OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 88. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy	472
Salty licorice taste receptor	472
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	390
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	386
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	345
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	304
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	298
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	286
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	281
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	253
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways	236
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	219
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties	214
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	209
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	207
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	199
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	198
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	197
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy	194
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	191
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	181
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	181
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	181
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	180
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	180

Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	176
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex	170
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan	166
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	165
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	164
Guest star in OCD	162
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	161
COVID-19 and brain aging	160
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome	156
How cancer and cortex collude	148
Lessons from resilience	146
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal	146
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	144
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	141
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes	140
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	137
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs	136
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	134
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia	130
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	129
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	129
Remembering Stephen T. Warren, a pillar of neurogenetics (1953–2021)	127
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	125
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements	125
Aversion crosses over	125
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	122
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	119
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	119
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences	117
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	116
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy	116
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD	116
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience	115
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	115
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect	113
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	111
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	109
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	109
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	109
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	108
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	103
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition	102
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	102
Dopamine drives mating via cAMP	101
Cerebellar organoids get active	101
Translation for transmission	101
In conversation with Corey Harwell	100
Real control in virtual rats	97
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit	97
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	97

Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	96
Commensals boost nerve regeneration	95
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice	95
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time	95
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys	91
Causal reductionism and causal structures	90
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety	90
Dynamics of mature myelin	90
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue	90
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury	89
How to build a cognitive map	89
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice	88
Big data for classifying ASD	88