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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Corticosterone predicts double-brooding in female savannah sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis)	70
A tale of two hierarchies: Hormonal and behavioral factors underlying sex differences in social dominance in cooperative breeding callitrichids	33
Motivational increase of androgens and behavior by infant distress calls in highly responsive common marmoset fathers, Callithrix jacchus	32
Perceived predation risk predicts glucocorticoid hormones, but not reproductive success in a colonial rodent	31
Dietary genistein and 17β-estradiol implants differentially influence locomotor and cognitive functions following transient focal ischemia in middle-aged ovariectomized rats at different lengths of es	21
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Functional relationships between estradiol and paternal care in male red-bellied lemurs, Eulemur rubriventer	20
Estradiol attenuates chronic restraint stress-induced dendrite and dendritic spine loss and cofilin1 activation in ovariectomized mice	20
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Evolutionary behavioral endocrinology: Introduction to the special issue	19
Association of androgens and estrogens with agonistic behavior in the annual fish Austrolebias reicherti	18
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From grouping and cooperation to menstruation: Spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) are an emerging mammalian model for sociality and beyond	17
Why biodiversity matters in the lab	17
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Sex-specific responses to GnRH challenge, but not food supply, in kittiwakes: Evidence for the “sensitivity to information” hypothesis	17
Impact of continuous testosterone exposure on reproductive physiology, activity, and pain-related behavior in young adult female rats	17
Glucocorticoids in a warming world: Do they help birds to cope with high environmental temperatures?	16
Species variation in steroid hormone-related gene expression contributes to species diversity in sexually dimorphic communication in electric fishes	16
Invasive alien species as an environmental stressor and its effects on coping style in a native competitor, the Eurasian red squirrel	16
Uncovering the seasonal brain: Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) as a biochemical approach for studying seasonal social behaviors	16
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Egg-laying hormone expression in identified neurons across developmental stages and reproductive states of the nudibranch Berghia stephanieae	16

Contrasting central and systemic effects of arginine-vasopressin on urinary marking behavior as a social signal in male mice	16
Basal plasma oxytocin & fecal cortisol concentrations are highly heritable and associated with individual differences in behavior & cognition in dog puppies	16
Acute inhibition of dopamine β-hydroxylase attenuates behavioral responses to pups in adult virgin California mice (Peromyscus californicus)	16
Social status mediated variation in hypothalamic transcriptional profiles of male mice	15
Central and peripheral leptin resistance in obesity and improvements of exercise	15
Circulating profile of the appetite-regulating hormone ghrelin during moult-fast and chick provisioning in southern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome)	15
Hormone contraceptive use in young women: Altered mood states, neuroendocrine and inflammatory biomarkers	15
Maternal social environment shapes yolk testosterone allocation and embryonic neural gene expression in tree swallows	15
Does capacity to produce androgens underlie variation in female ornamentation and territoriality in White-shouldered Fairywren (Malurus alboscapulatus)?	15
Emotion recognition and mood along the menstrual cycle	15
Androgens and child behavior: Color and toy preferences in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)	15
Triiodothyronine and cortisol levels in the face of energetic challenges from reproduction, thermoregulation and food intake in female macaques	15
Aggression, glucocorticoids, and the chronic costs of status competition for wild male chimpanzees	14
Chronic high-dose testosterone disrupts social cognition and enhances social dominance in male long-Evans rats	14
Sibling presence during fostering ameliorates endocrine stress profile changes in a social rodent species (Octodon degus) in a sex-specific manner	14
A causal role of estradiol in human reinforcement learning	13
Optimal hormonal regulation when stressor cues are imperfect	13
Basal cortisol concentrations related to maternal behavior during puppy development predict post-growth resilience in dogs	13
FKBP5 expression is related to HPA flexibility and the capacity to cope with stressors in female and male house sparrows	13
The role of sex chromosomes and sex hormones in vocal learning systems	13
A transient reduction in circulating corticosterone reduces object neophobia in male house sparrows	13
The effect of corticosterone on the acquisition of Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior in rats is dependent on sex and vendor	13
Treatment with androgens plus estrogens cannot reverse sex differences in song and the song control nuclei in adult canaries	13
Glucocorticoid response to naturalistic interactions between children and dogs	12
Effects of early life overnutrition and hyperandrogenism on spatial learning and memory in a rat model of polycystic ovary syndrome	12
