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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions	1074
Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19	883
Parameterizing neural power spectra into periodic and aperiodic components	846
Synergy between amyloid-β and tau in Alzheimer’s disease	574
Disease-associated astrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease and aging	514
Transcriptome-scale spatial gene expression in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex	412
Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence	356
Topographic organization of the human subcortex unveiled with functional connectivity gradients	304
The extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists	304
Single-cell profiling of myeloid cells in glioblastoma across species and disease stage reveals macrophage competition and specialization	287
The S1 protein of SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood–brain barrier in mice	280
Neuroinflammatory astrocyte subtypes in the mouse brain	276
Single-nucleus transcriptomics of the prefrontal cortex in major depressive disorder implicates oligodendrocyte precursor cells and excitatory neurons	259
Faulty autolysosome acidification in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models induces autophagic build-up of Aβ in neurons, yielding senile plaques	252
Single-cell atlas of early human brain development highlights heterogeneity of human neuroepithelial cells and early radial glia	245
Considering sex as a biological variable will require a global shift in science culture	242
Revisiting the neurovascular unit	242
Molecular characterization of selectively vulnerable neurons in Alzheimer’s disease	232
Genome-wide meta-analysis of problematic alcohol use in 435,563 individuals yields insights into biology and relationships with other traits	226
An expanded set of genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank	212
Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in >1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions	205
Motor learning promotes remyelination via new and surviving oligodendrocytes	204
Large-scale deep multi-layer analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals strong proteomic disease-related changes not observed at the RNA level	202
Long-term maturation of human cortical organoids matches key early postnatal transitions	191
Brain capillary pericytes exert a substantial but slow influence on blood flow	183

Deschloroclozapine, a potent and selective chemogenetic actuator enables rapid neuronal and behavioral modulations in mice and monkeys	183
Microglia phagocytose myelin sheaths to modify developmental myelination	172
A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types	171
Brain organoids for the study of human neurobiology at the interface of in vitro and in vivo	171
Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain	165
AAV capsid variants with brain-wide transgene expression and decreased liver targeting after intravenous delivery in mouse and marmoset	164
Astrocytes contribute to remote memory formation by modulating hippocampal–cortical communication during learning	164
Genome-wide CRISPRi/a screens in human neurons link lysosomal failure to ferroptosis	164
Edge-centric functional network representations of human cerebral cortex reveal overlapping system-level architecture	161
The SARS-CoV-2 main protease Mpro causes microvascular brain pathology by cleaving NEMO in brain endothelial cells	160
Overexpression of schizophrenia susceptibility factor human complement C4A promotes excessive synaptic loss and behavioral changes in mice	160
Single-cell genomic profiling of human dopamine neurons identifies a population that selectively degenerates in Parkinson’s disease	157
Social touch promotes interfemale communication via activation of parvocellular oxytocin neurons	154
Quantifying behavior to understand the brain	152
Severe reactive astrocytes precipitate pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease via H2O2− production	151
Interplay between persistent activity and activity-silent dynamics in the prefrontal cortex underlies serial biases in working memory	149
Reduced C9ORF72 function exacerbates gain of toxicity from ALS/FTD-causing repeat expansion in C9orf72	147
Diversification of molecularly defined myenteric neuron classes revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing	146
Profiling peripheral nerve macrophages reveals two macrophage subsets with distinct localization, transcriptome and response to injury	143
A genetically encoded sensor for measuring serotonin dynamics	142
Revealing the structure of pharmacobehavioral space through motion sequencing	140
Alzheimer’s-associated PLCγ2 is a signaling node required for both TREM2 function and the inflammatory response in human microglia	139
Regulation of autism-relevant behaviors by cerebellar–prefrontal cortical circuits	136
Microglia facilitate repair of demyelinated lesions via post-squalene sterol synthesis	134
Viral manipulation of functionally distinct interneurons in mice, non-human primates and humans	133
Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior	133
Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex	131
Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger	129
Neural mechanisms of aggression across species	129
Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction	128
A massive 7T fMRI dataset to bridge cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence	127
CNS fibroblasts form a fibrotic scar in response to immune cell infiltration	121
Active dendritic currents gate descending cortical outputs in perception	121
Tau accumulation in astrocytes of the dentate gyrus induces neuronal dysfunction and memory deficits in Alzheimer’s disease	119
Fully defined human pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia and tri-culture system model C3 production in Alzheimer’s disease	118
Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models	117
The claustrum coordinates cortical slow-wave activity	115
Recent advances in neurotechnologies with broad potential for neuroscience research	114
Diversity and dynamism in the cerebellum	112
High-fat food biases hypothalamic and mesolimbic expression of consummatory drives	111
Burst-dependent synaptic plasticity can coordinate learning in hierarchical circuits	110
Large-scale neural recordings with single neuron resolution using Neuropixels probes in human cortex	109
Computational models link cellular mechanisms of neuromodulation to large-scale neural dynamics	108
Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of the adult mouse spinal cord reveals molecular diversity of autonomic and skeletal motor neurons	108
Issues and recommendations from the OHBM COBIDAS MEEG committee for reproducible EEG and MEG research	108
Identification of neural oscillations and epileptiform changes in human brain organoids	107
Transcriptomic organization of the human brain in post-traumatic stress disorder	103
Single-cell profiling of CNS border compartment leukocytes reveals that B cells and their progenitors reside in non-diseased meninges	102
Prefrontal–amygdala circuits in social decision-making	101
Genomic atlas of the proteome from brain, CSF and plasma prioritizes proteins implicated in neurological disorders	100

Wireless multilateral devices for optogenetic studies of individual and social behaviors	98
Spatial and cell type transcriptional landscape of human cerebellar development	98
Anatomically segregated basal ganglia pathways allow parallel behavioral modulation	98
Gain of toxic function by long-term AAV9-mediated SMN overexpression in the sensorimotor circuit	97
Cerebrospinal fluid regulates skull bone marrow niches via direct access through dural channels	96
A circadian rhythm-gated subcortical pathway for nighttime-light-induced depressive-like behaviors in mice	96
Orexin signaling in GABAergic lateral habenula neurons modulates aggressive behavior in male mice	95
Three-dimensional genome restructuring across timescales of activity-induced neuronal gene expression	95
Neuronal ApoE upregulates MHC-I expression to drive selective neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease	94
Challenges and future directions for representations of functional brain organization	94
A prefrontal–paraventricular thalamus circuit requires juvenile social experience to regulate adult sociability in mice	93
Live-imaging of astrocyte morphogenesis and function in zebrafish neural circuits	91
Dense neuronal reconstruction through X-ray holographic nano-tomography	91
Brainstem neurons that command mammalian locomotor asymmetries	91
Memory-enhancing properties of sleep depend on the oscillatory amplitude of norepinephrine	91
General anesthetics activate a potent central pain-suppression circuit in the amygdala	91