OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Neuroscience is 62. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Offspring attachment	457
Sensory cortex quashes subcortical escape instinct	362
Give and take	312
(New neurons) singing in the avian brain	303
Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex	268
When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis	253
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures	225
Avoiding interpretational pitfalls in fluorescence imaging of the brain	192
Quantifying postsynaptic receptor dynamics: insights into synaptic function	189
Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease	187
Neuroferroptosis in health and diseases	181
Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping	178
The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain	174
Shining a light on pain	171
Rewarding astrocytes	169
The power of direct observation: discovery of REM sleep	165
Size matters	159
Inflammation alters cognition after cancer immunotherapy	153
How witnessing distress alters resilience	152
From local APP expression to network dysfunction	149
Understanding neural circuit function through synaptic engineering	147
Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence	147
Indirect neurogenesis in space and time	147
The cognitive impact of light: illuminating ipRGC circuit mechanisms	140
Astrocyte engulfment	139

Cilia make connections	137
Benefit worth the cost	136
Tightening synaptic relations	131
Consequences of trisomy 21 for brain development in Down syndrome	129
Neuronal maturation and axon regeneration: unfixing circuitry to enable repair	124
Post-injury pain and behaviour: a control theory perspective	119
Structure–function coupling in macroscale human brain networks	114
Causal prominence for neuroscience	113
Network models to enhance the translational impact of cross-species studies	113
Networking brainstem and basal ganglia circuits for movement	110
The neural bases for timing of durations	110
Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications	105
Striatal shaping of hypothalamic control	103
To fire or not to fire: decisions mediated by localized processing and dendritic spikes	102
A metabotropic receptor for glycine	101
Opening the gate to regeneration	100
Reply to ‘The language network is topographically diverse and driven by rapid syntactic inferences’	98
The short and long pathways to memory	97
The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence	92
Central neural circuits underlying itch sensation	91
Reply to ‘Fear, anxiety and the functional architecture of the human central extended amygdala’	90
Early adversity alters brain architecture and increases susceptibility to mental health disorders	87
The brain’s action-mode network	87
Reconstructing computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural networks	84
Place-cell crowd control	82
Brain on standby — how torpor made ‘tauopathy’ reversible	81
From compulsivity to compulsion: the neural basis of compulsive disorders	75
TRP channels: a journey towards a molecular understanding of pain	75
Innovations and advances in modelling and measuring pain in animals	73
Structural MRI of brain similarity networks	71
CaMKII: a central molecular organizer of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory	71
Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies	69
Endothelial cells as key players in cerebral small vessel disease	68
The plasticitome of cortical interneurons	68
Null models in network neuroscience	66
The probabilistic model of Alzheimer disease: the amyloid hypothesis revised	63
Switching into a dissociated state	62
Bodily balancing of fear	62
Ectopic activation	62
Barriers and brain fog	62
Growth mechanics	62