OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Progress in Neurobiology is 34. 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
Opposing effects of nicotine on hypothalamic arcuate nucleus POMC and NPY neurons	261
Editorial Board	227
Loss of TDP-43 promotes somatic CAG repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease knock-in mice	122
Perceptual hue, lightness, and chroma are represented in a multidimensional functional anatomical map in macaque V1	106
Social odors drive hippocampal CA2 place cell responses to social stimuli	104
NEIL3 shapes hippocampal network dynamics and fear memory through modulation of PV+ interneurons	96
Signal peptide peptidase-like 2b modulates the amyloidogenic pathway and exhibits an Aβ-dependent expression in Alzheimer's disease	81
Uncovering and leveraging the return of voluntary motor programs after paralysis using a bi-cortical neuroprosthesis	81
Trigeminal nerve stimulation restores hippocampal dopamine deficiency to promote cognitive recovery in traumatic brain injury	73
Editorial Board	72
Stimulus-driven rivalry among V1 neurons	62
Stress-induced heme metabolic disorder in peripheral B cells contributes to depressive-like behaviors in male mice	54
Immune response in retinal degenerative diseases – Time to rethink?	52
A common neural code for representing imagined and inferred tastes	50
Editorial Board	50
The VGLUT3 positive neurons of the median raphe region promote long-term spatial memory through time-dependent mechanisms	49
Control of goal-directed and inflexible actions by dorsal striatal melanocortin systems, in coordination with the central nucleus of the amygdala	49
A molecularly defined orbitofrontal cortical neuron population controls compulsive-like behavior, but not inflexible choice or habit	48
Manipulation of radixin phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens core modulates risky choice behavior	47
Pax3 induces target-specific reinnervation through axon collateral expression of PSA-NCAM	46
Corrigendum to “Anatomo-functional organization of insular networks: From sensory integration to behavioral control” [Prog. Neurobiol. 247 (2025) 102748]	46
Editorial Board	44
Loss of glycine receptors in the nucleus accumbens and ethanol reward in an Alzheimer´s Disease mouse model	44
Glycine and glycine transport control dendritic excitability and spiking	43
ERO1A inhibition mitigates neuronal ER stress and ameliorates UBQLN2ALS phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster	41

A tradeoff between efficiency and robustness in the hippocampal-neocortical memory network during human and rodent sleep	41
Editorial Board	40
The role of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors in Alzheimer’s disease: From pathophysiology to therapeutic approaches	40
Adverse and compensatory neurophysiological slowing in Parkinson’s disease	38
The hippocampus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, and episodic and semantic memory	38
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals ECM remodeling-tumor stiffness-FAK as a key driver of vestibular schwannoma progression	38
Astrocytic AT1R deficiency ameliorates Aβ-induced cognitive deficits and synaptotoxicity through β-arrestin2 signaling	37
Partial reprogramming by cyclical overexpression of Yamanaka factors improves pathological phenotypes of tauopathy mouse model of human Alzheimer's disease	36
Decoding stress granules dynamics: Implications for neurodegenerative disease	35