OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 91. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy	527
Salty licorice taste receptor	495
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	421
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	410
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	392
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	327
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	324
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	317
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	296
Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics	262
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	251
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	240
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	223
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy	221
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	215
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	215
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	213
Brain tumors induce widespread disruption of calvarial bone and alteration of skull marrow immune landscape	211
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	208
The neuronal chromatin landscape in brains from individuals with schizophrenia is linked to early fetal development	194
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	193
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	192
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	191
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	188
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	188

Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	185
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	174
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	174
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan	174
Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex	173
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	172
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties	170
Guest star in OCD	168
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	165
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome	152
COVID-19 and brain aging	152
How cancer and cortex collude	146
Lessons from resilience	145
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements	144
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	142
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs	140
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	140
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	139
Aversion crosses over	136
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal	135
Aberrant splicing exonizes C9orf72 repeat expansion in ALS/FTD	131
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	131
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy	130
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	128
Astrocytes make room for microglia	128
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing	126
Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific gene expression but convergent biological processes	125
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	122
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences	122
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	122
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	122
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	121
Hypoxia ameliorates neurodegeneration and movement disorder in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	118
TDP-43 loss induces cryptic polyadenylation in ALS/FTD	115
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	114
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	113
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	113
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience	112
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	111
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	109
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	107
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition	107
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	107
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	104
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia	102
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	102
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect	101
In conversation with Corey Harwell	100
Translation for transmission	99
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	98

Cerebellar organoids get active	98
Real control in virtual rats	97
Impaired capillary–venous drainage contributes to gliosis and demyelination in mouse white matter during aging	97
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice	96
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time	96
Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling after spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived neural stem/progenitor cell migration and promotes functional recovery	96
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety	95
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit	94
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	93
Big data for classifying ASD	93
A glial circadian gene expression atlas reveals cell-type and disease-specific reprogramming in response to amyloid pathology or aging	93
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state	92
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates	92
Dynamics of mature myelin	92
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury	92
Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys	91