OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 93. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy	550
Salty licorice taste receptor	508
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	437
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	424
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	410
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	339
Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape	335
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties	329
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	304
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	264
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	263
Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment	256
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	234
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	230
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	229
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	221
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	219
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	219
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	215
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	203
A myeloid trisomy 21-associated gene variant is protective from Alzheimer’s disease	200
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	200
The neuronal chromatin landscape in brains from individuals with schizophrenia is linked to early fetal development	199
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	197
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	191

Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy	187
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	183
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics	183
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan	182
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	178
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	176
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	173
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	171
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex	157
Guest star in OCD	156
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	155
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome	151
COVID-19 and brain aging	150
How cancer and cortex collude	147
Lessons from resilience	147
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements	143
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	141
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	140
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	140
Aversion crosses over	139
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal	137
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	134
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	133
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD	130
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	129
Astrocytes make room for microglia	129
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	126
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	125
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	125
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences	125
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	124
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	123
Large-scale drug screening in iPSC-derived motor neurons from sporadic ALS patients identifies a potential combinatorial therapy	117
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing	115
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	114
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs	114
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	114
TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD	113
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition	112
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	111
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia	109
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes	107
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	107
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	105
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	105
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect	105
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	104
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy	104
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience	104
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	102

In conversation with Corey Harwell	101
Translation for transmission	100
Cerebellar organoids get active	100
Real control in virtual rats	99
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	99
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time	97
Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling after spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived neural stem/progenitor cell migration and promotes functional recovery	97
Flipping APOE to reverse Alzheimer’s disease traits	97
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice	97
Genetic targeting of premyelinating oligodendrocytes reveals activity-dependent myelination mechanisms	96
Big data for classifying ASD	96
Commensals boost nerve regeneration	95
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	95
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit	94
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin	94
A glial circadian gene expression atlas reveals cell-type and disease-specific reprogramming in response to amyloid pathology or aging	94
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates	94
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury	93
Dynamics of mature myelin	93
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys	93