Changes in maternal motivation across reproductive states in mice: A role for prolactin receptor activation on GABA neurons	12
Adrenal MT1 melatonin receptor expression is linked with seasonal variation in social behavior in male Siberian hamsters	12
Life-threatening, high-intensity trauma- and context-dependent anxiety in zebrafish and its modulation by epinephrine	12
Sex differences in afferents and efferents of vasopressin neurons of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and medial amygdala in mice	11
Effect of cyclo‑oxygenase inhibition on embryonic microglia and the sexual differentiation of the brain and behavior of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)	11
The motivation to flock correlates with vocal-social behaviors and dopamine-related gene expression in male European starlings	11
Glucocorticoid receptor expression as an integrative measure to assess glucocorticoid plasticity and efficiency in evolutionary endocrinology: A perspective	11
Colours of stress in male Indian rock agamas predict testosterone levels but not performance	11
Fighting cichlids: An integrated multimodal analysis to understand female and male aggression in Cichlasoma dimerus	11
Prolactin modulates changes in parental care behaviour in response to perceived paternity in bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus)	11
Sex difference in human olfactory sensitivity is associated with plasma adiponectin	10
Sex, season, age and status influence urinary steroid hormone profiles in an extremely polygynous neotropical bat	10
Territorial scent-marking effects on vigilance behavior, space use, and stress in female Columbian ground squirrels	10
Noise and light pollution elicit endocrine responses in urban but not forest frogs	10
Sex differences in the structure and function of the vasopressin system in the ventral pallidum are associated with the sex-specific regulation of social play behavior in juvenile rats	10
Mood symptoms and gut function across the menstrual cycle in individuals with premenstrual syndrome	10
Neural control of female sexual behaviors	10
Determining menstrual cycle phase: An empirical examination of methodologies and recommendations for improvement in behavioral and brain sciences	10
Estrogenic influences on agonistic behavior in teleost fishes	10
The aged female rhesus macaque as a translational model for human menopause and hormone therapy	10
Melatonin treatment during the breeding season increases testosterone in male green anole lizards (Anolis carolinensis)	10
Y1 receptors modulate taste-related behavioral responsiveness in male mice to prototypical gustatory stimuli	10
Social regulation of arginine vasopressin and oxytocin systems in a wild group-living fish	10
The influence of time of day on memory recognition for faces	10
High and fluctuating levels of ovarian hormones induce an anxiogenic effect, which can be modulated under stress conditions: Evidence from an assisted reproductive rodent model	10

Sex differences in seasonal brain plasticity and the neuroendocrine regulation of vocal behavior in songbirds	10
Facing infant cuteness: How nurturing care motivation and oxytocin system gene methylation are associated with responses to baby schema features	9
The gold standard control groups in physiological and pharmacological research are not that shiny: Intraperitoneal saline injection and needle pricking affect prepubescent mice's behavior in a sex-spe	9
Task-specific effects of biological sex and sex hormones on object recognition memories in a 6-hydroxydopamine-lesion model of Parkinson's disease in adult male and female rats	9
Mistimed restricted feeding disrupts circadian rhythms of male mating behavior and female preovulatory LH surges in mice	9
A supergene affects androgen concentrations during early development in a bird with alternative reproductive morphs	9
Male, but not female, oxytocin receptor knockout prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) show impaired consolation behavior	9
Factors modulating the behavioral and physiological stress responses: Do they modify the relationship between flight initiation distance and corticosterone reactivity?	9
Brain transcriptomics of a social challenge and maternal aggression in incubating female tree swallows	9
Mathematical modeling reveals how the speed of endocrine regulation should affect baseline and stress-induced glucocorticoid levels	9
Acute effects of estradiol on shoaling in male and female zebrafish (Danio rerio)	9
Effects of maternal experience on pup-induced activation of maternal neural circuits in virgin mice	9
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Sex differences in aggressive intensities and brain steroids during status resolution in a sex changing fish, Lythrypnus dalli	9
Individuality meets plasticity: Endocrine phenotypes across male dominance rank acquisition in guinea pigs living in a complex social environment	9
Effects of the social environment on vertebrate fitness and health in nature: Moving beyond the stress axis	9
Neurobiological characteristics associated with gender identity: Findings from neuroimaging studies in the Amsterdam cohort of children and adolescents experiencing gender incongruence	9
Agmatine prevents the manifestation of impulsive burying and depression-like behaviour in progesterone withdrawn female rats	9
Contribution of birds to the study of sexual differentiation of brain and behavior	9
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Estratetraenol increases preference for large sexual reward but not impulsivity among heterosexual males	8
