Nature Human Behaviour

Article	Citations
A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)	2278
A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations	1139
Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	975
Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions	967
Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19	552
Global supply-chain effects of COVID-19 control measures	496
Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists	478
Applying principles of behaviour change to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission	413
Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	407
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	374
Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world	346
COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0)	291
Assessing the risks of ‘infodemics’ in response to COVID-19 epidemics	287
A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use	268
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil	255
The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers	249
A worldwide assessment of changes in adherence to COVID-19 protective behaviours and hypothesized pandemic fatigue	247
Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks	233
Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology	222
Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition	222
Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in low-income countries	214
A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States	212
Specification curve analysis	210
Neighbourhood income and physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	210
Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America	197

Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis	191
The end of social confinement and COVID-19 re-emergence risk	182
Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution	180
Pandemic publishing poses a new COVID-19 challenge	179
A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions to improve mental wellbeing	178
Tracking and promoting the usage of a COVID-19 contact tracing app	152
Why lockdown and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to increase the social class achievement gap	151
Implications of the Russia–Ukraine war for global food security	143
The past, present and future of Registered Reports	139
Trust in science, social consensus and vaccine confidence	138
Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk	127
A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime	124
Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries	123
Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease	118
Bayesian Analysis Reporting Guidelines	117
Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy	116
Life expectancy changes since COVID-19	116
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	115
Revealing the multidimensional mental representations of natural objects underlying human similarity judgements	111
Psychophysical scaling reveals a unified theory of visual memory strength	101
Integrated vaccination and physical distancing interventions to prevent future COVID-19 waves in Chinese cities	101
Large socio-economic, geographic and demographic disparities exist in exposure to school closures	98
Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artificial intelligence	97
How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online	96
Initial evidence of research quality of registered reports compared with the standard publishing model	95
A randomized trial of online single-session interventions for adolescent depression during COVID-19	93
Mapping gene transcription and neurocognition across human neocortex	92
Population-scale longitudinal mapping of COVID-19 symptoms, behaviour and testing	92
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries	89
Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future	89
Anti-intellectualism and the mass public’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic	87
Changing scientific meetings for the better	87
To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?	84
A registered replication study on oxytocin and trust	83
Using genetics for social science	82
The rise of affectivism	82
Mapping global variation in human mobility	81
Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness	78
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters	78
Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults	75
A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioural factors	74
The genetic architecture of structural left–right asymmetry of the human brain	74
Despite vaccination, China needs non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent widespread outbreaks of COVID-19 in 2021	73
The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in big financial data	73
Observed impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global trade	71
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic	70
Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository	69
Global evidence of expressed sentiment alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	69
Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway	67
Why time poverty matters for individuals, organisations and nations	66

A systematic literature review to clarify the concept of vaccine hesitancy	66
Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke	66
Revisiting the global workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organization of the human brain	66
Humans primarily use model-based inference in the two-stage task	66
Intrinsic network architecture predicts the effects elicited by intracranial electrical stimulation of the human brain	66
Spatiotemporal dynamics of orthographic and lexical processing in the ventral visual pathway	65
A general dimension of genetic sharing across diverse cognitive traits inferred from molecular data	63
Identification of 371 genetic variants for age at first sex and birth linked to externalising behaviour	63
Paranoia and belief updating during the COVID-19 crisis	61
An implicit memory of errors limits human sensorimotor adaptation	60
Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media	60
Dissecting polygenic signals from genome-wide association studies on human behaviour	59
