OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews is 66. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	300
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?	284
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality	215
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia	196
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind	170
Editorial Board	158
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health	155
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence	141
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness	140
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory	139
Editorial Board	138
Negative symptoms and resting-state functional connectivity across psychotic and mood disorders: A systematic literature review	133
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice	122
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data	112
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?	112
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review	111
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications	110
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents	106
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system	104
Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	102
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications	102
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach	101
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect	100
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments	98
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition	98

The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies	96
Microglia and BDNF at the crossroads of stressor related disorders: Towards a unique trophic phenotype	96
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited	94
Pre- and postnatal antibiotic exposure and risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder–A systematic review and meta-analysis combining evidence from human and animal studies	93
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior	92
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis	91
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias	88
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis	88
Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research	85
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency	82
Are the growing levels of neurotoxic and neuro-disruptive chemicals in our food and drink contributing to the youth mental health crisis? A narrative review	82
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers	82
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease	81
Mechanisms of motor dysfunction in functional neurological disorder: A narrative review	81
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming	78
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology	78
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition	78
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers	76
Does stress make us more—or less—prosocial? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of acute stress on prosocial behaviours using economic games	76
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models	76
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review	75
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference	74
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis	73
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy	73
Neuroinflammatory remodeling of the anterior cingulate cortex as a key driver of mood disorders in gastrointestinal disease and disorders	73
A network meta-analysis of the long- and short-term efficacy of sleep medicines in adults and older adults	73
Contextual modulation of endogenous oxytocin signaling and its influence on exogenous oxytocin effects: A conceptual framework	72
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group	72
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system	71
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research	71
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy	70
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings	69
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology	69
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities	68
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review	68
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity	68
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds	68
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut	67
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review	67
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities	67
The ventral midline thalamus and long-term memory: What consolidation, what retrieval, what plasticity in rodents?	67
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy	66
Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue	66
Commentary: Neuroactive steroids and the dopaminergic system	66
Sexual incentive motivation, sexual behavior, and general arousal: Do rats and humans tell the same story?	66
Brain insulin signaling as a potential mediator of early life adversity effects on physical and mental health	66