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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of electroacupuncture on imaging and behavior in rats with ischemic stroke through miR-212-5p	28
Variable and slow-paced neural dynamics in HVC underlie plastic song production in juvenile zebra finches	28
Non-conscious processing of fear faces: a function of the implicit self-concept of anxiety	26
Morphine-induced changes in the function of microglia and macrophages after acute spinal cord injury	26
An ontogenic study of receptor mechanisms by which acute administration of low-doses of methamphetamine suppresses DOI-induced 5-HT2A-receptor mediated head-twitch response in mice	25
Effects of multisystem exercises on balance, postural stability, mobility, walking speed, and pain in patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy: a randomized controlled trial	23
Objective hearing threshold identification from auditory brainstem response measurements using supervised and self-supervised approaches	22
Typical metabolic pattern of 18F-FDG PET in Anti-NMDAR encephalitis in the acute and subacute phases and its correlation with T2 FLAIR-MRI features	20
Sustained delivery of chABC improves functional recovery after a spine injury	20
Norepinephrine protects against cochlear outer hair cell damage and noise-induced hearing loss via α2A-adrenergic receptor	20
Memantine ameliorates cognitive deficit in AD mice via enhancement of entorhinal–CA1 projection	18
Low-intensity transcranial ultrasound stimulation modulates neural activities in mice under propofol anaesthesia	18
Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with amantadine in repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in rats	17
A systematic review of the therapeutic potential of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide precursors for cognitive diseases in preclinical rodent models	16
Intersection of hippocampus and spinal cord: a focus on the hippocampal alpha-synuclein accumulation, dopaminergic receptors, neurogenesis, and cognitive function following spinal cord injury in male	16
Cycle-dependent sex differences in expression of membrane proteins involved in cerebrospinal fluid secretion at rat choroid plexus	16
The molecular architecture of a complex social behavior: gregarious song	16
A spine segmentation method based on scene aware fusion network	16
Differential effects of two phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors against lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation in mice	14
Distinct connectivity patterns in bipolar and unipolar depression: a functional connectivity multivariate pattern analysis study	14
Identification of key genes associated with oxidative stress in ischemic stroke via bioinformatics integrated analysis	14
Protective effect of resveratrol on mitochondrial biogenesis during hyperoxia-induced brain injury in neonatal pups	14
Comparative study of vestibular projection pathway connectivity in cerebellar injury patients and healthy adults	14
The neurodevelopmental basis of schizophrenia: clinical clues from craniofacial dysmorphology in northwest Ethiopia, 2020	14
Distinct patterns of gene expression in the medial preoptic area are related to gregarious singing behavior in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)	14

Psychedelics and neural plasticity	13
Stress-related cellular pathophysiology as a crosstalk risk factor for neurocognitive and psychiatric disorders	13
Hypothetical molecular interconnection between type 2 diabetes and dyslexia	13
Transcriptional landscape of human neuroblastoma cells in response to SARS-CoV-2	12
Chronic, acute and protocol-dependent effects of exercise on psycho-physiological health during long-term isolation and confinement	12
Repair-related molecular changes during recovery phase of ischemic stroke in female rats	12
Correction to: Diagnosis of schizophrenia with functional connectome data: a graph-based convolutional neural network approach	12
Effects of low-doses of methamphetamine on d-fenfluramine-induced head-twitch response (HTR) in mice during ageing and c-fos expression in the prefrontal cortex	11
Metabolomics in severe traumatic brain injury: a scoping review	11
Behavioral photosensitivity of multi-color-blind medaka: enhanced response under ultraviolet light in the absence of short-wavelength-sensitive opsins	11
Dance as mindful movement: a perspective from motor learning and predictive coding	11
Autism spectrum disorders detection based on multi-task transformer neural network	11
Cholesterol efflux regulator ABCA1 exerts protective role against high shear stress-induced injury of HBMECs via regulating PI3K/Akt/eNOS signaling	11
