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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Midbrain KCC2 downregulation: Implications for stress-related and substance use behaviors	143
The visual evoked potential is a sensitive and powerful measure of experience-dependent visual cortical plasticity in mice	134
Nonlinear slow-timescale mechanisms in synaptic plasticity	122
Editorial Board	92
Reconciling neuronal representations of schema, abstract task structure, and categorization under cognitive maps in the entorhinal-hippocampal-frontal circuits	87
Accelerated brain aging with opioid misuse and HIV: New insights on the role of glially derived pro-inflammation mediators and neuronal chloride homeostasis	82
Avian pallial circuits and cognition: A comparison to mammals	74
Transient oscillations as computations for cognition: Analysis, modeling and function	70
Signaling in autism: Relevance to nutrients and sex	69
Surprise and novelty in the brain	65
A metabolic perspective to sleep genetics	64
Ethological computational psychiatry: Challenges and opportunities	63
Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior	59
New insights into axonal regulators of dopamine transmission in health and disease	58
The neural basis of tactile texture perception	57
Trans-synaptic functions of non-canonical ionotropic glutamate receptors in circuit wiring and plasticity	54
Visuomotor coordination and cognitive capacity in blindsight	52
T cell surveillance of Toxoplasma gondii: Basic insights into how T cells operate in the central nervous system	52
Proteomics-based synapse characterization: From proteins to circuits	50
The basal ganglia are a target for sensorimotor domains in posterior parietal, premotor, and motor cortex in primates	46
Cell type specificity for circuit output in the midbrain dopaminergic system	45
Neurotransmitter and neuropeptide regulation of gut immunity	44
From seconds to days: Neural plasticity viewed through a lipid lens	43
Dynamic skin behaviors in cephalopods	42
Mechanisms of NMDA receptor regulation	41

Fast Hebbian plasticity and working memory	39
Release your inhibitions: The cell biology of GABAergic postsynaptic plasticity	38
The superior colliculus: New insights into an evolutionarily ancient structure	38
A neuroethological view of the multifaceted sensory influences on birdsong	38
Ready or not: Neural mechanisms regulating female sexual behavior	37
Oligodendrocyte-derived transcellular signaling regulates axonal energy metabolism	37
Store-operated Ca2+ entry regulates neuronal gene expression and function	36
The zona incerta in control of novelty seeking and investigation across species	34
Modulation of hippocampal plasticity in learning and memory	34
Molecular basis of somatosensation in insects	34