OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Hormones and Behavior is 6. 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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)

Article	Citations
What is a pair bond?	58
Aggression, glucocorticoids, and the chronic costs of status competition for wild male chimpanzees	29
Sex-dependent effects of social status on the regulation of arginine-vasopressin (AVP) V1a, oxytocin (OT), and serotonin (5-HT) 1A receptor binding and aggression in Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus aura	29
A longitudinal evaluation of ovulatory cycle shifts in women's mate attraction and preferences	29
Central and peripheral leptin resistance in obesity and improvements of exercise	28
Variation in aggression rates and urinary cortisol levels indicates intergroup competition in wild bonobos	25
Endocrine and neuroendocrine regulation of social status in cichlid fishes	24
Convergent neuroendocrine mechanisms of social buffering and stress contagion	23
Endocrine changes related to dog domestication: Comparing urinary cortisol and oxytocin in hand-raised, pack-living dogs and wolves	22
The role of dopamine signaling in prairie vole peer relationships	21
Oxytocin reverses ethanol consumption and neuroinflammation induced by social defeat in male mice	21
Disruption of global hypothalamic microRNA (miR) profiles and associated behavioral changes in California mice (Peromyscus californicus) developmentally exposed to endocrine disrupting chemicals	19
Differential effects of progesterone on social recognition and the avoidance of pathogen threat by female mice	19
Vasopressin regulates daily rhythms and circadian clock circuits in a manner influenced by sex	19
Sex differences in seasonal brain plasticity and the neuroendocrine regulation of vocal behavior in songbirds	19
A consideration of brain networks modulating social behavior	18
Social boldness correlates with brain gene expression in male green anoles	18
Social network dynamics predict hormone levels and behavior in a highly social cichlid fish	18
Prenatal androgen exposure and children's gender-typed behavior and toy and playmate preferences	18
Mathematical modeling reveals how the speed of endocrine regulation should affect baseline and stress-induced glucocorticoid levels	17
Juvenile hormone functions as a metabolic rate accelerator in bumble bees (Bombus terrestris)	17
No evidence for a difference in 2D:4D ratio between youth with elevated prenatal androgen exposure due to congenital adrenal hyperplasia and controls	17
Effects of light pollution on photoperiod-driven seasonality	16
Glucoregulation and coping behavior after chronic stress in rats: Sex differences across the lifespan	16
Nesting strategy shapes territorial aggression but not testosterone: A comparative approach in female and male birds	16

Hormones, ovulatory cycle phase and pathogen disgust: A longitudinal investigation of the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	15
FKBP5 expression is related to HPA flexibility and the capacity to cope with stressors in female and male house sparrows	15
Corticosterone's roles in avian migration: Assessment of three hypotheses	15
Group size, temperature and body size modulate the effects of social hierarchy on basal cortisol levels in fishes	15
Oxytocin receptor behavioral effects and cell types in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis	15
Activation of G-protein coupled estradiol receptor 1 in the dorsolateral striatum attenuates preference for cocaine and saccharin in male but not female rats	15
Invasive alien species as an environmental stressor and its effects on coping style in a native competitor, the Eurasian red squirrel	15
Neural programming of seasonal physiology in birds and mammals: A modular perspective	15
Rank- and sex-specific differences in the neuroendocrine regulation of glucocorticoids in a wild group-living fish	14
Androgens and corticosteroids increase in response to mirror images and interacting conspecifics in males of the Siamese fighting fish Betta splendens	14
Functional differences in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis are associated with alternative reproductive tactics based on an inversion polymorphism	14
Triiodothyronine and cortisol levels in the face of energetic challenges from reproduction, thermoregulation and food intake in female macaques	14
Activation of the amylin pathway modulates cocaine-induced activation of the mesolimbic dopamine system in male mice	14
Long term effects of chronic intranasal oxytocin on adult pair bonding behavior and brain glucose uptake in titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus)	14
Progesterone rapidly alters the use of place and response memory during spatial navigation in female rats	14
Endogenous oxytocin, cortisol, and testosterone in response to group singing	14
Long-term oral administration of a novel estrogen receptor beta agonist enhances memory and alleviates drug-induced vasodilation in young ovariectomized mice	14
Early social experience has life-long effects on baseline but not stress-induced cortisol levels in a cooperatively breeding fish	14
Estrogen and sex-dependent loss of the vocal learning system in female zebra finches	14
Frank Beach Award Winner: The centrality of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in dealing with environmental change across temporal scales	13
Do female bonobos (Pan paniscus) disperse at the onset of puberty? Hormonal and behavioral changes related to their dispersal timing	13
Changes in maternal motivation across reproductive states in mice: A role for prolactin receptor activation on GABA neurons	13
Norepinephrine and dopamine contribute to distinct repetitive behaviors induced by novel odorant stress in male and female mice	13
Deconstructing sex: Strategies for undoing binary thinking in neuroendocrinology and behavior	13
The effects of food supply on reproductive hormones and timing of reproduction in an income-breeding seabird	13
