OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews is 67. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	286
How does Nogo-A signalling influence mitochondrial function during multiple sclerosis pathogenesis?	269
Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach	207
Visuomotor control in mice and primates	186
Storm on predictive brain: A neurocomputational account of ketamine antidepressant effect	185
The efficacy of electroencephalography neurofeedback for enhancing episodic memory in healthy and clinical participants: A systematic qualitative review and meta-analysis	166
The neglected role of endocannabinoid actions at TRPC channels in ataxia	149
Depression diagnosis through emotional induction and physiological signals: A systematic review	148
High rates of Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in the autistic population: True co-occurrence or a product of overlapping traits?	148
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	137
Taste processing in autism spectrum disorder: A translational scoping review	134
Frans de Waal – A pioneer who shone a light on the primate mind	132
Editorial Board	131
Neurodiversity, psychological inertia and mental health	129
A systems omics-based approach to decode substance use disorders and neuroadaptations	127
The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition	122
Prolactin in sleep and EEG regulation: New mechanisms and sleep-related brain targets complement classical data	120
Preclinical behavioral and pharmacological treatments for enhancing fear extinction in adolescence	118
A framework for joint music making: Behavioral findings, neural processes, and computational models	111
The contribution of environmental pollutants to the risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review of case-control studies	108
A network meta-analysis of the long- and short-term efficacy of sleep medicines in adults and older adults	107
Publication bias casts doubt on implicit processing in inattentional blindness	104
Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system	104
The relationship between anabolic androgenic steroid use and body image, eating behavior, and physical activity by gender: A systematic review	103
Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis	99

Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency	98
Neuroinflammatory remodeling of the anterior cingulate cortex as a key driver of mood disorders in gastrointestinal disease and disorders	98
Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis	97
Mechanisms of motor dysfunction in functional neurological disorder: A narrative review	96
Association between anxiety and hypertension in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	95
Language learning in aphasia: A narrative review and critical analysis of the literature with implications for language therapy	94
Neuromodulating the rhythms of cognition	92
The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming	92
A restarted life: Resetting microglia innate immune memory	91
Negative symptoms and resting-state functional connectivity across psychotic and mood disorders: A systematic literature review	90
The empirical status of predictive coding and active inference	90
Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research	90
Editorial Board	90
Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: Important clarifications	87
The effects of different types of social interactions on the electrophysiology of neurons in the nucleus accumbens in rodents	85
Social contagion in primates: Moderating factors and significance for individuals and the group	83
Priors, evidence, and memory: Dynamics of predictive processing in a hierarchical visual system	82
Unveiling the neurolipidome of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A scoping review navigating future diagnostic and therapeutic applications	80
Turing’s cascade instability supports the coordination of the mind, brain, and behavior	79
Microglia and BDNF at the crossroads of stressor related disorders: Towards a unique trophic phenotype	79
A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology	79
Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers	79
Shaping the risk for late-life neurodegenerative disease: A systematic review on prenatal risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease-related volumetric brain biomarkers	78
Conscious experiences during non-rapid eye movement sleep parasomnias	77
Challenges of a small world analysis for the continuous monitoring of behavior in mice	77
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	75
Intrinsic timescales and predictive allostatic interoception in brain health and disease	74
Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity	74
State-of-the-art imaging of neuromodulatory subcortical systems in aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Challenges and opportunities	74
Autism diagnosis in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of test accuracy	72
Disengagement of attention with spatial neglect: A systematic review of behavioral and anatomical findings	72
Sleep, stress and aggression: Meta-analyses investigating associations and causality	71
Interpersonal synchronization: An overlooked factor in development, social cognition, and psychopathology	71
The sensorimotor theory of pathological pain revisited	70
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	69
The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research	69
DataMaze: An open source methods and data repository for Morris water maze experiments	69
Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis	68
The remapping of peripersonal space after stroke, spinal cord injury and amputation: A PRISMA systematic review	68
Default mode network dynamics: An integrated neurocircuitry perspective on social dysfunction in human brain disorders	68
Dysfunctions of cellular context-sensitivity in neurodevelopmental learning disabilities	68
Hyperscanning to explore social interaction among autistic minds	68
The human affectome: Cognitive, developmental, and atypicality considerations	67
The role of enteric nervous system and GDNF in depression: Conversation between the brain and the gut	67