OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 44. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	216
Rethinking Predictive Processing	183
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	145
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	134
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	134
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	132
Neural Circuits for Emotion	132
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	110
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	96
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	90
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	88
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	87
Erratum: Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	85
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	82
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	73
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	71
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	70
Development of the Binocular Circuit	69
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	65
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	65
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	60
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	57
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	54
Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is	54
Neural Circuits of Social and Physiological Needs	53

The Dorsal Root Ganglia: From a Neuronal Relay to a Sensory Organ	52
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	51
Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse	49
How Salient Sensory Stimuli Induce Brain-Wide State Alterations	47
How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	44