient social navigation39
LLMs differ from human cognition because they are not embodied39
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain39
Association and causal mediation between marital status and depression in seven countries38
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations37
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research37
The genetic architecture of the human hypothalamus and its involvement in neuropsychiatric behaviours and disorders37
Developmental differences in memory reactivation relate to encoding and inference in the human brain36
Rapid neural reorganization during retrieval practice predicts subsequent long-term retention and false memory36
Deep neural network models of sound localization reveal how perception is adapted to real-world environments36
Little evidence that military policing reduces crime or improves human security35
Deep learning reveals what vocal bursts express in different cultures35
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information35
A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling35
Rethinking model-based and model-free influences on mental effort and striatal prediction errors35
Genetic associations between non-cognitive skills and academic achievement over development34
The 15-minute city quantified using human mobility data34
How institutions can better support international early-career researchers34
Interacting spiral wave patterns underlie complex brain dynamics and are related to cognitive processing34
The relationship between the youth-led Fridays for Future climate movement and voting, politician and media behaviour in Germany34
A framework for understanding adverse adolescent experiences33
Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings33
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease33
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena33
Mutual inclusivity improves decision-making by smoothing out choice’s competitive edge33
Chimpanzees use social information to acquire a skill they fail to innovate33
Corporate social responsibility and individual behaviour33
Support for those affected by scientific misconduct is crucial32
Gene-level analysis reveals the genetic aetiology and therapeutic targets of schizophrenia32
Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation31
Initial evidence of research quality of registered reports compared with the standard publishing model31
Non-invasive stimulation of the human striatum disrupts reinforcement learning of motor skills31
The Turing test is not a good benchmark for thought in LLMs31
Cross-ancestry genome-wide association study and systems-level integrative analyses implicate new risk genes and therapeutic targets for depression30
A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity30
A neural geometry approach comprehensively explains apparently conflicting models of visual perceptual learning30
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations30
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency30
A systematic literature review to clarify the concept of vaccine hesitancy30
The next generation of experimental research with LLMs30
Market exposure and human morality30
Machine culture30
Banks, alternative institutions and the spatial–temporal ecology of racial inequality in US cities30
Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science29
How growing up without siblings affects the adult brain and behaviour in the CHIMGEN cohort29
Warming up cool cooperators29
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change29
A worldwide assessment of changes in adherence to COVID-19 protective behaviours and hypothesized pandemic fatigue29
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable29
Experiential appreciation as a pathway to meaning in life28
Neuronal activity in the human amygdala and hippocampus enhances emotional memory encoding28
Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results28
Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease28
The cost of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic28
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)28
Public use and public funding of science28
Multiscale temporal integration organizes hierarchical computation in human auditory cortex28
The use-the-best heuristic facilitates deception detection28
Promises and challenges of generative artificial intelligence for human learning28
Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations27
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women27
The emergence of COVID-19 vaccine resistance depends on human choices27
Experiences of COVID-19 in Africa27
Climate resilience in the past was local27
Capturing the objects of vision with neural networks27
Replication studies for undergraduate theses to improve science and education27
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations27
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures27
The latent structure of global scientific development27
Individual ranking based on polygenic indices is unstable27
A dynamic normalization model of temporal attention26
Love and economic development26
Ten tips for overcoming language barriers in science26
You have to read this26
Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar26
Why many funding schemes harm rather than support research26
Different computations underlie overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention26
Mental speed is high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over a million participants26
Publisher Correction: Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behavior26
Not yet another digital identity26
Publisher Correction: Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions25
Deep learning in alternate reality25
Eye movements during text reading align with the rate of speech production25
Political audience diversity and news reliability in algorithmic ranking25
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs25
Efficient coding of numbers explains decision bias and noise25
The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-1924
The brain time toolbox, a software library to retune electrophysiology data to brain dynamics24
The distributional effects of nudges24
Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution24
The role of alpha oscillations in temporal binding within and across the senses24
Modelling individual and cross-cultural variation in the mapping of emotions to speech prosody24
Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns24
Neurons in human pre-supplementary motor area encode key computations for value-based choice23
Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk23
Experiential values are underweighted in decisions involving symbolic options23
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution23
Resilient government requires data science reform23
Author Correction: Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents22
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs22
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland22
The formality effect22
Align with the NMIND consortium for better neuroimaging22
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning22
Self-orienting in human and machine learning22
Social relationships and mortality22
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first22
Effect sizes and what to make of them21
We need more-diverse biobanks to improve behavioural genetics21
Understanding political divisiveness using online participation data from the 2022 French and Brazilian presidential elections21
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market21
What anaesthesia reveals about human brains and consciousness21
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science21
Genetic architectures of cerebral ventricles and their overlap with neuropsychiatric traits21
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions21
Human bias in algorithm design21
How we name academic prizes matters21
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA20
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China20
A behaviourally informed chatbot increases vaccination rates in Argentina more than a one-way reminder20
Improving academic mentorship practices20
Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe20
Advocating for equity in higher education20
Trajectories of brain and behaviour development in the womb, at birth and through infancy20
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