OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 90. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy	498
Salty licorice taste receptor	481
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	406
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	401
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	367
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties	320
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	309
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	301
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	286
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	256
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	241
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways	228
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	220
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	213
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	212
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	207
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	204
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	203
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	202
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	202
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	191
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy	189
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	187
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex	186
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	181

A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	181
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan	177
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	171
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	170
Guest star in OCD	168
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	168
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	167
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome	166
COVID-19 and brain aging	162
How cancer and cortex collude	161
Lessons from resilience	157
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements	150
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	147
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	145
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	142
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing	140
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes	139
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences	138
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy	136
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	136
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs	132
Aversion crosses over	132
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	132
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal	131
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	130
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	126
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition	124
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	123
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	122
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect	121
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	121
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	121
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia	120
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	119
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	118
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD	117
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience	116
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	112
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	110
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	110
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	107
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	107
In conversation with Corey Harwell	106
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	106
Translation for transmission	106
Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling after spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived neural stem/progenitor cell migration and promotes functional recovery	104
Cerebellar organoids get active	104
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	103
Impaired capillary–venous drainage contributes to gliosis and demyelination in mouse white matter during aging	103
Real control in virtual rats	103

Commensals boost nerve regeneration	99
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time	99
Big data for classifying ASD	98
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	98
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates	97
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit	97
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury	97
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice	96
Dynamics of mature myelin	95
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state	95
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety	95
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice	92
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin	92
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue	90
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys	90