OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroscience Research is 7. 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
Time course of functional recovery after 1 cm sciatic nerve resection in rats with or without surgical intervention - measured by grip strength and locomotor activity	80
Editorial Board	69
Spinal nociceptive hypersensitivity induced by intramuscular capsaicin in rats subjected to multiple continuous stress	63
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	56
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	43
Hemiplegic migraine type 2 with new mutation of the ATP1A2 gene in Japanese cases	40
Hippocampal volume reduction is associated with direct measure of insulin resistance in adults	40
Large-scale foundation models and generative AI for BigData neuroscience	39
Individual electric field predicts functional connectivity changes after anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation in chronic stroke	35
Neuroprotective role of calreticulin after spinal cord injury in mice	34
Neurochemical phenotypes of huntingtin-associated protein 1 in reference to secretomotor and vasodilator neurons in the submucosal plexuses of rodent small intestine	31
Conversion of silent synapses to AMPA receptor-mediated functional synapses in human cortical organoids	29
SUMOylation effects on neural stem cells self-renewal, differentiation, and survival	29
Projection-specific and reversible functional blockage in the association cortex of macaque monkeys	28
Future projections for mammalian whole-brain simulations based on technological trends in related fields	28
The Medaka approach to evolutionary social neuroscience	27
Zinc finger protein 501 maintains glioblastoma cell growth through enhancing Frizzled-6 expression	26
Cellular bases for reward-related dopamine actions	26
Microglia modulate sleep/wakefulness under baseline conditions and under acute social defeat stress in adult mice	26
IP3R1-dependent astrocyte calcium signaling in chronic itch	24
Deeper neural network models better reflect how humans cope with contrast variation in object recognition	24
Evidence for the involvement of caspases in establishing proper cerebrospinal fluid hydrodynamics	23
Potential mechanism of GABA secretion in response to the activation of GluK1-containing kainate receptors	22
Transcranial direct current stimulation of the LTPJ shifts the agent’s behaviors in repeated hold-up game	21
New ways of studying subjective experience	21

Reduced gray matter brain volume and cortical thickness in adults with type 1 diabetes and neuropathy	21
Role of endogenous NT-3 in neuronal activity and neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus	21
Editorial Board	20
Developmental and postdevelopmental roles of septins in the brain	20
Building neuroscience with adaptive circuit census	20
Neural mechanism of experience-dependent sensory gain control in C. elegans	19
Prediction error in dopamine neurons during associative learning	19
A practical guide for single-cell transcriptome data analysis in neuroscience	18
Glutamatergic neurons from the medial prefrontal cortex to the dorsal raphe nucleus regulate maternal aggression in lactating mice	18
Bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide enhances synaptic transmission at low-output glutamatergic synapses	18
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	17
Susceptibility to extinction and reinstatement of ethanol-induced conditioned place preference is related to differences in astrocyte cystine-glutamate antiporter content	17
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	17
Young fecal microbiota transplantation improves working memory in aged recipient rats by increasing interleukin-4 and interleukin-17 levels	16
A deep learning algorithm for sleep stage scoring in mice based on a multimodal network with fine-tuning technique	16
Gait rhythm analysis as a new continuous scale for cerebellar ataxia: Power law and lognormal components represent the ataxic gait quantity	16
Early postural adjustments in cats during a reaching task reflect strategies to predict the forthcoming target location	16
Firing characteristics of swallowing interneurons in the dorsal medulla during physiologically induced swallowing in perfused brainstem preparation in rats	16
Quantifying acute changes in neurometabolism following blast-induced traumatic brain injury	16
Beta-band power modulation in the human amygdala during a Direct Reach arm reaching task	16
Sleep stage classification in EEG signals using the clustering approach based probability distribution features coupled with classification algorithms	15
