OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 37. 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
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	55
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	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