OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Frontiers in Neural Circuits is 10. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Sensitivity of Visual System in 5-Day “Dry” Immersion With High-Frequency Electromyostimulation	110
Brain image data processing using collaborative data workflows on Texera	75
Functional relationship between peripheral thermosensation and behavioral thermoregulation	74
Tutor auditory memory for guiding sensorimotor learning in birdsong	72
Topological data analysis of the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons	63
Zona incerta: from Parkinson's disease to addiction	55
Alternation of Neuronal Feature Selectivity Induced by Paired Optogenetic-Mechanical Stimulation in the Barrel Cortex	54
Ventral pallidal regulation of motivated behaviors and reinforcement	53
Using Flies to Understand Social Networks	48
Prefrontal GABAergic Interneurons Gate Long-Range Afferents to Regulate Prefrontal Cortex-Associated Complex Behaviors	48
Discriminating Sleep From Freezing With Cortical Spindle Oscillations	44
An in vivo Calcium Imaging Approach for the Identification of Cell-Type Specific Patterns in the Developing Cortex	39
Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathways Across Adolescence: Diversity in Development	37
Challenges to the Vestibular System in Space: How the Brain Responds and Adapts to Microgravity	35
Cerebellar Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation Reduces Upper Limb Spasticity After Subacute Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial	34
Learning multisensory cue integration: A computational model of crossmodal synaptic plasticity enables reliability-based cue weighting by capturing stimulus statistics	33
Editorial: Marine invertebrates: neurons, glia, and neurotransmitters	33
An early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole	31
Corrigendum: Inhibitory Network Bistability Explains Increased Interneuronal Activity Prior to Seizure Onset	30
Differential Rearrangement of Excitatory Inputs to the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Chronic Pain Models	30
A neural tract tracing study on synaptic connections for cortical glutamatergic terminals and cervical spinal calretinin neurons in rats	30
A deep network-based model of hippocampal memory functions under normal and Alzheimer’s disease conditions	30
Toward Naturalistic Neuroscience of Navigation: Opportunities in Coral Reef Fish	29
The volatile anesthetic isoflurane differentially inhibits voltage-gated sodium channel currents between pyramidal and parvalbumin neurons in the prefrontal cortex	28
Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Underlying Non-breeding Aggression: Common Strategies Between Birds and Fish	28

Large-scale coupling of prefrontal activity patterns as a mechanism for cognitive control in health and disease: evidence from rodent models	28
Hippocampus-Anterior Hypothalamic Circuit Modulates Stress-Induced Endocrine and Behavioral Response	26
State-dependent modulation of positive and negative affective valences by a parabrachial nucleus-to-ventral tegmental area pathway in mice	26
Weighting of Celestial and Terrestrial Cues in the Monarch Butterfly Central Complex	26
Advancements in the Quest to Map, Monitor, and Manipulate Neural Circuitry	26
Effects of blood flow restriction on motoneurons synchronization	26
Strategies for Targeting Neural Circuits: How to Manipulate Neurons Using Virus Vehicles	25
Aberrant protein S-nitrosylation contributes to hyperexcitability-induced synaptic damage in Alzheimer’s disease: Mechanistic insights and potential therapies	25
How early olfactory experiences influence brain development in mice	24
Spinal cords: Symphonies of interneurons across species	23
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	22
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	21
Auditory processing neurons influence song evaluation and strength of mate preference in female songbirds	21
A Canonical Scheme of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Information Flows in the Frontoparietal Network	21
An inhibitory glycinergic projection from the cochlear nucleus to the lateral superior olive	21
Hippocampal Connectivity of the Presubiculum in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)	20
GABAergic signaling in alcohol use disorder and withdrawal: pathological involvement and therapeutic potential	20
Long-term self-reported symptoms and psychophysical tests in COVID-19 subjects experiencing persistent olfactory dysfunction: a 4-year follow-up study	20
Multisite rTMS combined with cognitive training modulates effective connectivity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	20
The Role of Inhibitory Interneurons in Circuit Assembly and Refinement Across Sensory Cortices	19
Persistent Activity During Working Memory From Front to Back	19
Dissociated neuronal cultures as model systems for self-organized prediction	19
Binaural Processing Deficits Due to Synaptopathy and Myelin Defects	19
What and Where: Location-Dependent Feature Sensitivity as a Canonical Organizing Principle of the Visual System	18
Stability and flexibility of odor representations in the mouse olfactory bulb	18
Neural mechanisms for turn-taking in duetting plain-tailed wrens	18
A Characterization of the Electrophysiological and Morphological Properties of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP) Interneurons in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex (MEC)	18
Galanin analogs prevent mortality from seizure-induced respiratory arrest in mice	17
Sparse connectivity enables efficient information processing in cortex-like artificial neural networks	17
Online Learning and Memory of Neural Trajectory Replays for Prefrontal Persistent and Dynamic Representations in the Irregular Asynchronous State	17
Dorsal striatum c-Fos activity in perseverative ephrin-A2A5−/− mice and the cellular effect of low-intensity rTMS	17
Editorial: Naturalistic neuroscience — Towards a full cycle from lab to field	17
