OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neuron is 86. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads	720
Astrocyte Crosstalk in CNS Inflammation	517
Neurodevelopment of the association cortices: Patterns, mechanisms, and implications for psychopathology	355
Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex in vivo	271
White matter aging drives microglial diversity	249
ALS Genetics: Gains, Losses, and Implications for Future Therapies	245
Beyond t test and ANOVA: applications of mixed-effects models for more rigorous statistical analysis in neuroscience research	244
Somatotopic Organization and Intensity Dependence in Driving Distinct NPY-Expressing Sympathetic Pathways by Electroacupuncture	215
The different autophagy degradation pathways and neurodegeneration	209
The neurobiology of long COVID	200
How Can Hearing Loss Cause Dementia?	194
SARM1 is a metabolic sensor activated by an increased NMN/NAD+ ratio to trigger axon degeneration	192
Enhancing myelin renewal reverses cognitive dysfunction in a murine model of Alzheimer’s disease	188
Early-life inflammation promotes depressive symptoms in adolescence via microglial engulfment of dendritic spines	183
Selective removal of astrocytic APOE4 strongly protects against tau-mediated neurodegeneration and decreases synaptic phagocytosis by microglia	178
Transcriptomic taxonomy and neurogenic trajectories of adult human, macaque, and pig hippocampal and entorhinal cells	176
Astrocytes and oligodendrocytes undergo subtype-specific transcriptional changes in Alzheimer’s disease	175
Behavior needs neural variability	175
LTP Induction Boosts Glutamate Spillover by Driving Withdrawal of Perisynaptic Astroglia	173
High-Contrast In Vivo Imaging of Tau Pathologies in Alzheimer’s and Non-Alzheimer’s Disease Tauopathies	170
Behaviorally consequential astrocytic regulation of neural circuits	166
ApoE Cascade Hypothesis in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias	161
Trem2 restrains the enhancement of tau accumulation and neurodegeneration by β-amyloid pathology	158
Apolipoprotein E: Structural Insights and Links to Alzheimer Disease Pathogenesis	157
Single-Cell Sequencing of Brain Cell Transcriptomes and Epigenomes	151

Emerging Microglia Biology Defines Novel Therapeutic Approaches for Alzheimer’s Disease	149
Single-nucleus transcriptome analysis reveals cell-type-specific molecular signatures across reward circuitry in the human brain	140
Shaping Neuronal Fate: Functional Heterogeneity of Direct Microglia-Neuron Interactions	140
Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks	138
Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions	137
The population doctrine in cognitive neuroscience	136
Virus exposure and neurodegenerative disease risk across national biobanks	134
20 years of the default mode network: A review and synthesis	132
Brain-behavior correlations: Two paths toward reliability	131
Transcriptional Programs of Circuit Assembly in the Drosophila Visual System	128
Tau aggregates are RNA-protein assemblies that mislocalize multiple nuclear speckle components	126
Area Postrema Cell Types that Mediate Nausea-Associated Behaviors	125
Mechanical Allodynia Circuitry in the Dorsal Horn Is Defined by the Nature of the Injury	120
Transformative Network Modeling of Multi-omics Data Reveals Detailed Circuits, Key Regulators, and Potential Therapeutics for Alzheimer’s Disease	118
Opposing Influence of Top-down and Bottom-up Input on Excitatory Layer 2/3 Neurons in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex	116
Integrative Benchmarking to Advance Neurally Mechanistic Models of Human Intelligence	116
Orthogonal representations for robust context-dependent task performance in brains and neural networks	114
Rewiring of human neurodevelopmental gene regulatory programs by human accelerated regions	113
In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world	113
Sensory Experience Engages Microglia to Shape Neural Connectivity through a Non-Phagocytic Mechanism	113
Hippocampal replay reflects specific past experiences rather than a plan for subsequent choice	112
Neural circuits of social behaviors: Innate yet flexible	110
Enhancer viruses for combinatorial cell-subclass-specific labeling	110
Unraveling circuits of visual perception and cognition through the superior colliculus	109
IL-23/IL-17A/TRPV1 axis produces mechanical pain via macrophage-sensory neuron crosstalk in female mice	109
Internal senses of the vagus nerve	108
Neuronal Activity Regulates Blood-Brain Barrier Efflux Transport through Endothelial Circadian Genes	104
A mechanism for inter-areal coherence through communication based on connectivity and oscillatory power	104
The mouse prefrontal cortex: Unity in diversity	104
Regional, Layer, and Cell-Type-Specific Connectivity of the Mouse Default Mode Network	102
Spontaneous activity in developing thalamic and cortical sensory networks	101
Neuronal Autophagy Regulates Presynaptic Neurotransmission by Controlling the Axonal Endoplasmic Reticulum	101
Continuous Whole-Body 3D Kinematic Recordings across the Rodent Behavioral Repertoire	100
Programming axonal mitochondrial maintenance and bioenergetics in neurodegeneration and regeneration	99
Macrophages transfer mitochondria to sensory neurons to resolve inflammatory pain	99
Hyperscanning: Beyond the Hype	98
The emergence and influence of internal states	97
Replay bursts in humans coincide with activation of the default mode and parietal alpha networks	96
Sleep—A brain-state serving systems memory consolidation	94
Resolving cellular and molecular diversity along the hippocampal anterior-to-posterior axis in humans	93
Behavioral, Physiological, and Neural Signatures of Surprise during Naturalistic Sports Viewing	93
Alternating sources of perisomatic inhibition during behavior	93
Large-Scale 3D Two-Photon Imaging of Molecularly Identified CA1 Interneuron Dynamics in Behaving Mice	92
Fast Recurrent Processing via Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Is Needed by the Primate Ventral Stream for Robust Core Visual Object Recognition	92
Translation of GGC repeat expansions into a toxic polyglycine protein in NIID defines a novel class of human genetic disorders: The polyG diseases	92
Regional Aβ-tau interactions promote onset and acceleration of Alzheimer’s disease tau spreading	91
Slow Drift of Neural Activity as a Signature of Impulsivity in Macaque Visual and Prefrontal Cortex	91
Rescuing Over-activated Microglia Restores Cognitive Performance in Juvenile Animals of the Dp(16) Mouse Model of Down Syndrome	91
Mediodorsal and Ventromedial Thalamus Engage Distinct L1 Circuits in the Prefrontal Cortex	90
Spatial goal coding in the hippocampal formation	90

A Disinhibitory Circuit for Contextual Modulation in Primary Visual Cortex	89
Specific populations of basal ganglia output neurons target distinct brain stem areas while collateralizing throughout the diencephalon	89
Medial and orbital frontal cortex in decision-making and flexible behavior	89
C9orf72 deficiency promotes microglial-mediated synaptic loss in aging and amyloid accumulation	89
Astrocytes Control Sensory Acuity via Tonic Inhibition in the Thalamus	88
Efficient optogenetic silencing of neurotransmitter release with a mosquito rhodopsin	88
Neuronal NLRP3 is a parkin substrate that drives neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease	88
An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics	87
Differential Emergence and Stability of Sensory and Temporal Representations in Context-Specific Hippocampal Sequences	87
Preexisting hippocampal network dynamics constrain optogenetically induced place fields	87
A sensitive GRAB sensor for detecting extracellular ATP in vitro and in vivo	87
Astrocytic ApoE reprograms neuronal cholesterol metabolism and histone-acetylation-mediated memory	86
The Anterior Cingulate Cortex Predicts Future States to Mediate Model-Based Action Selection	86
Stem cell-derived neurons reflect features of protein networks, neuropathology, and cognitive outcome of their aged human donors	86