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	15
Inference of monosynaptic connections from parallel spike trains: A review	15
Time-window of offline long-term potentiation in anterior cingulate cortex during memory consolidation and recall	14
Focusing new light on brain functions: multiphoton microscopy for deep and super-resolution imaging	14
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	14
Neuroprotection by trans-resveratrol in rats with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)–induced retinal injury: Insights into the role of adenosine A1 receptors	14
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	14
Transsynaptic activation of human lumbar spinal motoneurons by transvertebral magnetic stimulation	14
Proton-sensing receptor GPR132 facilitates migration of astrocytes	14
Editorial announcement – Nearing four decades of Neuroscience Research	14
Influence of the descending pain-inhibiting serotonergic pathway on the antihyperalgesic effect of gabapentin in neuropathic pain model rats	13
Characterization of forehead blood flow bias on NIRS signals during neural activation with a verbal fluency task	13
Lateralized local circuit tuning in female mouse auditory cortex	13
Postnatal development of the microstructure of cortical GABAergic synapses and perineuronal nets requires sensory input	13
Fixel-based analysis of the diffusion properties of the patients with brain injury and chronic health symptoms	13
Different properties of successful and error saccades in marmosets	13
Characterization of pathological stages in a mouse model of progressive multiple sclerosis	13
The microglia-blood vessel interactions in the developing brain	13
Functional segregation and dynamic integration of the corticotectal descending signal in rat	12
Prolonged stress-induced depression-like behaviors in aged rats are mediated by endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis in the hippocampus	12
Editorial: Does big data change neuroscience?	12
In vivo analysis of aggregation propensity of low levels of mislocalized TDP-43 on cytopathological and behavioral phenotype of ALS/FTLD	12
Dynamic alpha-gamma phase-amplitude coupling signatures during sevoflurane-induced loss and recovery of consciousness	12
Long-lasting expression of FosB/ΔFosB immunoreactivity following acute stress in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the rat hypothalamus	12
Rat call-evoked electrocorticographic responses and intercortical phase synchrony impaired in a cytokine-induced animal model for schizophrenia	12
Nociceptive chemical hypersensitivity in the spinal cord of a rat reserpine-induced fibromyalgia model	12
Imaging data analysis using non-negative matrix factorization	12
The neurobiology of ticklishness	12
Sex moderates the association between the COMT Val158Met single-nucleotide polymorphism and disorderliness facet of novelty seeking	11

Clinical availability of eye movement during reading	11
Olfactory dysfunction and face processing of social cognition in first-episode psychosis	11
The role of astrocytes in behaviors related to emotion and motivation	11
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	11
Effects of genome-wide neuroticism-associated variants on five-factor model personality traits in schizophrenia	11
Editorial Board	11
Identification of epigenetically active L1 promoters in the human brain and their relationship with psychiatric disorders	10
Delayed gramicidin delivery through an intra-pipette capillary facilitates perforated patch recordings	10
The therapeutic role of SSEA3(+) human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells in ischemic stroke model	10
Flexible information representation to stabilize sensory perception despite minor external input variations	10
Letting the little light of mind shine: Advances and future directions in neurochemical detection	10
BAX regulates dendritic spine development via mitochondrial fusion	10
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	10
Editorial Board	10
Alternative strategy for driving voltage-oscillator in neocortex of rats	10
Projections from the lowest thoracic and upper lumbar segments to the cerebellar cortex in the rat: An anterograde tracing study	9
Frequency-dependent effects of EEG phase resetting on reaction time	9
Early life stress and altered social behaviors: A perspective across species	9
Neural substrates of choking under pressure: A 7T-fMRI study	9
Song-related brain auditory activity in Bengalese finches as examined by immediate early gene expressions: Comparison of arousal states and the correlational analyses between brain regions	9
