OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 43. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Circuit-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Provides Insights into Movement Control	180
Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neural Signaling in Health and Disease	146
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	120
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	118
Neural Circuits for Emotion	115
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	113
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	110
Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Depression	88
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines	83
Learning, Fast and Slow: Single- and Many-Shot Learning in the Hippocampus	80
Considering Organismal Physiology in Laboratory Studies of Rodent Behavior	77
Clearing Your Mind: Mechanisms of Debris Clearance After Cell Death During Neural Development	76
Keeping Your Brain in Balance: Homeostatic Regulation of Network Function	73
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	66
Microglia and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	63
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	61
Estrogen Control of Social Behaviors	57
Development of the Binocular Circuit	55
Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion	53
Theory of the Multiregional Neocortex: Large-Scale Neural Dynamics and Distributed Cognition	52
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	52
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	48
How Instructions, Learning, and Expectations Shape Pain and Neurobiological Responses	44
Predictive Processing: A Circuit Approach to Psychosis	43