OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroscience Research is 6. 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
Projection-specific and reversible functional blockage in the association cortex of macaque monkeys	91
Spinal nociceptive hypersensitivity induced by intramuscular capsaicin in rats subjected to multiple continuous stress	86
Editorial Board	83
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	76
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	48
SUMOylation effects on neural stem cells self-renewal, differentiation, and survival	44
Future projections for mammalian whole-brain simulations based on technological trends in related fields	43
Neuroprotective role of calreticulin after spinal cord injury in mice	36
The Medaka approach to evolutionary social neuroscience	34
Individual electric field predicts functional connectivity changes after anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation in chronic stroke	32
Cellular bases for reward-related dopamine actions	31
Hemiplegic migraine type 2 with new mutation of the ATP1A2 gene in Japanese cases	29
Conversion of silent synapses to AMPA receptor-mediated functional synapses in human cortical organoids	27
Hippocampal volume reduction is associated with direct measure of insulin resistance in adults	27
Neurochemical phenotypes of huntingtin-associated protein 1 in reference to secretomotor and vasodilator neurons in the submucosal plexuses of rodent small intestine	26
Microglia modulate sleep/wakefulness under baseline conditions and under acute social defeat stress in adult mice	26
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	25
Large-scale foundation models and generative AI for BigData neuroscience	23
Role of endogenous NT-3 in neuronal activity and neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus	22
Building neuroscience with adaptive circuit census	22
Editorial Board	22
Zinc finger protein 501 maintains glioblastoma cell growth through enhancing Frizzled-6 expression	21
Deeper neural network models better reflect how humans cope with contrast variation in object recognition	21
IP3R1-dependent astrocyte calcium signaling in chronic itch	21
Neural mechanism of experience-dependent sensory gain control in C. elegans	20

Transcranial direct current stimulation of the LTPJ shifts the agent’s behaviors in repeated hold-up game	19
Reduced gray matter brain volume and cortical thickness in adults with type 1 diabetes and neuropathy	18
Prediction error in dopamine neurons during associative learning	18
Gait rhythm analysis as a new continuous scale for cerebellar ataxia: Power law and lognormal components represent the ataxic gait quantity	18
New ways of studying subjective experience	18
Glutamatergic neurons from the medial prefrontal cortex to the dorsal raphe nucleus regulate maternal aggression in lactating mice	17
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	17
Early postural adjustments in cats during a reaching task reflect strategies to predict the forthcoming target location	16
Beta-band power modulation in the human amygdala during a Direct Reach arm reaching task	16
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	16
Inference of monosynaptic connections from parallel spike trains: A review	16
A practical guide for single-cell transcriptome data analysis in neuroscience	15
A deep learning algorithm for sleep stage scoring in mice based on a multimodal network with fine-tuning technique	15
Traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer’s disease related neurodegenerative diseases: Insights from animal models	14
Quantifying acute changes in neurometabolism following blast-induced traumatic brain injury	14
Ethical, legal, social, and cultural implications of the non-clinical use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in Korea and Japan	14
Young fecal microbiota transplantation improves working memory in aged recipient rats by increasing interleukin-4 and interleukin-17 levels	14
Firing characteristics of swallowing interneurons in the dorsal medulla during physiologically induced swallowing in perfused brainstem preparation in rats	14
Hindering tau fibrillization by disrupting transient precursor clusters	14
Sleep stage classification in EEG signals using the clustering approach based probability distribution features coupled with classification algorithms	13
Time-window of offline long-term potentiation in anterior cingulate cortex during memory consolidation and recall	13
Transsynaptic activation of human lumbar spinal motoneurons by transvertebral magnetic stimulation	13
Neuroprotection by trans-resveratrol in rats with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)–induced retinal injury: Insights into the role of adenosine A1 receptors	13
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	13
Focusing new light on brain functions: multiphoton microscopy for deep and super-resolution imaging	13
Different properties of successful and error saccades in marmosets	12
Editorial Board	12
Rat call-evoked electrocorticographic responses and intercortical phase synchrony impaired in a cytokine-induced animal model for schizophrenia	12
Characterization of pathological stages in a mouse model of progressive multiple sclerosis	12
Editorial: Does big data change neuroscience?	11
Postnatal development of the microstructure of cortical GABAergic synapses and perineuronal nets requires sensory input	11
Fixel-based analysis of the diffusion properties of the patients with brain injury and chronic health symptoms	11
Characterization of forehead blood flow bias on NIRS signals during neural activation with a verbal fluency task	11
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	11
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	11
Nociceptive chemical hypersensitivity in the spinal cord of a rat reserpine-induced fibromyalgia model	11
Dynamic alpha-gamma phase-amplitude coupling signatures during sevoflurane-induced loss and recovery of consciousness	11
Editorial announcement – Nearing four decades of Neuroscience Research	11
Clinical availability of eye movement during reading	10
Influence of the descending pain-inhibiting serotonergic pathway on the antihyperalgesic effect of gabapentin in neuropathic pain model rats	10
Establishment of a transgenic strain for the whole brain calcium imaging in larval medaka fish (Oryzias latipes)	10
Long-lasting expression of FosB/ΔFosB immunoreactivity following acute stress in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the rat hypothalamus	10
Imaging data analysis using non-negative matrix factorization	10
The neurobiology of ticklishness	10
Functional segregation and dynamic integration of the corticotectal descending signal in rat	10
In vivo analysis of aggregation propensity of low levels of mislocalized TDP-43 on cytopathological and behavioral phenotype of ALS/FTLD	10
Prolonged stress-induced depression-like behaviors in aged rats are mediated by endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis in the hippocampus	10
