OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience is 31. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Case report: Fatal cerebral herniation caused by hypoglycemic due to mistaking glibenclamide in children	126
Editorial: Exploring brain connectivity to understand behavior	96
Effects of reinforcement during the intertrial interval on temporal discrimination: Location version with rats	91
The effect of experiences of fairness on honest behavior: a behavioral and neural study	90
Editorial: Plasticity and flexibility in the parental brain	82
Acute aerobic exercise enhances associative learning in regular exercisers but not in non-regular exercisers	79
Editorial: Endocrinology of loneliness and social isolation	74
The novel peptide LCGM-10 attenuates metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 activity and demonstrates behavioral effects in animal models	67
Challenging the contest vs. scramble dichotomy in social competition: mixed conditions allow disparately ranked monkeys to get equivalent food but experiencing more competition still leads to risk-ave	66
Dynamic duos: learning to care as a pair in the biparental prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster)	64
The role of subclinical psychopathic traits on experimentally induced self- and other-compassion	62
Disentangling disorder-specific variation is key for precision psychiatry in autism	61
Overwhelmed by beauty and faith: review on artistic and religious travelers’ syndromes	55
Constitutive activity of the inhibitory G protein pathway mediated by non-visual opsin Opn7b reduces cFos activity in stress and fear circuits and modulates avoidance behavior	52
Association of simultaneous sour taste stimulation with prefrontal cortex activation during stroop task performance in healthy adults: a fNIRS study	52
Drosophila melanogaster as a neurobehavioral model for sex differences in stress response	50
A comparative analysis of Danionella cerebrum and zebrafish (Danio rerio) larval locomotor activity in a light-dark test	49
Assessing spatial learning and memory in mice: Classic radial maze versus a new animal-friendly automated radial maze allowing free access and not requiring food deprivation	49
Seminatural environments for rodent behavioral testing: a representative design improving animal welfare and enhancing replicability	47
Impact of specific serotonin receptor modulation on restricted repetitive behaviors	44
Shaping social behavior in an enriched environment	43
Dopamine downregulation in novel rodent models useful for the study of postpartum depression	43
Critical period plasticity is associated with resilience to short unpredictable stress	40
Emotion regulation mediates the relationship between family caregivers’ pain-related beliefs and patients’ coping strategies	37
Efficacy and underlying mechanisms of acupuncture therapy for PTSD: evidence from animal and clinical studies	34

A systematic review of spontaneous recovery in human fear conditioning	34
The central role of microglia in major depressive disorder and its potential as a therapeutic target	34
Hierarchical-Circular Model of Biological Memory: an integrative framework for pathogenesis and allostasis in neurodevelopmental disorders	32
Exploring the impact of acute solvent exposure on larval zebrafish behaviour	31
How the arts heal: a review of the neural mechanisms behind the therapeutic effects of creative arts on mental and physical health	31
Revisiting food addiction in the era of GLP-1–based obesity pharmacotherapy via neural reward pathways linking feeding and substance use	31
Maternal benzo[a]pyrene exposure during critical gestational periods impairs offspring neurological development in rats: a mechanistic study of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway	31
Distinct sex differences in ethanol consumption and operant self-administration in C57BL/6J mice with uniform regulation by glutamate AMPAR activity	31
Treatments for kinesiophobia in people with chronic pain: A scoping review	31
Regional prefrontal and hippocampal differences in gray matter volume are linked to the propensity for renewal in extinction learning	31
Lévy statistics define anxiety and depression in mice subjected to chronic stress	31