OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Neurobiology is 35. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	218
Accelerated brain aging with opioid misuse and HIV: New insights on the role of glially derived pro-inflammation mediators and neuronal chloride homeostasis	146
Nonlinear slow-timescale mechanisms in synaptic plasticity	139
The visual evoked potential is a sensitive and powerful measure of experience-dependent visual cortical plasticity in mice	131
A metabolic perspective to sleep genetics	116
Midbrain KCC2 downregulation: Implications for stress-related and substance use behaviors	91
Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior	85
Surprise and novelty in the brain	80
Signaling in autism: Relevance to nutrients and sex	69
Avian pallial circuits and cognition: A comparison to mammals	67
Biophysical models of intrinsic homeostasis: Firing rates and beyond	67
Transient oscillations as computations for cognition: Analysis, modeling and function	64
Statistical neuroscience in the single trial limit	62
Ethological computational psychiatry: Challenges and opportunities	61
Reconciling neuronal representations of schema, abstract task structure, and categorization under cognitive maps in the entorhinal-hippocampal-frontal circuits	58
The basal ganglia are a target for sensorimotor domains in posterior parietal, premotor, and motor cortex in primates	56
Visuomotor coordination and cognitive capacity in blindsight	56
Trans-synaptic functions of non-canonical ionotropic glutamate receptors in circuit wiring and plasticity	55
Proteomics-based synapse characterization: From proteins to circuits	52
From seconds to days: Neural plasticity viewed through a lipid lens	52
T cell surveillance of Toxoplasma gondii: Basic insights into how T cells operate in the central nervous system	51
Dynamic skin behaviors in cephalopods	50
New insights into axonal regulators of dopamine transmission in health and disease	47
Neurotransmitter and neuropeptide regulation of gut immunity	45
Cell type specificity for circuit output in the midbrain dopaminergic system	43

Mechanisms of NMDA receptor regulation	43
The neural basis of tactile texture perception	41
Fast Hebbian plasticity and working memory	41
Release your inhibitions: The cell biology of GABAergic postsynaptic plasticity	40
The superior colliculus: New insights into an evolutionarily ancient structure	40
Store-operated Ca2+ entry regulates neuronal gene expression and function	39
Molecular basis of somatosensation in insects	38
Ready or not: Neural mechanisms regulating female sexual behavior	37
A neuroethological view of the multifaceted sensory influences on birdsong	37
“Arc – A viral vector of memory and synaptic plasticity”	35
Oligodendrocyte-derived transcellular signaling regulates axonal energy metabolism	35