OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 89. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy	419
Salty licorice taste receptor	410
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	409
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	364
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	341
Maybe too much of a good thing in gene therapy	325
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	304
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	278
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	271
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex	260
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	260
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	255
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways	232
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	225
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	212
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	209
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy	200
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	182
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	181
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties	179
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	179
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	178
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	176
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan	175
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	168

Revisiting the neurovascular unit	166
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	166
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	162
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	159
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	155
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	154
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	154
Computational models link cellular mechanisms of neuromodulation to large-scale neural dynamics	152
Guest star in OCD	151
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	151
COVID-19 and brain aging	148
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome	147
How cancer and cortex collude	146
Lessons from resilience	144
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	143
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	142
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	141
A role for the cortex in sleep–wake regulation	138
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	137
A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging	137
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect	134
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	132
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	132
Remembering Stephen T. Warren, a pillar of neurogenetics (1953–2021)	128
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	126
Aversion crosses over	125
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements	123
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	122
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	120
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	119
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	117
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	114
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition	114
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	112
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	110
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	110
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience	110
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	108
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	107
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	107
Interactions between ALS-linked FUS and nucleoporins are associated with defects in the nucleocytoplasmic transport pathway	105
Dopamine drives mating via cAMP	104
Translation for transmission	103
Cerebellar organoids get active	103
In conversation with Corey Harwell	103
Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement	102
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys	102
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety	102
How to build a cognitive map	100
Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders	99

Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state	99
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	98
Real control in virtual rats	98
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	98
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit	96
Commensals boost nerve regeneration	96
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time	95
Reduced sociability and social agency encoding in adult Shank3-mutant mice are restored through gene re-expression in real time	94
Causal reductionism and causal structures	91
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice	91
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice	90
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue	89
Dynamics of mature myelin	89
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin	89
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury	89