OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 89. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy	432
Salty licorice taste receptor	425
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	420
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	392
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	358
Maybe too much of a good thing in gene therapy	342
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	290
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	268
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	265
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	264
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	252
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	232
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	215
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	214
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	212
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	187
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	187
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	186
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy	185
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	184
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	184
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	177
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	175
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	174
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex	170

Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties	163
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	161
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan	161
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways	158
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	156
Revisiting the neurovascular unit	155
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	155
Guest star in OCD	153
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	151
COVID-19 and brain aging	149
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome	149
How cancer and cortex collude	145
Lessons from resilience	145
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal	140
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	139
Remembering Stephen T. Warren, a pillar of neurogenetics (1953–2021)	137
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	137
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	135
Aversion crosses over	134
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements	129
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	127
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia	126
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	126
A role for the cortex in sleep–wake regulation	125
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	122
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	120
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	120
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	119
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	118
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	117
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	117
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect	113
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience	113
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	113
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs	113
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition	112
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	110
A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging	108
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	106
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	105
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	104
Dopamine drives mating via cAMP	103
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	103
Cerebellar organoids get active	102
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit	102
In conversation with Corey Harwell	102
Translation for transmission	102
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	101
Real control in virtual rats	101
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	99

Commensals boost nerve regeneration	99
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time	96
Causal reductionism and causal structures	95
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice	94
Reduced sociability and social agency encoding in adult Shank3-mutant mice are restored through gene re-expression in real time	92
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice	91
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin	91
Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement	91
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury	90
How to build a cognitive map	90
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys	89
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state	89
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue	89
Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders	89
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety	89