OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 13. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	216
Rethinking Predictive Processing	183
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	145
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	134
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	134
Neural Circuits for Emotion	132
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	132
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	110
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	96
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	90
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	88
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	87
Erratum: Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	85
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	82
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	73
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	71
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	70
Development of the Binocular Circuit	69
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	65
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	65
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	60
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	57
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	54
Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is	54
Neural Circuits of Social and Physiological Needs	53

The Dorsal Root Ganglia: From a Neuronal Relay to a Sensory Organ	52
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	51
Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse	49
How Salient Sensory Stimuli Induce Brain-Wide State Alterations	47
How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	44
Harmony in the Molecular Orchestra of Hearing: Developmental Mechanisms from the Ear to the Brain	43
Predictive Processing: A Circuit Approach to Psychosis	43
Topological Neuroscience: Linking Circuits to Function	42
Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory	42
Synaptic Mechanisms Regulating Mood State Transitions in Depression	40
Astrocyte Endfeet in Brain Function and Pathology: Open Questions	35
Neural Control of Naturalistic Behavior Choices	34
Neuroscientific Evidence for Processing Without Awareness	33
Cortical Integration of Vestibular and Visual Cues for Navigation, Visual Processing, and Perception	32
Glucocorticoid Receptor–Regulated Gene Networks and Mental Health	32
How Do You Build a Cognitive Map? The Development of Circuits and Computations for the Representation of Space in the Brain	32
The Role of Retrotransposons and Endogenous Retroviruses in Age-Dependent Neurodegenerative Disorders	31
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Receptor-Ribosome Coupling: A Link Between Extrinsic Signals and mRNA Translation in Neuronal Compartments	27
Cell Type–Specific Studies of Human Tissue for Investigation of the Molecular Cell Biology of Late-Onset Neurodegenerative Disease	24
Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	23
The Visual Systems of Zebrafish	23
Path Integration in Alzheimer's Disease: Orientation, Movement, and Theta Rhythmicity	23
Phase Separation–Mediated Compartmentalization Underlies Synapse Formation and Plasticity	21
Silent Synapses in the Adult Brain	20
Developmental Origins and Oncogenesis in Medulloblastoma	18
Neuromodulation and Neurophysiology on the Timescale of Learning and Decision-Making	18
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Neurobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Circuits, Genomics, and Treatment	16
Replay and Ripples in Humans	16
Meningeal Lymphatics in Central Nervous System Diseases	16
Prenatal Immune Stress: Its Impact on Brain Development and Neuropsychiatric Disorders	14
A Dendro-Centric View of Cognition in the Behaving Brain	13
From Blur to Brilliance: The Ascendance of Advanced Microscopy in Neuronal Cell Biology	13
Adaptive Cost-Benefit Control Fueled by Striatal Dopamine	13
Multiple-Timescale Representations of Space: Linking Memory to Navigation	13