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Home › Research › This week › 2026-09-27

Research digest: week ending 2026-09-27

Counts of the studies in this library by the date on each record, for the windows ending 2026-09-27. This is a weekly archive page: its numbers were counted once and do not change.

Studies by date

WindowDates (inclusive)Studies
Last 7 days 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27 71
Last 30 days 2026-08-29 to 2026-09-27 296
Last 90 days 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-27 693

Counted: 26,155 of 27,380 records, those whose own date field is a full day on or before 2026-09-27. Excluded: 1,225 (69 with no date, 403 with a month only, 419 with a year only, 0 unreadable, 334 dated after 2026-09-27). The date is each record's own date field (its publication or posting date), not the day it was added to this library.

Last 30 days and the 30 days before

Count 2026-08-29 to 2026-09-27 2026-07-30 to 2026-08-28 Difference
Studies 296 217 +79
Studies with at least one tag 254 193 +61
Studies with a journal named 296 217 +79
Different journals 72 69 +3

The 12 most recent studies

  1. · Neurodegeneration-inducing macromolecules exit the brain via nanovascular conduits formed by reticular fibroblasts · bioRxiv
  2. · Cofilin Suppresses Tau-Induced Defects in Dense-Core Granule Formation and Aβ-Induced Neurodegeneration · bioRxiv
  3. · Association of apolipoprotein E gene with risk, cognition, and prognosis of epilepsy · Human genetics
  4. · Public awareness of the hearing loss-dementia link and self-reported behavioral changes in middle- to older-aged Canadians · medRxiv (preprint)
  5. · rTMS renews long-tract myelination to improve AD cognitive function predicted by baseline myelin and E-field · Research Square
  6. · Caregiver burden and mood changes among unpaid caregivers of older adults living with dementia · Research Square
  7. · Thalamocortical correlates of sleep spindle and slow oscillation dysfunction in Lewy body disorders · Research Square
  8. · Evidence of P-glycoprotein mediated bidirectional transport of beta-amyloid (Ab40 and Ab42) through CLEFF4 cells · Research Square
  9. · A single-nuclei multiomics resource across four brain regions prioritises human neural cell types influencing brain-related traits · bioRxiv
  10. · Profiling of Aggregated Amyloid β42-induced Proteomic Alterations in KOLF2.1J Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Neurons · bioRxiv
  11. · AT(N)-Anchored Multimodal Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Staging: A Taxonomy and Continuous Burden Index for Low-Resource Settings · Preprints.org
  12. · Epilepsy Mechanisms in Down Syndrome: Genetic and Pathophysiological Perspectives Across the Lifespan · Journal of clinical medicine

Newest date first; records with the same date in reverse file order. Titles as written in each record.

Top tags, last 30 days

TagStudies, 2026-08-29 to 2026-09-27 Studies, 2026-07-30 to 2026-08-28Difference
apolipoprotein 29 14 +15
amyloid-beta 21 12 +9
apoe 21 12 +9
precursor 21 12 +9
convolutional 15 12 +3
deep 15 12 +3
pet 15 13 +2
classification 13 8 +5

159 different tags on the 254 tagged studies in the window. Tags are assigned automatically from each study's text. Ties are listed alphabetically; 8 more tags have the same count as the last row and are not shown.

Journals with the most studies, last 30 days

Journal or serverStudies, 2026-08-29 to 2026-09-27 Studies, 2026-07-30 to 2026-08-28Difference
medRxiv (preprint) 90 44 +46
Research Square 59 48 +11
bioRxiv 45 23 +22
Preprints.org 17 8 +9
PsyArXiv 4 3 +1
F1000Res 3 1 +2
Neurology 3 3 +0
Alzheimer s & Dementia 2 0 +2
American Journal of Roentgenology 2 0 +2
Epilepsia 2 0 +2

Journal names exactly as written in each record. Ties are listed alphabetically; 7 more journals have the same count as the last row and are not shown.

Weekly archive

Source: data/research.json (27,380 records, SHA-256 5b9f77d91483) and data/study_autotags.json (SHA-256 aca4f07d4741). For every study in date order see Newest studies.