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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	160
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	121
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	114
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	108
Neural Circuits for Emotion	106
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	98
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	98
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	77
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	76
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	75
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	70
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	67
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	62
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	55
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	55
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	47
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	46
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	44
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	43
Development of the Binocular Circuit	43
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	42
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	40
Harmony in the Molecular Orchestra of Hearing: Developmental Mechanisms from the Ear to the Brain	39
How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	37
Synaptic Mechanisms Regulating Mood State Transitions in Depression	35

Predictive Processing: A Circuit Approach to Psychosis	35
Topological Neuroscience: Linking Circuits to Function	34
Astrocyte Endfeet in Brain Function and Pathology: Open Questions	29
Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory	29
How Do You Build a Cognitive Map? The Development of Circuits and Computations for the Representation of Space in the Brain	27
Neuroscientific Evidence for Processing Without Awareness	25
Cortical Integration of Vestibular and Visual Cues for Navigation, Visual Processing, and Perception	25
Neural Control of Naturalistic Behavior Choices	24
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The Role of Retrotransposons and Endogenous Retroviruses in Age-Dependent Neurodegenerative Disorders	22
Receptor-Ribosome Coupling: A Link Between Extrinsic Signals and mRNA Translation in Neuronal Compartments	22
The Visual Systems of Zebrafish	20
Phase Separation–Mediated Compartmentalization Underlies Synapse Formation and Plasticity	20
Cell Type–Specific Studies of Human Tissue for Investigation of the Molecular Cell Biology of Late-Onset Neurodegenerative Disease	20
Silent Synapses in the Adult Brain	19
Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	19
Developmental Origins and Oncogenesis in Medulloblastoma	18
Replay and Ripples in Humans	17
Neuromodulation and Neurophysiology on the Timescale of Learning and Decision-Making	17
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Meningeal Lymphatics in Central Nervous System Diseases	14
Prenatal Immune Stress: Its Impact on Brain Development and Neuropsychiatric Disorders	13