OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 46. 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
	142
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