OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Neurobiology is 37. 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
Midbrain KCC2 downregulation: Implications for stress-related and substance use behaviors	181
Editorial Board	176
Editorial Board	170
Signaling in autism: Relevance to nutrients and sex	133
Accelerated brain aging with opioid misuse and HIV: New insights on the role of glially derived pro-inflammation mediators and neuronal chloride homeostasis	111
Transient oscillations as computations for cognition: Analysis, modeling and function	111
A metabolic perspective to sleep genetics	91
Reconciling neuronal representations of schema, abstract task structure, and categorization under cognitive maps in the entorhinal-hippocampal-frontal circuits	81
Nonlinear slow-timescale mechanisms in synaptic plasticity	78
Ethological computational psychiatry: Challenges and opportunities	71
The visual evoked potential is a sensitive and powerful measure of experience-dependent visual cortical plasticity in mice	70
Surprise and novelty in the brain	68
Weaving the rainbow: Color-blind color matching in cephalopods	64
Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior	60
T cell surveillance of Toxoplasma gondii: Basic insights into how T cells operate in the central nervous system	58
New insights into axonal regulators of dopamine transmission in health and disease	57
The human brain: Medicine’s last frontier	52
The basal ganglia are a target for sensorimotor domains in posterior parietal, premotor, and motor cortex in primates	51
What are the functions of primary visual cortex (V1)?	48
Trans-synaptic functions of non-canonical ionotropic glutamate receptors in circuit wiring and plasticity	46
Visuomotor coordination and cognitive capacity in blindsight	45
Proteomics-based synapse characterization: From proteins to circuits	45
Cell type specificity for circuit output in the midbrain dopaminergic system	45
Neurotransmitter and neuropeptide regulation of gut immunity	44
Mechanisms of NMDA receptor regulation	44

Setting the stage for statistical learning? Sensitivity to environmental statistics in early sensory processing	43
From seconds to days: Neural plasticity viewed through a lipid lens	43
The neural basis of tactile texture perception	43
Fast Hebbian plasticity and working memory	42
The superior colliculus: New insights into an evolutionarily ancient structure	40
Dynamic skin behaviors in cephalopods	40
A neuroethological view of the multifaceted sensory influences on birdsong	39
Ready or not: Neural mechanisms regulating female sexual behavior	39
The zona incerta in control of novelty seeking and investigation across species	38
Molecular basis of somatosensation in insects	38
Oligodendrocyte-derived transcellular signaling regulates axonal energy metabolism	38
How to discover novel genes that cause Parkinson’s disease	38
Gut–brain axis in Alzheimer’s disease: neural and immune circuits linking peripheral dysbiosis to neurodegeneration	37