OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism is 31. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Microglia: Active participants in brain capillary function	146
Preconditioning with interleukin-1 alpha is required for the neuroprotective properties of mesenchymal stem cells after ischemic stroke in mice	79
Vascular synthesis based on hemodynamic efficiency principle recapitulates measured cerebral circulation properties in the human brain	65
Dynamic cerebral autoregulation in people with mild cognitive impairment	63
Impact of hypertension on cerebral small vessel disease: A post-mortem study of microvascular pathology from normal-appearing white matter into white matter hyperintensities	62
Association between occlusion location, net water uptake and ischemic lesion growth in large vessel anterior circulation strokes	54
CNS resident macrophages enhance dysfunctional angiogenesis and circulating monocytes infiltration in brain arteriovenous malformation	54
Vessel architecture imaging reveals microvascular rarefaction and capillary-to-arteriole shift in cerebral small vessel disease	54
Spreading depolarization: A wave that precedes and drives cerebral ischemic cell death—Target for neuroprotection	54
Targeted capillary photothrombosis via multiphoton excitation of Rose Bengal	52
Non-invasive modelling and parametric methods for quantification of MAO-B activity using [ ¹¹ C]L-deprenyl-D2 PET	49
Precision estimates of relative and absolute cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer’s disease and cognitively normal individuals	48
Quantitative susceptibility mapping of the brain is associated with inflammatory changes in Alzheimer’s disease related areas	48
Post-stroke brain can be protected by modulating the lncRNA FosDT	47
Resuscitation with epinephrine worsens cerebral capillary no-reflow after experimental pediatric cardiac arrest: An in vivo multiphoton microscopy evaluation	46
Exercise-induced extracellular vesicles derived from platelet-rich plasma improved recovery after ischemic stroke	45
Sigma-1 receptor signaling: A potential therapeutic approach for ischemic stroke	43
Blood-brain barrier disruption imaging in postoperative cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome using DCE-MRI	42
Critical role of Slc22a8 in maintaining blood-brain barrier integrity after experimental cerebral ischemia-reperfusion	41
Nogo-A is secreted in extracellular vesicles, occurs in blood and can influence vascular permeability	40
RNF213 variant and autophagic impairment: A pivotal link to endothelial dysfunction in moyamoya disease	39
Temperature dysregulation during therapeutic hypothermia predicts long-term outcome in neonates with HIE	37
Brain & Brain pet 2025 Abstracts	37
Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 mediates cerebral ischemia-induced astrocytic reactivity	36
Cerebral autoregulation in pediatric and neonatal intensive care: A scoping review	35

Dynamic neuroreceptor positron emission tomography in non-anesthetized rats using point source based motion correction: A feasibility study with [¹¹C]ABP688	35
Pathological changes of brain oscillations following ischemic stroke	34
Baseline CBV-normalized BOLD fMRI of visual stimulation in awake vs. anesthetized mice	34
Association of cognitive function and hypoperfusion in Moyamoya disease patients without stroke	33
EXPRESSION OF CONCERN: Mitochondrial ferritin upregulation by deferiprone reduced neuronal ferroptosis and improved neurological deficits via NDRG1/Yap pathway in a neonatal rat model of germinal matr	33
The effect of hypercapnia on the directional sensitivity of dynamic cerebral autoregulation and the influence of age and sex	31