Isoflurane effects on the N1 and other long-latency auditory evoked potentials in Wistar rats	9
Behavioral competition between infant care and sexual behavior in male but not female common marmosets	9
Shank3a/b isoforms regulate the susceptibility to seizures and thalamocortical development in the early postnatal period of mice	9
Phldb2 is essential for regulating hippocampal dendritic spine morphology through drebrin in an adult-type isoform-specific manner	9
Synaptic plasticity induced by CA1 synaptic input with bursts superimposed on low-frequency rhythms	9
Safety evaluations for transtympanic laser stimulation of the cochlea in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)	9
Neuronal subtype-specific transcriptomic changes in the cerebral neocortex associated with sleep pressure	8
Corrigendum to “Time-window of offline long-term potentiation in anterior cingulate cortex during memory consolidation and recall” [Neurosci. Res. 212 (2025) 75–83]	8
Metformin alleviates auditory cell senescence by mitophagy induction	8
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	8
Cortical nicotinic enhancement of tone-evoked heightened activities and subcortical nicotinic enlargement of activated areas in mouse auditory cortex	8
New granule cells in the olfactory bulb are associated with high respiratory input in an enriched odor environment	8
Neural basis for estrous cycle-dependent control of female behaviors	8
Glial activation precedes alpha-synuclein pathology in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	8
Cognitive and hippocampal synaptic profiles in monosodium glutamate-induced obese mice	8
Afferent and efferent connections of the nucleus posterior tuberis in the firemouth cichlid, Thorichthys meeki	8
Contribution of the retrosplenial cortex to route selection in a complex maze	8
Markerless analysis of hindlimb kinematics in spinal cord-injured mice through deep learning	8
Behavioral and histochemical characterization of sexually dimorphic responses to acute social isolation and reunion in mice	8
Perivascular Hedgehog responsive cells play a critical role in peripheral nerve regeneration via controlling angiogenesis	8
The regulation of circadian rhythm by insulin signaling in Drosophila	8
Neferine alleviates P2X3 receptor in rat dorsal root ganglia mediated neuropathic pain	8
The way forward for neuroethics in Japan: A review of five topics surrounding present challenges	8
Dynamic activity changes in transcription factors: Unlocking the mechanisms regulating physiological changes in the brain	7
Notch1 and Notch2 collaboratively maintain radial glial cells in mouse neurogenesis	7
Purposive decision-making task in mice using touchscreen operant apparatus	7
Editorial Board	7
Astrocytic and microglial interleukin-1β mediates complement C1q-triggered orofacial mechanical allodynia	7
Porphyrins ameliorate spinocerebellar ataxia type 36 GGCCTG repeat expansion-mediated cytotoxicity	7
The cognitive reality monitoring network and theories of consciousness	7
Late-spiking retrosplenial cortical neurons are not synchronized with neocortical slow waves in anesthetized mice	7
Memory reactivations during sleep	7
A systematic study of changes in monoamine neurotransmitters in the rat brain following acute administration of alpha-methyltryptamine (AMT), 5-methoxy-alpha-methyltryptamine (5-MeO-AMT) and 5-methoxy	7
Stagnation of glymphatic interstitial fluid flow and delay in waste clearance in the SOD1-G93A mouse model of ALS	7
How to study subjective experience in an animal model of blindsight?	7
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	7
Clozapine, nimodipine and endosulfan differentially suppress behavioral defects caused by gain-of-function mutations in a two-pore domain K+ channel (UNC-58)	7
Editorial Board	7
Automatic detection of foot-strike onsets in a rhythmic forelimb movement	7
Elucidation of molecular pathogenesis and drug development for psychiatric disorders from rare disease-susceptibility variants	7
Sleep, learning, and memory in human research using noninvasive neuroimaging techniques	7
Coexpression of calcineurin A and B subunits in various subcellular and synaptic compartments of cerebellar neurons and glia with particular abundance at parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapses	7
Correlation between the reduction in hippocampal SirT2 expression and depressive-like behaviors and neurological abnormalities in olfactory bulbectomized mice	7
Administration of amyloid-β oligomer to the buccal ganglia may reduce food intake and cholinergic synaptic responses within the feeding neural circuit in Aplysia kurodai	7