The glucocorticoid response to environmental change is not specific to agents of natural selection in wild red squirrels	13
Family environmental antecedents of pubertal timing in girls and boys: A review and open questions	13
An evolutionary perspective on stress responses, damage and repair	12
Effects of the social environment on vertebrate fitness and health in nature: Moving beyond the stress axis	12
Reduction in vasopressin cells in the suprachiasmatic nucleus in mice increases anxiety and alters fluid intake	12
Nuclear androgen and progestin receptors inversely affect aggression and social dominance in male zebrafish (Danio rerio)	12
Effects of testosterone therapy on constructs related to aggression in transgender men: A systematic review	12
Acute aggressive behavior perturbates the oxidative status of a wild bird independently of testosterone and progesterone	12
Expanding the frame around social dynamics and glucocorticoids: From hierarchies within the nest to competitive interactions among species	12
Neural control of female sexual behaviors	12
Glucocorticoid receptor expression as an integrative measure to assess glucocorticoid plasticity and efficiency in evolutionary endocrinology: A perspective	11
The roles of GnRH in the human central nervous system	11
Elevated prenatal maternal sex hormones, but not placental aromatase, are associated with child neurodevelopment	11
Specificity in sociogenomics: Identifying causal relationships between genes and behavior	11
Functional inhibition of deep brain non-visual opsins facilitates acute long day induction of reproductive recrudescence in male Japanese quail	11
An examination of the influence of prenatal sex hormones on handedness: Literature review and amniotic fluid data	11
Glucocorticoids in a warming world: Do they help birds to cope with high environmental temperatures?	11
Aggressive but not reproductive boldness in male green anole lizards correlates with baseline vasopressin activity	11
Individuality meets plasticity: Endocrine phenotypes across male dominance rank acquisition in guinea pigs living in a complex social environment	11
The endocrine control of reproductive suppression in an aseasonally breeding social subterranean rodent, the Mahali mole-rat (Cryptomys hottentotus mahali)	10
Olfactory detection of trace amounts of plant volatiles is correlated with testosterone in a passerine bird	10
Stable and persistent male-like behavior during male-to-female sex change in the common clownfish Amphiprion ocellaris	10
A retrospective view of early research on dominance, stress and reproduction in cooperatively breeding carnivores	10
Relationships between ovarian hormone concentrations and mental rotations performance in naturally-cycling women	10
Sex diversity in the 21st century: Concepts, frameworks, and approaches for the future of neuroendocrinology	10

The serotonin 1A receptor modulates the social behaviour within groups of a cooperatively-breeding cichlid	10
Uncovering the seasonal brain: Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) as a biochemical approach for studying seasonal social behaviors	10
Genetic dissection of steroid-hormone modulated social behavior: Novel paralogous genes are a boon for discovery	10
Maternal stress and the maternal microbiome have sex-specific effects on offspring development and aggressive behavior in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)	10
Experimental ghrelin administration affects migratory behaviour in a songbird	10
Social status mediated variation in hypothalamic transcriptional profiles of male mice	10
Plasma levels of ghrelin and GLP-1, but not leptin or amylin, respond to a psychosocial stressor in women and men	9
APOE4 genotype or ovarian hormone loss influence open field exploration in an EFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease	9
Chronic treatment with hormonal contraceptives alters hippocampal BDNF and histone H3 post-translational modifications but not learning and memory in female rats	9
FireMaster® 550 (FM 550) exposure during the perinatal period impacts partner preference behavior and nucleus accumbens core medium spiny neuron electrophysiology in adult male and female prairie vole	9
The onset of puberty in colony-housed male and female titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus): Possible effects of oxytocin treatment during peri-adolescent development	9
HIV-1 Tat and morphine decrease murine inter-male social interactions and associated oxytocin levels in the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus	9
Progesterone does raise disgust	9
A cross-taxonomic perspective on the integration of temperature cues in vertebrate seasonal neuroendocrine pathways	9
Male White-shouldered Fairywrens (Malurus alboscapulatus) elevate androgens greater when courting females than during territorial challenges	9
Bidirectional effects of estradiol on the control of water intake in female rats	9
Impact of bisphenol-A and synthetic estradiol on brain, behavior, gonads and sex hormones in a sexually labile coral reef fish	9
Elevated corticosterone levels are associated with increased immunocompetence in male toads, both when calling and under experimental conditions	9
Social status mediates behavioral, endocrine, and neural responses to an intruder challenge in a social cichlid, Astatotilapia burtoni	8
Oxytocin induces lordosis behavior in female rats through the prostaglandin E2/GnRH signaling system	8
Preliminary evidence that oxytocin does not improve mentalizing in women with schizophrenia	8
Testosterone, cortisol, and criminal behavior in men and women	8
Oxytocin and ‘social hyperthermia’: Interaction with β3-adrenergic receptor-mediated thermogenesis and significance for the expression of social behavior in male and female mice	8
Effects of gonadal status and the estrogen milieu on hypothalamic oxytocin gene expression and serum oxytocin levels in female rats	8
Adrenal MT1 melatonin receptor expression is linked with seasonal variation in social behavior in male Siberian hamsters	8
