OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Neuroscience is 90. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Maladaptive myelination promotes seizure progression in generalized epilepsy	465
Salty licorice taste receptor	450
Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks	442
Non-REM sleep substates separate old and new memories	438
Alcohol’s necessary accessory	382
Positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging methods and datasets within the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN)	376
Neural basis of anticipation and premature impulsive action in the frontal cortex	328
Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit	290
Daily feeding entrains hunger-sensing neurons	288
Emergence of consciousness from anesthesia through ubiquitin degradation of KCC2 in the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus	278
Targeting pathological cells with senolytic drugs reduces seizures in neurodevelopmental mTOR-related epilepsy	276
The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex	246
Neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla mediate descending pain control	230
Altered adult neurogenesis and gliogenesis in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy	222
Differential replay of reward and punishment paths predicts approach and avoidance	217
Constraints on the subsecond modulation of striatal dynamics by physiological dopamine signaling	201
Pervasive environmental chemicals impair oligodendrocyte development	201
Messenger RNA transport on lysosomal vesicles maintains axonal mitochondrial homeostasis and prevents axonal degeneration	199
Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience	198
Candelabrum cells are ubiquitous cerebellar cortex interneurons with specialized circuit properties	194
Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation	193
Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex	192
Latent neural population dynamics underlying breathing, opioid-induced respiratory depression and gasping	188
Tau filaments are tethered within brain extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease	180
Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience	178

Neurovascular dysfunction in GRN-associated frontotemporal dementia identified by single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human cerebral cortex	177
Context-dependent representations of movement in Drosophila dopaminergic reinforcement pathways	177
Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan	174
Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning	169
A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood	169
Revisiting the neurovascular unit	164
Guest star in OCD	161
Computational strategies for deliberative thought	160
COVID-19 and brain aging	157
Organizing principles of the prefrontal cortex from a single-neuron projectome	157
How cancer and cortex collude	156
Lessons from resilience	151
Widespread brain–body integration during changes of arousal	146
A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs	142
A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience	141
Remembering Stephen T. Warren, a pillar of neurogenetics (1953–2021)	140
Marc G. Caron (1946–2022)	138
Retraction Note: From neurons to microglia, with complements	134
Aversion crosses over	134
Negative self-experiences shape responses to others’ emotional states	132
Glioblastoma–neuron networks	132
Voltage imaging reveals hippocampal inhibitory dynamics shaping pyramidal memory-encoding sequences	131
A rapid and bidirectional reporter of neural activity reveals neural correlates of social behaviors in Drosophila	131
Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience	130
Evidence for trans-synaptic propagation of oligomeric tau in human progressive supranuclear palsy	128
The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations	127
Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning	127
Spatially resolved gene signatures of white matter lesion progression in multiple sclerosis	126
Aging and injury drive neuronal senescence in the dorsal root ganglia	123
A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards	121
Propagation of pathologic α-synuclein from kidney to brain may contribute to Parkinson’s disease	121
Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology	120
Antipsychotic drug efficacy correlates with the modulation of D1 rather than D2 receptor-expressing striatal projection neurons	119
A synergistic core for human brain evolution and cognition	116
Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization	114
Lipid-accumulated reactive astrocytes promote disease progression in epilepsy	114
A role for the cortex in sleep–wake regulation	113
A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging	112
Astrocyte transcriptomic changes along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease	111
Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity	111
Common and stimulus-type-specific brain representations of negative affect	110
Long-term labeling and imaging of synaptically connected neuronal networks in vivo using double-deletion-mutant rabies viruses	110
Derivation and transcriptional reprogramming of border-forming wound repair astrocytes after spinal cord injury or stroke in mice	108
Dopamine drives mating via cAMP	108
Translation for transmission	107
Cerebellar organoids get active	107
Causal reductionism and causal structures	106
In conversation with Corey Harwell	106
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state	105
Microglia contribute to the propagation of Aβ into unaffected brain tissue	105

Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys	100
Neurotransmitter phenotype switching by spinal excitatory interneurons regulates locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury	100
A D2 to D1 shift in dopaminergic inputs to midbrain 5-HT neurons causes anorexia in mice	99
How to build a cognitive map	99
Chronic brain recordings reveal objective biomarkers of chronic pain	97
Oligodendroglial metabolic support of myelinated axons driven by K+ dynamics	97
Real control in virtual rats	97
Commensals boost nerve regeneration	96
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time	95
Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety	94
Dynamics of mature myelin	92
Author Correction: Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice	92
Retrieval of conditioned immune response in male mice is mediated by an anterior–posterior insula circuit	91
Trans-Seq maps a selective mammalian retinotectal synapse instructed by Nephronectin	91
Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement	90