OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 94. 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
Salty licorice taste receptor	706
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	585
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	416
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	339
A myeloid trisomy 21-associated gene variant is protective from Alzheimer’s disease	320
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	297
The neuronal chromatin landscape in brains from individuals with schizophrenia is linked to early fetal development	287
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	268
Author Correction: Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development	259
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	252
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	250
Author Correction: Encapsulated therapeutic stem cells implanted in the tumor resection cavity induce cell death in gliomas	249
Amyloid-β-driven glymphatic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease model mice is driven by Ca2+-mediated increases in astrocytic cholesterol	237
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	227
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	225
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	225
The choreography of cerebral vasculature development	222
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep	221
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	202
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	201
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex	199
Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape	198
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	191
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	191
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	191

Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	177
Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment	172
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	172
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	172
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	167
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	162
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	161
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	157
A prefrontal cortex map based on single-neuron activity	152
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics	147
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	147
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	145
Guest star in OCD	145
COVID-19 and brain aging	142
How cancer and cortex collude	141
Lessons from resilience	139
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	139
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	132
An organoid biobank for neurodevelopmental disorders	129
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal	129
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	129
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	128
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	128
TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD	125
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	125
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	125
CRISPRi screening in cultured human astrocytes uncovers distal enhancers controlling genes dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease	124
Neuroimmune interferon signals sustain arthritis pain	123
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	121
Screening for photoreceptor survival	120
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences	120
Astrocytes make room for microglia	120
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy	120
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	118
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	118
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs	118
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	118
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	118
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing	116
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD	115
Aversion crosses over	114
Psychedelic research must be grounded in pharmacology	114
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	113
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	113
Spatial proteomic analysis in human Alzheimer’s disease brains enables identification of microenvironment-dependent microglial cell states	112
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	112
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia	110
Large-scale drug screening in iPSC-derived motor neurons from sporadic ALS patients identifies a potential combinatorial therapy	110
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	108
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	106

Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	105
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes	105
In conversation with Corey Harwell	104
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	104
Cerebellar organoids get active	102
Translation for transmission	102
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	101
Real control in virtual rats	101
Flipping APOE to reverse Alzheimer’s disease traits	100
Commensals boost nerve regeneration	99
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	98
Big data for classifying ASD	98
Comparing primate cerebellums	98
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates	97
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys	97
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice	97
Dynamics of mature myelin	96
Impaired capillary–venous drainage contributes to gliosis and demyelination in mouse white matter during aging	96
Increased neural excitability and glioma synaptic activity drives glioma proliferation in human cortex	95