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

Article	Citations
Precision estimates of relative and absolute cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer’s disease and cognitively normal individuals	133
Preconditioning with interleukin-1 alpha is required for the neuroprotective properties of mesenchymal stem cells after ischemic stroke in mice	70
Microglia: Active participants in brain capillary function	70
Association between occlusion location, net water uptake and ischemic lesion growth in large vessel anterior circulation strokes	64
Impact of hypertension on cerebral small vessel disease: A post-mortem study of microvascular pathology from normal-appearing white matter into white matter hyperintensities	64
Targeted capillary photothrombosis via multiphoton excitation of Rose Bengal	61
Vessel architecture imaging reveals microvascular rarefaction and capillary-to-arteriole shift in cerebral small vessel disease	61
Critical role of Slc22a8 in maintaining blood-brain barrier integrity after experimental cerebral ischemia-reperfusion	54
Exercise-induced extracellular vesicles derived from platelet-rich plasma improved recovery after ischemic stroke	49
Blood-brain barrier disruption imaging in postoperative cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome using DCE-MRI	48
Resuscitation with epinephrine worsens cerebral capillary no-reflow after experimental pediatric cardiac arrest: An in vivo multiphoton microscopy evaluation	47
Dynamic cerebral autoregulation in people with mild cognitive impairment	46
A cluster of blood-based protein biomarkers reflecting coagulation relates to the burden of cerebral small vessel disease	45
Post-stroke brain can be protected by modulating the lncRNA FosDT	45
CNS resident macrophages enhance dysfunctional angiogenesis and circulating monocytes infiltration in brain arteriovenous malformation	45
Vascular synthesis based on hemodynamic efficiency principle recapitulates measured cerebral circulation properties in the human brain	44
Sigma-1 receptor signaling: A potential therapeutic approach for ischemic stroke	44
Dynamic neuroreceptor positron emission tomography in non-anesthetized rats using point source based motion correction: A feasibility study with [¹¹C]ABP688	42
Nogo-A is secreted in extracellular vesicles, occurs in blood and can influence vascular permeability	41
Temperature dysregulation during therapeutic hypothermia predicts long-term outcome in neonates with HIE	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	38
Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 mediates cerebral ischemia-induced astrocytic reactivity	37
Post cardiac arrest physical exercise mitigates cell death in the septal and thalamic nuclei and ameliorates contextual fear conditioning deficits in rats	37
Mapping oxidative metabolism in the human brain with calibrated fMRI in health and disease	37
Effect of vascular amyloid on white matter disease is mediated by vascular dysfunction in cerebral amyloid angiopathy	36

RNF213 variant and autophagic impairment: A pivotal link to endothelial dysfunction in moyamoya disease	36
Female-specific neuroprotection after ischemic stroke by vitronectin-focal adhesion kinase inhibition	35
The effect of hypercapnia on the directional sensitivity of dynamic cerebral autoregulation and the influence of age and sex	35
Brain & Brain pet 2025 Abstracts	35
Pathological changes of brain oscillations following ischemic stroke	34
Amyloid beta peptides inhibit glucose transport at the blood-brain barrier by disrupting the insulin-AKT pathway	34
Cerebral autoregulation in pediatric and neonatal intensive care: A scoping review	33
Association of cognitive function and hypoperfusion in Moyamoya disease patients without stroke	32
Baseline CBV-normalized BOLD fMRI of visual stimulation in awake vs. anesthetized mice	32
Microglial phagocytosis and regulatory mechanisms after stroke	32