OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Progress in Neurobiology is 36. 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
Replicating infant-specific reactive astrocyte functions in the injured adult brain	196
Opposing effects of nicotine on hypothalamic arcuate nucleus POMC and NPY neurons	175
Social odors drive hippocampal CA2 place cell responses to social stimuli	139
Editorial Board	101
Signal peptide peptidase-like 2b modulates the amyloidogenic pathway and exhibits an Aβ-dependent expression in Alzheimer's disease	97
Uncovering and leveraging the return of voluntary motor programs after paralysis using a bi-cortical neuroprosthesis	96
Loss of TDP-43 promotes somatic CAG repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease knock-in mice	92
Trigeminal nerve stimulation restores hippocampal dopamine deficiency to promote cognitive recovery in traumatic brain injury	81
Perceptual hue, lightness, and chroma are represented in a multidimensional functional anatomical map in macaque V1	79
Voltage-gated calcium channels contribute to spontaneous glutamate release directly via nanodomain coupling or indirectly via calmodulin	78
Editorial Board	78
Editorial Board	76
Immune response in retinal degenerative diseases – Time to rethink?	65
Stress-induced heme metabolic disorder in peripheral B cells contributes to depressive-like behaviors in male mice	63
Stimulus-driven rivalry among V1 neurons	62
Editorial Board	61
Injury to thalamocortical projections following traumatic brain injury results in attractor dynamics for cortical networks	60
A common neural code for representing imagined and inferred tastes	60
Control of goal-directed and inflexible actions by dorsal striatal melanocortin systems, in coordination with the central nucleus of the amygdala	59
Loss of glycine receptors in the nucleus accumbens and ethanol reward in an Alzheimer´s Disease mouse model	52
Using high spatial resolution fMRI to understand representation in the auditory network	52
Editorial Board	48
Manipulation of radixin phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens core modulates risky choice behavior	47
Pax3 induces target-specific reinnervation through axon collateral expression of PSA-NCAM	44
A tradeoff between efficiency and robustness in the hippocampal-neocortical memory network during human and rodent sleep	44

Editorial Board	43
A molecularly defined orbitofrontal cortical neuron population controls compulsive-like behavior, but not inflexible choice or habit	40
Corrigendum to “Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control” [Prog. Neurobiol. 247 (2025) 102748]	40
Adverse and compensatory neurophysiological slowing in Parkinson’s disease	40
ERO1A inhibition mitigates neuronal ER stress and ameliorates UBQLN2ALS phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster	40
Astrocytic AT1R deficiency ameliorates Aβ-induced cognitive deficits and synaptotoxicity through β-arrestin2 signaling	38
Editorial Board	38
Partial reprogramming by cyclical overexpression of Yamanaka factors improves pathological phenotypes of tauopathy mouse model of human Alzheimer's disease	38
The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors in Alzheimer’s disease: From pathophysiology to therapeutic approaches	38
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals ECM remodeling-tumor stiffness-FAK as a key driver of vestibular schwannoma progression	37
Decoding stress granules dynamics: Implications for neurodegenerative disease	36
Selective optogenetic stimulation of glutamatergic, but not GABAergic, vestibular nuclei neurons induces immediate and reversible postural imbalance in mice	36