OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Trends in Neurosciences is 23. 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
Advisory Board and Contents	212
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Advisory Board and Contents	183
Advisory Board and Contents	174
Advisory Board and Contents	168
Origins of food selectivity in human visual cortex	163
Coordinating the energetic strategy of glia and neurons for memory	157
Metacognition in the listening brain	155
Neocortical somatostatin neuron diversity in cognition and learning	148
Advisory Board and Contents	133
Understanding Vulnerability and Adaptation in Early Brain Development using Network Neuroscience	129
Neurobiology of brain oscillations in acute and chronic pain	124
Cell type-specific dissection of sensory pathways involved in descending modulation	113
Advisory Board and Contents	107
Advisory Board and Contents	98
Toward identifying key mechanisms of progression in multiple sclerosis	96
Excitatory GluN1/GluN3A glycine receptors (eGlyRs) in brain signaling	94
Interferon γ: a master cytokine in microglia-mediated neural network dysfunction and neurodegeneration	93
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Advisory Board and Contents	84
The locus coeruleus as a global model failure system	83

Advisory Board and Contents	82
How iron can drive neurodegeneration	82
Advisory Board and Contents	81
Neurobiological basis of emergence from anesthesia	79
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Advisory Board and Contents	76
A neuro-journey across species	76
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Retinal receptive-field substructure: scaffolding for coding and computation	72
Attenuating the neuronal response to chronic stress through transcription factor aggregation	71
Cross-species considerations in models of neurodevelopmental disorders	70
Curiosity-driven exploration: foundations in neuroscience and computational modeling	70
The role of the hippocampus in the consolidation of emotional memories during sleep	70
Neuronal and astrocyte determinants of critical periods of plasticity	70
How do protein aggregates escape quality control in neurodegeneration?	69
Meningeal brain borders and migraine headache genesis	67
Large-scale, closed-loop interrogation of neural circuits underlying cognition	66
Construction of complex memories via parallel distributed cortical–subcortical iterative integration	65
One wavelength to excite them all: deep tissue imaging going multicolor	65
Roles of visually evoked and spontaneous activity in the development of retinal direction selectivity maps	64
Activity-dependent membrane sculpting deficits in TAOK1-linked neurodevelopmental disease	62
Infant neuroscience: how to measure brain activity in the youngest minds	57
Transformers and cortical waves: encoders for pulling in context across time	56
Defining and characterizing neuronal senescence, ‘neurescence’, as GX arrested cells	56
Bidirectional Brain-Systemic Interactions and Outcomes After TBI	55
Advancing ALS research: public–private partnerships to accelerate drug and biomarker development	55
Mis-splicing in Huntington’s disease: harnessing the power of comparative transcriptomics	55
Hidden variables in stress neurobiology research	53
From aversive associations to defensive programs: experience-dependent synaptic modifications in the central amygdala	52
A noncoding role of coding mRNA in monogenic olfactory receptor choice	50
Toward a neurobiology of internal selective attention	50
Supermultipotency and unpredictability in the developing superior colliculus	48
Neuroimaging of opioid effects in humans across conditions of acute administration, chronic pain therapy, and opioid use disorder	47
Emerging roles of antimicrobial peptides in innate immunity, neuronal function, and neurodegeneration	47
The evolutionary tuning of hearing	46
Neuroinflammation associated with ultrasound-mediated permeabilization of the blood–brain barrier	45
A critical period plasticity framework for the sensorimotor–association axis of cortical neurodevelopment	45
Foundations and implications of astrocyte heterogeneity during brain development and disease	44
Induced pluripotent stem cells: a tool for modeling Parkinson’s disease	44
The cerebellum on the epilepsy frontline	43
The neuronal cilium – a highly diverse and dynamic organelle involved in sensory detection and neuromodulation	43
Control of lymph node activity by direct local innervation	42
Modulating the Neuromodulators: Dopamine, Serotonin, and the Endocannabinoid System	42
Crossmodal plasticity in hearing loss	42
Object-oriented olfaction: challenges for chemosensation and for chemosensory research	42
Awake replay: off the clock but on the job	42
Maladaptive explore/exploit trade-offs in schizophrenia	41
The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience	41

Spatiotemporally resolved protein synthesis as a molecular framework for memory consolidation	40
Effect of host and strain factors on α-synuclein prion pathogenesis	40
The use of language in autism research	39
Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks	39
Astrocyte and neuron cooperation in long-term depression	39
Outdoor air pollution and brain development in childhood and adolescence	39
Astrocytes: integrators of arousal state and sensory context	38
The systemic immune response in Parkinson’s disease: focus on the peripheral immune component	38
How cancer hijacks the body’s homeostasis through the neuroendocrine system	37
Entorhinal cortex dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease	37
Tuning synapse strength by nanocolumn plasticity	37
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents	36
Elucidating hemodynamics and neuro-glio-vascular signaling using rodent fMRI	36
A step forward for stress-induced ataxia	35
Transcriptional preservation of serotonergic connectivity may shed light on neurodegeneration	34
Synaptic crossroads: navigating the circuits of movement	34
How critical is brain criticality?	33
Advisory Board and Contents	33
LRRK2 and idiopathic Parkinson’s disease	33
Early neuronal inhibition sculpts adult cortical interhemispheric connectivity	32
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Advisory Board and Contents	32
From synapse to sensation: the role of circTulp4	32
Advisory Board and Contents	30
Awakening from anesthesia switches cortical wave modes	30
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PET reporter systems for the brain	30
Retinal ganglion cell circuits and glial interactions in humans and mice	30
Nature versus laboratory: how to optimize housing conditions for zebrafish neuroscience research	30
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Disabled in academia: to be or not to be, that is the question	29
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Contextualized hippocampal-cortical dynamics underlying traumatic memory	29
Advisory Board and Contents	28
Birdsong neuroscience and the evolutionary substrates of learned vocalization	28
Advisory Board and Contents	28
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CAMs in command: aging brain macrophages fine-tune stroke immune responses	27
Differential regulation of cutaneous immunity by sensory neuron subsets	27
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Neuroscience of cognitive control in crows	26
The tactile sensors of the gut	26
MicroRNA regulation of critical retinal pigment epithelial functions	26
A survey of brain functional network extraction methods using fMRI data	26
Studying dopamine in addiction: the cart should follow the horse	26
Adrenergic signaling dampens T cell activity during chronic infection and cancer	25
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in neuronal physiology and neurodegeneration	25
An X-ray for myelin	25
Non-cell-autonomous pathogenic mechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	24
The dorsal raphe nucleus in the control of energy balance	24
Beneficial and detrimental functions of microglia during viral encephalitis	24
'Scary' pericytes: the fibrotic scar in brain and spinal cord lesions	24
Lysosomes in retinal health and disease	24
Neural consequences of chronic sleep disruption	23
Prairie vole pair bonding and plasticity of the social brain	23
An expanding repertoire of circuit mechanisms for visual prediction errors	23
Cortical disinhibitory circuits: cell types, connectivity and function	23
Equalizing transcallosal inhibition in the mouse anterior cingulate mitigates visuospatial neglect	23
Cell type-specific processing of non-motor signals in the external pallidum	23
A blueprint for examining striatal control of cognition	23
Do metabolic deficits contribute to sleep disruption in monogenic intellectual disability syndromes?	23