Research field · part of Life Sciences
Neuroscience
Scientific study of the nervous system.
Also known as: neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience
4.4M
Works (OpenAlex)
94.0M
Citations (OpenAlex)
8
Subfields
Counts: OpenAlex snapshot, March 2026. They cover every work OpenAlex has classified in this field, not only papers in our index.
Most-cited papers in Neuroscience
From our index (snapshot, October 2026): papers whose primary topic falls in this field, ranked by citation count. Counts that fail a plausibility check are left out.
Deviations from michaelis-menten behaviour of plant glutamate dehydrogenase with ammonium as variable substrate
Edwin Pahlich, Chr. Gerlitz
1980Phytochemistry10,699 citations
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver, Norbert Wiener
1950Physics Today9,849 citations
Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach
Karl Friston, Andrew P. Holmes, Keith J. Worsley, J.‐P. Poline, Chris Frith et al.
1994Human Brain Mapping9,759 citations
Epigenetic Regulations of GABAergic Neurotransmission: Relevance for Neurological Disorders and Epigenetic Therapy
Shikshya Shrestha, Steven M. Offer
2016Medical Epigenetics8,955 citations
Distributed Hierarchical Processing in the Primate Cerebral Cortex
D.J. Felleman, David C. Van Essen
1991Cerebral Cortex7,905 citations
The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception
Nancy Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott, Marvin M. Chun
1997Journal of Neuroscience7,877 citations
The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule—Generic: A Standard Measure of Social and Communication Deficits Associated with the Spectrum of Autism
Catherine Lord, Susan Risi, Linda Lambrecht, Edwin H. Cook, Bennett Leventhal et al.
2000Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders7,517 citations
Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task
Barbara A. Eriksen, Charles W. Eriksen
1974Perception & Psychophysics7,249 citations
The Cognitive Structure of Emotions
Andrew Ortony, Gerald L. Clore, Alan Collins
1988Cambridge University Press eBooks6,191 citations