OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 30. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	175
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	140
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	117
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	113
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	110
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	110
Neural Circuits for Emotion	106
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	82
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	82
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	79
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	75
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	73
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	73
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	62
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	62
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	53
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	51
Development of the Binocular Circuit	51
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	49
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	49
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	48
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	46
How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	42
Harmony in the Molecular Orchestra of Hearing: Developmental Mechanisms from the Ear to the Brain	41
Predictive Processing: A Circuit Approach to Psychosis	41

Topological Neuroscience: Linking Circuits to Function	38
Synaptic Mechanisms Regulating Mood State Transitions in Depression	37
Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory	35
Astrocyte Endfeet in Brain Function and Pathology: Open Questions	34
Neural Control of Naturalistic Behavior Choices	33