OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Neuroscience is 19. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective	482
The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world	377
Cognitive and behavioural flexibility: neural mechanisms and clinical considerations	306
Theories of consciousness	286
Environmental influences on the pace of brain development	261
The probabilistic model of Alzheimer disease: the amyloid hypothesis revised	250
If deep learning is the answer, what is the question?	230
Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms	208
The molecular biology of FMRP: new insights into fragile X syndrome	205
The mechanosensory neurons of touch and their mechanisms of activation	193
Mechanisms governing activity-dependent synaptic pruning in the developing mammalian CNS	192
Music in the brain	172
Formation and integration of new neurons in the adult hippocampus	169
Astrocyte contribution to dysfunction, risk and progression in neurodegenerative disorders	166
Spatial and temporal scales of dopamine transmission	159
CaMKII: a central molecular organizer of synaptic plasticity, learning and memory	150
Causal mapping of human brain function	149
Encouraging an excitable brain state: mechanisms of brain repair in stroke	135
Triad of TDP43 control in neurodegeneration: autoregulation, localization and aggregation	132
Two views on the cognitive brain	121
Attractor and integrator networks in the brain	120
Untangling the cortico-thalamo-cortical loop: cellular pieces of a knotty circuit puzzle	119
Neurexins: molecular codes for shaping neuronal synapses	118
Pushing the frontiers: tools for monitoring neurotransmitters and neuromodulators	118
Linking interindividual variability in brain structure to behaviour	115

Spine dynamics in the brain, mental disorders and artificial neural networks	114
The structures and functions of correlations in neural population codes	114
Molecular mechanisms of brain water transport	113
Cannabis and synaptic reprogramming of the developing brain	113
Motor and non-motor circuit disturbances in early Parkinson disease: which happens first?	112
The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health	112
Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?	112
The functional organization of axonal mRNA transport and translation	111
Genomics, convergent neuroscience and progress in understanding autism spectrum disorder	110
Mechanisms of node of Ranvier assembly	107
Inhibitory stabilization and cortical computation	102
The neural mechanisms of manual dexterity	99
The role of GABAergic signalling in neurodevelopmental disorders	98
Bidirectional learning in upbound and downbound microzones of the cerebellum	98
Neural tuning and representational geometry	98
Networking brainstem and basal ganglia circuits for movement	98
Sodium channelopathies in neurodevelopmental disorders	96
Somatosensory and autonomic neuronal regulation of the immune response	96
Impaired insulin signalling and allostatic load in Alzheimer disease	95
Emerging roles for CNS fibroblasts in health, injury and disease	94
The stressed synapse 2.0: pathophysiological mechanisms in stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders	92
Energy matters: presynaptic metabolism and the maintenance of synaptic transmission	91
Null models in network neuroscience	90
Forgetting as a form of adaptive engram cell plasticity	88
The sympathetic nervous system in development and disease	87
Innovations and advances in modelling and measuring pain in animals	87
Navigating for reward	86
Towards real-world generalizability of a circuit for action-stopping	83
Advanced imaging and labelling methods to decipher brain cell organization and function	82
The physiological function of different voltage-gated sodium channels in pain	81
The macaque face patch system: a turtle’s underbelly for the brain	81
Neocortical circuits in pain and pain relief	78
The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing	78
State-dependent effects of neural stimulation on brain function and cognition	76
Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function	74
Advancing models of neural development with biomaterials	70
Channelopathies in fragile X syndrome	68
The neuroconnectionist research programme	68
A hypothalamomedullary network for physiological responses to environmental stresses	67
The role of inhibitory circuits in hippocampal memory processing	66
Aquaporin 4 and glymphatic flow have central roles in brain fluid homeostasis	64
Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits	63
Conformational strains of pathogenic amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases	60
A unifying perspective on neural manifolds and circuits for cognition	60
Brain vulnerability and viability after ischaemia	60
Homeobox genes and the specification of neuronal identity	60
Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping	59
On the relationship between maps and domains in inferotemporal cortex	57
Riding the crest to get a head: neural crest evolution in vertebrates	57
Mobile cognition: imaging the human brain in the ‘real world’	56

Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease	56
Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model	49
Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications	49
A tripartite view of the posterior cingulate cortex	48
The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system	48
GABA tone regulation and its cognitive functions in the brain	46
The grid code for ordered experience	46
Alternative splicing in neurodegenerative disease and the promise of RNA therapies	45
Development, wiring and function of dopamine neuron subtypes	44
Shaping the brain vasculature in development and disease in the single-cell era	44
Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex	44
Genetic mosaicism in the human brain: from lineage tracing to neuropsychiatric disorders	44
A neuropeptide code for itch	42
The why behind the high: determinants of neurocognition during acute cannabis exposure	41
Evolution of central neural circuits: state of the art and perspectives	39
Decoding cognition from spontaneous neural activity	39
From cognitive maps to spatial schemas	38
Super-resolution microscopy: a closer look at synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer disease	38
TRP channels: a journey towards a molecular understanding of pain	37
The neural bases for timing of durations	37
Local modulation by presynaptic receptors controls neuronal communication and behaviour	34
Priority coding in the visual system	34
Basal forebrain cholinergic signalling: development, connectivity and roles in cognition	34
Connectome-based modelling of neurodegenerative diseases: towards precision medicine and mechanistic insight	32
Cell type-specific roles of APOE4 in Alzheimer disease	31
Assessments of dentate gyrus function: discoveries and debates	30
Multiregion neuronal activity: the forest and the trees	30
Neural signalling of gut mechanosensation in ingestive and digestive processes	30
The plasticitome of cortical interneurons	29
Neuroimmune mechanisms and therapies mediating post-ischaemic brain injury and repair	29
Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models	28
Central regulation of stress-evoked peripheral immune responses	25
How mechanisms of stem cell polarity shape the human cerebral cortex	24
The neural basis of sugar preference	24
Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence	24
Step by step: cells with multiple functions in cortical circuit assembly	22
Sleep and circadian rhythmicity as entangled processes serving homeostasis	21
Neurophysiological mechanisms of error monitoring in human and non-human primates	20
Defensive responses: behaviour, the brain and the body	20
Reconstructing computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural networks	20
Quantifying postsynaptic receptor dynamics: insights into synaptic function	20
The transition to motherhood: linking hormones, brain and behaviour	19
Preparatory activity and the expansive null-space	19
Modelling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in rodents	19
The Genetically Informed Neurobiology of Addiction (GINA) model	19
Excitation–transcription coupling, neuronal gene expression and synaptic plasticity	19