OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Neuroscience is 18. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Hormonal gatekeeper of distinct social behaviours	548
Structural insights	330
A window of opportunity	312
Double trouble	293
Postsynaptic phase separation	276
A global role	229
Attractive odours	220
Mitochondrial defence tactics	218
Drifting representations	202
Sneezing pathway revealed	192
Pericytes pass the leptin	184
Neural compositions use multigoal building blocks	177
The core language network separated from other networks during primate evolution	172
Engaging with maps	172
Craving circuitry	169
Ontogenetic rules for the molecular diversification of hypothalamic neurons	142
Quantifying postsynaptic receptor dynamics: insights into synaptic function	134
Mechanisms governing activity-dependent synaptic pruning in the developing mammalian CNS	129
The structures and functions of correlations in neural population codes	128
The neocortical column as a universal template for perception and world-model learning	125
Social switches	125
(New neurons) singing in the avian brain	122
Skill switching	120
Too excited to sleep	119
Gene networking	119

Closure with connexins	117
Self-recognition mirrored from others	114
Controlling communication	113
Sometimes science needs a stubborn mind: the discovery of dopamine	111
Playing tag at the axon	111
Alzheimer’s X-chromosome risk	110
Integrated cardio-behavioural defensive states	107
Delving into thalamic drive	106
Offspring attachment	105
Immune privilege	105
Social ranking	103
Non-invasive continuous language decoding	101
Data-driven modelling of neurodegenerative disease progression: thinking outside the black box	98
The molecular determinants of microglial developmental dynamics	97
Give and take	95
Coding number estimates	94
A neuronal subcompartment view of ATP production	92
Angiogenesis in the eye	90
Mitigating white Western individualistic bias and creating more inclusive neuroscience	89
Stress drives seeking of starvation	88
Wrapping up reward	87
When the ‘selfish’ brain and the ‘selfish’ immune system clash	86
A new target for leptin	83
Innate immune control of synapse development	82
Neural circuit basis of pathological anxiety	82
Linking activity dyshomeostasis and sleep disturbances in Alzheimer disease	81
Replay, the default mode network and the cascaded memory systems model	78
Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping	78
Goal-directed learning in adolescence: neurocognitive development and contextual influences	78
Neurons as will and representation	78
Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex	76
Avoiding interpretational pitfalls in fluorescence imaging of the brain	75
Thirsty work for the cerebellum	69
Synaptic sleep pressure	68
Safety in numbers	67
Two views on the cognitive brain	64
Concept cells and social memory: the abstract representation of familiar individuals	64
Schemas, reinforcement learning and the medial prefrontal cortex	62
Defensive responses: behaviour, the brain and the body	62
The mechanosensory neurons of touch and their mechanisms of activation	60
The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain	60
Building communication neurotechnology for high stakes communications	59
When linguistic dogma rejects a neuroscientific hypothesis	59
The generative grammar of the brain: a critique of internally generated representations	57
Interactions between rodent visual and spatial systems during navigation	57
Knowledge generalization and the costs of multitasking	54
Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models	52
Channelopathies in fragile X syndrome	49
Riding the crest to get a head: neural crest evolution in vertebrates	49
Formation and integration of new neurons in the adult hippocampus	49

Macroautophagy in CNS health and disease	49
Central regulation of stress-evoked peripheral immune responses	46
Sodium channelopathies in neurodevelopmental disorders	46
New model jellyfish?	44
Reply to ‘Post-encounter freezing during approach–avoidance conflict: the role of the hippocampus’	44
Soporific supper?	42
Mapping future locations	41
Neural tuning and representational geometry	41
Collaboration produces brain cell census	41
Size matters	40
Targeting circuits with DBS	39
Retrieving immune responses stored in the insular cortex	39
Reply to: Managing the high: developing legislation and detection methods for cannabis impairment	39
Navigating unfamiliar territory	38
Higher or lower?	37
COVID crossing	36
Social representation	34
Reflected responses	34
Investigating curiosity	34
Towards a cross-cultural framework for predictive coding of music	32
Be conscious with your VTA	31
Species differences	30
The long COVID haul	29
From local APP expression to network dysfunction	28
Caught in a trap	27
Rewarding astrocytes	25
Two-way communication	24
Alternative splicing in neurodegenerative disease and the promise of RNA therapies	24
Androgen signal for brain size	24
Environmental influences on the pace of brain development	24
Publisher Correction: Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?	23
The hypothesis of fundal cognition	23
Local modulation by presynaptic receptors controls neuronal communication and behaviour	23
Myelin loss in AD	23
The neuropathobiology of multiple sclerosis	22
Dynamical models to evaluate structure–function relationships in network neuroscience	21
A universal network	21
Reply to ‘Low-frequency neural parsing of hierarchical linguistic structures’	20
Shining a light on pain	20
Inclusion sequestration impairs endosome maturation	20
Processing α-synuclein interactions	19
Publisher Correction: Macroscopic gradients of synaptic excitation and inhibition in the neocortex	19
Linking interindividual variability in brain structure to behaviour	19
Indirect neurogenesis in space and time	18
TREM2 stems the flow of AD pathology	18
Reply to ‘TDP43 aggregates: the ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis’	18
Reply to ‘Towards a cross-cultural framework for predictive coding of music’	18
Astrocyte contribution to dysfunction, risk and progression in neurodegenerative disorders	18