Why loot boxes could be regulated as gambling	58
Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessment	58
Chimpanzee ethnography reveals unexpected cultural diversity	57
A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy	57
Neurocomputational mechanisms of prior-informed perceptual decision-making in humans	54
Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science	54
Negativity drives online news consumption	54
Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia	53
Gender stereotypes are reflected in the distributional structure of 25 languages	53
Bad machines corrupt good morals	53
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses	53
The general fault in our fault lines	52
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech	52
Governments cannot just ‘follow the science’ on COVID-19	52
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty	51
Learning is inhibited by heat exposure, both internationally and within the United States	50
Social goods dilemmas in heterogeneous societies	50
Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment	50
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of cash transfers on subjective well-being and mental health in low- and middle-income countries	49
State-level needs for social distancing and contact tracing to contain COVID-19 in the United States	49
Intelligence, health and death	49
A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity	49
Symptom-level modelling unravels the shared genetic architecture of anxiety and depression	49
How bullying becomes a career tool	48
A unified account of numerosity perception	48
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake	48
Coping with cascading collective traumas in the United States	46
Leading countries in global science increasingly receive more citations than other countries doing similar research	46
Dissociable mechanisms govern when and how strongly reward attributes affect decisions	46
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era	45
Addressing racism and disparities in the biomedical sciences	45
Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions	44
Fresh teams are associated with original and multidisciplinary research	43
Increased air pollution exposure among the Chinese population during the national quarantine in 2020	42
Physical topography is associated with human personality	42
Large and persistent effects of green energy defaults in the household and business sectors	42
Aesthetic preference for art can be predicted from a mixture of low- and high-level visual features	42
Skill levels and gains in university STEM education in China, India, Russia and the United States	41
Memorability of words in arbitrary verbal associations modulates memory retrieval in the anterior temporal lobe	41
Training spatial cognition enhances mathematical learning in a randomized study of 17,000 children	41
Unsupervised learning predicts human perception and misperception of gloss	41
Hunters, busybodies and the knowledge network building associated with deprivation curiosity	41
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations	41
Bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis identifies causal associations between relative carbohydrate intake and depression	40
Speaking rhythmically can shape hearing	40
A rational model of the Dunning–Kruger effect supports insensitivity to evidence in low performers	40
Ten tips for overcoming language barriers in science	40
Exposure to peers’ pro-diversity attitudes increases inclusion and reduces the achievement gap	40
Reverse-engineering the cortical architecture for controlled semantic cognition	40
Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures	40
The distributional effects of nudges	39
To select effective interventions for pro-environmental behaviour change, we need to consider determinants of behaviour	39
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries	39
Polarity of uncertainty representation during exploration and exploitation in ventromedial prefrontal cortex	39
Semantic projection recovers rich human knowledge of multiple object features from word embeddings	38
Changing occupational structures and residential segregation in New York, London and Tokyo	38
The role of alpha oscillations in temporal binding within and across the senses	38
Air pollution as a determinant of food delivery and related plastic waste	38
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada	38
Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation	38
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy	38
Aspiring to greater intellectual humility in science	37
Experimental evidence on learning using low-tech when school is out	37
Genetic correlates of socio-economic status influence the pattern of shared heritability across mental health traits	37
Multiscale temporal integration organizes hierarchical computation in human auditory cortex	37
Interventions to reduce partisan animosity	37
Information about action outcomes differentially affects learning from self-determined versus imposed choices	37
Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies	37

Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar	36
Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models	36
A hitchhiker’s guide to working with large, open-source neuroimaging datasets	36
Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development	36
The impacts of remote learning in secondary education during the pandemic in Brazil	35
Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers	35
A manifesto for applying behavioural science	35
It’s time to reimagine sample diversity and retire the WEIRD dichotomy	35
The ConTraSt database for analysing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories	35
Understanding the removal of precise geotagging in tweets	35
Children punish third parties to satisfy both consequentialist and retributive motives	34
Putative rhythms in attentional switching can be explained by aperiodic temporal structure	34
Subjective confidence reflects representation of Bayesian probability in cortex	34
A meta-analysis of emotional regulation outcomes in psychological interventions for youth with depression and anxiety	34
Knowledge diffusion in the network of international business travel	33
