OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism is 32. 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
Preconditioning with interleukin-1 alpha is required for the neuroprotective properties of mesenchymal stem cells after ischemic stroke in mice	152
Blood-brain barrier disruption imaging in postoperative cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome using DCE-MRI	82
Spreading depolarization: A wave that precedes and drives cerebral ischemic cell death—Target for neuroprotection	67
Dynamic cerebral autoregulation in people with mild cognitive impairment	65
Targeting senescence mitigates the deleterious effects of midlife obesity on neurovascular function by partially restoring blood–brain barrier integrity and neurovascular coupling	56
Targeted capillary photothrombosis via multiphoton excitation of Rose Bengal	55
Vessel architecture imaging reveals microvascular rarefaction and capillary-to-arteriole shift in cerebral small vessel disease	55
Microglia: Active participants in brain capillary function	54
Resuscitation with epinephrine worsens cerebral capillary no-reflow after experimental pediatric cardiac arrest: An in vivo multiphoton microscopy evalua	54
Precision estimates of relative and absolute cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer’s disease and cognitively normal individuals	53
Non-invasive modelling and parametric methods for quantification of MAO-B activity using [ ¹¹ C]L-deprenyl-D2 PET	51
Association between occlusion location, net water uptake and ischemic lesion growth in large vessel anterior circulation strokes	50
Vascular synthesis based on hemodynamic efficiency principle recapitulates measured cerebral circulation properties in the human brain	49
Sigma-1 receptor signaling: A potential therapeutic approach for ischemic stroke	48
Critical role of Slc22a8 in maintaining blood-brain barrier integrity after experimental cerebral ischemia-reperfusion	46
Stroke-induced gut microbiome dysbiosis accelerates Alzheimer’s disease progression	43
RETRACTED: CNS resident macrophages enhance dysfunctional angiogenesis and circulating monocytes infiltration in brain arteriovenous malformation	43
Exercise-induced extracellular vesicles derived from platelet-rich plasma improved recovery after ischemic stroke	41
Impact of hypertension on cerebral small vessel disease: A post-mortem study of microvascular pathology from normal-appearing white matter into white matter hyperintensities	41
Metabolic profiling and biomarker identification in idiopathic intracranial hypertension with venous sinus stenosis	39
Quantitative susceptibility mapping of the brain is associated with inflammatory changes in Alzheimer’s disease related areas	38
Post-stroke brain can be protected by modulating the lncRNA FosDT	38
Phenotypic variability in 446 CADASIL patients: Impact of NOTCH3 gene mutation location in addition to the effects of age, sex and vascular risk factors	36
Baseline CBV-normalized BOLD fMRI of visual stimulation in awake vs. anesthetized mice	36
The effect of hypercapnia on the directional sensitivity of dynamic cerebral autoregulation and the influence of age and sex	36

Female-specific neuroprotection after ischemic stroke by vitronectin-focal adhesion kinase inhibition	36
Association of cognitive function and hypoperfusion in Moyamoya disease patients without stroke	36
Brain & Brain pet 2025 Abstracts	35
Cerebral autoregulation in pediatric and neonatal intensive care: A scoping review	35
Dynamic neuroreceptor positron emission tomography in non-anesthetized rats using point source based motion correction: A feasibility study with [ ¹¹	33
Temperature dysregulation during therapeutic hypothermia predicts long-term outcome in neonates with HIE	32
Post cardiac arrest physical exercise mitigates cell death in the septal and thalamic nuclei and ameliorates contextual fear conditioning deficits in rats	32