OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMC Neuroscience is 8. 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
Non-conscious processing of fear faces: a function of the implicit self-concept of anxiety	46
Dexmedetomidine pretreatment improves postsurgical delay in neurocognitive recovery in aged mice by inhibiting hippocampal microglial activation via activation of cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway	36
Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with amantadine in repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in rats	34
Modulation of stress and neuroplasticity biomarkers via rhythmic vocalization: a controlled study on NDNF, cortisol, and monoamines	32
Norepinephrine protects against cochlear outer hair cell damage and noise-induced hearing loss via α2A-adrenergic receptor	32
Effects of electroacupuncture on imaging and behavior in rats with ischemic stroke through miR-212-5p	31
A spine segmentation method based on scene aware fusion network	31
Morphine-induced changes in the function of microglia and macrophages after acute spinal cord injury	31
Typical metabolic pattern of 18F-FDG PET in Anti-NMDAR encephalitis in the acute and subacute phases and its correlation with T2 FLAIR-MRI features	31
Sustained delivery of chABC improves functional recovery after a spine injury	28
Combined maternal separation and limited bedding-nesting increase goal tracking, delay discounting, and impulsive action, and moderate sign-tracking-perseverance associations in male rats	25
Low-intensity transcranial ultrasound stimulation modulates neural activities in mice under propofol anaesthesia	24
Variable and slow-paced neural dynamics in HVC underlie plastic song production in juvenile zebra finches	23
Objective hearing threshold identification from auditory brainstem response measurements using supervised and self-supervised approaches	23
Sex-specific cypermethrin-induced hippocampal neurotoxicity is associated with alterations in signaling molecules for antioxidant defense, membrane integrity, apoptosis, and GABAergic integrity	23
Post-stroke butyrate treatment shows sex-dependent microglial responses but does not improve outcomes in a mouse model of endothelin-1 sensory motor stroke	23
Effects of multisystem exercises on balance, postural stability, mobility, walking speed, and pain in patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy: a randomized controlled trial	22
The molecular architecture of a complex social behavior: gregarious song	21
The effects of urapidil as an alpha receptor blocker on spinal cord ischemia-reperfusion injury in male rats	21
Characterisation of the expression of P2X7 receptor, cancer stem cell markers and immunological mediators in human high-grade gliomas	20
Effects of arabinoxylan on BDNF/TrkB/p-CREB signaling pathway in the prefrontal cortex and intestinal microbiome in post-stroke depressed rats	18
Retraction Note: Diabetes mellitus and risk of incident dementia in APOE ɛ4 carriers: an updated meta-analysis	18
A systematic review of the therapeutic potential of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide precursors for cognitive diseases in preclinical rodent models	17
Identification of key genes associated with oxidative stress in ischemic stroke via bioinformatics integrated analysis	16
Distinct connectivity patterns in bipolar and unipolar depression: a functional connectivity multivariate pattern analysis study	16

Psychedelics and neural plasticity	16
Cycle-dependent sex differences in expression of membrane proteins involved in cerebrospinal fluid secretion at rat choroid plexus	16
Distinct patterns of gene expression in the medial preoptic area are related to gregarious singing behavior in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)	15
Differential effects of two phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors against lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation in mice	15
Protective effect of resveratrol on mitochondrial biogenesis during hyperoxia-induced brain injury in neonatal pups	15
Stress-related cellular pathophysiology as a crosstalk risk factor for neurocognitive and psychiatric disorders	15
Cholesterol efflux regulator ABCA1 exerts protective role against high shear stress-induced injury of HBMECs via regulating PI3K/Akt/eNOS signaling	14
Effects of low-doses of methamphetamine on d-fenfluramine-induced head-twitch response (HTR) in mice during ageing and c-fos expression in the prefrontal cortex	14
Pretreatment with the psychedelic DOI mitigates LPS-induced hippocampal inflammation and behavioral impairments in mice	13
Dance as mindful movement: a perspective from motor learning and predictive coding	13
Autism spectrum disorders detection based on multi-task transformer neural network	13
Metabolomics in severe traumatic brain injury: a scoping review	12
Anatomical and behavioral characterization of three hemiplegic animal models	12
