OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMC Neuroscience is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of mental fatigue on brain activity: a comparative study both in resting state and task state using EEG	54
Cathodal tDCS exerts neuroprotective effect in rat brain after acute ischemic stroke	38
MMP9 modulation improves specific neurobehavioral deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease	27
Aberrant functional connectivity in resting state networks of ADHD patients revealed by independent component analysis	23
The inflammatory profile of cerebrospinal fluid, plasma, and saliva from patients with severe neuropathic pain and healthy controls-a pilot study	20
Sex differences in neural responses to reward and the influences of individual reward and punishment sensitivity	20
Association between circle of Willis and ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Opposing effects of antibiotics and germ-free status on neuropeptide systems involved in social behaviour and pain regulation	19
Inter-scanner reproducibility of brain volumetry: influence of automated brain segmentation software	17
NGF receptors and PI3K/AKT pathway involved in glucose fluctuation-induced damage to neurons and α-lipoic acid treatment	16
Genome-wide epigenetic analyses in Japanese immigrant plantation workers with Parkinson’s disease and exposure to organochlorines reveal possible involvement of glial genes and pathways involved in ne	16
Oxytocin ameliorates impaired social behavior in a Chd8 haploinsufficiency mouse model of autism	16
A systematic review of common genetic variation and biological pathways in autism spectrum disorder	16
High-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) protects against ischemic stroke by inhibiting M1 microglia polarization through let-7b-5p/HMGA2/NF-κB signaling pathway	15
Paeonol regulates NLRP3 inflammasomes and pyroptosis to alleviate spinal cord injury of rat	15
Metformin attenuates LPS-induced neuronal injury and cognitive impairments by blocking NF-κB pathway	14
Cortical hemodynamics as a function of handgrip strength and cognitive performance: a cross-sectional fNIRS study in younger adults	14
NRXN1α+/- is associated with increased excitability in ASD iPSC-derived neurons	14
Activation of autophagy inhibits the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome and alleviates sevoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction in elderly rats	14
Analysis of risk factors and preventive strategies for intracranial infection after neuroendoscopic transnasal pituitary adenoma resection	14
Calmodulin binding proteins and neuroinflammation in multiple neurodegenerative diseases	14
Knockout of the circadian gene, Per2, disrupts corticosterone secretion and results in depressive‐like behaviors and deficits in startle responses	14
Association between the vertebrobasilar artery geometry and basilar artery plaques determined by high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging	13
Neuroprotective effects of magnesium l-threonate in a hypoxic zebrafish model	13
MicroRNA-138 promotes neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cell apoptosis by directly targeting DEK in Alzheimer’s disease cell model	13

Sustained delivery of chABC improves functional recovery after a spine injury	13
Saccharomyces boulardii improves the behaviour and emotions of spastic cerebral palsy rats through the gut-brain axis pathway	12
Post-status epilepticus treatment with the Fyn inhibitor, saracatinib, improves cognitive function in mice	12
Resuscitation with macromolecular superoxide dismutase/catalase mimetic polynitroxylated PEGylated hemoglobin offers neuroprotection in guinea pigs after traumatic brain injury combined with hemorrhag	12
Alexithymia and automatic processing of facial emotions: behavioral and neural findings	11
Crossed cerebellar diaschisis after stroke detected noninvasively by arterial spin-labeling MR imaging	11
Docosahexaenoic fatty acid reduces the pro‐inflammatory response induced by IL-1β in astrocytes through inhibition of NF-κB and AP-1 transcription factor activation	11
Comparison of the effects of open vs. closed skill exercise on the acute and chronic BDNF, IGF-1 and IL-6 response in older healthy adults	11
Differential effects of rat ADSCs encapsulation in fibrin matrix and combination delivery of BDNF and Gold nanoparticles on peripheral nerve regeneration	11
Behavioral sensitization induced by methamphetamine causes differential alterations in gene expression and histone acetylation of the prefrontal cortex in rats	10
Heat-inactivated Lacticaseibacillus paracasei N1115 alleviates the damage due to brain function caused by long-term antibiotic cocktail exposure in mice	10
Sirt1 protects against hippocampal atrophy and its induced cognitive impairment in middle-aged mice	10
