Nature Human Behaviour

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Human Behaviour is 19. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Academic institutions need to do more to support first-generation students425
How to protect privacy in open data324
Partner-choice genetics in Japan279
A field study of the impacts of workplace diversity on the recruitment of minority group members247
Large-scale whole-exome sequencing of neuropsychiatric diseases and traits in 350,770 adults235
Author Correction: COVID-19 vaccination coverage for half a million non-EU migrants and refugees in England214
Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus213
Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks213
Market exposure and human morality204
Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia195
A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health188
A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations186
Reliable long-term individual variation in wild chimpanzee technological efficiency168
The vicious cycle that stalls statistical revolution157
The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research153
A unified framework integrating psychology and geography144
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change143
Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement142
Mental health challenges faced by autistic people140
A research agenda for understanding how social inequality is linked to brain structure and function120
How to depolarize your students115
Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations105
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe105
The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study105
The promise and pitfalls of the metaverse for science103
COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake101
Defragmenting psychology95
Large-scale citizen science reveals predictors of sensorimotor adaptation92
Sleep selectively and durably enhances memory for the sequence of real-world experiences90
The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence89
The emergence of COVID-19 vaccine resistance depends on human choices88
Patterns of item nonresponse behaviour to survey questionnaires are systematic and associated with genetic loci86
Testing undue incentives84
Global South cannot just live with COVID-1984
Ancient DNA provides insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland84
Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations83
Big STEM collaborations should include humanities and social science81
Maximizing the value of twin studies in health and behaviour78
Building partnerships between policy and academia for impact78
Machine learning-assisted optimization of dietary intervention against dementia risk78
How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution77
Author Correction: Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning76
Ethics committees promote responsible research in China73
Improving academic mentorship practices73
Publisher Correction: Perceptual and conceptual novelty independently guide infant looking behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis72
How brain damage affects our willingness to help others71
Rethink funding by putting the lottery first70
Negative partisanship is not more prevalent than positive partisanship68
Empowering African women leaders is key for health equity68
Umbrella review of meta-analyses on the risk factors, protective factors, consequences and interventions of cyberbullying victimization68
Authorship agreements benefit researchers and research culture67
Large but diminishing effects of climate action nudges under rising costs65
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women64
Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages64
Emotion regulation and mental health across cultures: a systematic review and meta-analysis63
Defining and measuring vaccine hesitancy62
Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market62
STEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions62
A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth61
Capturing the objects of vision with neural networks61
Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable60
Self-injury, suicidality and eating disorder symptoms in young adults following COVID-19 lockdowns in Denmark60
Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI60
An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition60
How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences59
Signalling Palaeolithic identity59
US universities are not succeeding in diversifying faculty58
Menstruation myths58
Universally memorable voices57
Academia at risk56
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization56
The neuroanatomy of developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis56
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry55
High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning55
A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms55
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding54
The ephemeral effects of fact-checks on COVID-19 misperceptions in the United States, Great Britain and Canada53
Temporal discounting is linked to economic stability and inequality52
Author Correction: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon52
People who are averse to uncertainty exhibit expanded semantic representations52
In the shadow of war52
How adults understand what young children say51
Rethinking routine airline testing during COVID-1951
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults living in extreme poverty50
New US government open access policy49
Polygenic overlap between subjective well-being and psychiatric disorders and cross-ancestry validation49
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans48
The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing48
Promoting human flourishing48
Negativity bias, personality and political ideology48
Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles48
Scientific publishing has a language problem48
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States48
Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study47
Why current menstrual policies do not work47
Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses47
Confidence reflects a noisy decision reliability estimate47
Tracking salient distracting signals within the human temporal lobe via intracranial recordings46
Post-pandemic acceleration of demand for interpersonal skills46
Talking openly about menstruation46
Creative use of biobank data enables exploration of longstanding questions about bias45
Twelve thousand years of ritual practice45
From lab to science policy advisor45
What the mind is45
To advance science we need to address ‘otherness’44
Why scientific conferences must mitigate structural barriers44
It is time to revamp our approach to doctoral careers44
‘Top of queue’ text messages increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake in England44
Searching for active ingredients to combat youth anxiety and depression43
Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway43
When diversity, equity and inclusion fail to globalize42
Skill dependencies underlie career paths and have societal implications42
Interventions reducing affective polarization do not necessarily improve anti-democratic attitudes41
Informative neural representations of unseen contents during higher-order processing in human brains and deep artificial networks41
How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs41
New and re-emerging disease outbreaks can cause social conflict41
How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon39
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries39
An interdisciplinary explanation of rule-following in the absence or presence of incentives39
Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness39
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions39
Navigating anti-science policies in environmental public health39
Why we need a ‘psychology of science’39
Inequality in infrastructure access and its association with health disparities38
A social-semantic working-memory account for two canonical language areas38
Governments should optimize electric vehicle subsidies38
Building machines that learn and think with people38