Sex difference in human olfactory sensitivity is associated with plasma adiponectin	8
Aldosterone hyperreactivity to acute psychosocial stress induction in men with essential hypertension	8
The relative speed of the glucocorticoid stress response varies independently of scope and is predicted by environmental variability and longevity across birds.	8
Neural mechanisms of comforting: Prosocial touch and stress buffering	8
Alamandine through MrgD receptor induces antidepressant-like effect in transgenic rats with low brain angiotensinogen	8
Central administration of endocannabinoids exerts bimodal effects in food intake of rainbow trout	8
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) affects the activity of the gonadotrophic axis in sheep	8
Prolactin promotes parental responses and alters reproductive axis gene expression, but not courtship behaviors, in both sexes of a biparental bird	8
Treatment with androgens plus estrogens cannot reverse sex differences in song and the song control nuclei in adult canaries	8
Flaxseed oil as omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid source modulates cortisol concentrations and social dominance in male and female guinea pigs	8
Maternal deprivation during early infancy in rats increases oxytocin immunoreactivity in females and corticosterone reactivity to a social test in both sexes without changing emotional behaviour	8
The effect of testosterone on economic risk-taking: A multi-study, multi-method investigation	8
Moderately elevated glucocorticoids increase mate choosiness but do not affect sexual proceptivity or preferences in female gray treefrogs	8
Alterations in corticotropin-releasing factor receptor type 1 in the preoptic area and hypothalamus in mice during the postpartum period	8
Motherhood and DREADD manipulation of the nucleus accumbens weaken established pair bonds in female prairie voles	8
A transient reduction in circulating corticosterone reduces object neophobia in male house sparrows	8
Sex differences in afferents and efferents of vasopressin neurons of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial amygdala in mice	8
Inhibition of progesterone receptor activity during development increases reelin-immunoreactivity in Cajal-Retzius cells, alters synaptic innervation in neonatal dentate gyrus, and impairs episodic-li	7
Oxytocin promotes species-relevant outgroup attention in bonobos and chimpanzees	7
Men are not aware of and do not respond to their female partner's fertility status: Evidence from a dyadic diary study of 384 couples	7
Annual regulation of adrenocortical function in migrant and resident subspecies of white-crowned sparrow	7
Evolutionary endocrinology and the problem of Darwin's tangled bank	7
Interactive effects of compounding multidimensional stressors on maternal and male and female rat offspring outcomes	7
Glutamate transporter-1 link astrocytes with heightened aggressive behavior induced by steroid abuse in male CF1 mice	7
Estradiol withdrawal following a hormone simulated pregnancy induces deficits in affective behaviors and increases ∆FosB in D1 and D2 neurons in the nucleus accumbens core in mice	7
Endocrinological effects of social exclusion and inclusion: Experimental evidence for adaptive regulation of female fecundity	7
Considering hormones as sex- and gender-related factors in biomedical research: Challenging false dichotomies and embracing complexity	7
Social sleepers: The effects of social status on sleep in terrestrial mammals	7
Covariation between glucocorticoid levels and receptor expression modulates embryo development and postnatal phenotypes in gulls	7
Anxiety and depressive symptoms effects on cortisol trajectories from pregnancy to postpartum: Differences and similarities between women and men	6
A test of the social behavior network reveals differential patterns of neural responses to social novelty in bonded, but not non-bonded, male prairie voles	6
No detectable changes in anxiety-related and locomotor behaviors in adult ovariectomized female rats exposed to estradiol, the ERβ agonist DPN or the ERα agonist PPT	6
Integrating the female masculinization and challenge hypotheses: Female dominance, male deference, and seasonal hormone fluctuations in adult blue-eyed black lemurs (Eulemur flavifrons)	6
Using seasonality and birdsong to understand mechanisms underlying context-appropriate shifts in social motivation and reward	6
Factors modulating the behavioral and physiological stress responses: Do they modify the relationship between flight initiation distance and corticosterone reactivity?	6
BDNF Val66Met genotype and adolescent glucocorticoid treatment induce sex-specific disruptions to fear extinction and amygdala GABAergic interneuron expression in mice	6
Cortisol and testosterone concentrations during the prenatal and postpartum period forecast later caregiving quality in mothers and fathers	6
Developmental conditions have intergenerational effects on corticosterone levels in a passerine	6
Evolution of hormone-phenotype couplings and hormone-genome interactions	6
Life-threatening, high-intensity trauma- and context-dependent anxiety in zebrafish and its modulation by epinephrine	6
Exogenous testosterone decreases men's sensitivity to vocal cues of male dominance	6
Hormones do not maketh the mole-rat: No steroid hormone signatures of subordinate behavioral phenotypes	6
Socioemotional deficit and HPA axis time response in high compulsive rats selected by schedule-induced polydipsia	6
Hippocampal volume changes in a pharmacological sex-hormone manipulation risk model for depression in women	6
Seasonal variation in gonadal hormones, spatial cognition, and hippocampal attributes: More questions than answers	6
Gene expression in the female tree swallow brain is associated with inter- and intra-population variation in glucocorticoid levels	6
Estradiol attenuates chronic restraint stress-induced dendrite and dendritic spine loss and cofilin1 activation in ovariectomized mice	6
A causal role of estradiol in human reinforcement learning	6