OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 16. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	281
Smartphones and the Neuroscience of Mental Health	153
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	145
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Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	115
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	99
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	93
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	93
Human Representation Learning	91
Neural Circuits for Emotion	89
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	88
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	87
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	83
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	80
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	80
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	76
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	73
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	65
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	65
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	64
Development of the Binocular Circuit	62
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	60
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	60
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	59
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	59

Neocortical Layer 1: An Elegant Solution to Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration	57
Harmony in the Molecular Orchestra of Hearing: Developmental Mechanisms from the Ear to the Brain	54
Predictive Processing: A Circuit Approach to Psychosis	52
How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	50
Topological Neuroscience: Linking Circuits to Function	45
Synaptic Mechanisms Regulating Mood State Transitions in Depression	44
Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership: Exaptation of Memory	43
Neural Control of Naturalistic Behavior Choices	42
Astrocyte Endfeet in Brain Function and Pathology: Open Questions	42
How Do You Build a Cognitive Map? The Development of Circuits and Computations for the Representation of Space in the Brain	40
Neural and Molecular Mechanisms of Biological Embedding of Social Interactions	39
Neuroscientific Evidence for Processing Without Awareness	38
Cortical Integration of Vestibular and Visual Cues for Navigation, Visual Processing, and Perception	36
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The Role of Retrotransposons and Endogenous Retroviruses in Age-Dependent Neurodegenerative Disorders	34
Receptor-Ribosome Coupling: A Link Between Extrinsic Signals and mRNA Translation in Neuronal Compartments	34
Current Status of and Perspectives on the Application of Marmosets in Neurobiology	34
Phase Separation–Mediated Compartmentalization Underlies Synapse Formation and Plasticity	31
Cell Type–Specific Studies of Human Tissue for Investigation of the Molecular Cell Biology of Late-Onset Neurodegenerative Disease	30
The Visual Systems of Zebrafish	29
Silent Synapses in the Adult Brain	27
Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	27
Adaptive Prediction for Social Contexts: The Cerebellar Contribution to Typical and Atypical Social Behaviors	26
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Mechanically Activated PIEZO Channels	25
Developmental Origins and Oncogenesis in Medulloblastoma	25
Astrocytes and Behavior	23
Neuromodulation and Neurophysiology on the Timescale of Learning and Decision-Making	23
The Geometry of Information Coding in Correlated Neural Populations	22
Meningeal Lymphatics in Central Nervous System Diseases	19
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How Cortical Circuits Implement Cortical Computations: Mouse Visual Cortex as a Model	18
Replay and Ripples in Humans	18
Adaptive Cost-Benefit Control Fueled by Striatal Dopamine	16
From Blur to Brilliance: The Ascendance of Advanced Microscopy in Neuronal Cell Biology	16
Prenatal Immune Stress: Its Impact on Brain Development and Neuropsychiatric Disorders	16