OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Neurobiology is 34. 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
Midbrain KCC2 downregulation: Implications for stress-related and substance use behaviors	153
Editorial Board	143
Reconciling neuronal representations of schema, abstract task structure, and categorization under cognitive maps in the entorhinal-hippocampal-frontal circuits	129
Nonlinear slow-timescale mechanisms in synaptic plasticity	98
Surprise and novelty in the brain	93
The visual evoked potential is a sensitive and powerful measure of experience-dependent visual cortical plasticity in mice	87
Ethological computational psychiatry: Challenges and opportunities	82
Transient oscillations as computations for cognition: Analysis, modeling and function	73
Signaling in autism: Relevance to nutrients and sex	72
A metabolic perspective to sleep genetics	67
Accelerated brain aging with opioid misuse and HIV: New insights on the role of glially derived pro-inflammation mediators and neuronal chloride homeostasis	65
Proteomics-based synapse characterization: From proteins to circuits	65
Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior	65
From seconds to days: Neural plasticity viewed through a lipid lens	61
Fast Hebbian plasticity and working memory	60
Neurotransmitter and neuropeptide regulation of gut immunity	58
The basal ganglia are a target for sensorimotor domains in posterior parietal, premotor, and motor cortex in primates	56
Trans-synaptic functions of non-canonical ionotropic glutamate receptors in circuit wiring and plasticity	54
T cell surveillance of Toxoplasma gondii: Basic insights into how T cells operate in the central nervous system	51
Visuomotor coordination and cognitive capacity in blindsight	49
Cell type specificity for circuit output in the midbrain dopaminergic system	49
Mechanisms of NMDA receptor regulation	48
Dynamic skin behaviors in cephalopods	48
New insights into axonal regulators of dopamine transmission in health and disease	47
Setting the stage for statistical learning? Sensitivity to environmental statistics in early sensory processing	44

The neural basis of tactile texture perception	43
The zona incerta in control of novelty seeking and investigation across species	41
Release your inhibitions: The cell biology of GABAergic postsynaptic plasticity	38
Molecular basis of somatosensation in insects	38
Modulation of hippocampal plasticity in learning and memory	37
Store-operated Ca2+ entry regulates neuronal gene expression and function	37
A neuroethological view of the multifaceted sensory influences on birdsong	37
Ready or not: Neural mechanisms regulating female sexual behavior	34
Oligodendrocyte-derived transcellular signaling regulates axonal energy metabolism	34
The superior colliculus: New insights into an evolutionarily ancient structure	34
“Arc – A viral vector of memory and synaptic plasticity”	34