OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Neurobiology is 14. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Opposing effects of nicotine on hypothalamic arcuate nucleus POMC and NPY neurons	261
Editorial Board	227
Loss of TDP-43 promotes somatic CAG repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease knock-in mice	122
Perceptual hue, lightness, and chroma are represented in a multidimensional functional anatomical map in macaque V1	106
Social odors drive hippocampal CA2 place cell responses to social stimuli	104
NEIL3 shapes hippocampal network dynamics and fear memory through modulation of PV+ interneurons	96
Signal peptide peptidase-like 2b modulates the amyloidogenic pathway and exhibits an Aβ-dependent expression in Alzheimer's disease	81
Uncovering and leveraging the return of voluntary motor programs after paralysis using a bi-cortical neuroprosthesis	81
Trigeminal nerve stimulation restores hippocampal dopamine deficiency to promote cognitive recovery in traumatic brain injury	73
Editorial Board	72
Stimulus-driven rivalry among V1 neurons	62
Stress-induced heme metabolic disorder in peripheral B cells contributes to depressive-like behaviors in male mice	54
Immune response in retinal degenerative diseases – Time to rethink?	52
A common neural code for representing imagined and inferred tastes	50
Editorial Board	50
The VGLUT3 positive neurons of the median raphe region promote long-term spatial memory through time-dependent mechanisms	49
Control of goal-directed and inflexible actions by dorsal striatal melanocortin systems, in coordination with the central nucleus of the amygdala	49
A molecularly defined orbitofrontal cortical neuron population controls compulsive-like behavior, but not inflexible choice or habit	48
Manipulation of radixin phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens core modulates risky choice behavior	47
Corrigendum to “Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control” [Prog. Neurobiol. 247 (2025) 102748]	46
Pax3 induces target-specific reinnervation through axon collateral expression of PSA-NCAM	46
Editorial Board	44
Loss of glycine receptors in the nucleus accumbens and ethanol reward in an Alzheimer´s Disease mouse model	44
Glycine and glycine transport control dendritic excitability and spiking	43
ERO1A inhibition mitigates neuronal ER stress and ameliorates UBQLN2ALS phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster	41

A tradeoff between efficiency and robustness in the hippocampal-neocortical memory network during human and rodent sleep	41
The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors in Alzheimer’s disease: From pathophysiology to therapeutic approaches	40
Editorial Board	40
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals ECM remodeling-tumor stiffness-FAK as a key driver of vestibular schwannoma progression	38
Adverse and compensatory neurophysiological slowing in Parkinson’s disease	38
The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory	38
Astrocytic AT1R deficiency ameliorates Aβ-induced cognitive deficits and synaptotoxicity through β-arrestin2 signaling	37
Partial reprogramming by cyclical overexpression of Yamanaka factors improves pathological phenotypes of tauopathy mouse model of human Alzheimer's disease	36
Decoding stress granules dynamics: Implications for neurodegenerative disease	35
Calcium plays an essential role in early-stage dendrite injury detection and regeneration	33
Mesoscale organization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways in macaque monkey revealed by 7T fMRI	33
Astrocytic EphB3 receptors regulate d-serine-gated synaptic plasticity and memory	33
Microproteins encoded by short open reading frames: Vital regulators in neurological diseases	33
Macaque monkeys and humans sample temporal regularities in the acoustic environment	32
The multifaceted role of the CXC chemokines and receptors signaling axes in ALS pathophysiology	31
Traumatic brain injury recapitulates developmental changes of axons	31
NPTX2 transfection improves synaptic E/I balance and performance in learning impaired aged rats	30
Extracellular vesicles as reconfigurable therapeutics for eye diseases: Promises and hurdles	30
The neurobiology of major depressive disorder: Updates and perspectives from proteomics	29
Editorial Board	28
Npas4 drives the effects of early social isolation on social behaviors and prefrontal parvalbumin neurons	27
Switching state to engage and sustain attention: Dynamic synchronization of the frontoparietal network	27
Editorial Board	26
