OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychoneuroendocrinology is 31. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations between psychological distress and hair cortisol during pregnancy and the early postpartum: A meta-analysis	118
Activation of Type I Interferon and Complement component 3a receptor signaling mediates chronic stress-induced social behavior deficits	112
Resting-state functional connectivity in Autoimmune Addison's Disease	103
Empathic abilities as risk and protective factors in the context of stress and health	80
Trauma-informed immunopsychiatry: the moderating role of early life adversity on inflammatory responses	75
- Impairment of social behavior is associated with different transcriptomic profiles of the Habenula in vulnerable and resilient rats exposed to prenatal stress	71
Effects of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) and subjective birth experience on the risk of postpartum depression and maternal bonding	70
Editorial Board	65
- Internalizing Symptoms Moderate Associations Between Adolescent Hormones and Stress Coping	63
- Maternal reflective functioning and attachment outcomes of an online s inging intervention for postnatal depression: SHAPER-PNDO, a s ingle-arm clinical trial	52
Exploring sampling bias by assessing sex ratios in stress research: a comparative metascience study	48
Association between parent work-family conflict and offspring inflammation	47
Disentangling the effects of depression and perceived stress on cortisol levels in individuals with obesity	44
Impact of Loneliness on Diurnal Cortisol in Youth during COVID-19	44
Stress impairs response to antidepressants by activating HPA axis and immune system	44
When asking ‘how are you?’ may not be enough: The relationship between stress and alcohol use	43
The Moderating Effects of Regular Caffeine Use on Cortisol Reactivity under Explicit Negative-Evaluative Stress	42
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)	41
Chronic stress induces depression-like behavior in rats through affecting brain mitochondrial function and inflammation	41
Neural and cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project	41
Special issue editorial: Intersectionality and biological embedding	40
Women's domain-specific affiliation across the menstrual cycle	39
Presentation 1: The moderating effects of religious service attendance and exposure to neighborhoods high in violent crime on conditions associated with glucocorticoid resistance amongst Black adolesc	37
Presentation 4: Age, stress, and markers of inflammation among african american adults: Findings from the heart of detroit study	37
Presentation 1: Maternal behavioral health during pregnancy and newborn telomere length	36

Investigation of the impact of the etonogestrel contraceptive implant on anhedonia, reward processing and sustained attention	35
Oxidative stress and inflammatory pathways in female eating disorders and borderline personality disorders with emotional dysregulation as linking factors with impulsivity and trauma	34
Placenta DNA methylation levels of the promoter region of the leptin receptor gene are associated with infant cortisol	33
Differential associations between fatigue and psychobiological stress measures in women with depression and women with somatic symptom disorder	33
The role of combined modifiable lifestyle behaviors in the association between exposure to stressors and allostatic load: A systematic review of observational studies.	32
The association between COVID-19 pandemic and maternal isolated hypothyroxinemia in first and second trimesters	31
Allostatic load and depressive symptoms in older adults: An analysis of 12-year panel data	31