OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Neuroscience is 64. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Offspring attachment	503
Sensory cortex quashes subcortical escape instinct	338
Give and take	327
(New neurons) singing in the avian brain	294
Avoiding interpretational pitfalls in fluorescence imaging of the brain	269
When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis	242
The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation	215
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures	213
Quantifying postsynaptic receptor dynamics: insights into synaptic function	210
Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease	190
Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping	187
Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex	186
The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain	182
Neuroferroptosis in health and diseases	179
Shining a light on pain	170
Rewarding astrocytes	169
The power of direct observation: discovery of REM sleep	161
Size matters	161
Inflammation alters cognition after cancer immunotherapy	153
How witnessing distress alters resilience	152
From local APP expression to network dysfunction	147
Understanding neural circuit function through synaptic engineering	144
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms	143
The cognitive impact of light: illuminating ipRGC circuit mechanisms	142
Indirect neurogenesis in space and time	142

Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence	131
Astrocyte engulfment	123
Benefit worth the cost	122
Tightening synaptic relations	122
Cilia make connections	122
Neuronal maturation and axon regeneration: unfixing circuitry to enable repair	121
Network models to enhance the translational impact of cross-species studies	121
Post-injury pain and behaviour: a control theory perspective	116
The neural bases for timing of durations	115
Causal prominence for neuroscience	109
Consequences of trisomy 21 for brain development in Down syndrome	106
Structure–function coupling in macroscale human brain networks	103
Networking brainstem and basal ganglia circuits for movement	100
Striatal shaping of hypothalamic control	100
Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications	100
To fire or not to fire: decisions mediated by localized processing and dendritic spikes	98
A metabotropic receptor for glycine	97
Opening the gate to regeneration	96
Reply to ‘The language network is topographically diverse and driven by rapid syntactic inferences’	91
Central neural circuits underlying itch sensation	87
Reply to ‘Fear, anxiety and the functional architecture of the human central extended amygdala’	87
Reconstructing computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural networks	81
The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence	81
Early adversity alters brain architecture and increases susceptibility to mental health disorders	79
The short and long pathways to memory	78
Place-cell crowd control	76
The brain’s action-mode network	76
Brain on standby — how torpor made ‘tauopathy’ reversible	73
Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies	73
From compulsivity to compulsion: the neural basis of compulsive disorders	71
Structural MRI of brain similarity networks	71
Endothelial cells as key players in cerebral small vessel disease	71
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence	69
Null models in network neuroscience	68
The plasticitome of cortical interneurons	67
CaMKII: a central molecular organizer of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory	66
TRP channels: a journey towards a molecular understanding of pain	65
Ectopic activation	64
Growth mechanics	64