The microglia-blood vessel interactions in the developing brain	10
Lateralized local circuit tuning in female mouse auditory cortex	10
Identification of epigenetically active L1 promoters in the human brain and their relationship with psychiatric disorders	9

The therapeutic role of SSEA3(+) human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells in ischemic stroke model	9
The role of astrocytes in behaviors related to emotion and motivation	9
Olfactory dysfunction and face processing of social cognition in first-episode psychosis	9
Editorial Board	9
Letting the little light of mind shine: Advances and future directions in neurochemical detection	9
Editorial Board	9
BAX regulates dendritic spine development via mitochondrial fusion	9
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	9
Alternative strategy for driving voltage-oscillator in neocortex of rats	9
Delayed gramicidin delivery through an intra-pipette capillary facilitates perforated patch recordings	9
Neural substrates of choking under pressure: A 7T-fMRI study	8
Flexible information representation to stabilize sensory perception despite minor external input variations	8
Shank3a/b isoforms regulate the susceptibility to seizures and thalamocortical development in the early postnatal period of mice	8
Neural basis for estrous cycle-dependent control of female behaviors	8
Safety evaluations for transtympanic laser stimulation of the cochlea in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)	8
Markerless analysis of hindlimb kinematics in spinal cord-injured mice through deep learning	8
New granule cells in the olfactory bulb are associated with high respiratory input in an enriched odor environment	8
Behavioral competition between infant care and sexual behavior in male but not female common marmosets	8
Early life stress and altered social behaviors: A perspective across species	8
Isoflurane effects on the N1 and other long-latency auditory evoked potentials in Wistar rats	8
Afferent and efferent connections of the nucleus posterior tuberis in the firemouth cichlid, Thorichthys meeki	8
The way forward for neuroethics in Japan: A review of five topics surrounding present challenges	8
Cortical nicotinic enhancement of tone-evoked heightened activities and subcortical nicotinic enlargement of activated areas in mouse auditory cortex	8
Contribution of the retrosplenial cortex to route selection in a complex maze	8
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	8
Synaptic plasticity induced by CA1 synaptic input with bursts superimposed on low-frequency rhythms	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
Phldb2 is essential for regulating hippocampal dendritic spine morphology through drebrin in an adult-type isoform-specific manner	8
Metformin alleviates auditory cell senescence by mitophagy induction	8
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	8
Neuronal subtype-specific transcriptomic changes in the cerebral neocortex associated with sleep pressure	8
Late-spiking retrosplenial cortical neurons are not synchronized with neocortical slow waves in anesthetized mice	7
Perivascular Hedgehog responsive cells play a critical role in peripheral nerve regeneration via controlling angiogenesis	7
Fluoxetine enhances the treatment of depression linked to opioid-induced constipation in mice by influencing the metabolomic profile	7
Purposive decision-making task in mice using touchscreen operant apparatus	7
Dynamic activity changes in transcription factors: Unlocking the mechanisms regulating physiological changes in the brain	7
Behavioral and histochemical characterization of sexually dimorphic responses to acute social isolation and reunion in mice	7
Editorial Board	7
Memory reactivations during sleep	7
Automatic detection of foot-strike onsets in a rhythmic forelimb movement	7
Editorial Board	7
The regulation of circadian rhythm by insulin signaling in Drosophila	7
Sleep, learning, and memory in human research using noninvasive neuroimaging techniques	7
The cognitive reality monitoring network and theories of consciousness	6
Difference in infantile mother preference is associated with adult anxiety/object recognition in C57BL/6 mice	6
Anxiety control by astrocytes in the lateral habenula	6
Over-representation of fundamental decision variables in the prefrontal cortex underlies decision bias	6
Multimodal analyses of a non-human primate model harboring mutant amyloid precursor protein transgenes driven by the human EF1α promoter.	6
Fatty acid amides present in Camembert cheese improved cognitive decline after oral administration in mice	6
Escitalopram alters the hypothalamic OX system but does not affect its up-regulation induced by early-life stress in adult rats.	6
Neuropeptide diuretic hormone 31 mediates memory and sleep via distinct neural pathways in Drosophila	6
Lighting up cosmic neuronal networks with transformative in vivo calcium imaging	6
Corticostriatal contributions to dysregulated motivated behaviors in stress, depression, and substance use disorders	6
Correlation between the reduction in hippocampal SirT2 expression and depressive-like behaviors and neurological abnormalities in olfactory bulbectomized mice	6
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	6
Genetic labeling of axo-axonic cells in the basolateral amygdala	6
Synaptic plasticity during systems memory consolidation	6
Dab1-deficient deep layer neurons prevent Dab1-deficient superficial layer neurons from entering the cortical plate	6
The impact of brand longevity on consumers’ purchase intention: An ERP study	6
Decreased Lamin B1 Levels Affect Gene Positioning and Expression in Postmitotic Neurons	6
DJ-1 inhibits glutathione degradation by downregulating CHAC1 expression in astrocytes	6
How to study subjective experience in an animal model of blindsight?	6
Biased thalamic innervation onto the distinct subregion where dopamine receptor 1 is dominantly expressed in the caudal striatum	6
A novel quadrant spatial assay reveals environmental preference in mouse spontaneous and parental behaviors	6
Active inference leads to Bayesian neurophysiology	6
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	6
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	6
Theta activity in semantic priming under visual crowding as revealed by magnetoencephalography	6
Number of kinesins engaged in axonal cargo transport: A novel biomarker for neurological disorders	6
Detailed analysis of drift diffusion model parameters estimated for the ultimatum game	6
Neural circuit plasticity for complex non-declarative sensorimotor memory consolidation during sleep	6
Molecular mechanisms linking loss of TDP-43 function to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia-related genes	6
Editorial Board	6
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	6
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	6
Astrocytic and microglial interleukin-1β mediates complement C1q-triggered orofacial mechanical allodynia	6