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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Projection-specific and reversible functional blockage in the association cortex of macaque monkeys	151
Spinal nociceptive hypersensitivity induced by intramuscular capsaicin in rats subjected to multiple continuous stress	113
Editorial Board	99
Neurochemical phenotypes of huntingtin-associated protein 1 in reference to secretomotor and vasodilator neurons in the submucosal plexuses of rodent small intestine	56
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	50
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	43
Individual electric field predicts functional connectivity changes after anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation in chronic stroke	42
Conversion of silent synapses to AMPA receptor-mediated functional synapses in human cortical organoids	40
The Medaka approach to evolutionary social neuroscience	38
Future projections for mammalian whole-brain simulations based on technological trends in related fields	32
Neuroprotective role of calreticulin after spinal cord injury in mice	30
Cellular bases for reward-related dopamine actions	30
Microglia modulate sleep/wakefulness under baseline conditions and under acute social defeat stress in adult mice	28
Hemiplegic migraine type 2 with new mutation of the ATP1A2 gene in Japanese cases	27
SUMOylation effects on neural stem cells self-renewal, differentiation, and survival	27
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	26
Large-scale foundation models and generative AI for BigData neuroscience	26
Building neuroscience with adaptive circuit census	24
Editorial Board	23
Prediction error in dopamine neurons during associative learning	23
Deeper neural network models better reflect how humans cope with contrast variation in object recognition	21
Transcranial direct current stimulation of the LTPJ shifts the agent’s behaviors in repeated hold-up game	21
The neurobiology of human sequential signal prediction: Insights from language, music, and mathematics	21
IP3R1-dependent astrocyte calcium signaling in chronic itch	21
Zinc finger protein 501 maintains glioblastoma cell growth through enhancing Frizzled-6 expression	20

New ways of studying subjective experience	19
Neural mechanism of experience-dependent sensory gain control in C. elegans	19
Gait rhythm analysis as a new continuous scale for cerebellar ataxia: Power law and lognormal components represent the ataxic gait quantity	17
Role of endogenous NT-3 in neuronal activity and neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus	17
Early postural adjustments in cats during a reaching task reflect strategies to predict the forthcoming target location	16
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	15
A novel probe for precise and symmetric bilateral in utero electroporation in the mouse	15
Glutamatergic neurons from the medial prefrontal cortex to the dorsal raphe nucleus regulate maternal aggression in lactating mice	15
Inference of monosynaptic connections from parallel spike trains: A review	14
Young fecal microbiota transplantation improves working memory in aged recipient rats by increasing interleukin-4 and interleukin-17 levels	14
Hindering tau fibrillization by disrupting transient precursor clusters	14
Quantifying acute changes in neurometabolism following blast-induced traumatic brain injury	14
Beta-band power modulation in the human amygdala during a Direct Reach arm reaching task	13
Transsynaptic activation of human lumbar spinal motoneurons by transvertebral magnetic stimulation	13
Focusing new light on brain functions: multiphoton microscopy for deep and super-resolution imaging	13
Sleep stage classification in EEG signals using the clustering approach based probability distribution features coupled with classification algorithms	13
Ethical, legal, social, and cultural implications of the non-clinical use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in Korea and Japan	13
Editorial Board	13
A practical guide for single-cell transcriptome data analysis in neuroscience	13
Traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer’s disease related neurodegenerative diseases: Insights from animal models	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
Functional recovery and neuroplasticity post-hemispherectomy in humans	12
Compound Danshen Dripping Pills: A potential anti-oxidative drug for the treatment of noise-induced hearing loss in mice	12
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	12
Editorial announcement – Nearing four decades of Neuroscience Research	12
Editorial: Does big data change neuroscience?	12
Time-window of offline long-term potentiation in anterior cingulate cortex during memory consolidation and recall	12
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	12
Nociceptive chemical hypersensitivity in the spinal cord of a rat reserpine-induced fibromyalgia model	12
The neurobiology of ticklishness	11
Influence of the descending pain-inhibiting serotonergic pathway on the antihyperalgesic effect of gabapentin in neuropathic pain model rats	11
Fixel-based analysis of the diffusion properties of the patients with brain injury and chronic health symptoms	11
In vivo analysis of aggregation propensity of low levels of mislocalized TDP-43 on cytopathological and behavioral phenotype of ALS/FTLD	11
Postnatal development of the microstructure of cortical GABAergic synapses and perineuronal nets requires sensory input	11
Lateralized local circuit tuning in female mouse auditory cortex	11
Imaging data analysis using non-negative matrix factorization	10
Antidote administration in mice exposed to sarin resulted in brainwave stabilization without cognitive protection	10
Dynamic alpha-gamma phase-amplitude coupling signatures during sevoflurane-induced loss and recovery of consciousness	9
The microglia-blood vessel interactions in the developing brain	9
