OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Brain Structure & Function is 13. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Rebuttal to: Neuroanatomical changes associated with age-related hearing loss and listening effort	92
Home language and literacy environment and its relationship to socioeconomic status and white matter structure in infancy	81
Motor awareness: a model based on neurological syndromes	61
Brain Structure & Function: the future—a prospective	52
Understanding structure–function relationships in the mammalian visual system: part one	48
Receptor architecture of macaque and human early visual areas: not equal, but comparable	45
Disrupted morphological grey matter networks in early-stage Parkinson’s disease	43
Multiscale imaging of the rat brain using an integrated diceCT and histology workflow	42
Dual medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus projecting neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus	42
Efferent and afferent connections of supratrigeminal neurons conveying orofacial muscle proprioception in rats	35
The neural bases of resilient semantic system: evidence of variable neuro-displacement in cognitive systems	35
Hodology of the superior longitudinal system of the human brain: a historical perspective, the current controversies, and a proposal	32
Reward and fictive prediction error signals in ventral striatum: asymmetry between factual and counterfactual processing	31
Age-related differences in negative cognitive empathy but similarities in positive affective empathy	30
An inspirational reflection on Nobel Prize-winning researches in nerve signaling from over a century: some lessons for inquisitive minds	30
Reply to the letter to the Editor	29
GABAergic deficits in absence of LPA1 receptor, associated anxiety-like and coping behaviors, and amelioration by interneuron precursor transplants into the dorsal hippocampus	29
Dynamic and stationary brain connectivity during movie watching as revealed by functional MRI	28
Associations between corpus callosum damage, clinical disability, and surface-based homologous inter-hemispheric connectivity in multiple sclerosis	27
Correction to: Extracellular matrix controls neuronal features that mediate the persistence of fear	27
Sex differences in brain homotopic co-activations: a meta-analytic study	26
Indirect structural disconnection-symptom mapping	26
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation modulates action naming over the left but not right inferior frontal gyrus	26
Correspondence between cognitive and neural representations for phonology, orthography, and semantics in supramarginal compared to angular gyrus	25
Longitudinal prediction of motor dysfunction after stroke: a disconnectome study	25

Cytoarchitecture, myeloarchitecture, and parcellation of the chimpanzee inferior parietal lobe	25
To learn or to gain: neural signatures of exploration in human decision-making	24
Transmitter and ion channel profiles of neurons in the primate abducens and trochlear nuclei	24
Diverging prefrontal cortex fiber connection routes to the subthalamic nucleus and the mesencephalic ventral tegmentum investigated with long range (normative) and short range (ex-vivo high resolution	24
Geometric effects of volume-to-surface mapping of fMRI data	24
Unique patterns of hearing loss and cognition in older adults’ neural responses to cues for speech recognition difficulty	23
Cytochrome oxidase “blobs”: a call for more anatomy	23
Longitudinal investigation of brain activation during motor tasks in Friedreich ataxia: 24-month data from IMAGE-FRDA	23
Spatio-temporal brain dynamics of self-identity: an EEG source analysis of the current and past self	22
Properties of the epileptiform activity in the cingulate cortex of a mouse model of LIS1 dysfunction	22
Sensory representation of visual stimuli in the coupling of low-frequency phase to spike times	21
The selective contributions of right cerebellar lobules to reading	21
Alterations in resting-state functional connectivity after brain posterior lesions reflect the functionality of the visual system in hemianopic patients	21
Function-specific projections from V2 to V4 in macaques	21
Comparative anatomical analysis of dopamine systems in Mus musculus and Peromyscus californicus	21
The effects of bilingualism on hippocampal volume in ageing bilinguals	20
Nigral neuropathology of Parkinson’s motor subtypes coincide with circuitopathies: a scoping review	19
Anatomy and physiology of word-selective visual cortex: from visual features to lexical processing	18
Hearing loss and brain plasticity: the hyperactivity phenomenon	18
Recollection and prior knowledge recruit the left angular gyrus during recognition	18
An integrated TMS-EEG and MRI approach to explore the interregional connectivity of the default mode network	18
A touch of hierarchy: population receptive fields reveal fingertip integration in Brodmann areas in human primary somatosensory cortex	17
Network synchronization deficits caused by dementia and Alzheimer’s disease serve as topographical biomarkers: a pilot study	17
Effects of detraining on preconditioning exercise-induced neuroprotective potential after ischemic stroke in rats	17
White matter variability, cognition, and disorders: a systematic review	17
Manual delineation approaches for direct imaging of the subcortex	17
Establishing the functional relevancy of white matter connections in the visual system and beyond	17
The primary visual cortex of Cetartiodactyls: organization, cytoarchitectonics and comparison with perissodactyls and primates	17
Is human face recognition lateralized to the right hemisphere due to neural competition with left-lateralized visual word recognition? A critical review	17
Understanding structure–function relationships in the mammalian visual system: part two	16
Expression of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor in neuropeptide Y neurons of the arcuate nucleus in mice	16
Clinical phenotype modulates brain’s myelin and iron content in temporal lobe epilepsy	16
Brain Structure and Function: the first 15 years—a retrospective	16
Endocranial asymmetry in New World monkeys: a comparative phylogenetic analysis of morphometric data	16
Auditory thalamus dysfunction and pathophysiology in tinnitus: a predictive network hypothesis	16
Correction to: Comparing astrocytic gap junction of genetic absence epileptic rats with control rats: an experimental study	15
A fully segmented 3D anatomical atlas of a lizard brain	15
Characterization of basal forebrain glutamate neurons suggests a role in control of arousal and avoidance behavior	15
Central precuneus lesions are associated with impaired executive function	15
Phase fMRI defines brain resting-state functional hubs within central and posterior regions	15
Histology-driven model of the macaque motor hyperdirect pathway	15
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Comparing astrocytic gap junction of genetic absence epileptic rats with control rats: an experimental study	15
Correction to: A comparison of diffusion tractography techniques in simulating the generalized Ising model to predict the intrinsic activity of the brain	15
Increased mGlu5 mRNA expression in BLA glutamate neurons facilitates resilience to the long-term effects of a single predator scent stress exposure	15
Postnatal development of BAG3 expression in mouse cerebral cortex and hippocampus	14
Structural connectivity and subcellular changes after antidepressant doses of ketamine and Ro 25-6981 in the rat: an MRI and immuno-labeling study	14
Effective connectivity of brain networks controlling human thermoregulation	14
Neurodevelopmental scaling is a major driver of brain–behavior differences in temperament across dog breeds	14
Chemogenetic inhibition of prefrontal projection neurons constrains top–down control of attention in young but not aged rats	14
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting residual signals can disassociate human grey matter regions	14

Volume reduction without neuronal loss in the primate pulvinar complex following striate cortex lesions	14
Expression of type one cannabinoid receptor in different subpopulation of kisspeptin neurons and kisspeptin afferents to GnRH neurons in female mice	14
Assessing functional reorganization in visual cortex with simulated retinal lesions	14
The impact of Alzheimer's disease susceptibility loci on lateral ventricular surface morphology in older adults	13
Experience-dependent plasticity in early stations of sensory processing in mature brains: effects of environmental enrichment on dendrite measures in trigeminal nuclei	13
Is it left or is it right? A classification approach for investigating hemispheric differences in low and high dimensionality	13
Origin of thyrotropin-releasing hormone neurons that innervate the tuberomammillary nuclei	13
Neural responses to facial attractiveness in the judgments of moral goodness and moral beauty	13
Prosomeric classification of retinorecipient centers: a new causal scenario	13
Age–volume associations in cerebellar lobules by sex and reproductive stage	13