OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Neural Circuits is 9. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Topological data analysis of the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons	60
Tutor auditory memory for guiding sensorimotor learning in birdsong	48
Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera	47
Functional relationship between peripheral thermosensation and behavioral thermoregulation	44
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	41
Zona incerta: from Parkinson's disease to addiction	41
State-dependent modulation of positive and negative affective valences by a parabrachial nucleus-to-ventral tegmental area pathway in mice	36
Effects of blood flow restriction on motoneurons synchronization	29
An early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole	26
Hippocampus-Anterior Hypothalamic Circuit Modulates Stress-Induced Endocrine and Behavioral Response	26
Learning multisensory cue integration: A computational model of crossmodal synaptic plasticity enables reliability-based cue weighting by capturing stimulus statistics	25
A neural tract tracing study on synaptic connections for cortical glutamatergic terminals and cervical spinal calretinin neurons in rats	25
Effective training procedure for a simultaneous bimanual movement task in head-fixed mice	25
Aberrant protein S-nitrosylation contributes to hyperexcitability-induced synaptic damage in Alzheimer’s disease: Mechanistic insights and potential therapies	24
Toward Naturalistic Neuroscience of Navigation: Opportunities in Coral Reef Fish	23
A deep network-based model of hippocampal memory functions under normal and Alzheimer’s disease conditions	23
Large-scale coupling of prefrontal activity patterns as a mechanism for cognitive control in health and disease: evidence from rodent models	23
Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex	21
The volatile anesthetic isoflurane differentially inhibits voltage-gated sodium channel currents between pyramidal and parvalbumin neurons in the prefrontal cortex	21
Editorial: Marine invertebrates: neurons, glia, and neurotransmitters	21
Auditory processing neurons influence song evaluation and strength of mate preference in female songbirds	21
Hippocampal Connectivity of the Presubiculum in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)	20
An inhibitory glycinergic projection from the cochlear nucleus to the lateral superior olive	20
Clarifying the neural circuit mechanisms of spontaneous social behavior in macaques	20
Multisite rTMS combined with cognitive training modulates effective connectivity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	20

Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species	20
Dissociated neuronal cultures as model systems for self-organized prediction	20
Stability and flexibility of odor representations in the mouse olfactory bulb	18
Long-term self-reported symptoms and psychophysical tests in COVID-19 subjects experiencing persistent olfactory dysfunction: a 4-year follow-up study	18
Future research directions to identify risks and mitigation strategies for neurostructural, ocular, and behavioral changes induced by human spaceflight: A NASA-ESA expert group consensus report	17
How early olfactory experiences influence brain development in mice	17
The effects of chemogenetic targeting of serotonin-projecting pathways on L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia and psychosis in a bilateral rat model of Parkinson’s disease	17
GABAergic signaling in alcohol use disorder and withdrawal: pathological involvement and therapeutic potential	17
The choroid plexus- cerebrospinal fluid axis as a lifespan regulator of neural stem cells and circuit plasticity	16
Neural mechanisms for turn-taking in duetting plain-tailed wrens	16
Sparse connectivity enables efficient information processing in cortex-like artificial neural networks	16
Social learning and exploration–exploitation dilemma in decision-making	16
Editorial: Naturalistic neuroscience — Towards a full cycle from lab to field	16
Cellular mechanisms underlying social regulation of the posterior tubercular nucleus in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	15
Neural activity responsiveness by maturation of inhibition underlying critical period plasticity	15
How perceptual learning rewires brain connectivity: lessons from the visual system in a top-down perspective	15
Vagus nerve stimulation as a predictive coding modulator that enhances feedforward over feedback transmission	15
Dorsal striatum c-Fos activity in perseverative ephrin-A2A5−/− mice and the cellular effect of low-intensity rTMS	15
Galanin analogs prevent mortality from seizure-induced respiratory arrest in mice	15
Synaptic connectivity amongst components of the locomotor central pattern generator	15
An operating principle of the cerebral cortex, and a cellular mechanism for attentional trial-and-error pattern learning and useful classification extraction	14
Selective inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission alters the emergent bursting dynamics of in vitro neural networks	14
Tunable dual-AAV sparse labeling of PV+ retinal ganglion cells enables single-neuron projection by fMOST	14
Dendritic synaptome of calcium-binding protein containing GABAergic interneurons in the mouse primary visual cortex	14
A specific olfactory bulb interneuron subtype Tpbg/5T4 generated at embryonic and neonatal stages	14
Task-dependent increases and decreases of BOLD signal in theory of mind brain regions during strategic social interaction	14
Ataxia-associated DNA repair genes protect the Drosophila mushroom body and locomotor function against glutamate signaling-associated damage	13
Agranular frontal cortical microcircuit underlying cognitive control in macaques	13
Improved motor imagery skills after repetitive passive somatosensory stimulation: a parallel-group, pre-registered study	13
Axonal α7* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors modulate glutamatergic signaling and synaptic vesicle organization in ventral hippocampal projections	13
Are superficial neuromasts proprioceptors underlying fast copulatory behavior?	12
Research progress on the neural circuits mechanisms of anxiety	12
Anatomical and Functional Connectivity at the Dendrodendritic Reciprocal Mitral Cell–Granule Cell Synapse: Impact on Recurrent and Lateral Inhibition	12
The ventral hippocampus is activated in olfactory but not auditory threat memory	12
Morphological evidence for neuronal connections between the olfactory neurogenic region and the striatum in adult rats	12
Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies	12
Profiling neurotransmitter-evoked glial responses by RNA-sequencing analysis	11
Activity-dependent dendrite patterning in the postnatal barrel cortex	11
Interhemispheric neural characteristics of noxious mechano-nociceptive stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex	11
Anesthetized animal experiments for neuroscience research	11
Reliability of TMS measurements using conventional hand-hold method with different numbers of stimuli for tibialis anterior muscle in healthy adults	11
Assessment of a single trial impact on the amplitude of the averaged event related potentials	11
Beyond synaptic plasticity: a summary of a linear model of the cerebellar locomotor computation	10
Evidence of spatial periodic firing in the subiculum of mice	10
Editorial: GABAergic circuits in health and disease	10
Edonerpic maleate prevents epileptic seizure during recovery from brain damage by balancing excitatory and inhibitory inputs	10
Regulation of body weight and food intake by AGRP neurons during opioid dependence and abstinence in mice	10
Hierarchical predictive coding in distributed pain circuits	10
Specific structural changes in Parkinson’s disease-related olfactory dysfunction compared to others forms of olfactory dysfunction	10
Early-life stress differentially affects CA3 synaptic inputs converging on apical and basal dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons	10

Neural basis for pheromone signal transduction in mice	10
The cerebellum engages multiple pre-motor pathways through a divergent-convergent architecture to shape whisker dynamics	9
A neurocomputational analysis of visual bias on bimanual tactile spatial perception during a crossmodal exposure	9
Cupid’s quiver: Integrating sensory cues in rodent mating systems	9
Optimization of modularity during development to simplify walking control across multiple steps	9
The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period	9
Editorial: Unveiling the structure and function of brain microcircuits: Experiments, algorithms and simulations	9
Spinal inhibitory interneurons: regulators of coordination during locomotor activity	9
Role of locomotor efference copy in vertebrate gaze stabilization	9
The corticofugal oscillatory modulation of the cochlear receptor during auditory and visual attention is preserved in tinnitus	9