Editorial Board	9
The therapeutic role of SSEA3(+) human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells in ischemic stroke model	9
Characterization of pathological stages in a mouse model of progressive multiple sclerosis	9
Prolonged stress-induced depression-like behaviors in aged rats are mediated by endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis in the hippocampus	9
Establishment of a transgenic strain for the whole brain calcium imaging in larval medaka fish (Oryzias latipes)	9
Characterization of forehead blood flow bias on NIRS signals during neural activation with a verbal fluency task	9
Alternative strategy for driving voltage-oscillator in neocortex of rats	9
Editorial Board	9
Clinical availability of eye movement during reading	9
Long-lasting expression of FosB/ΔFosB immunoreactivity following acute stress in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the rat hypothalamus	9
Functional segregation and dynamic integration of the corticotectal descending signal in rat	9

Different properties of successful and error saccades in marmosets	9
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	9
BAX regulates dendritic spine development via mitochondrial fusion	9
Letting the little light of mind shine: Advances and future directions in neurochemical detection	8
Behavioral competition between infant care and sexual behavior in male but not female common marmosets	8
Afferent and efferent connections of the nucleus posterior tuberis in the firemouth cichlid, Thorichthys meeki	8
Shank3a/b isoforms regulate the susceptibility to seizures and thalamocortical development in the early postnatal period of mice	8
The role of astrocytes in behaviors related to emotion and motivation	8
Flexible information representation to stabilize sensory perception despite minor external input variations	8
Editorial Board	8
Phldb2 is essential for regulating hippocampal dendritic spine morphology through drebrin in an adult-type isoform-specific manner	8
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	8
Identification of epigenetically active L1 promoters in the human brain and their relationship with psychiatric disorders	8
Cortical nicotinic enhancement of tone-evoked heightened activities and subcortical nicotinic enlargement of activated areas in mouse auditory cortex	8
Delayed gramicidin delivery through an intra-pipette capillary facilitates perforated patch recordings	8
Early life stress and altered social behaviors: A perspective across species	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
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
Contribution of the retrosplenial cortex to route selection in a complex maze	7
Neural substrates of choking under pressure: A 7T-fMRI study	7
New granule cells in the olfactory bulb are associated with high respiratory input in an enriched odor environment	7
The regulation of circadian rhythm by insulin signaling in Drosophila	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Behavioral and histochemical characterization of sexually dimorphic responses to acute social isolation and reunion in mice	7
Safety evaluations for transtympanic laser stimulation of the cochlea in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)	7
Editorial Board	7
The way forward for neuroethics in Japan: A review of five topics surrounding present challenges	7
Neuronal subtype-specific transcriptomic changes in the cerebral neocortex associated with sleep pressure	7
Fluoxetine enhances the treatment of depression linked to opioid-induced constipation in mice by influencing the metabolomic profile	7
Metformin alleviates auditory cell senescence by mitophagy induction	7
Late-spiking retrosplenial cortical neurons are not synchronized with neocortical slow waves in anesthetized mice	7
Editorial Board	6
Anxiety control by astrocytes in the lateral habenula	6
Editorial Board	6
Neuropeptide diuretic hormone 31 mediates memory and sleep via distinct neural pathways in Drosophila	6
Editorial Board	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
Sleep, learning, and memory in human research using noninvasive neuroimaging techniques	6
Automatic detection of foot-strike onsets in a rhythmic forelimb movement	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
How to study subjective experience in an animal model of blindsight?	6
Number of kinesins engaged in axonal cargo transport: A novel biomarker for neurological disorders	6
Synaptic plasticity during systems memory consolidation	6
Lighting up cosmic neuronal networks with transformative in vivo calcium imaging	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
Astrocytic and microglial interleukin-1β mediates complement C1q-triggered orofacial mechanical allodynia	6
Correlation between the reduction in hippocampal SirT2 expression and depressive-like behaviors and neurological abnormalities in olfactory bulbectomized mice	6
Memory reactivations during sleep	6
Dynamic activity changes in transcription factors: Unlocking the mechanisms regulating physiological changes in the brain	6
Real-time classification of cortical slow-wave states by a machine learning model	6
Corticostriatal contributions to dysregulated motivated behaviors in stress, depression, and substance use disorders	6
Neural circuit plasticity for complex non-declarative sensorimotor memory consolidation during sleep	6
Difference in infantile mother preference is associated with adult anxiety/object recognition in C57BL/6 mice	6
A novel quadrant spatial assay reveals environmental preference in mouse spontaneous and parental behaviors	6
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	6
PRELIM II(EDI BOARD)	6
ADHD prediction from individual-space T1 images using a Vision Transformer with a gross-region grid framework	6
Purposive decision-making task in mice using touchscreen operant apparatus	6
The cognitive reality monitoring network and theories of consciousness	6