| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 3,200 |
| 2 | A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker) | Nature Human Behaviour | 2021 | 2,464 |
| 3 | A manifesto for reproducible science | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 1,870 |
| 4 | Redefine statistical significance | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 1,763 |
| 5 | A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations | Nature Human Behaviour | 2021 | 1,223 |
| 6 | Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 1,014 |
| 7 | Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA | Nature Human Behaviour | 2021 | 1,002 |
| 8 | Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 845 |
| 9 | The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use | Nature Human Behaviour | 2019 | 740 |
| 10 | Advances in subjective well-being research | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 662 |
| 11 | Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19 | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 605 |
| 12 | Global supply-chain effects of COVID-19 control measures | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 521 |
| 13 | Genomic structural equation modelling provides insights into the multivariate genetic architecture of complex traits | Nature Human Behaviour | 2019 | 511 |
| 14 | Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 498 |
| 15 | Five factors that guide attention in visual search | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 470 |
| 16 | Applying principles of behaviour change to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 437 |
| 17 | The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 420 |
| 18 | Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan | Nature Human Behaviour | 2021 | 417 |
| 19 | Evidence for a large-scale brain system supporting allostasis and interoception in humans | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 393 |
| 20 | Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 385 |
| 21 | A problem in theory | Nature Human Behaviour | 2019 | 383 |
| 22 | Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 371 |
| 23 | Assessing the risks of ‘infodemics’ in response to COVID-19 epidemics | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 312 |
| 24 | COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0) | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 312 |
| 25 | Justify your alpha | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 310 |
| 26 | Air pollution lowers Chinese urbanites’ expressed happiness on social media | Nature Human Behaviour | 2019 | 309 |
| 27 | Moral outrage in the digital age | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 281 |
| 28 | Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 281 |
| 29 | A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use | Nature Human Behaviour | 2021 | 265 |
| 30 | Male antisocial behaviour in adolescence and beyond | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 264 |
| 31 | A worldwide assessment of changes in adherence to COVID-19 protective behaviours and hypothesized pandemic fatigue | Nature Human Behaviour | 2021 | 260 |
| 32 | The successor representation in human reinforcement learning | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 250 |
| 33 | Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 242 |
| 34 | Harnessing reliability for neuroscience research | Nature Human Behaviour | 2019 | 239 |
| 35 | Exposure to untrustworthy websites in the 2016 US election | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 237 |
| 36 | Ten considerations for effectively managing the COVID-19 transition | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 234 |
| 37 | The TIPPME intervention typology for changing environments to change behaviour | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 231 |
| 38 | Growing a social brain | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 229 |
| 39 | Why people prefer unequal societies | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 224 |
| 40 | Neighbourhood income and physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 223 |
| 41 | The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers | Nature Human Behaviour | 2022 | 222 |
| 42 | Evolutionary dynamics of higher-order interactions in social networks | Nature Human Behaviour | 2021 | 222 |
| 43 | Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 219 |
| 44 | Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in low-income countries | Nature Human Behaviour | 2021 | 218 |
| 45 | A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 217 |
| 46 | Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 215 |
| 47 | Normative foundations of human cooperation | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 215 |
| 48 | Systematic review and meta-analysis investigating moderators of long-term effects of exercise on cognition in healthy individuals | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 213 |
| 49 | Affective polarization, local contexts and public opinion in America | Nature Human Behaviour | 2021 | 213 |
| 50 | Specification curve analysis | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 212 |
