OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Fluids and Barriers of the Cns 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
A scoping review of the discrepancies in the measurement of cerebral blood flow in idiopathic intracranial hypertension: oligemia, euvolemia or hyperemia?	249
miRNA-ome plasma analysis unveils changes in blood–brain barrier integrity associated with acute liver failure in rats	149
The hypervirulent Group B Streptococcus HvgA adhesin promotes central nervous system invasion through transcellular crossing of the choroid plexus	113
A novel method of fabricating dynamic, heterogenous benchtop lateral and third ventricle phantoms from MRI of hydrocephalus patients: a verification and validation study	98
The effects of dose, valency, and affinity on TfR-mediated brain delivery in vivo	75
Modeling neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease using an isogenic brain-chip model	68
Bridging the blood-brain barrier: strategies to improve delivery of biologics to tumors in the brain	67
CSF hyperdynamics in rats mimicking the obesity and androgen excess characteristic of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension	63
Bridging regional neurovascular unit heterogeneity and cognitive function: a review	60
The proteome of the blood–brain barrier in rat and mouse: highly specific identification of proteins on the luminal surface of brain microvessels by in vivo glycocapture	59
Claudin-5a is essential for the functional formation of both zebrafish blood-brain barrier and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier	54
Bi-component modeling of cerebrospinal fluid outflow using Time-SLIP MRI	54
Ex vivo nanoscale abluminal mapping of putative cargo receptors at the blood-brain barrier of expanded brain capillaries	51
Estimates of the permeability of extra-cellular pathways through the astrocyte endfoot sheath	46
CSF Aquaporin-4 levels in controls and in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus before and after shunt surgery	46
Effect of intracerebral infusion rate on optic nerve tissue pressure and diurnal intracranial pressure in rats	45
Translational biomarkers of hypoxic brain injury uncovered in CSF secreting human choroid plexus organoids	45
White matter lesions associated with the reemergence of grasp reflexes in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus	44
Commentary on “Structural characterization of SLYM – a 4th meningeal membrane”	41
Oxidative stress alters mitochondrial homeostasis in isolated brain capillaries	41
High affinity of β-amyloid proteins to cerebral capillaries: implications in chronic lead exposure-induced neurotoxicity in rats	40
Relationships between measures of neurovascular integrity and fluid transport in aging: a multi-modal neuroimaging study	39
A human pluripotent stem cell-derived in vitro model of the blood–brain barrier in cerebral malaria	39
BOLD-CSF dynamics assessed using real-time phase contrast CSF flow interleaved with cortical BOLD MRI	38
Age, dose, and binding to TfR on blood cells influence brain delivery of a TfR-transported antibody	38

Reactive astrocyte-derived exosomes enhance intracranial lymphatic drainage in mice after intracranial hemorrhage	37
Natural killer cells and regulatory T cells in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in peripheral blood and cerebrospinal fluid - a pilot study	36
Evidence for reduced choroid plexus volume in the aged brain	36
Evaluation of CSF albumin quotient in neuronal surface antibody-associated autoimmune encephalitis	35
Ependymal cilia decline and AQP4 upregulation in young adult rats with syringomyelia	35
Impact of age on the cerebrospinal fluid spaces: high-convexity and medial subarachnoid spaces decrease with age	34
Concentration gradients of monoamines, their precursors and metabolites in serial lumbar cerebrospinal fluid of neurologically healthy patients determined with a novel LC–MS/MS technique	34
Comparative analysis of hippocampal extracellular space uncovers widely altered peptidome upon epileptic seizure in urethane-anaesthetized rats	32