Locomotion Control With Frequency and Motor Pattern Adaptations	16
Intersegmental Interactions Give Rise to a Global Network	16
Origin of Multisynaptic Corticospinal Pathway to Forelimb Segments in Macaques and Its Reorganization After Spinal Cord Injury	15
An operating principle of the cerebral cortex, and a cellular mechanism for attentional trial-and-error pattern learning and useful classification extraction	15
Editorial: Cortical-Subcortical Loops in Sensory Processing	15
From Synapses to Circuits, Astrocytes Regulate Behavior	15
Selective inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission alters the emergent bursting dynamics of in vitro neural networks	14
Vagus nerve stimulation as a predictive coding modulator that enhances feedforward over feedback transmission	14
Ataxia-associated DNA repair genes protect the Drosophila mushroom body and locomotor function against glutamate signaling-associated damage	14
Müller Glia in Retinal Development: From Specification to Circuit Integration	14
Improved motor imagery skills after repetitive passive somatosensory stimulation: a parallel-group, pre-registered study	14
A specific olfactory bulb interneuron subtype Tpbg/5T4 generated at embryonic and neonatal stages	14
Non-Cell-Autonomous Factors Implicated in Parvalbumin Interneuron Maturation and Critical Periods	14
Comparison of Resting-State Functional MRI Methods for Characterizing Brain Dynamics	14
Neural activity responsiveness by maturation of inhibition underlying critical period plasticity	14
Synaptic connectivity amongst components of the locomotor central pattern generator	14
Stimulus-Selective Response Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex: Progress and Puzzles	14
Facial affect and arousal as a complement to gaze measures in infant speech sound perception studies	13

Axonal α7* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors modulate glutamatergic signaling and synaptic vesicle organization in ventral hippocampal projections	13
Agranular frontal cortical microcircuit underlying cognitive control in macaques	13
Cannabinoids in Chronic Pain: Therapeutic Potential Through Microglia Modulation	13
Anatomical and Functional Connectivity at the Dendrodendritic Reciprocal Mitral Cell–Granule Cell Synapse: Impact on Recurrent and Lateral Inhibition	13
Activity-dependent dendrite patterning in the postnatal barrel cortex	13
Rhythmic Memory Consolidation in the Hippocampus	13
The ventral hippocampus is activated in olfactory but not auditory threat memory	13
Reliability of TMS measurements using conventional hand-hold method with different numbers of stimuli for tibialis anterior muscle in healthy adults	13
Assessment of a single trial impact on the amplitude of the averaged event related potentials	13
Anesthetized animal experiments for neuroscience research	13
Using Hebbian-Type Stimulation to Rescue Arm Function After Stroke: Study Protocol for a Randomized Clinical Trial	13
Vocal and Electric Fish: Revisiting a Comparison of Two Teleost Models in the Neuroethology of Social Behavior	13
Research progress on the neural circuits mechanisms of anxiety	12
Effects of Cortical Cooling on Sound Processing in Auditory Cortex and Thalamus of Awake Marmosets	12
Circuits and Synapses: Hypothesis, Observation, Controversy and Serendipity – An Opinion Piece	12
Are superficial neuromasts proprioceptors underlying fast copulatory behavior?	12
Disorganization of Oscillatory Activity in Animal Models of Schizophrenia	12
Fold Change Detection in Visual Processing	12
Profiling neurotransmitter-evoked glial responses by RNA-sequencing analysis	12
Interhemispheric neural characteristics of noxious mechano-nociceptive stimulation in the anterior cingulate cortex	12
Edonerpic maleate prevents epileptic seizure during recovery from brain damage by balancing excitatory and inhibitory inputs	12
Specific structural changes in Parkinson’s disease-related olfactory dysfunction compared to others forms of olfactory dysfunction	11
A Novel Device of Reaching, Grasping, and Retrieving Task for Head-Fixed Mice	11
Cortical Cartography: Mapping Arealization Using Single-Cell Omics Technology	11
Not All That Is Gold Glitters: PV-IRES-Cre Mouse Line Shows Low Efficiency of Labeling of Parvalbumin Interneurons in the Perirhinal Cortex	11
Delays in the Reticulospinal System Are Associated With a Reduced Capacity to Learn a Simulated Feeding Task in Older Adults	11
A neurocomputational analysis of visual bias on bimanual tactile spatial perception during a crossmodal exposure	11
Neural basis for pheromone signal transduction in mice	11
Regulation of body weight and food intake by AGRP neurons during opioid dependence and abstinence in mice	11
Early-life stress differentially affects CA3 synaptic inputs converging on apical and basal dendrites of CA1 pyramidal neurons	11
The Engram’s Dark Horse: How Interneurons Regulate State-Dependent Memory Processing and Plasticity	11
Multiple Sources of Cholinergic Input to the Superior Olivary Complex	11
Editorial: Unveiling the structure and function of brain microcircuits: Experiments, algorithms and simulations	10
Hierarchical predictive coding in distributed pain circuits	10
Editorial: GABAergic circuits in health and disease	10
The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period	10
The corticofugal oscillatory modulation of the cochlear receptor during auditory and visual attention is preserved in tinnitus	10
Optimization of modularity during development to simplify walking control across multiple steps	10
Dorsal Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis-Subcortical Output Circuits Encode Positive Bias in Pavlovian Fear and Reward	10
Echinoderm radial glia in adult cell renewal, indeterminate growth, and regeneration	10
Spinal inhibitory interneurons: regulators of coordination during locomotor activity	10
Amygdala Underlies the Environment Dependency of Defense Responses Induced via Superior Colliculus	10