OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Neuroscience is 61. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Offspring attachment	416
Sensory cortex quashes subcortical escape instinct	409
Give and take	304
(New neurons) singing in the avian brain	297
Avoiding interpretational pitfalls in fluorescence imaging of the brain	292
Quantifying postsynaptic receptor dynamics: insights into synaptic function	289
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures	232
Environmental decision neuroscience connects the brain to climate action	218
The neuronal circuits and cellular encoding of thermosensation	198
When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis	197
Neuroferroptosis in health and diseases	194
The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain	184
Rewarding astrocytes	178
The power of direct observation: discovery of REM sleep	176
Inflammation alters cognition after cancer immunotherapy	174
How witnessing distress alters resilience	157
From local APP expression to network dysfunction	157
Indirect neurogenesis in space and time	156
Brain mitochondria as key drivers of cognition and behaviour	153
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms	146
Understanding neural circuit function through synaptic engineering	139
The cognitive impact of light: illuminating ipRGC circuit mechanisms	135
Astrocyte engulfment	132
Cilia make connections	126
Benefit worth the cost	121

Tightening synaptic relations	120
Causal prominence for neuroscience	119
Network models to enhance the translational impact of cross-species studies	119
The neural bases for timing of durations	117
Consequences of trisomy 21 for brain development in Down syndrome	117
Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications	111
Post-injury pain and behaviour: a control theory perspective	110
Structure–function coupling in macroscale human brain networks	108
Neuronal maturation and axon regeneration: unfixing circuitry to enable repair	104
Striatal shaping of hypothalamic control	101
To fire or not to fire: decisions mediated by localized processing and dendritic spikes	100
A metabotropic receptor for glycine	99
Opening the gate to regeneration	95
Reply to ‘The language network is topographically diverse and driven by rapid syntactic inferences’	93
Reply to ‘Fear, anxiety and the functional architecture of the human central extended amygdala’	92
Cueing motivation	90
The short and long pathways to memory	89
Central neural circuits underlying itch sensation	86
The emergence of NeuroAI: bridging neuroscience and artificial intelligence	84
Reply to ‘Boundary issues for multidimensional frameworks of representation’	82
Redefining the central pattern generator for vertebrate locomotion	82
Reconstructing computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural networks	78
The brain’s action-mode network	74
Early adversity alters brain architecture and increases susceptibility to mental health disorders	74
Peroxidation protectors	72
Brain on standby — how torpor made ‘tauopathy’ reversible	72
The plasticitome of cortical interneurons	71
Using human 3D organoid models to gain mechanistic insight in motor neuron diseases	71
From compulsivity to compulsion: the neural basis of compulsive disorders	69
Examining the biological causes of eating disorders to inform treatment strategies	65
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence	65
Endothelial cells as key players in cerebral small vessel disease	64
CaMKII: a central molecular organizer of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory	63
Structural MRI of brain similarity networks	63
Switching into a dissociated state	61
Reply to ‘Language is widely distributed throughout the brain’	61