OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Neurosciences is 53. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Emerging Science of Interoception: Sensing, Integrating, Interpreting, and Regulating Signals within the Self	328
Neural Circuits of Interoception	192
Signaling by cGAS–STING in Neurodegeneration, Neuroinflammation, and Aging	155
Functions of Interoception: From Energy Regulation to Experience of the Self	153
Magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG): the next generation of functional neuroimaging	149
Prefrontal Cortex Development in Health and Disease: Lessons from Rodents and Humans	145
Blood–Brain Barrier Dynamics to Maintain Brain Homeostasis	145
Astrocytic processes: from tripartite synapses to the active milieu	144
Circuit organization of the rodent medial prefrontal cortex	144
Mitochondria and Calcium in Alzheimer’s Disease: From Cell Signaling to Neuronal Cell Death	143
Diseases, Disorders, and Comorbidities of Interoception	143
Cellular senescence at the crossroads of inflammation and Alzheimer's disease	137
A Unifying Account of Angular Gyrus Contributions to Episodic and Semantic Cognition	134
The neuroinvasiveness, neurotropism, and neurovirulence of SARS-CoV-2	133
Immunometabolism in the Brain: How Metabolism Shapes Microglial Function	130
Microglial Phagocytosis: A Disease-Associated Process Emerging from Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics	125
Hippocampal contributions to social and cognitive deficits in autism spectrum disorder	122
Computational Models of Interoception and Body Regulation	117
Interventions and Manipulations of Interoception	114
How critical is brain criticality?	110
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: In the Challenge Lies a Solution	103
Is COVID-19 a Perfect Storm for Parkinson’s Disease?	102
Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks	100
16p11.2 Copy Number Variations and Neurodevelopmental Disorders	88
Cause or consequence? Alpha oscillations in visuospatial attention	87

Lysosomal dysfunction in neurodegeneration: emerging concepts and methods	81
Non-cell-autonomous pathogenic mechanisms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	78
LRRK2 and idiopathic Parkinson’s disease	76
The many dimensions of human hippocampal organization and (dys)function	75
Modulating the Neuromodulators: Dopamine, Serotonin, and the Endocannabinoid System	75
Neurovascular coupling: motive unknown	73
Neurobiology of the lateral septum: regulation of social behavior	71
Functional interplay between central and autonomic nervous systems in human fear conditioning	71
Entorhinal cortex dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease	71
A Vessel for Change: Endothelial Dysfunction in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease	69
Transforming the Concept of Memory Reactivation	69
The quest for multiscale brain modeling	68
The Multifaceted Roles of KCC2 in Cortical Development	68
A Dendrite-Focused Framework for Understanding the Actions of Ketamine and Psychedelics	67
The use of language in autism research	67
Extracellular Vesicles as an Emerging Frontier in Spinal Cord Injury Pathobiology and Therapy	66
Microglia in Cancer Therapy-Related Cognitive Impairment	66
How cancer hijacks the body’s homeostasis through the neuroendocrine system	65
Basal Progenitor Morphology and Neocortex Evolution	65
Brain cell type-specific cholesterol metabolism and implications for learning and memory	62
Using artificial neural networks to ask ‘why’ questions of minds and brains	60
The paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus: an integrative node underlying homeostatic behavior	58
Astrocyte and neuron cooperation in long-term depression	57
Olfactory dysfunction in COVID-19: new insights into the underlying mechanisms	57
Mitochondria-lysosome contact site dynamics and misregulation in neurodegenerative diseases	56
α-Synuclein in synaptic function and dysfunction	56
50 years of mnemonic persistent activity: quo vadis?	54
Calcium-dependent docking of synaptic vesicles	53