OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMC Neuroscience is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Non-conscious processing of fear faces: a function of the implicit self-concept of anxiety	33
Objective hearing threshold identification from auditory brainstem response measurements using supervised and self-supervised approaches	32
Dexmedetomidine pretreatment improves postsurgical delay in neurocognitive recovery in aged mice by inhibiting hippocampal microglial activation via activation of cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway	30
Post-stroke butyrate treatment shows sex-dependent microglial responses but does not improve outcomes in a mouse model of endothelin-1 sensory motor stroke	29
Norepinephrine protects against cochlear outer hair cell damage and noise-induced hearing loss via α2A-adrenergic receptor	24
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	24
Morphine-induced changes in the function of microglia and macrophages after acute spinal cord injury	24
An ontogenic study of receptor mechanisms by which acute administration of low-doses of methamphetamine suppresses DOI-induced 5-HT2A-receptor mediated head-twitch response in mice	24
Low-intensity transcranial ultrasound stimulation modulates neural activities in mice under propofol anaesthesia	22
Variable and slow-paced neural dynamics in HVC underlie plastic song production in juvenile zebra finches	22
Sustained delivery of chABC improves functional recovery after a spine injury	22
Effects of multisystem exercises on balance, postural stability, mobility, walking speed, and pain in patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy: a randomized controlled trial	21
Sex-specific cypermethrin-induced hippocampal neurotoxicity is associated with alterations in signaling molecules for antioxidant defense, membrane integrity, apoptosis, and GABAergic integrity	21
Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with amantadine in repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in rats	20
Effects of electroacupuncture on imaging and behavior in rats with ischemic stroke through miR-212-5p	19
A spine segmentation method based on scene aware fusion network	19
Cycle-dependent sex differences in expression of membrane proteins involved in cerebrospinal fluid secretion at rat choroid plexus	17
The molecular architecture of a complex social behavior: gregarious song	17
Characterisation of the expression of P2X7 receptor, cancer stem cell markers and immunological mediators in human high-grade gliomas	16
Effects of arabinoxylan on BDNF/TrkB/p-CREB signaling pathway in the prefrontal cortex and intestinal microbiome in post-stroke depressed rats	16
Intersection of hippocampus and spinal cord: a focus on the hippocampal alpha-synuclein accumulation, dopaminergic receptors, neurogenesis, and cognitive function following spinal cord injury in male	16
A systematic review of the therapeutic potential of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide precursors for cognitive diseases in preclinical rodent models	16
Comparative study of vestibular projection pathway connectivity in cerebellar injury patients and healthy adults	16
Protective effect of resveratrol on mitochondrial biogenesis during hyperoxia-induced brain injury in neonatal pups	15
Psychedelics and neural plasticity	15

Distinct connectivity patterns in bipolar and unipolar depression: a functional connectivity multivariate pattern analysis study	15
Identification of key genes associated with oxidative stress in ischemic stroke via bioinformatics integrated analysis	15
Stress-related cellular pathophysiology as a crosstalk risk factor for neurocognitive and psychiatric disorders	15
Correction to: Diagnosis of schizophrenia with functional connectome data: a graph-based convolutional neural network approach	14
Dance as mindful movement: a perspective from motor learning and predictive coding	14
Distinct patterns of gene expression in the medial preoptic area are related to gregarious singing behavior in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)	14
Chronic, acute and protocol-dependent effects of exercise on psycho-physiological health during long-term isolation and confinement	14
Differential effects of two phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors against lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation in mice	14
Repair-related molecular changes during recovery phase of ischemic stroke in female rats	13
Transcriptional landscape of human neuroblastoma cells in response to SARS-CoV-2	13
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	13
Metabolomics in severe traumatic brain injury: a scoping review	13
Autism spectrum disorders detection based on multi-task transformer neural network	12
Cholesterol efflux regulator ABCA1 exerts protective role against high shear stress-induced injury of HBMECs via regulating PI3K/Akt/eNOS signaling	12
Visualization of perivascular spaces in the human brain with 5-T magnetic resonance imaging	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	11
Behavioral photosensitivity of multi-color-blind medaka: enhanced response under ultraviolet light in the absence of short-wavelength-sensitive opsins	11
Anatomical and behavioral characterization of three hemiplegic animal models	11
Cytokine expression profiles in white blood cells of patients with small fiber neuropathy	11
Association between apolipoprotein E ε4 status and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a meta-analysis	10
Correction: Activation of autophagy inhibits the activation of NLRP3 inflammasome and alleviates sevoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction in elderly rats	10
Identifying foetal forebrain interneurons as a target for monogenic autism risk factors and the polygenic 16p11.2 microdeletion	10
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	10
Observing errors in a combination of error and correct models favors observational motor learning	9
Protective effect of silencing lncRNA HCP5 against brain injury after intracerebral hemorrhage by targeting miR-195-5p	9
Fmr1 exon 14 skipping in late embryonic development of the rat forebrain	9
Degree of COVID-19 severity and mortality in stroke: correlation of clinical and laboratory parameters	9
The changes of digestive system inflammatory, oxidative stress, and histopathology factors following oral mesenchymal stem cells administration in rats with traumatic brain injury	9
Exploring sex differences in auditory saliency: the role of acoustic characteristics in bottom-up attention	9
Valproate-vitamin E co-treatment preserved cortico-callosal white matter integrities in cypermethrin co-exposed pentylene tetrazole induced seizure	9
A rat model establishment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia-related lung & brain injury within 28 days after birth	9
Differential weighting of temporal envelope cues from the low-frequency region for Mandarin sentence recognition in noise	9
The cognitive neuroscience and neurocognitive rehabilitation of dance	9
A novel approach to CSF pressure measurement via lumbar puncture that shortens the measurement time with a high level of accuracy	8
Cardiovascular history and risk of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease: a cross-sectional observational study	8
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
Current state of neuroprotective therapy using antibiotics in human traumatic brain injury and animal models	8
Increased expression of pathological markers in Parkinson’s disease dementia post-mortem brains compared to dementia with Lewy bodies	8
Structural-functional connectivity decoupling in multiscale brain networks in Parkinson’s disease	8
Heat-inactivated Lacticaseibacillus paracasei N1115 alleviates the damage due to brain function caused by long-term antibiotic cocktail exposure in mice	8
Gut Microbiome rewiring via fecal transplants: Uncovering therapeutic avenues in Alzheimer’s disease models	8
Enhancing research culture in academia: a spotlight on early career researchers	8
Effects of different transcranial magnetic stimulation coil types on phosphene thresholds and their association with motor cortex excitability	7
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	7
Publisher Correction: Mir-199a-3p aggravates neuroinflammation in an Alzheimer’s disease transgenic mouse model by promoting M1-polarization microglia	7
Different paradigms of transcranial electrical stimulation improve motor function impairment and striatum tissue injuries in the collagenase-induced intracerebral hemorrhage rat model	7
Effects of repetitive mechanical tactile stimulation interventions with stationary and moving patterns on paired-pulse depression	7
EPO regulates neuronal differentiation of adult human neural-crest derived stem cells in a sex-specific manner	7
Examining the role of paraoxonase 2 in the dopaminergic system of the mouse brain	7
CXCL1/CXCR2 is involved in white matter injury in neonatal rats via the gut–brain axis	7

Changes of brain functional network in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia: a graph-theoretic analysis	7
Evaluation of eGFP expression in the ChAT-eGFP transgenic mouse brain	7