OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 49. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	232
Rethinking Predictive Processing	196
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	152
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	146
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	144
Neural Circuits for Emotion	138
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	136
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	117
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	109
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	100
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	96
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	93
Erratum: Toward Optogenetic Hearing Restoration	92
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	86
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	78
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	76
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	75
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	75
Development of the Binocular Circuit	67
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	67
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	63
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	63
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	62
The Dorsal Root Ganglia: From a Neuronal Relay to a Sensory Organ	61
Planning in the Brain: It's Not What You Think It Is	61

The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	56
Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse	54
Neural Circuits of Social and Physiological Needs	54
How Salient Sensory Stimuli Induce Brain-Wide State Alterations	53
Predictive Processing: A Circuit Approach to Psychosis	49