OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neuropsychopharmacology is 42. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Academic ethics of mental health: the national black postdocs framework for the addressment of support for undergraduate and graduate trainees	604
Spotlighting SHAPERS: sex hormones associated with psychological and endocrine roles	281
Reply to Sun: Dynamic and accessible pharmacogenomic results: a response to pharmacogenomic testing for antidepressant treatment selection	280
Synaptic plasticity as a therapeutic target to modulate circuits in psychiatric disorders	156
IN MEMORIAM - Irwin Feinberg, MD	150
Endocannabinoid contributions to the perception of socially relevant, affective touch in humans	136
ACNP 60th Annual Meeting: Keyword Index	132
Reply to Ploderl and Hengartner: learning about the course of suicidal behavior but not about the effects of SSRIs	129
Sensitive period-regulating genetic pathways and exposure to adversity shape risk for depression	126
Prefrontal cortex interactions with the amygdala in primates	108
Mapping causal generators of appetitive motivation-hedonic functions in frontal cortex	101
Development disturbed: sex-specific transcriptional alterations in adolescent mice after perinatal fentanyl exposure	100
Prenatal opioid exposure inhibits microglial sculpting of the dopamine system selectively in adolescent male offspring	100
Pediatric PTSD is characterized by age- and sex-related abnormalities in structural connectivity	95
Dynamic activity of interpeduncular nucleus GABAergic neurons controls expression of nicotine withdrawal in male mice	85
How much is too much? New evidence associating low levels of prenatal alcohol exposure with brain differences in children	82
Morphine, the microbiome, and fatty acids: short chains make a big link in opioid reward	75
Rac1 GTPase activation impairs fear conditioning-induced structural changes in basolateral amygdala neurons and long-term fear memory formation	70
Cell type and sex specific insights into ventral striatum deep brain stimulation for cocaine relapse	70
Systemic kappa opioid receptor antagonism accelerates reinforcement learning via augmentation of novelty processing in male mice	70
A dubious distinction for females: rapid achievement of prefrontal cortical hypoactivity and cognitive deficit upon remifentanil self-administration	65
Serum amyloid P component (SAP) modulates antidepressant effects through promoting membrane insertion of the serotonin transporter	59
Using metabolic imaging to investigate neuromodulatory mechanisms of rTMS	57
Neurotrophic effects of potentiating gaba-mediated dendritic inhibition	55
Cocaine restricts nucleus accumbens feedforward drive through a monoamine-independent mechanism	54

Targeted and transient opening of the blood brain barrier in discrete neurocircuits and brain regions	53
Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) activity, hippocampal extracellular free water, and cognitive deficits are associated with each other in early phase psychosis	53
Medial orbitofrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens mediation in risk assessment behaviors in adolescents and adults	53
Beyond the hypothalamus: roles for insulin as a regulator of neurotransmission, motivation, and feeding	50
Exploring the role of mu opioid receptors in the therapeutic potential and abuse liability of (S)-ketamine	48
Functional connectivity of salience and affective networks among remitted depressed patients predicts episode recurrence	48
Foraging with the frontal cortex: A cross-species evaluation of reward-guided behavior	47
Sex-specific nicotine sensitization and imprinting of self-administration in rats inform GWAS findings on human addiction phenotypes	47
Does acute stress play a role in the lasting therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs?	46
Increasing ecological validity in neuropsychopharmacology research on the relationship between alcohol use and uncertain stressors	45
Misconfigured striatal connectivity profiles in smokers	45
Deficits in integrative NMDA receptors caused by Grin1 disruption can be rescued in adulthood	45
Unique and joint associations of polygenic risk for major depression and opioid use disorder with endogenous opioid system function	44
Inhibition of striatal indirect pathway during second postnatal week leads to long-lasting deficits in motivated behavior	44
Leveraging AI to predict substance use disorder treatment outcomes	43
ACNP 62nd Annual Meeting: Keyword Index	43
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation’s philanthropic support for neuropsychiatric research	42