OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychoneuroendocrinology is 29. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations between psychological distress and hair cortisol during pregnancy and the early postpartum: A meta-analysis	153
Activation of Type I Interferon and Complement component 3a receptor signaling mediates chronic stress-induced social behavior deficits	125
Resting-state functional connectivity in Autoimmune Addison's Disease	116
Empathic abilities as risk and protective factors in the context of stress and health	101
Trauma-informed immunopsychiatry: the moderating role of early life adversity on inflammatory responses	88
- Impairment of social behavior is associated with different transcriptomic profiles of the Habenula in vulnerable and resilient rats exposed to prenatal stress	84
Editorial Board	70
- Internalizing Symptoms Moderate Associations Between Adolescent Hormones and Stress Coping	65
- Maternal reflective functioning and attachment outcomes of an online s inging intervention for postnatal depression: SHAPER-PNDO, a s ingle-arm clinical trial	58
Association between parent work-family conflict and offspring inflammation	53
Exploring sampling bias by assessing sex ratios in stress research: a comparative metascience study	53
Impact of Loneliness on Diurnal Cortisol in Youth during COVID-19	52
Disentangling the effects of depression and perceived stress on cortisol levels in individuals with obesity	48
Stress impairs response to antidepressants by activating HPA axis and immune system	47
When asking ‘how are you?’ may not be enough: The relationship between stress and alcohol use	46
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)	46
The Moderating Effects of Regular Caffeine Use on Cortisol Reactivity under Explicit Negative-Evaluative Stress	43
Special issue editorial: Intersectionality and biological embedding	43
Presentation 4: Age, stress, and markers of inflammation among african american adults: Findings from the heart of detroit study	42
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	42
Women's domain-specific affiliation across the menstrual cycle	42
Presentation 1: Maternal behavioral health during pregnancy and newborn telomere length	39
Investigation of the impact of the etonogestrel contraceptive implant on anhedonia, reward processing and sustained attention	38
The role of combined modifiable lifestyle behaviors in the association between exposure to stressors and allostatic load: A systematic review of observational studies.	36
Low anti-Müllerian hormone mediates the association between childhood trauma and PTSD in women but not in men	35

Chronic stress derails brain serotonin and its role in postpartum behavior	35
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)	34
Placenta DNA methylation levels of the promoter region of the leptin receptor gene are associated with infant cortisol	32
Insulin-like growth factor-1 and cognition in normoglycemia, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus	31
Oxidative stress and inflammatory pathways in female eating disorders and borderline personality disorders with emotional dysregulation as linking factors with impulsivity and trauma	29
Differential associations between fatigue and psychobiological stress measures in women with depression and women with somatic symptom disorder	29
Enhanced endogenous oxytocin signaling in the brain modulates neural responses to social misalignment and promotes conformity in humans: A multi-locus genetic profile approach	29