OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Brain Behavior and Immunity is 51. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of a murine coronavirus in a neuron-glial co-culture system: LRRK2 mutation and neurodegeneration	1114
Obesity and immune challenge modulate the willingness to expend effort for reward	337
Food allergy elicits behavioral and neurological pathologies via central histaminergic dysregulation	208
Queries regarding retrospective study design and the recruitment of people with psychiatric disorders	184
Associations of sleep duration, quality, and timing with infection risk in female and male adults	172
J147 is Effective in prevention of postoperative cognitive dysfunction in a rat model	156
Effects of anti-inflammatory drug treatment on psychological and bodily sickness symptoms during experimental endotoxemia: A randomized controlled study in healthy volunteers	154
Sleep fragmentation enhances inflammation and compromises stress-responsive neuronal activity following traumatic brain injury	138
Probiotics and Parkinson's disease: A long way to go!	135
PNIRS Society Announcements	129
Waiting for Godot: Progress in the measurement of human neuroinflammation with existing tools	129
DHA prevents diet-induced memory impairments in inflammatory gene expression in aged rats and cultured microglia	119
182 Spinal interleukin-10 maintains remission of neuropathic pain via delta opioid receptor upregulation in dorsal root ganglia	108
Neutropenic mice experience exaggerated hypothermia and brain/peripheral inflammatory responses during LPS-induced systemic inflammation	96
Cytokines in relation to perinatal anxiety: Shifts in immune balance	80
War, Ukraine, Russia, scientist, boycott and support	79
Differences in Emotional Awareness Moderate Cytokine-Symptom Associations Among Breast Cancer Survivors	78
Corrigendum to: Oligodendrocytes modulate the immune-inflammatory response in EAE via TNFR2 signaling	78
Response to comment on: Fibroblast-derived PI16 sustains inflammatory pain via regulation of CD206+ myeloid cells	77
The urgent need for more basic research on SARS-Cov2 infection and vaccines in assessing potential psychoneurological effects using maternal immune activation (MIA) and other preclinical modeling	77
Adaptive/innate immunity balance in a complex social world	77
Variation in infant rhesus monkeys’ (Macaca mulatta) neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio is associated with environmental conditions, emotionality, and cortisol concentrations, and predicts disease-related	76
Though shall not pass: Blocking lymphocytes from recirculating to the gut as a potential therapeutic approach for autism	73
Brain morphology is differentially impacted by peripheral cytokines in schizophrenia-spectrum disorder	72
Comment regarding: “COVID-19 vaccination may enhance hippocampal neurogenesis in adults”	71

Editorial board	70
Editorial Board	68
Epigenetic priming by stress and a sarin analog in response to LPS in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness	67
Chronic stress decreases IgA secretion and its pIgR-mediated transport in lung of BALB/c mice	65
Resolving neuroinflammatory and social deficits in ASD model mice: Dexmedetomidine downregulates NF-κB/IL-6 pathway via α2AR	64
Depressive symptoms predict antibody titers after a second dose of the SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccine among hospital workers in Japan	64
Regional brain structural alterations in reward and salience networks in asthma	62
Mutation S139N on Zika virus prM protein shifts immune response from Asian to contemporary strain	61
Early neutrophil trajectory following clozapine may predict clozapine response – Results from an observational study using electronic health records	60
Train your T cells: How skeletal muscles and T cells keep each other fit during aging	60
COVID-19 vaccination refusal among college students: Global trends and action priorities	60
Irisin reprograms microglia through activation of STAT6 and prevents cognitive dysfunction after surgery in mice	57
Effect of modernized collaborative care for depression on depressive symptoms and cardiovascular disease risk biomarkers: eIMPACT randomized controlled trial	56
Monkeypox outbreaks and global health emergency declaration: Can such declarations influence public interest in the disease?	55
A rapidly progressive multiple system atrophy-cerebellar variant model presenting marked glial reactions with inflammation and spreading of α-synuclein oligomers and phosphorylated α-synuclein aggrega	55
Excess body weight and specific types of depressive symptoms: Is there a mediating role of systemic low-grade inflammation?	54
Opening KATP channels induces inflammatory tolerance and prevents chronic pain	53
The association of maternal COVID-19-infection during pregnancy on the neonatal immune profile and associations with later diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders	53
A systematic approach to identify gaps in neuroimmunology: TNF-α and fear learning deficits, a worked example	53
Pathophysiology, blood biomarkers, and functional deficits after intimate partner violence-related brain injury: Insights from emergency department patients and a new rat model	52
Prefrontal microglia deficiency during adolescence disrupts adult cognitive functions and synaptic structures: A follow-up study in female mice	52
The effects of early-life immune activation on microglia-mediated neuronal remodeling and the associated ontogeny of hippocampal-dependent learning in juvenile rats	52
Inflammatory markers, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and the symptomatic course of adolescent bipolar disorder: A prospective repeated-measures study	51
The link between post-traumatic stress disorder and systemic lupus erythematosus	51
Neuroinflammation in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) as assessed by [11C]PBR28 PET correlates with vascular disease measures	51
Electrical stimulation of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus in male mice can regulate inflammation without affecting the heart rate	51