OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 94. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Salty licorice taste receptor	769
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	446
A myeloid trisomy 21-associated gene variant is protective from Alzheimer’s disease	370
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	337
Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape	323
Author Correction: Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development	304
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	284
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	277
Author Correction: Encapsulated therapeutic stem cells implanted in the tumor resection cavity induce cell death in gliomas	277
The choreography of cerebral vasculature development	274
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	266
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	260
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	254
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep	240
Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment	238
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	217
The neuronal chromatin landscape in brains from individuals with schizophrenia is linked to early fetal development	215
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	211
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	210
Amyloid-β-driven glymphatic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease model mice is driven by Ca2+-mediated increases in astrocytic cholesterol	206
A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity	197
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	193
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	181
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	176
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics	175

Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	170
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	161
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	159
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	158
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	156
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	156
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	152
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	149
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	146
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	145
Guest star in OCD	143
COVID-19 and brain aging	141
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	141
Lessons from resilience	140
How cancer and cortex collude	140
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	139
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	139
An organoid biobank for neurodevelopmental disorders	138
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	136
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal	136
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	135
Screening for photoreceptor survival	133
Astrocytes make room for microglia	130
Neuroimmune interferon signals sustain arthritis pain	130
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD	128
Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology	127
Aversion crosses over	126
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	125
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing	125
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	124
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	123
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	121
Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus	121
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia	120
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	119
Spatial proteomic analysis in human Alzheimer’s disease brains enables identification of microenvironment-dependent microglial cell states	119
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	118
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs	118
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	117
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences	116
Microglial TDP-43 mediates myelin refinement and represses Tyrobp cryptic exon inclusion in mice	115
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	114
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes	113
CRISPRi screening in cultured human astrocytes uncovers distal enhancers controlling genes dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease	113
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	112
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	112
Large-scale drug screening in iPSC-derived motor neurons from sporadic ALS patients identifies a potential combinatorial therapy	112
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	111
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	110
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	109

Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy	108
TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD	108
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	108
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	107
In conversation with Corey Harwell	105
Translation for transmission	104
Cerebellar organoids get active	102
Real control in virtual rats	101
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	101
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit	100
Publisher Correction: TGFβ signaling mediates microglial resilience to spatiotemporally restricted myelin degeneration	100
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	99
Neuronal tuning aligns dynamically with object and texture manifolds across the visual hierarchy	98
Big data for classifying ASD	97
Flipping APOE to reverse Alzheimer’s disease traits	97
Commensals boost nerve regeneration	96
Comparing primate cerebellums	95
Increased neural excitability and glioma synaptic activity drives glioma proliferation in human cortex	95
Genetic targeting of premyelinating oligodendrocytes reveals activity-dependent myelination mechanisms	94