OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 50. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	272
Neural Control of Sexually Dimorphic Social Behavior: Connecting Development to Adulthood	152
Adaptive Cost-Benefit Control Fueled by Striatal Dopamine	142
	130
A Whole-Brain Topographic Ontology	107
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	96
The Role of Retrotransposons and Endogenous Retroviruses in Age-Dependent Neurodegenerative Disorders	92
Ensheathment and Myelination of Axons: Evolution of Glial Functions	89
Multiple-Timescale Representations of Space: Linking Memory to Navigation	89
Smartphones and the Neuroscience of Mental Health	86
Cholesterol Metabolism in Aging and Age-Related Disorders	84
How Flies See Motion	82
	81
Phase Separation–Mediated Compartmentalization Underlies Synapse Formation and Plasticity	79
Circadian Rhythms and Astrocytes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	74
	74
Receptor-Ribosome Coupling: A Link Between Extrinsic Signals and mRNA Translation in Neuronal Compartments	68
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	63
The Visual Systems of Zebrafish	62
Meningeal Mechanisms and the Migraine Connection	60
Control Principles of Neural Dynamics Revealed by the Neurobiology of Timing	60
Cell Type–Specific Studies of Human Tissue for Investigation of the Molecular Cell Biology of Late-Onset Neurodegenerative Disease	59
Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	58
Signaling Pathways in Neurovascular Development	58
A Theoretical Framework for Human and Nonhuman Vocal Interaction	57

Therapeutic Potential of PTB Inhibition Through Converting Glial Cells to Neurons in the Brain	54
Neurophysiology of Human Perceptual Decision-Making	53
The Cortical Motor Areas and the Emergence of Motor Skills: A Neuroanatomical Perspective	50