OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism is 32. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Microglia: Active participants in brain capillary function	159
Precision estimates of relative and absolute cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer’s disease and cognitively normal individuals	93
Metabolic profiling and biomarker identification in idiopathic intracranial hypertension with venous sinus stenosis	75
Vessel architecture imaging reveals microvascular rarefaction and capillary-to-arteriole shift in cerebral small vessel disease	70
Non-invasive modelling and parametric methods for quantification of MAO-B activity using [ ¹¹ C]L-deprenyl-D2 PET	65
Stroke-induced gut microbiome dysbiosis accelerates Alzheimer’s disease progression	63
Preconditioning with interleukin-1 alpha is required for the neuroprotective properties of mesenchymal stem cells after ischemic stroke in mice	59
Association between occlusion location, net water uptake and ischemic lesion growth in large vessel anterior circulation strokes	58
Sigma-1 receptor signaling: A potential therapeutic approach for ischemic stroke	57
Exercise-induced extracellular vesicles derived from platelet-rich plasma improved recovery after ischemic stroke	56
Vascular synthesis based on hemodynamic efficiency principle recapitulates measured cerebral circulation properties in the human brain	56
Dynamic cerebral autoregulation in people with mild cognitive impairment	53
RETRACTED: CNS resident macrophages enhance dysfunctional angiogenesis and circulating monocytes infiltration in brain arteriovenous malformation	53
Targeting senescence mitigates the deleterious effects of midlife obesity on neurovascular function by partially restoring blood–brain barrier integrity and neurovascular coupling	49
Post-stroke brain can be protected by modulating the lncRNA FosDT	45
Blood-brain barrier disruption imaging in postoperative cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome using DCE-MRI	44
Impact of hypertension on cerebral small vessel disease: A post-mortem study of microvascular pathology from normal-appearing white matter into white matter hyperintensities	42
SPI1 promotes endothelial cell ferroptosis and intracranial aneurysm progression via EP300-mediated FOSL2 acetylation	42
Targeted capillary photothrombosis via multiphoton excitation of Rose Bengal	41
Spreading depolarization: A wave that precedes and drives cerebral ischemic cell death—Target for neuroprotection	40
Quantitative susceptibility mapping of the brain is associated with inflammatory changes in Alzheimer’s disease related areas	40
The role and mechanism of lysyl hydroxylase 1 (LH1) in vascular lesions in hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage	38
Critical role of Slc22a8 in maintaining blood-brain barrier integrity after experimental cerebral ischemia-reperfusion	38
Brain & Brain pet 2025 Abstracts	37
Baseline CBV-normalized BOLD fMRI of visual stimulation in awake vs. anesthetized mice	37

Dynamic neuroreceptor positron emission tomography in non-anesthetized rats using point source based motion correction: A feasibility study with [ ¹¹	36
Post cardiac arrest physical exercise mitigates cell death in the septal and thalamic nuclei and ameliorates contextual fear conditioning deficits in rats	35
Temperature dysregulation during therapeutic hypothermia predicts long-term outcome in neonates with HIE	35
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	35
Nogo-A is secreted in extracellular vesicles, occurs in blood and can influence vascular permeability	33
RNF213 variant and autophagic impairment: A pivotal link to endothelial dysfunction in moyamoya disease	33
Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 mediates cerebral ischemia-induced astrocytic reactivity	32