OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews is 64. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	341
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?	265
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition	243
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia	229
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind	184
Editorial Board	182
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health	174
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis	143
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy	138
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review	138
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease	134
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system	134
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect	129
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers	122
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings	117
Editorial Board	117
Antithrombotic agents in the treatment of severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	106
Oxytocin in chronic pain: From analgesic to biopsychosocial adjuvant - An opinion paper	101
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis	100
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers	99
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications	95
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications	93
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?	93
Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency	92
Mechanisms of motor dysfunction in functional neurological disorder: A narrative review	92

Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology	90
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments	89
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities	89
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models	86
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory	85
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming	84
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents	84
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness	84
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach	83
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference	80
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review	80
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group	79
Negative symptoms and resting-state functional connectivity across psychotic and mood disorders: A systematic literature review	79
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior	79
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis	78
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias	78
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited	78
Does stress make us more—or less—prosocial? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of acute stress on prosocial behaviours using economic games	78
Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research	77
Contextual modulation of endogenous oxytocin signaling and its influence on exogenous oxytocin effects: A conceptual framework	75
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy	75
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review	75
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality	74
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology	73
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence	73
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research	72
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition	70
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity	70
Are the growing levels of neurotoxic and neuro-disruptive chemicals in our food and drink contributing to the youth mental health crisis? A narrative review	69
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data	68
Pre- and postnatal antibiotic exposure and risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder–A systematic review and meta-analysis combining evidence from human and animal studies	67
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies	67
Neural foundations of creativity: A voxel-based meta-analysis of the activations and deactivations underlying creativity across linguistic, musical, and visual domains	66
Visual working memory’s pointer system: Past, present, and future	66
Being active over one’s own motion: Considering predictive mechanisms in self-motion perception	66
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations	66
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system	66
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds	65
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders	65
Classification of neurological and mental health disorders based on multimodal approaches: A comprehensive review	64
The amygdala and the nine circles of scientific hell - Confirmation bias in the brain correlates of psychopathy	64
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention	64