OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 93. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions	1112
Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19	902
Parameterizing neural power spectra into periodic and aperiodic components	899
Synergy between amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer’s disease	589
Transcriptome-scale spatial gene expression in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	436
Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence	368
Topographic organization of the human subcortex unveiled with functional connectivity gradients	323
The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists	313
Single-cell profiling of myeloid cells in glioblastoma across species and disease stage reveals macrophage competition and specialization	302
The S1 protein of SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier in mice	287
Neuroinflammatory astrocyte subtypes in the mouse brain	286
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques	267
Single-cell atlas of early human brain development highlights heterogeneity of human neuroepithelial cells and early radial glia	255
Revisiting the neurovascular unit	252
Considering sex as a biological variable will require a global shift in science culture	248
Molecular characterization of selectively vulnerable neurons in Alzheimer’s disease	239
Genome-wide meta-analysis of problematic alcohol use in 435,563 individuals yields insights into biology and relationships with other traits	234
An expanded set of genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank	225
Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level	219
Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in >1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions	208
Motor learning promotes remyelination via new and surviving oligodendrocytes	205
Long-term maturation of human cortical organoids matches key early postnatal transitions	197
Deschloroclozapine, a potent and selective chemogenetic actuator enables rapid neuronal and behavioral modulations in mice and monkeys	196
Brain capillary pericytes exert a substantial but slow influence on blood flow	186
Microglia phagocytose myelin sheaths to modify developmental myelination	182

Brain organoids for the study of human neurobiology at the interface of in vitro and in vivo	175
A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types	175
Genome-wide CRISPRi/a screens in human neurons link lysosomal failure to ferroptosis	174
Single-cell genomic profiling of human dopamine neurons identifies a population that selectively degenerates in Parkinson’s disease	172
Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain	170
Edge-centric functional network representations of human cerebral cortex reveal overlapping system-level architecture	170
AAV capsid variants with brain-wide transgene expression and decreased liver targeting after intravenous delivery in mouse and marmoset	169
The SARS-CoV-2 main protease Mpro causes microvascular brain pathology by cleaving NEMO in brain endothelial cells	168
Astrocytes contribute to remote memory formation by modulating hippocampal–cortical communication during learning	166
Overexpression of schizophrenia susceptibility factor human complement C4A promotes excessive synaptic loss and behavioral changes in mice	165
Quantifying behavior to understand the brain	161
Social touch promotes interfemale communication via activation of parvocellular oxytocin neurons	161
Severe reactive astrocytes precipitate pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease via H2O2− production	158
Interplay between persistent activity and activity-silent dynamics in the prefrontal cortex underlies serial biases in working memory	158
Diversification of molecularly defined myenteric neuron classes revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing	152
Revealing the structure of pharmacobehavioral space through motion sequencing	151
Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex	151
Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior	146
A genetically encoded sensor for measuring serotonin dynamics	145
Alzheimer’s-associated PLCγ2 is a signaling node required for both TREM2 function and the inflammatory response in human microglia	143
Viral manipulation of functionally distinct interneurons in mice, non-human primates and humans	141
Regulation of autism-relevant behaviors by cerebellar–prefrontal cortical circuits	140
Neural mechanisms of aggression across species	139
Microglia facilitate repair of demyelinated lesions via post-squalene sterol synthesis	139
Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger	136
A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence	135
Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction	134
Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models	133
Active dendritic currents gate descending cortical outputs in perception	125
CNS fibroblasts form a fibrotic scar in response to immune cell infiltration	123
Tau accumulation in astrocytes of the dentate gyrus induces neuronal dysfunction and memory deficits in Alzheimer’s disease	122
Fully defined human pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia and tri-culture system model C3 production in Alzheimer’s disease	121
Burst-dependent synaptic plasticity can coordinate learning in hierarchical circuits	119
The claustrum coordinates cortical slow-wave activity	119
Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of the adult mouse spinal cord reveals molecular diversity of autonomic and skeletal motor neurons	118
Diversity and dynamism in the cerebellum	117
Recent advances in neurotechnologies with broad potential for neuroscience research	117
Computational models link cellular mechanisms of neuromodulation to large-scale neural dynamics	115
High-fat food biases hypothalamic and mesolimbic expression of consummatory drives	114
Identification of neural oscillations and epileptiform changes in human brain organoids	113
Issues and recommendations from the OHBM COBIDAS MEEG committee for reproducible EEG and MEG research	113
Large-scale neural recordings with single neuron resolution using Neuropixels probes in human cortex	112
Transcriptomic organization of the human brain in post-traumatic stress disorder	106
Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders	105
Single-cell profiling of CNS border compartment leukocytes reveals that B cells and their progenitors reside in non-diseased meninges	104
Gain of toxic function by long-term AAV9-mediated SMN overexpression in the sensorimotor circuit	104
Wireless multilateral devices for optogenetic studies of individual and social behaviors	103
Anatomically segregated basal ganglia pathways allow parallel behavioral modulation	103
Cerebrospinal fluid regulates skull bone marrow niches via direct access through dural channels	103
Prefrontal–amygdala circuits in social decision-making	102

Spatial and cell type transcriptional landscape of human cerebellar development	101
Psychedelics promote plasticity by directly binding to BDNF receptor TrkB	101
Memory-enhancing properties of sleep depend on the oscillatory amplitude of norepinephrine	100
Neuronal ApoE upregulates MHC-I expression to drive selective neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease	100
A circadian rhythm-gated subcortical pathway for nighttime-light-induced depressive-like behaviors in mice	99
Three-dimensional genome restructuring across timescales of activity-induced neuronal gene expression	97
Brainstem neurons that command mammalian locomotor asymmetries	97
Challenges and future directions for representations of functional brain organization	96
Gut microbiota drives age-related oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage in microglia via the metabolite N6-carboxymethyllysine	96
Rotational dynamics reduce interference between sensory and memory representations	96
A prefrontal–paraventricular thalamus circuit requires juvenile social experience to regulate adult sociability in mice	96
General anesthetics activate a potent central pain-suppression circuit in the amygdala	95
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition	94
Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex	94
Live-imaging of astrocyte morphogenesis and function in zebrafish neural circuits	93
The neural basis of psychedelic action	93
An investigation across 45 languages and 12 language families reveals a universal language network	93
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue	93