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Nature Human Behaviour Template

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About the Nature Human Behaviour format

Nature Human Behaviour is a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature, covering Neural dynamics and brain function, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment. Over its lifetime it has published 2,480 papers, which have received 148,622 citations.

PublisherSpringer Nature
Reference styleSuperscript numbered (Nature)
Superscript — small raised numerals in the text
1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. Nature Human Behaviour 12, 45–58 (2023).

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Publishes research inNeural dynamics and brain function Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment Misinformation and Its Impacts Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
ISSN2397-3374
Citation impact (2-yr)12.84
h-index177
i10-index1,312
Article processing charge$11,690
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Oxford
Journal websitewww.nature.com
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Papers published in Nature Human Behaviour per year

2
2012
1
2014
10
2016
252
2017
228
2018
296
2019
215
2020
225
2021
247
2022
283
2023
300
2024
299
2025

Citation impact of Nature Human Behaviour by publication year

2
2012
0
2014
1.2K
2016
26.5K
2017
15.7K
2018
18.6K
2019
27.9K
2020
27.1K
2021
11.9K
2022
10.6K
2023
6.8K
2024
2.3K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Nature Human Behaviour

A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)

Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt et al. · 8 Mar 2021

COVID-19 has prompted unprecedented government action around the world. We introduce the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), a dataset that addresses the need for continuously updated, readily usable and comparable information on policy measures. From 1 January 2020, the data capture government policies related to closure and containment, health and economic policy for more…

4,798 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A manifesto for reproducible science

Marcus R. Munafò, Brian A. Nosek, Dorothy Bishop et al. · 10 Jan 2017

Improving the reliability and efficiency of scientific research will increase the credibility of the published scientific literature and accelerate discovery. Here we argue for the adoption of measures to optimize key elements of the scientific process: methods, reporting and dissemination, reproducibility, evaluation and incentives. There is some evidence from both simulations and empirical studies supporting…

3,537 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations

Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina et al. · 10 May 2021

An effective rollout of vaccinations against COVID-19 offers the most promising prospect of bringing the pandemic to an end. We present the Our World in Data COVID-19 vaccination dataset, a global public dataset that tracks the scale and rate of the vaccine rollout across the world. This dataset is updated regularly and includes data on…

2,108 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Nature Human Behaviour template — frequently asked questions

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What reference style does Nature Human Behaviour use?
Nature Human Behaviour uses Superscript numbered (Nature) references, shown as superscript numerals in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. Nature Human Behaviour 12, 45–58 (2023).
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Nature Portfolio journal (Springer Nature). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by Springer Nature.
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