OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 18. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	191
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	149
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	126
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	121
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	121
Neural Circuits for Emotion	118
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	114
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	92
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	85
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	81
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	80
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	76
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	75
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	71
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	65
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	65
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	60
Development of the Binocular Circuit	58
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	57
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	54
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	53
Neural Circuits of Social and Physiological Needs	51
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	45
How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	44
Harmony in the Molecular Orchestra of Hearing: Developmental Mechanisms from the Ear to the Brain	43

Predictive Processing: A Circuit Approach to Psychosis	42
Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory	41
Synaptic Mechanisms Regulating Mood State Transitions in Depression	40
Topological Neuroscience: Linking Circuits to Function	38
Astrocyte Endfeet in Brain Function and Pathology: Open Questions	37
Neural Control of Naturalistic Behavior Choices	35
Cortical Integration of Vestibular and Visual Cues for Navigation, Visual Processing, and Perception	35
Neuroscientific Evidence for Processing Without Awareness	30
How Do You Build a Cognitive Map? The Development of Circuits and Computations for the Representation of Space in the Brain	30
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Cell Type–Specific Studies of Human Tissue for Investigation of the Molecular Cell Biology of Late-Onset Neurodegenerative Disease	27
The Role of Retrotransposons and Endogenous Retroviruses in Age-Dependent Neurodegenerative Disorders	27
Receptor-Ribosome Coupling: A Link Between Extrinsic Signals and mRNA Translation in Neuronal Compartments	24
Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	24
Phase Separation–Mediated Compartmentalization Underlies Synapse Formation and Plasticity	23
Silent Synapses in the Adult Brain	23
The Visual Systems of Zebrafish	23
Neuromodulation and Neurophysiology on the Timescale of Learning and Decision-Making	22
Developmental Origins and Oncogenesis in Medulloblastoma	22
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Replay and Ripples in Humans	20
Meningeal Lymphatics in Central Nervous System Diseases	18
From Blur to Brilliance: The Ascendance of Advanced Microscopy in Neuronal Cell Biology	18