Eosinophil-to-monocyte ratio is a potential biomarker in the prediction of functional outcome among patients with acute ischemic stroke	10
Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation reduces motor slowing in athletes and non-athletes	10
NLRP3 inflammasome regulates astrocyte transformation in brain injury induced by chronic intermittent hypoxia	9
Transcranial direct current stimulation for balance and gait in repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in rats	9
Ammonia induced microglia activation was associated with limited effects on connexin 43 and aquaporin 4 expression in an astrocyte-microglia co-culture model	9
Sex-dimorphic neuroestradiol regulation of ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus glucoregulatory transmitter and glycogen metabolism enzyme protein expression in the rat	9
Conformity-like behaviour in mice observing the freezing of other mice: a model of empathy	9
Diagnosis of schizophrenia with functional connectome data: a graph-based convolutional neural network approach	9
Phenotypic overlap between atopic dermatitis and autism	9
Ceftriaxone therapy attenuates brain trauma in rats by affecting glutamate transporters and neuroinflammation and not by its antibacterial effects	9
The effect of a novel anticonvulsant chemical Q808 on gut microbiota and hippocampus neurotransmitters in pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in rats	9
The disrupted topological properties of structural networks showed recovery in ischemic stroke patients: a longitudinal design study	9
Impacts of autofluorescence on fluorescence based techniques to study microglia	9
Distraction by a cognitive task has a higher impact on electrophysiological measures compared with conditioned pain modulation	9
Therapeutic potential of hair follicle-derived stem cell intranasal transplantation in a rat model of ischemic stroke	8
Evaluating a new verbal working memory-balance program: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial study on Iranian children with dyslexia	8
Construction of competitive endogenous RNA network reveals regulatory role of long non-coding RNAs in intracranial aneurysm	8
Increased expression of pathological markers in Parkinson’s disease dementia post-mortem brains compared to dementia with Lewy bodies	7
High frequencies (HF) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) increase motor coordination performances in volleyball players	7
Enriched environment ameliorates adult hippocampal neurogenesis deficits in Tcf4 haploinsufficient mice	7
Early postnatal irradiation‐induced age‐dependent changes in adult mouse brain: MRI based characterization	7
Laser speckle contrast imaging for blood flow monitoring in predicting outcomes after cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury in mice	7
Hcfc1a regulates neural precursor proliferation and asxl1 expression in the developing brain	7
Baseline neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio can be associated with hematoma expansion in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage: a retrospective observational study	7
Metformin attenuates sepsis-induced neuronal injury and cognitive impairment	7
Protective effects of intracerebroventricular adiponectin against olfactory impairments in an amyloid β1–42 rat model	7
Spatiotemporal evolution of pyroptosis and canonical inflammasome pathway in hSOD1G93A ALS mouse model	7
Stressor controllability modulates the stress response in fish	7
Sex effects on clinical features in LRRK2 G2385R carriers and non-carriers in Parkinson's disease	6
Isolation and characterization of antibody fragments selective for human FTD brain derived TDP-43 variants	6
Stress-induced HPA activation in virtual navigation and spatial attention performance	6
A circular RNA derived from GLIS3 accelerates the proliferation of glioblastoma cells through competitively binding with miR-449c-5p to upregulate CAPG and GLIS3	6
Quantitative genome-wide association analyses of receptive language in the Danish High Risk and Resilience Study	6
Chronic, acute and protocol-dependent effects of exercise on psycho-physiological health during long-term isolation and confinement	6
Causal relationship of CA3 back-projection to the dentate gyrus and its role in CA1 fast ripple generation	6
Memantine ameliorates cognitive deficit in AD mice via enhancement of entorhinal–CA1 projection	6
Effects of electrical muscle stimulation on cerebral blood flow	6
Repeated social defeat promotes persistent inflammatory changes in splenic myeloid cells; decreased expression of β-arrestin-2 (ARRB2) and increased expression of interleukin-6 (IL-6)	6

Morphine-induced changes in the function of microglia and macrophages after acute spinal cord injury	6
Comparative analysis of spreading depolarizations in brain slices exposed to osmotic or metabolic stress	6