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery38
Author Correction: Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries37
Climate change and human behaviour37
The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits37
Author Correction: Prosociality should be a public health priority37
DNA insights into Neolithic society37
Broadening menstrual health approaches is key to improving adolescent outcomes36
Sleep during travel balances individual sleep needs36
This hot AI summer will impact Brazil’s democracy36
Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people36
Multiple spatial frames for immersive working memory36
A large-scale field experiment on participatory decision-making in China35
LLMs are not ready for editorial work35
Understanding the nature of science through COVID-19 reports35
COVAX can still end COVID-19 vaccine apartheid35
When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity35
State-led homophobia threatens African academic freedom35
Causal inference on human behaviour35
Publisher Correction: Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI34
Neural populations in the language network differ in the size of their temporal receptive windows34
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus34
Registered reports for qualitative research34
Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials examining social comparison as a behaviour change technique across the behavioural sciences34
Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon34
A generative model of memory construction and consolidation33
Precise individual measures of inhibitory control33
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China33
Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents33
Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful33
Rare CNVs and phenome-wide profiling highlight brain structural divergence and phenotypical convergence33
Self-regulating arousal via pupil-based biofeedback33
End bullying and harassment in academia32
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)32
Author Correction: The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters32
African researchers must be full participants in behavioural science research32
Author Correction: Enhancing reading skills through a video game mixing action mechanics and cognitive training32
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me32
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research32
Long ties across networks accelerate the spread of social contagions31
Material category of visual objects computed from specular image structure31
Near transfer to an unrelated N-back task mediates the effect of N-back working memory training on matrix reasoning31
Representation and computation in visual working memory31
Alcohol consumption-related signals identified by multiomics Mendelian randomization31
Author Correction: Decision uncertainty as a context for motor memory31
Ouvrai opens access to remote virtual reality studies of human behavioural neuroscience31
Openly accessible LLMs can help us to understand human cognition31
Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks31
Human value learning and representation reflect rational adaptation to task demands31
Machines are not moral role models31
Decoding naturalistic affective behaviour from spectro-spatial features in multiday human iEEG30
Description, prediction, explanation30
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning30
User control of search algorithms would improve science30
No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry30
Reproduction and replication at scale30
Decomposition of an odorant in olfactory perception and neural representation30
Retraction Note: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable30
Social media interventions to improve well-being29
Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition29
Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era29
A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change29
Period poverty is a continuing global challenge28
Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning28
A manifesto for applying behavioural science28
How to design and conduct a megastudy28
Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation28
COVID-19 vaccination policy dataset28
Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech28
Author Correction: Self-administered mindfulness interventions reduce stress in a large, randomized controlled multi-site study27
Could a shift in society’s conception of ‘honesty’ explain the spread of misinformation in the USA?27
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations27
Report uncertainty information to improve trust in science27
Prioritize systemic approaches for young people’s mental health26
The chronospatial revolution in psychology26
Science communication with generative AI26
Genetic footprints of assortative mating in the Japanese population26
The memorability of voices is predictable and consistent across listeners26
Interacting as equals reduces partisan polarization in Mexico26
Joint, distributed and hierarchically organized encoding of linguistic features in the human auditory cortex26
Global North–Global South research partnerships are still inequitable26
A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain25
AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation25
Trusting young children to help causes them to cheat less25
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena25
Rapid neural reorganization during retrieval practice predicts subsequent long-term retention and false memory25
A worldwide assessment of changes in adherence to COVID-19 protective behaviours and hypothesized pandemic fatigue25
Multiplex cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identifies biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of Alzheimer’s disease25
Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries25
Developmental differences in memory reactivation relate to encoding and inference in the human brain25
Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information25
With some knowledge comes great confidence (and negative attitudes toward science)24
The balancing act of being an academic and a mother24
Intergenerational poverty persistence24
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world24
Post a preprint of your next research paper24
Stigma prevents US and Chinese students from seeking mental health support24
Local news in Google News24
Addressing the needs of Ukrainian scholars at risk23
Deep learning in alternate reality23
Vaccine inequity is unethical23
Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA23
Publisher Correction: Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions23
Author Correction: Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries23
Rainbows should reign not only on LGBTQ+ STEM Day23
Latent motives guide structure learning during adaptive social choice22
Neurons in human pre-supplementary motor area encode key computations for value-based choice22
Modelling human behaviour in cognitive tasks with latent dynamical systems22
Modelling individual and cross-cultural variation in the mapping of emotions to speech prosody22
Science skepticism reduced compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place policies in the United States22
Large-scale exome sequencing identified 18 novel genes for neuroticism in 394,005 UK-based individuals21
Health effects associated with exposure of children to physical violence, psychological violence and neglect: a Burden of Proof study21
Self-orienting in human and machine learning21
Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe21
Improving mobility data for infectious disease research21
The distributional effects of nudges21
The formality effect21
Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people21
Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities21
Human bias in algorithm design21
COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time–space dimension of human mobility21
We must improve conditions and options for Australian ECRs21
Efficient coding of numbers explains decision bias and noise21
Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future20
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