OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 36. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	154
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	112
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	109
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	105
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	104
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	95
Neural Circuits for Emotion	94
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	73
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	73
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	72
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	69
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	65
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	62
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	55
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	55
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	44
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	43
Development of the Binocular Circuit	41
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	40
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	40
How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	37
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	37
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	37
Harmony in the Molecular Orchestra of Hearing: Developmental Mechanisms from the Ear to the Brain	36