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Papers

(The H4-Index of Neuroscience Bulletin is 29. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Special Issue Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Institute of Neuroscience, CAS	176
Induced Dopaminergic Neurons for Parkinson’s Disease Therapy: Targeting the Striatum or Midbrain/Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta?	102
UNC13A Gene Brings New Hope for ALS Disease-Modifying Drugs	86
Shed a New Light on Spinal Cord Injury-induced Permanent Paralysis with the Brain-spine Interface	66
Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation within Dense-Core Vesicles in Sympathetic Adrenal Chromaffin Cells	65
A Spacetime Odyssey of Neural Progenitors to Generate Neuronal Diversity	63
The Spinal-Parabrachial-Mesencephalic Circuit: A Possible Explanation of How Pain Leads to Emotional Disorders	62
Upregulation of NR2A in Glutamatergic VTA Neurons Contributes to Chronic Visceral Pain in Male Mice	60
TREMble Before TREM2: The Mighty Microglial Receptor Conferring Neuroprotective Properties in TDP-43 Mediated Neurodegeneration	58
Dysregulation of Iron Homeostasis Mediated by FTH Increases Ferroptosis Sensitivity in TP53-Mutant Glioblastoma	53
Brain-Computer Interfaces in Disorders of Consciousness	53
The Chemokine CCL2 Promotes Excitatory Synaptic Transmission in Hippocampal Neurons via GluA1 Subunit Trafficking	47
A New Perspective on the Prediction and Treatment of Stroke: The Role of Uric Acid	45
PIKFYVE Inhibition, A Neuronal “Emetic” for Treating ALS?	44
Hypothalamic Oxytocin Neuronal Activation Induces Bipolar-Like Mood Changes in Mice in a Sex- and Dosage-Dependent Manner	40
GABAergic Interneuron Cell Therapy for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy	39
The Insular Cortex: An Interface Between Sensation, Emotion and Cognition	38
Histaminergic Innervation of the Ventral Anterior Thalamic Nucleus Alleviates Motor Deficits in a 6-OHDA-Induced Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease	38
Whole-Brain Connectome of GABAergic Neurons in the Mouse Zona Incerta	38
Correlation of Ferroptosis and Other Types of Cell Death in Neurodegenerative Diseases	37
Targeting NAD Metabolism for the Therapy of Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases	37
A New Pathway Mediating Pain Sensitization after Active Sleep Deprivation	36
Direction Selectivity of TmY Neurites in Drosophila	36
Effects of Vascular Risk Factors on the White Matter Network Architecture of the Brain	34
Activity-Dependent Phosphorylation of CDKL5 at Serine 407 Regulates Synaptogenesis and Plasticity	32

Mapping Fear-Related Neural Activity and Circuitry Changes Following Prophylactic Administration of (R,S)-Ketamine and (2S,6S)-Hydroxynorketamine	32
Targeting 5-HT to Alleviate Dose-Limiting Neurotoxicity in Nab-Paclitaxel-Based Chemotherapy	31
Acute Recruitment of VTA Dopamine Neurons by mPOA Esr1+ Neurons to Facilitate Consummatory Male Mating Actions	29
Targeting 5-HT as a Potential Treatment for Social Deficits in Autism	29
Reproducible Abnormalities and Diagnostic Generalizability of White Matter in Alzheimer’s Disease	29
Model-Dependent Attenuation of Seizures by Cinnabar	29
Combining Multiple Factors to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease	29
Stem Cell-Based Hair Cell Regeneration and Therapy in the Inner Ear	29