Longitudinal alterations of the cisternal segment of trigeminal nerve and brain pain-matrix regions in patients with trigeminal neuralgia before and after treatment	10
Visualization of perivascular spaces in the human brain with 5-T magnetic resonance imaging	10
Cytokine expression profiles in white blood cells of patients with small fiber neuropathy	9
Correction: Activation of autophagy inhibits the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome and alleviates sevoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction in elderly rats	9
The changes of digestive system inflammatory, oxidative stress, and histopathology factors following oral mesenchymal stem cells administration in rats with traumatic brain injury	9
Correction to: Similar cortical morphometry trajectories from 5 to 9 years in children with perinatal HIV who started treatment before age 2 years and uninfected controls	9
Degree of COVID-19 severity and mortality in stroke: correlation of clinical and laboratory parameters	9
Protective effect of silencing lncRNA HCP5 against brain injury after intracerebral hemorrhage by targeting miR-195-5p	8
The cognitive neuroscience and neurocognitive rehabilitation of dance	8
Identifying foetal forebrain interneurons as a target for monogenic autism risk factors and the polygenic 16p11.2 microdeletion	8
A rat model establishment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia-related lung & brain injury within 28 days after birth	8
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	8
Observing errors in a combination of error and correct models favors observational motor learning	8
Heat-inactivated Lacticaseibacillus paracasei N1115 alleviates the damage due to brain function caused by long-term antibiotic cocktail exposure in mice	7
Fibroblast growth factor 21 associating with serotonin and dopamine in the cerebrospinal fluid predicts impulsivity in healthy subjects	7
Fmr1 exon 14 skipping in late embryonic development of the rat forebrain	7
Cardiovascular history and risk of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease: a cross-sectional observational study	7
Current state of neuroprotective therapy using antibiotics in human traumatic brain injury and animal models	7
Enhancing research culture in academia: a spotlight on early career researchers	7
Association between apolipoprotein E ε4 status and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a meta-analysis	7
Exploring sex differences in auditory saliency: the role of acoustic characteristics in bottom-up attention	7
Differential weighting of temporal envelope cues from the low-frequency region for Mandarin sentence recognition in noise	7
Examining the role of paraoxonase 2 in the dopaminergic system of the mouse brain	7
A novel approach to CSF pressure measurement via lumbar puncture that shortens the measurement time with a high level of accuracy	7
Structural-functional connectivity decoupling in multiscale brain networks in Parkinson’s disease	7
Increased expression of pathological markers in Parkinson’s disease dementia post-mortem brains compared to dementia with Lewy bodies	7
Response to commentaries by Schmidt and Kaplan, Penhune, Hickok and Theofanopoulou on “Beat-based dancing to music has evolutionary foundations in advanced vocal learning.”	6
Different paradigms of transcranial electrical stimulation improve motor function impairment and striatum tissue injuries in the collagenase-induced intracerebral hemorrhage rat model	6
EPO regulates neuronal differentiation of adult human neural-crest derived stem cells in a sex-specific manner	6
Modulation of GABA by sodium butyrate ameliorates hypothalamic inflammation in experimental model of PCOS	6
Evaluation of eGFP expression in the ChAT-eGFP transgenic mouse brain	6
Anodal tDCS over the left DLPFC but not M1 increases muscle activity and improves psychophysiological responses, cognitive function, and endurance performance in normobaric hypoxia: a randomized contr	6
Changes of brain functional network in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia: a graph-theoretic analysis	6
A new era in cognitive neuroscience: the tidal wave of artificial intelligence (AI)	6
A flowchart for adequate controls in virus-based monosynaptic tracing experiments identified Cre-independent leakage of the TVA receptor in RΦGT mice	6
Uptake of Aβ by OATPs might be a new pathophysiological mechanism of Alzheimer disease	6
CXCL1/CXCR2 is involved in white matter injury in neonatal rats via the gut–brain axis	6

Modulation of audiovisual integration in the left and right sides: effects of side and spatial coherency	6
Structural and functional sex differences in medial temporal lobe subregions at midlife	6