OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Neurogenetics is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Host-microbe interactions and the behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans	41
She’s got nerve: roles of octopamine in insect female reproduction	24
The contribution of C. elegans neurogenetics to understanding neurodegenerative diseases	20
Temperature signaling underlying thermotaxis and cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans	20
Neurodevelopmental and transcriptomic effects of CRISPR/Cas9-induced somatic orco mutation in honey bees	20
C. elegans aversive olfactory learning generates diverse intergenerational effects	19
C. elegans: a sensible model for sensory biology	19
Cell-type-specific promoters for C. elegans glia	18
A perspective on C. elegans neurodevelopment: from early visionaries to a booming neuroscience research	15
Theforaginggene as a modulator of division of labour in social insects	14
Regulatory systems that mediate the effects of temperature on the lifespan ofCaenorhabditis elegans	14
lncRNA XIST induces Aβ accumulation and neuroinflammation by the epigenetic repression of NEP in Alzheimer’s disease	13
Oxytocin ameliorates bone cancer pain by suppressing toll-like receptor 4 and proinflammatory cytokines in rat spinal cord	12
Small molecule signals mediate social behaviors in C. elegans	12
Neuromodulators: an essential part of survival	10
Conditioned courtship suppression in Drosophila melanogaster	10
Neurogenetics of nictation, a dispersal strategy in nematodes	10
Synaptic remodeling, lessons from C. elegans	9
The Drosophila melanogaster foraging gene affects social networks	9
Intraguild predation between Pristionchus pacificus and Caenorhabditis elegans: a complex interaction with the potential for aggressive behaviour	9
The force-from-lipid principle and its origin, a ‘what is true for E. coli is true for the elephant’ refrain	9
What can a worm learn in a bacteria-rich habitat?	8
Neuroendocrine control of lipid metabolism: lessons from C. elegans	8
A rapid molecular diagnostic method for spinal muscular atrophy	8
Description of clinical features and genetic analysis of one ultra-rare (SPG64) and two common forms (SPG5A and SPG15) of hereditary spastic paraplegia families	8

Neuronal specification in C. elegans: combining lineage inheritance with intercellular signaling	7
A cGMP-dependent protein kinase, encoded by the Drosophila foraging gene, regulates neurotransmission through changes in synaptic structure and function	7
Loss of mGluR1-LTD following cocaine exposure accumulates Ca²⁺-permeable AMPA receptors and facilitates synaptic potentiation in the prefrontal cortex	7
Expression of the foraging gene in adult Drosophila melanogaster	7
Molecular mechanisms governing axonal transport: a C. elegans perspective	7
Mechano-gated channels in C. elegans	7
Identification and characterization of GAL4 drivers that mark distinct cell types and regions in the Drosophila adult gut	7
Orcokinin neuropeptides regulate sleep in Caenorhabditis elegans	6
Cellular damage, including wounding, drives C. elegans stress-induced sleep	6
Plasticity of pheromone-mediated avoidance behavior in C. elegans	6
LncRNA GAS5 promotes epilepsy progression through the epigenetic repression of miR-219, in turn affecting CaMKIIγ/NMDAR pathway	6
The OptoGenBox – a device for long-term optogenetics in C. elegans	6
Discriminating between sleep and exercise-induced fatigue using computer vision and behavioral genetics	5
Does oxidatively damaged DNA drive amyloid-β generation in Alzheimer’s disease? A hypothesis	5
What about the males? the C. elegans sexually dimorphic nervous system and a CRISPR-based tool to study males in a hermaphroditic species	5
Spatiotemporal organization of enteroendocrine peptide expression in Drosophila	5
The genetic architecture of larval aggregation behavior in Drosophila	5
A journey to ‘tame a small metazoan organism’, ^‡ seen through the artistic eyes of C. elegans researchers	4
The discovery and consequences of the central role of the nervous system in the control of protein homeostasis	4
C. elegans MAGU-2/Mpp5 homolog regulates epidermal phagocytosis and synapse density	4
Compound heterozygous KCTD7 variants in progressive myoclonus epilepsy	4
Fly seizure EEG: field potential activity in the Drosophila brain	3
Reduced branched-chain aminotransferase activity alleviates metabolic vulnerability caused by dim light exposure at night in Drosophila	3
The light-activated TRP channel: the founding member of the TRP channel superfamily	3
Change in gene expression levels of GABA, glutamate and neurosteroid pathways due to acoustic trauma in the cochlea	3
De novo mutation in SLC25A22 gene: expansion of the clinical and electroencephalographic phenotype	3
Spontaneous motor-behavior abnormalities in twoDrosophilamodels of neurodevelopmental disorders	3
Analysis of whole genome sequenced cases and controls shows that the association of variants in TOMM40, BCAM, NECTIN2 and APOC1 with late onset Alzheimer’s disease is drive	3
The Drosophila foraging gene plays a vital role at the start of metamorphosis for subsequent adult emergence	3