OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neuron is 79. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19, stress, and inequities in (neuro)science	844
Guiding axon regeneration: Instructions from blood vessels	415
An integrative view of the role of prefrontal cortex in consciousness	301
Protecting your gut feelings: How intestinal infections keep things moving	293
The behavioral relevance of a modular organization in the lateral habenula	277
Causal evidence for the processing of bodily self in the anterior precuneus	236
Dynamic assemblies of parvalbumin interneurons in brain oscillations	230
The hypothalamus coordinates diverse escape strategies from threat	212
Functional specificity of afferent connections in visual thalamus	209
Abundant Aβ fibrils in ultracentrifugal supernatants of aqueous extracts from Alzheimer’s disease brains	203
Delay tactics for action in the cortex	203
Mixed selectivity: Cellular computations for complexity	196
Tuning the neurogenesis channel	193
Passing the baton: Information transfer between neurons enables continuity of the decision process	193
Interneuron switching on and off across memory rhythms	192
Why study mechanisms of brain stimulation therapies? To modulate the right neurons, in the right way, at the right time	179
Interfer(on)ing with Zika virus	171
Panayiota Poirazi	168
Taking the parkin brakes off of neuronal NLRP3 drives inflammasome activation and neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease	160
Flexible recoding of visual input for memory storage	159
Multiscale imaging informs translational mouse modeling of neurological disease	155
Microglia are not necessary for maintenance of blood-brain barrier properties in health, but PLX5622 alters brain endothelial cholesterol metabolism	154
Does high-frequency stimulation of sensory axons break the causal link between pain relief and paresthesia?	153
Holographic stimulation of opposing amygdala ensembles bidirectionally modulates valence-specific behavior via mutual inhibition	146
Driving valence-specific behavior through single-cell resolution control in the amygdala	142

Primetime for microglia: When stress and infection collide	131
John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD (1946–2022)	129
The role of hippocampal KCNQ2 channel in antidepressant actions of ketamine	128
Brain-region-specific changes in neurons and glia and dysregulation of dopamine signaling in Grin2a mutant mice	126
Voltage imaging identifies spinal circuits that modulate locomotor adaptation in zebrafish	126
SexX matters when it comes to pain	126
Mentoring: A three-generation perspective	121
Dual metabotropic glutamate receptor signaling enables coordination of astrocyte and neuron activity in developing sensory domains	120
A frontopolar-temporal circuit determines the impact of social information in macaque decision making	119
Cryo-EM structures of pathogenic fibrils and their impact on neurodegenerative disease research	118
Claire Wyart	115
Mortimer Mishkin (1926–2021): A life of science with humility and grace	113
A precise and adaptive neural mechanism for predictive temporal processing in the frontal cortex	109
Nuclear aggregates of NONO/SFPQ and A-to-I-edited RNA in Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies	108
Building a science of human pleasure, meaning making, and flourishing	106
Vivien Chevaleyre (1973–2024)	104
The neural architecture of theory-based reinforcement learning	103
Of pride and groom: The gains and limits of studying the neuroanatomy of rodent self-grooming in translational research	102
Putting the brakes on synchrony: VIP interneurons tune visually evoked rhythmic activity	101
Lawrence Baruch Cohen (1939–2023)	101
A hunger for warmth	100
Time in the brain: Encoding does not mean perceiving	100
Sharing is caring: The benefits of distributing protein aggregates among microglial networks	99
Spliceosomal GTPase Eftud2 deficiency-triggered ferroptosis leads to Purkinje cell degeneration	99
Functional specificity of recurrent inhibition in visual cortex	98
Marjorie Gondré-Lewis	97
Hanna and Antonio Damasio	97
Molecular and circuit determinants in the globus pallidus mediating control of cocaine-induced behavioral plasticity	97
Jonathan Kipnis	96
Unpacking self-ordered sequences	94
Remyelination by preexisting oligodendrocytes: Glass half full or half empty?	92
In vivo photopharmacology with light-activated opioid drugs	91
The cerebellum tells the amygdala, “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action”	91
Interoception of breathing and its relationship with anxiety	90
Premotor activity in the claustrum	89
Thalamic bursting and the role of timing and synchrony in thalamocortical signaling in the awake mouse	89
Molecular neuroscience community shares perspectives	89
Uncovering the HARbingers of human brain evolution	88
TRPV1 analgesics disturb core body temperature via a biased allosteric mechanism involving conformations distinct from that for nociception	87
Out of LINE: Transposons, genome integrity, and neurodegeneration	87
Treatment of concomitant myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome with autologous CD19-targeted CAR T cells	87
Restoration of a paraventricular thalamo-accumbal behavioral suppression circuit prevents reinstatement of heroin seeking	87
Transcriptional programming of social hierarchy	86
Physical basis for distinct basal and mechanically gated activity of the human K+ channel TRAAK	86
Signature morpho-electric, transcriptomic, and dendritic properties of human layer 5 neocortical pyramidal neurons	85
Seeing stars: Astroglia modulate visual circuits during behavioral-state transitions	85
Weighing the evidence in sharp-wave ripples	84
Next-generation brain observatories	84
Sodium-calcium exchanger-3 regulates pain “wind-up”: From human psychophysics to spinal mechanisms	83
Reinstating olfactory bulb-derived limbic gamma oscillations alleviates depression-like behavioral deficits in rodents	82

Using focal cooling to link neural dynamics and behavior	82
Microbiota-brain interactions: Moving toward mechanisms in model organisms	81
C9orf72 deficiency promotes microglial-mediated synaptic loss in aging and amyloid accumulation	80
Rev or restrain: Mechanisms of human-specific synaptic neoteny	79
Alternating sources of perisomatic inhibition during behavior	79
A hypothalamic node for the cyclical control of female sexual rejection	79