OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Neuroscience is 19. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Backpropagation and the brain	368
The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective	364
Qualitative sex differences in pain processing: emerging evidence of a biased literature	354
Locus coeruleus: a new look at the blue spot	319
The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world	290
Circuits and functions of the lateral habenula in health and in disease	264
Psychedelic drugs: neurobiology and potential for treatment of psychiatric disorders	237
Cognitive and behavioural flexibility: neural mechanisms and clinical considerations	237
Speech rhythms and their neural foundations	210
Environmental influences on the pace of brain development	202
The probabilistic model of Alzheimer disease: the amyloid hypothesis revised	201
Neuronal regulation of the blood–brain barrier and neurovascular coupling	189
Theories of consciousness	188
Emerging importance of satellite glia in nervous system function and dysfunction	185
If deep learning is the answer, what is the question?	183
Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation	183
Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms	166
Gut microbial molecules in behavioural and neurodegenerative conditions	166
The molecular biology of FMRP: new insights into fragile X syndrome	164
Myelin plasticity: sculpting circuits in learning and memory	156
The mechanosensory neurons of touch and their mechanisms of activation	148
Transplanting neural progenitor cells to restore connectivity after spinal cord injury	147
Mechanisms governing activity-dependent synaptic pruning in the developing mammalian CNS	146
Formation and integration of new neurons in the adult hippocampus	143
Spatial and temporal scales of dopamine transmission	135

Illuminating dendritic function with computational models	129
Making sense of astrocytic calcium signals — from acquisition to interpretation	129
Cellular senescence and Alzheimer disease: the egg and the chicken scenario	127
Music in the brain	117
Improving translation of animal models of addiction and relapse by reverse translation	115
Oestradiol as a neuromodulator of learning and memory	110
Causal mapping of human brain function	108
Astrocyte contribution to dysfunction, risk and progression in neurodegenerative disorders	108
Triad of TDP43 control in neurodegeneration: autoregulation, localization and aggregation	107
Encouraging an excitable brain state: mechanisms of brain repair in stroke	105
Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?	102
The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health	100
Molecular mechanisms of brain water transport	98
The functional organization of axonal mRNA transport and translation	98
CaMKII: a central molecular organizer of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory	95
Two views on the cognitive brain	94
Untangling the cortico-thalamo-cortical loop: cellular pieces of a knotty circuit puzzle	92
Neuronal vector coding in spatial cognition	91
Spine dynamics in the brain, mental disorders and artificial neural networks	91
Motor and non-motor circuit disturbances in early Parkinson disease: which happens first?	91
Neurexins: molecular codes for shaping neuronal synapses	90
Viral tools for neuroscience	89
Mechanisms of node of Ranvier assembly	87
Cannabis and synaptic reprogramming of the developing brain	87
Genomics, convergent neuroscience and progress in understanding autism spectrum disorder	84
Pushing the frontiers: tools for monitoring neurotransmitters and neuromodulators	83
Bidirectional learning in upbound and downbound microzones of the cerebellum	81
Linking interindividual variability in brain structure to behaviour	80
The role of GABAergic signalling in neurodevelopmental disorders	80
Neural tuning and representational geometry	80
Multidimensional processing in the amygdala	78
Inhibitory stabilization and cortical computation	78
Emerging roles for CNS fibroblasts in health, injury and disease	77
Advanced imaging and labelling methods to decipher brain cell organization and function	75
Sodium channelopathies in neurodevelopmental disorders	75
Attractor and integrator networks in the brain	74
The neural mechanisms of manual dexterity	73
The stressed synapse 2.0: pathophysiological mechanisms in stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders	73
Impaired insulin signalling and allostatic load in Alzheimer disease	71
Navigating for reward	71
Innovations and advances in modelling and measuring pain in animals	71
Networking brainstem and basal ganglia circuits for movement	71
Forgetting as a form of adaptive engram cell plasticity	70
Null models in network neuroscience	70
Somatosensory and autonomic neuronal regulation of the immune response	68
Beyond dichotomies in reinforcement learning	68
Energy matters: presynaptic metabolism and the maintenance of synaptic transmission	68
The macaque face patch system: a turtle’s underbelly for the brain	66
The structures and functions of correlations in neural population codes	66
The physiological function of different voltage-gated sodium channels in pain	65

Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function	65
The sympathetic nervous system in development and disease	64
Neocortical circuits in pain and pain relief	63
Towards real-world generalizability of a circuit for action-stopping	62
The influence of subcortical shortcuts on disordered sensory and cognitive processing	60
Advancing models of neural development with biomaterials	59
Channelopathies in fragile X syndrome	59
Aquaporin 4 and glymphatic flow have central roles in brain fluid homeostasis	58
State-dependent effects of neural stimulation on brain function and cognition	55
Diversity and function of corticopetal and corticofugal GABAergic projection neurons	55
The human motor cortex microcircuit: insights for neurodegenerative disease	55
Emergence of abstract rules in the primate brain	53
A hypothalamomedullary network for physiological responses to environmental stresses	50
On the relationship between maps and domains in inferotemporal cortex	47
Riding the crest to get a head: neural crest evolution in vertebrates	47
Brain vulnerability and viability after ischaemia	47
Homeobox genes and the specification of neuronal identity	46
In vivo locus-specific editing of the neuroepigenome	45
Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease	44
Conformational strains of pathogenic amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases	43
Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping	42
Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model	41
Genetic mosaicism in the human brain: from lineage tracing to neuropsychiatric disorders	39
On the value of model diversity in neuroscience	39
The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system	38
A neuropeptide code for itch	38
The neuroconnectionist research programme	38
The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing	38
The role of inhibitory circuits in hippocampal memory processing	36
The why behind the high: determinants of neurocognition during acute cannabis exposure	36
Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits	35
A unifying perspective on neural manifolds and circuits for cognition	34
Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex	33
Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the ‘real world’	32
Super-resolution microscopy: a closer look at synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer disease	32
The grid code for ordered experience	31
Assessing the causal role of early visual areas in visual mental imagery	30
Reflections on the past two decades of neuroscience	30
A tripartite view of the posterior cingulate cortex	28
Evolution of central neural circuits: state of the art and perspectives	27
Local modulation by presynaptic receptors controls neuronal communication and behaviour	27
Decoding cognition from spontaneous neural activity	27
Neural signalling of gut mechanosensation in ingestive and digestive processes	26
TRP channels: a journey towards a molecular understanding of pain	24
GABA tone regulation and its cognitive functions in the brain	23
The neural bases for timing of durations	23
Multiregion neuronal activity: the forest and the trees	21
From cognitive maps to spatial schemas	21
Shaping the brain vasculature in development and disease in the single-cell era	21
Development, wiring and function of dopamine neuron subtypes	20
Priority coding in the visual system	20
Alternative splicing in neurodegenerative disease and the promise of RNA therapies	19
Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications	19
Basal forebrain cholinergic signalling: development, connectivity and roles in cognition	19