OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 95. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy	683
Salty licorice taste receptor	571
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	493
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	403
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	330
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	315
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	285
A myeloid trisomy 21-associated gene variant is protective from Alzheimer’s disease	281
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	273
The neuronal chromatin landscape in brains from individuals with schizophrenia is linked to early fetal development	263
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties	252
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	246
Author Correction: Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development	242
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	242
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	232
Author Correction: Encapsulated therapeutic stem cells implanted in the tumor resection cavity induce cell death in gliomas	221
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	218
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	217
Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment	215
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	214
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	198
Amyloid-β-driven glymphatic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease model mice is driven by Ca2+-mediated increases in astrocytic cholesterol	194
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep	192
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	191
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	187

Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	186
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	184
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	174
Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape	170
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	168
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	167
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex	162
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	161
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	159
A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity	153
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics	146
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	145
Guest star in OCD	145
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	144
COVID-19 and brain aging	143
How cancer and cortex collude	142
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	140
Lessons from resilience	140
An organoid biobank for neurodevelopmental disorders	137
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	137
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	132
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal	130
TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD	128
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	127
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia	126
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	125
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	125
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect	124
CRISPRi screening in cultured human astrocytes uncovers distal enhancers controlling genes dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease	124
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	124
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	123
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	122
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	121
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	120
Astrocytes make room for microglia	119
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	119
Aversion crosses over	118
Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology	118
Neuroimmune interferon signals sustain arthritis pain	116
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	115
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes	115
Large-scale drug screening in iPSC-derived motor neurons from sporadic ALS patients identifies a potential combinatorial therapy	115
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	114
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences	112
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	112
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	111
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing	110
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	110
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD	110
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy	109

A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs	108
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	108
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition	107
In conversation with Corey Harwell	106
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	106
Cerebellar organoids get active	104
Translation for transmission	104
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	103
Real control in virtual rats	103
Flipping APOE to reverse Alzheimer’s disease traits	102
Commensals boost nerve regeneration	101
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety	100
Increased neural excitability and glioma synaptic activity drives glioma proliferation in human cortex	100
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice	99
A glial circadian gene expression atlas reveals cell-type and disease-specific reprogramming in response to amyloid pathology or aging	96
Big data for classifying ASD	96
Comparing primate cerebellums	96
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin	96
Neuronal tuning aligns dynamically with object and texture manifolds across the visual hierarchy	96
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	95