OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Neuroscience is 45. 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
	136
Grid Cells in Cognition: Mechanisms and Function	115
Melding Synthetic Molecules and Genetically Encoded Proteins to Forge New Tools for Neuroscience	99
Neuroimmune Interactions in Peripheral Organs	93
Specialized Networks for Social Cognition in the Primate Brain	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
Brainstem Circuits for Locomotion	65
Non-Image-Forming Functions of Intrinsically Photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells	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
Time, Control, and the Nervous System	59
The Computational and Neural Bases of Context-Dependent Learning	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