OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Neural Circuits is 26. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Topological data analysis of the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons	113
Functional relationship between peripheral thermosensation and behavioral thermoregulation	76
Alternation of Neuronal Feature Selectivity Induced by Paired Optogenetic-Mechanical Stimulation in the Barrel Cortex	76
Cerebellar Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation Reduces Upper Limb Spasticity After Subacute Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial	66
Sensitivity of Visual System in 5-Day “Dry” Immersion With High-Frequency Electromyostimulation	59
Using Flies to Understand Social Networks	55
Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera	50
Zona incerta: from Parkinson's disease to addiction	46
An in vivo Calcium Imaging Approach for the Identification of Cell-Type Specific Patterns in the Developing Cortex	43
Discriminating Sleep From Freezing With Cortical Spindle Oscillations	39
Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathways Across Adolescence: Diversity in Development	35
Tutor auditory memory for guiding sensorimotor learning in birdsong	35
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	34
Challenges to the Vestibular System in Space: How the Brain Responds and Adapts to Microgravity	34
State-dependent modulation of positive and negative affective valences by a parabrachial nucleus-to-ventral tegmental area pathway in mice	33
An early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole	32
Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex	31
A neural tract tracing study on synaptic connections for cortical glutamatergic terminals and cervical spinal calretinin neurons in rats	31
Corrigendum: Inhibitory Network Bistability Explains Increased Interneuronal Activity Prior to Seizure Onset	31
Differential Rearrangement of Excitatory Inputs to the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Chronic Pain Models	30
Toward Naturalistic Neuroscience of Navigation: Opportunities in Coral Reef Fish	28
Advancements in the Quest to Map, Monitor, and Manipulate Neural Circuitry	28
Large-scale coupling of prefrontal activity patterns as a mechanism for cognitive control in health and disease: evidence from rodent models	28
Learning multisensory cue integration: A computational model of crossmodal synaptic plasticity enables reliability-based cue weighting by capturing stimulus statistics	28
Editorial: Marine invertebrates: neurons, glia, and neurotransmitters	26

The volatile anesthetic isoflurane differentially inhibits voltage-gated sodium channel currents between pyramidal and parvalbumin neurons in the prefrontal cortex	26
Hippocampus-Anterior Hypothalamic Circuit Modulates Stress-Induced Endocrine and Behavioral Response	26