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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How to study the menstrual cycle: Practical tools and recommendations	148
Interleukin-6 as potential mediator of long-term neuropsychiatric symptoms of COVID-19	92
The effects of physical activity on cortisol and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis	68
Toll-Like Receptor Signaling in Depression	63
Volatility as a Concept to Understand the Impact of Stress on the Microbiome	59
Evaluation of stress, burnout and hair cortisol levels in health workers at a University Hospital during COVID-19 pandemic	56
Immune-inflammatory markers and psychosis risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis	55
Cortisol and development of depression in adolescence and young adulthood – a systematic review and meta-analysis	55
The effects of exercise intensity on the cortisol response to a subsequent acute psychosocial stressor	53
The energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load	52
The gut microbiota-brain axis, psychobiotics and its influence on brain and behaviour: A systematic review	52
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and psychological distress symptoms in patients with affective disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic	52
Validation of an online version of the Trier Social Stress Test in a study of adolescents	44
Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR)	40
Measuring salivary markers of inflammation in health research: A review of methodological considerations and best practices	40
Adverse childhood experiences and low socioeconomic status with respect to allostatic load in adulthood: A systematic review	40
Systemic inflammation as a driver of health disparities among sexually-diverse and gender-diverse individuals	40
Early life adversity and age acceleration at mid-life and older ages indexed using the next-generation GrimAge and Pace of Aging epigenetic clocks	40
Adult neurogenesis augmentation attenuates anhedonia and HPA axis dysregulation in a mouse model of chronic stress and depression	38
Is there a relation between major depression and hair cortisol? A systematic review and meta-analysis	36
Mother and child hair cortisol during the COVID-19 pandemic: Associations among physiological stress, pandemic-related behaviors, and child emotional-behavioral health	36
Childhood trauma and dysregulation of multiple biological stress systems in adulthood: Results from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)	35
Exercise-induced euphoria and anxiolysis do not depend on endogenous opioids in humans	35
The association between allostatic load and cognitive function: A systematic and meta-analytic review	35
The neuroendocrinology of stress: Glucocorticoid signaling mechanisms	34

Evaluating measures of allostatic load in adolescents: A systematic review	34
Kynurenine metabolites and ratios differ between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and healthy controls	34
Diabetes, antidiabetic medications and risk of depression – A population-based cohort and nested case-control study	33
Ghrelin and PYY in low-weight females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder compared to anorexia nervosa and healthy controls	33
Human nail cortisol as a retrospective biomarker of chronic stress: A systematic review	31
Stress and hair cortisol concentrations in nurses during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	31
A randomized, double-blind study on efficacy and safety of sepranolone in premenstrual dysphoric disorder	31