Genome-wide association study of musical beat synchronization demonstrates high polygenicity	32
Short- and medium-term impacts of strict anti-contagion policies on non-COVID-19 mortality in China	32
Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration	32
Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology	32
A transdiagnostic network for psychiatric illness derived from atrophy and lesions	32
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 cohort studies of social isolation, loneliness and mortality	32
Spontaneous synchronization of motion in pedestrian crowds of different densities	32
Payoff-based learning best explains the rate of decline in cooperation across 237 public-goods games	31
Multivariate genome-wide analysis of education, socioeconomic status and brain phenome	31
Anterior prefrontal brain activity during emotion control predicts resilience to post-traumatic stress symptoms	30
Different computations underlie overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention	30
A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration	30
A dynamic normalization model of temporal attention	30
Neuroscience of trauma and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	30
Author Correction: Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA	30
Climate shaped how Neolithic farmers and European hunter-gatherers interacted after a major slowdown from 6,100 bce to 4,500 bce	29
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms	29
Improving the precision of intranasal oxytocin research	29
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition	29
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory	29
Physiological synchrony is associated with attraction in a blind date setting	29
Science skepticism reduced compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place policies in the United States	29
Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis	28
Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul	28
Actually, natural is neutral	28
The future of human behaviour research	28
Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in humans	28
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning	27
Capturing the objects of vision with neural networks	27
Evolution of resistance to COVID-19 vaccination with dynamic social distancing	27
Gender inequality and self-publication are common among academic editors	27
Complacency, panic, and the value of gentle rule enforcement in addressing pandemics	27
Deep neural network models of sound localization reveal how perception is adapted to real-world environments	27
Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018	26
Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people	26
Auditing local news presence on Google News	26
Geometric models reveal behavioural and neural signatures of transforming experiences into memories	26
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes	26
Addressing the digital skills gap for future education	26
Calibrating the experimental measurement of psychological attributes	26
Similarities and differences in concepts of mental life among adults and children in five cultures	26
Reducing bias, increasing transparency and calibrating confidence with preregistration	25
Multi-task reinforcement learning in humans	24
Evidence against benefits from cognitive training and transcranial direct current stimulation in healthy older adults	24
Dissociating conscious and unconscious influences on visual detection effects	24
Banks, alternative institutions and the spatial–temporal ecology of racial inequality in US cities	24
Healthful choices depend on the latency and rate of information accumulation	24
The spatiotemporal neural dynamics of object location representations in the human brain	23
Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings	23
Author Correction: A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations	23
Public use and public funding of science	23
Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training	23
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information	23
An evolutionary explanation for ineffective altruism	23
The influence of pay transparency on (gender) inequity, inequality and the performance basis of pay	22
The globalizability of temporal discounting	22
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans	22
The association between vaccination status identification and societal polarization	22
The representational dynamics of perceived voice emotions evolve from categories to dimensions	21
Genetic loci shared between major depression and intelligence with mixed directions of effect	21
Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses	21
Detecting and modelling real percolation and phase transitions of information on social media	21
Earliest evidence for human use of tobacco in the Pleistocene Americas	21
Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women’s mood, behaviour and vital signs	21
Name-based demographic inference and the unequal distribution of misrecognition	21
Realistic modelling of information spread using peer-to-peer diffusion patterns	21
Ages for Australia’s oldest rock paintings	21
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI	21
Divisive normalization does influence decisions with multiple alternatives	20
Learning metrics on spectrotemporal modulations reveals the perception of musical instrument timbre	20
Political polarization of news media and influencers on Twitter in the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections	20
A unified online test battery for cognitive impulsivity reveals relationships with real-world impulsive behaviours	20
Officer bias, over-patrolling and ethnic disparities in stop and search	20
Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviours and norms	20
A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism	20
Distinct regions of the striatum underlying effort, movement initiation and effort discounting	20
The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19	20
Increased and biased deliberation in social anxiety	20
Tracking developmental differences in real-world social attention across adolescence, young adulthood and older adulthood	20
A model of working memory for latent representations	20