OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience is 28. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis: Development, Programming Actions of Hormones, and Maternal-Fetal Interactions	115
Drug-Induced Conditioned Place Preference and Its Practical Use in Substance Use Disorder Research	97
Validating Measures of Electrodermal Activity and Heart Rate Variability Derived From the Empatica E4 Utilized in Research Settings That Involve Interactive Dyadic States	88
The Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus as an Integrating and Relay Node in the Brain Anxiety Network	74
Three Pillars of Automated Home-Cage Phenotyping of Mice: Novel Findings, Refinement, and Reproducibility Based on Literature and Experience	68
To Approach or Avoid: An Introductory Overview of the Study of Anxiety Using Rodent Assays	67
The Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus Is an Important Node in the Emotional Processing Network	67
Sex Differences and the Role of Estradiol in Mesolimbic Reward Circuits and Vulnerability to Cocaine and Opiate Addiction	66
Blood Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and Major Depression: Do We Have a Translational Perspective?	57
The Stage of the Estrus Cycle Is Critical for Interpretation of Female Mouse Social Interaction Behavior	52
Heterogeneity in the Paraventricular Thalamus: The Traffic Light of Motivated Behaviors	47
Measuring Behavior in the Home Cage: Study Design, Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives	46
The Contribution of Physical Exercise to Brain Resilience	46
MacaquePose: A Novel “In the Wild” Macaque Monkey Pose Dataset for Markerless Motion Capture	45
Model and Non-model Insects in Chronobiology	45
Stopping in (e)motion: Reactive action inhibition when facing valence-independent emotional stimuli	42
Social Isolation Stress in Adolescence, but not Adulthood, Produces Hypersocial Behavior in Adult Male and Female C57BL/6J Mice	39
The Influence of Vicarious Fear-Learning in “Infecting” Reactive Action Inhibition	38
Functional Contribution of the Medial Prefrontal Circuitry in Major Depressive Disorder and Stress-Induced Depressive-Like Behaviors	34
Social Disconnectedness, Loneliness, and Mental Health Among Adolescents in Danish High Schools: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study	30
Forced Abstinence From Alcohol Induces Sex-Specific Depression-Like Behavioral and Neural Adaptations in Somatostatin Neurons in Cortical and Amygdalar Regions	30
Sex-Specific Cognitive Deficits Following Space Radiation Exposure	30
Altered Sexual Behavior in Dopamine Transporter (DAT) Knockout Male Rats: A Behavioral, Neurochemical and Intracerebral Microdialysis Study	30
Cannabidiol Acts at 5-HT1A Receptors in the Human Brain: Relevance for Treating Temporal Lobe Epilepsy	30
Delay Discounting in Established and Proposed Behavioral Addictions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	29

Neural Efficiency in Athletes: A Systematic Review	29
Chemogenetic Stimulation and Silencing of the Insula, Amygdala, Nucleus Accumbens, and Their Connections Differentially Modulate Alcohol Drinking in Rats	29
Functional Alterations in the Posterior Insula and Cerebellum in Migraine Without Aura: A Resting-State MRI Study	29
Dissociating Cognitive Processes During Ambiguous Information Processing in Perceptual Decision-Making	28
Cotinine: Pharmacologically Active Metabolite of Nicotine and Neural Mechanisms for Its Actions	28
Ketamine Blocks Morphine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference and Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Mice	28