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Where to from here? Perspectives on steroid-induced and naturally-occurring singing in female songbirds	8
Hormone physiology and sleep dynamics among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: Gendered associations between nighttime activity, testosterone, and cortisol	8
Effects of light pollution on photoperiod-driven seasonality	8
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Sex-specific effects of chronic paternal stress on offspring development are partially mediated via mothers	8
Octopamine affects courtship call structure in male Acheta domesticus crickets	8
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The selective estrogen receptor modulator tamoxifen protects against subtle cognitive decline and early markers of injury 24 h after hippocampal silent infarct in male Sprague-Dawley rats	8
In memoriam – Gian Carlo Panzica (17 August 1949–21 July 2022)	8
Educational attainment of same-sex and opposite-sex dizygotic twins: An individual-level pooled study of 19 twin cohorts	8
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Urban and rural male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) differ in territorial aggression and activation of vasotocin neurons in response to song challenge	8
Daily GnRH agonist treatment delays the development of reproductive physiology and behavior in male rats	8
Chronic intranasal oxytocin increases acoustic eavesdropping and adult neurogenesis	7
Progesterone rapidly alters the use of place and response memory during spatial navigation in female rats	7
Low dose of propyl-pyrazole-triol, an agonist of estrogen receptor alpha, administration stimulates the Coolidge effect in fadrozole-treated male rats	7
Hormonal contraceptives and behavior: Updating the potent state of the nascent science	7
Perinatal protein malnutrition alters maternal behavior and leads to maladaptive stress response, neurodevelopmental delay and disruption on DNA methylation machinery in female mice offspring	7
Gene expression in the female tree swallow brain is associated with inter- and intra-population variation in glucocorticoid levels	7
Using seasonality and birdsong to understand mechanisms underlying context-appropriate shifts in social motivation and reward	7
The medial preoptic area and acute cocaine's stimulant effects in rats: Potential influences of estradiol and biological sex	7
High estradiol reduces adult neurogenesis but strengthens functional connectivity within the hippocampus during spatial pattern separation in adult female rats	7
Exogenous estradiol impacts anxiety-like behavior of juvenile male and female Siberian hamsters in a dose-dependent manner	7
Impact of temperature-induced sex reversal on behavior and sound production in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)	7
Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters: Sex-specific genetic architecture for fetal testosterone in a wild mammal	7
Neuroendocrine correlates of juvenile amphibian behaviors across a latitudinal cline	7
The paradox of spring: Thyroid and glucocorticoid responses to cold temperatures and food availability in free living Carneddau ponies	7
Pharmacological manipulation of oxytocin receptor signaling during mouse embryonic development results in sex-specific behavioral effects in adulthood	6
Early life adversity accelerates hypothalamic drive of pubertal timing in female rats with associated enhanced acoustic startle	6
Seasonal variation in aggression and physiological stress in wild female and male redfronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons)	6
Impact of bisphenol-A and synthetic estradiol on brain, behavior, gonads and sex hormones in a sexually labile coral reef fish	6
Effects of intrauterine position during gestation on specific endocrine and behavioral parameters that impact reproduction in domestic rabbits	6
Aging leads to sex-dependent effects on pair bonding and increased number of oxytocin-producing neurons in monogamous prairie voles	6
Activational and organizational effects of testosterone on the number of mating partners and reproductive success in males of a social rodent	6
Repeated exposure to physiologically effective doses of contraceptive hormones ethinyl estradiol or levonorgestrel do not alter the reinforcing effects of a brief visual stimulus in ovary-intact rats	6
A bird's eye view of the hippocampus beyond space: Behavioral, neuroanatomical, and neuroendocrine perspectives	6
Major role of MT2 receptors in the beneficial effect of melatonin on long-term recognition memory in C57BL/6J male mice	6
Effects of endogenous and exogenous N-acetyl-5-methoxy kynuramine on object recognition memory in male C3H mice	6
G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) in the dorsal hippocampus regulates memory consolidation in gonadectomized male mice, likely via different signaling mechanisms than in female mice	6
Hormones, ovulatory cycle phase and pathogen disgust: A longitudinal investigation of the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis	6
The effect of supraphysiological dose of nandrolone decanoate administration on the inflammatory, neurotrophin and behavioral response in adult and old male mice	6
Nesting strategy shapes territorial aggression but not testosterone: A comparative approach in female and male birds	6
Effects of a D2 receptor antagonist on repeated pair bond formation in the male prairie vole	6
Relatively rapid effects of testosterone on men's ratings of female attractiveness depend on relationship status and the attractiveness of stimulus faces	6