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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Midbrain KCC2 downregulation: Implications for stress-related and substance use behaviors	177
Editorial Board	164
Nonlinear slow-timescale mechanisms in synaptic plasticity	160
Reconciling neuronal representations of schema, abstract task structure, and categorization under cognitive maps in the entorhinal-hippocampal-frontal circuits	119
Editorial Board	104
Surprise and novelty in the brain	101
Accelerated brain aging with opioid misuse and HIV: New insights on the role of glially derived pro-inflammation mediators and neuronal chloride homeostasis	85
Transient oscillations as computations for cognition: Analysis, modeling and function	75
Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior	73
The visual evoked potential is a sensitive and powerful measure of experience-dependent visual cortical plasticity in mice	70
Signaling in autism: Relevance to nutrients and sex	67
A metabolic perspective to sleep genetics	66
Ethological computational psychiatry: Challenges and opportunities	61
T cell surveillance of Toxoplasma gondii: Basic insights into how T cells operate in the central nervous system	59
Dynamic skin behaviors in cephalopods	57
Cell type specificity for circuit output in the midbrain dopaminergic system	57
Fast Hebbian plasticity and working memory	56
New insights into axonal regulators of dopamine transmission in health and disease	50
From seconds to days: Neural plasticity viewed through a lipid lens	49
Trans-synaptic functions of non-canonical ionotropic glutamate receptors in circuit wiring and plasticity	46
The basal ganglia are a target for sensorimotor domains in posterior parietal, premotor, and motor cortex in primates	46
What are the functions of primary visual cortex (V1)?	46
The human brain: Medicine’s last frontier	43
Proteomics-based synapse characterization: From proteins to circuits	42
Mechanisms of NMDA receptor regulation	42

Visuomotor coordination and cognitive capacity in blindsight	42
The neural basis of tactile texture perception	42
Setting the stage for statistical learning? Sensitivity to environmental statistics in early sensory processing	40
Neurotransmitter and neuropeptide regulation of gut immunity	40
A neuroethological view of the multifaceted sensory influences on birdsong	39
Release your inhibitions: The cell biology of GABAergic postsynaptic plasticity	39
How to discover novel genes that cause Parkinson’s disease	38
“Arc – A viral vector of memory and synaptic plasticity”	38
Modulation of hippocampal plasticity in learning and memory	38
Oligodendrocyte-derived transcellular signaling regulates axonal energy metabolism	37
Ready or not: Neural mechanisms regulating female sexual behavior	37
Molecular basis of somatosensation in insects	37