Alterations of synaptic plasticity in Angelman syndrome model mice are rescued by 5-HT7R stimulation	25
Inhibiting the JAK-STAT3 pathway in nucleus accumbens astrocytes alleviates cocaine-induced motor hyperactivity	25
The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1 (LRP1) in Schwann cells controls mitochondria homeostasis in peripheral nerves	25
The hippocampal formation as a hierarchical generative model supporting generative replay and continual learning	24
Neuronal activity and NIBS in developmental myelination and remyelination – Current state of knowledge	24
Distinct Layer 6b transcriptomic subtypes parcellate the cortical mantle	24
Neuronal threshold functions: Determining symptom onset in neurological disorders	24
Cortical connectivity is embedded in resting state at columnar resolution	23
Pattern separation memory requires Cerebellin 4 – Neogenin 1 signaling at dentate gyrus synapses	22
Negative effects of brain regulatory T cells depletion on epilepsy	22
Editorial Board	22
Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control	21
Editorial Board	21
Atypical connectome topography and signal flow in temporal lobe epilepsy	21
Configuration-sensitive face-body interactions in primate visual cortex	21
Effects of oxytocin receptor ligands on anxiogenic-like effect, social avoidance and changes on medial prefrontal cortex oxytocin receptor expression evoked by chronic social defeat stress in rats	20
Mutant FUS induces chromatin reorganization in the hippocampus and alters memory processes	20
Transient beta activity and cortico-muscular connectivity during sustained motor behaviour	20
Ketamine administration during adolescence impairs synaptic integration and inhibitory synaptic transmission in the adult dentate gyrus	19
Causal manipulation of gaze-following in the macaque temporal cortex	19
Macaque V1 responses to 2nd-order contrast-modulated stimuli and the possible subcortical and cortical contributions	19
Editorial Board	19
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Astrocytic GluN2A alleviates sleep deprivation-induced elevation of Aβ through regulating neprilysin and AQP4 via the calcineurin/NFAT pathway	18
Regulation of sociability by the cortico-habenula pathway in an animal model of depression	18
Circadian medicine for aging attenuation and sleep disorders: Prospects and challenges	18
Editorial Board	17

Ten simple rules to study distractor suppression	17
Recurrent de novo single point variant on the gene encoding Na+/K+ pump results in epilepsy	17
Editorial Board	17
Multiple dimensions of syntactic structure are resolved earliest in posterior temporal cortex	17
Visualization of differential GPCR crosstalk in DRD1-DRD2 heterodimer upon different dopamine levels	17
Emerging role of astrocytes in oxytocin-mediated control of neural circuits and brain functions	17
Pathogenic oligomeric Tau alters neuronal RNA processes through the formation of nuclear heteromeric amyloids with RNA-binding protein Musashi1	17
Lateralized visuotopic organization in the macaque superior colliculus revealed by fMRI	17
Face pareidolia minimally engages macaque face selective neurons	16
Kv1.1 channels inhibition in the rat motor cortex recapitulates seizures associated with anti-LGI1 encephalitis	16
Editorial Board	16
The flexible synapse – How mossy fiber architecture adapts to changing needs	16
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	15
Editorial Board	15
Analogous cognitive strategies for tactile learning in the rodent and human brain	15
Digging into the intrinsic capacity concept: Can it be applied to Alzheimer’s disease?	15
The role of altered translation in intellectual disability and epilepsy	15
Sustained inhibitory dysfunction in complement component C1qa-deficient mice underlies epilepsy and comorbidities	15
Differential susceptibility to repeated social stress induces synaptic plasticity impairment and cognitive deficit in the 5xFAD mouse model	14
Islet amyloid polypeptide triggers α-synuclein pathology in Parkinson’s disease	14
The role of TREM2 in myelin sheath dynamics: A comprehensive perspective from physiology to pathology	14
Editorial Board	14
ABCA7 deficiency exacerbates glutamate excitotoxicity in Alzheimer’s disease mice – A new pharmacological target for Glu-related neurotoxicity	14
Tau promotes oxidative stress-associated cycling neurons in S phase as a pro-survival mechanism: Possible implication for Alzheimer’s disease	14
Expanding the stimulus domain: Co-occurrence of motion and body-category selectivity in the macaque ventral STS	14