Visualization of perivascular spaces in the human brain with 5-T magnetic resonance imaging	12
Behavioral photosensitivity of multi-color-blind medaka: enhanced response under ultraviolet light in the absence of short-wavelength-sensitive opsins	12
The vab-1/Eph receptor and ephrins efn-1 and efn-4 are required for C. elegans chemosensory and thermosensory circuit assembly and function	12
Cytokine expression profiles in white blood cells of patients with small fiber neuropathy	12
Correction: Activation of autophagy inhibits the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome and alleviates sevoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction in elderly rats	11
The changes of digestive system inflammatory, oxidative stress, and histopathology factors following oral mesenchymal stem cells administration in rats with traumatic brain injury	11
Protective effect of silencing lncRNA HCP5 against brain injury after intracerebral hemorrhage by targeting miR-195-5p	11
Association between apolipoprotein E ε4 status and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a meta-analysis	11
Correction to: Similar cortical morphometry trajectories from 5 to 9 years in children with perinatal HIV who started treatment before age 2 years and uninfected controls	11
A rat model establishment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia-related lung & brain injury within 28 days after birth	11
Degree of COVID-19 severity and mortality in stroke: correlation of clinical and laboratory parameters	11
Neurobehavioral deficits, oxidative dysregulation, and inflammatory responses in male Swiss mice following sub-acute exposure to ethanol extract of Leiotrametes lactinea Berk	11
A novel approach to CSF pressure measurement via lumbar puncture that shortens the measurement time with a high level of accuracy	10
Identifying foetal forebrain interneurons as a target for monogenic autism risk factors and the polygenic 16p11.2 microdeletion	10
Cardiovascular history and risk of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease: a cross-sectional observational study	10
Exploring sex differences in auditory saliency: the role of acoustic characteristics in bottom-up attention	10
The cognitive neuroscience and neurocognitive rehabilitation of dance	10
Structural-functional connectivity decoupling in multiscale brain networks in Parkinson’s disease	10
Valproate-vitamin E co-treatment preserved cortico-callosal white matter integrities in cypermethrin co-exposed pentylene tetrazole induced seizure	10
Molecular marker of memory formation reveals complex mechanisms of developmental learning	9
Gut Microbiome rewiring via fecal transplants: Uncovering therapeutic avenues in Alzheimer’s disease models	9
Examining the role of paraoxonase 2 in the dopaminergic system of the mouse brain	9
Current state of neuroprotective therapy using antibiotics in human traumatic brain injury and animal models	9
Anodal tDCS over the left DLPFC but not M1 increases muscle activity and improves psychophysiological responses, cognitive function, and endurance performance in normobaric hypoxia: a randomized contr	9
Modulating subjective and objective cognitive state fatigue in long COVID with repetitive anodal tDCS: results from a double-blinded randomized controlled trial	9
Enhancing research culture in academia: a spotlight on early career researchers	9
EPO regulates neuronal differentiation of adult human neural-crest derived stem cells in a sex-specific manner	9
Response to commentaries by Schmidt and Kaplan, Penhune, Hickok and Theofanopoulou on “Beat-based dancing to music has evolutionary foundations in advanced vocal learning.”	8
Effects of repetitive mechanical tactile stimulation interventions with stationary and moving patterns on paired-pulse depression	8
Evaluation of eGFP expression in the ChAT-eGFP transgenic mouse brain	8
Whole-transcriptome sequencing reveals Alzheimer’s disease–associated ceRNA regulatory networks and downstream pathways	8
Effects of different transcranial magnetic stimulation coil types on phosphene thresholds and their association with motor cortex excitability	8
Evaluation of the neuroprotective effects of alpha lipoic acid-loaded folate-conjugated chitosan nanoparticles against 6-OHDA-induced apoptosis and oxidative stress in an in vitro Parkinson’s disease	8
Awareness and self-reported synesthesia related experiences among undergraduate medical students: a cross-sectional study	8
Changes of brain functional network in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia: a graph-theoretic analysis	8
Publisher Correction: Mir-199a-3p aggravates neuroinflammation in an Alzheimer’s disease transgenic mouse model by promoting M1-polarization microglia	8
CXCL1/CXCR2 is involved in white matter injury in neonatal rats via the gut–brain axis	8

Anterior part of fronto-temporal language network as the neural basis of morphologically structured word form processing: evidence from Korean morphologically complex word