OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 17. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	287
Smartphones and the Neuroscience of Mental Health	155
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	152
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Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	118
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	101
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	99
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	96
Neural Circuits for Emotion	95
Human Representation Learning	94
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	91
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	91
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	91
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	83
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	82
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	79
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	74
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	68
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	67
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	67
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	66
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	62
Development of the Binocular Circuit	61
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	60
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	59

How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	58
Harmony in the Molecular Orchestra of Hearing: Developmental Mechanisms from the Ear to the Brain	55
Predictive Processing: A Circuit Approach to Psychosis	53
Neocortical Layer 1: An Elegant Solution to Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration	51
Topological Neuroscience: Linking Circuits to Function	46
Astrocyte Endfeet in Brain Function and Pathology: Open Questions	44
Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory	43
Synaptic Mechanisms Regulating Mood State Transitions in Depression	43
How Do You Build a Cognitive Map? The Development of Circuits and Computations for the Representation of Space in the Brain	42
Neural and Molecular Mechanisms of Biological Embedding of Social Interactions	41
Neural Control of Naturalistic Behavior Choices	40
Current Status of and Perspectives on the Application of Marmosets in Neurobiology	39
Neuroscientific Evidence for Processing Without Awareness	39
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Cortical Integration of Vestibular and Visual Cues for Navigation, Visual Processing, and Perception	37
The Role of Retrotransposons and Endogenous Retroviruses in Age-Dependent Neurodegenerative Disorders	34
Phase Separation–Mediated Compartmentalization Underlies Synapse Formation and Plasticity	34
Cell Type–Specific Studies of Human Tissue for Investigation of the Molecular Cell Biology of Late-Onset Neurodegenerative Disease	32
The Visual Systems of Zebrafish	31
Receptor-Ribosome Coupling: A Link Between Extrinsic Signals and mRNA Translation in Neuronal Compartments	31
Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	30
Silent Synapses in the Adult Brain	29
Adaptive Prediction for Social Contexts: The Cerebellar Contribution to Typical and Atypical Social Behaviors	28
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Mechanically Activated PIEZO Channels	27
Developmental Origins and Oncogenesis in Medulloblastoma	26
Astrocytes and Behavior	25
Neuromodulation and Neurophysiology on the Timescale of Learning and Decision-Making	24
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Replay and Ripples in Humans	22
Meningeal Lymphatics in Central Nervous System Diseases	21
The Geometry of Information Coding in Correlated Neural Populations	20
How Cortical Circuits Implement Cortical Computations: Mouse Visual Cortex as a Model	20
Prenatal Immune Stress: Its Impact on Brain Development and Neuropsychiatric Disorders	18
From Blur to Brilliance: The Ascendance of Advanced Microscopy in Neuronal Cell Biology	17