OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Neuroscience is 25. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Hormonal gatekeeper of distinct social behaviours	607
A window of opportunity	352
Postsynaptic phase separation	323
Attractive odours	299
Mitochondrial defence tactics	260
Drifting representations	257
Sneezing pathway revealed	246
Pericytes pass the leptin	239
Engaging with maps	217
Craving circuitry	210
When the ‘selfish’ brain and the ‘selfish’ immune system clash	205
Social switches	195
Too excited to sleep	170
Neural compositions use multigoal building blocks	148
Coding number estimates	144
Give and take	144
Skill switching	143
Closure with connexins	140
Gene networking	140
Self-recognition mirrored from others	137
Playing tag at the axon	135
Controlling communication	135
Alzheimer’s X-chromosome risk	134
Integrated cardio-behavioural defensive states	133
Delving into thalamic drive	130

Immune privilege	130
Offspring attachment	125
Social ranking	124
Riding the crest to get a head: neural crest evolution in vertebrates	121
A neuronal subcompartment view of ATP production	120
Angiogenesis in the eye	118
Stress drives seeking of starvation	117
Wrapping up reward	116
A new target for leptin	115
Innate immune control of synapse development	115
Linking activity dyshomeostasis and sleep disturbances in Alzheimer disease	112
Knowledge generalization and the costs of multitasking	112
Building communication neurotechnology for high stakes communications	108
Mitigating white Western individualistic bias and creating more inclusive neuroscience	105
Ontogenetic rules for the molecular diversification of hypothalamic neurons	101
(New neurons) singing in the avian brain	99
Avoiding interpretational pitfalls in fluorescence imaging of the brain	97
The neocortical column as a universal template for perception and world-model learning	97
When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis	96
Neural circuit basis of pathological anxiety	91
Sometimes science needs a stubborn mind: the discovery of dopamine	89
Concept cells and social memory: the abstract representation of familiar individuals	88
The core language network separated from other networks during primate evolution	86
Thirsty work for the cerebellum	83
Channelopathies in fragile X syndrome	83
Synaptic sleep pressure	83
Safety in numbers	79
Quantifying postsynaptic receptor dynamics: insights into synaptic function	76
Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex	76
Data-driven modelling of neurodegenerative disease progression: thinking outside the black box	75
Defensive responses: behaviour, the brain and the body	75
Neurons as will and representation	74
Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping	72
Sensory cortex quashes subcortical escape instinct	71
Interactions between rodent visual and spatial systems during navigation	71
The generative grammar of the brain: a critique of internally generated representations	71
The structures and functions of correlations in neural population codes	69
Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex	69
Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models	69
The molecular determinants of microglial developmental dynamics	68
Two views on the cognitive brain	68
The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain	66
Central regulation of stress-evoked peripheral immune responses	66
Goal-directed learning in adolescence: neurocognitive development and contextual influences	63
The mechanosensory neurons of touch and their mechanisms of activation	60
Non-invasive continuous language decoding	59
Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease	59
Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model	57
Mechanisms governing activity-dependent synaptic pruning in the developing mammalian CNS	56
Genetic mosaicism in the human brain: from lineage tracing to neuropsychiatric disorders	55

Myelin loss in AD	54
New model jellyfish?	53
Soporific supper?	53
Mapping future locations	52
Collaboration produces brain cell census	51
Size matters	49
Targeting circuits with DBS	49
Navigating unfamiliar territory	48
Retrieving immune responses stored in the insular cortex	48
Investigating curiosity	45
Higher or lower?	45
Social representation	43
Be conscious with your VTA	42
Species differences	41
The long COVID haul	40
From local APP expression to network dysfunction	39
Androgen signal for brain size	38
Rewarding astrocytes	38
Caught in a trap	38
Two-way communication	37
A universal network	36
Inclusion sequestration impairs endosome maturation	35
Shining a light on pain	33
Processing α-synuclein interactions	33
Revealing silent synapses in the adult brain	32
Variants in a noncoding gene drive prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder	32
How witnessing distress alters resilience	31
Circuit refinement without microglia	31
Microglia prune inhibitory synapses, too	29
Three systems of circuit formation: assembly, updating and tuning	28
How eating makes asthma worse	28
Pathways to sex preferences	28
Publisher Correction: Two views of the cognitive brain	27
Data sharing in neuroimaging: experiences from the BIDS project	27
Linking interindividual variability in brain structure to behaviour	27
Neural control of gut regulatory T cells	27
Alternative splicing in neurodegenerative disease and the promise of RNA therapies	27
Autonomic dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease	26
Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful	26
Mechanisms of axonal support by oligodendrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles	25
Reply to ‘TDP43 aggregates: the ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis’	25
Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence	25