OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience is 32. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Case report: Fatal cerebral herniation caused by hypoglycemic due to mistaking glibenclamide in children	107
Editorial: Exploring brain connectivity to understand behavior	89
Effects of reinforcement during the intertrial interval on temporal discrimination: Location version with rats	84
The effect of experiences of fairness on honest behavior: a behavioral and neural study	78
Editorial: Plasticity and flexibility in the parental brain	76
Acute aerobic exercise enhances associative learning in regular exercisers but not in non-regular exercisers	71
Editorial: Endocrinology of loneliness and social isolation	70
The novel peptide LCGM-10 attenuates metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 activity and demonstrates behavioral effects in animal models	65
Challenging the contest vs. scramble dichotomy in social competition: mixed conditions allow disparately ranked monkeys to get equivalent food but experiencing more competition still leads to risk-ave	61
Dynamic duos: learning to care as a pair in the biparental prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster)	59
Seminatural environments for rodent behavioral testing: a representative design improving animal welfare and enhancing replicability	59
The role of subclinical psychopathic traits on experimentally induced self- and other-compassion	59
Disentangling disorder-specific variation is key for precision psychiatry in autism	54
Dopamine downregulation in novel rodent models useful for the study of postpartum depression	54
Hierarchical-Circular Model of Biological Memory: an integrative framework for pathogenesis and allostasis in neurodevelopmental disorders	51
Efficacy and underlying mechanisms of acupuncture therapy for PTSD: evidence from animal and clinical studies	49
Overwhelmed by beauty and faith: review on artistic and religious travelers’ syndromes	47
Phenotyping Young GluA1 Deficient Mice – A Behavioral Characterization in a Genetic Loss-of-Function Model	46
Association of simultaneous sour taste stimulation with prefrontal cortex activation during stroop task performance in healthy adults: a fNIRS study	46
Revisiting food addiction in the era of GLP-1–based obesity pharmacotherapy via neural reward pathways linking feeding and substance use	43
Emotion regulation mediates the relationship between family caregivers’ pain-related beliefs and patients’ coping strategies	42
Constitutive activity of the inhibitory G protein pathway mediated by non-visual opsin Opn7b reduces cFos activity in stress and fear circuits and modulates avoidance behavior	40
Critical period plasticity is associated with resilience to short unpredictable stress	40
Impact of specific serotonin receptor modulation on restricted repetitive behaviors	38
Drosophila melanogaster as a neurobehavioral model for sex differences in stress response	38

A comparative analysis of Danionella cerebrum and zebrafish (Danio rerio) larval locomotor activity in a light-dark test	37
Assessing spatial learning and memory in mice: Classic radial maze versus a new animal-friendly automated radial maze allowing free access and not requiring food deprivation	36
Shaping social behavior in an enriched environment	34
How the arts heal: a review of the neural mechanisms behind the therapeutic effects of creative arts on mental and physical health	33
Treatments for kinesiophobia in people with chronic pain: A scoping review	33
Distinct sex differences in ethanol consumption and operant self-administration in C57BL/6J mice with uniform regulation by glutamate AMPAR activity	33
The central role of microglia in major depressive disorder and its potential as a therapeutic target	32