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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations between psychological distress and hair cortisol during pregnancy and the early postpartum: A meta-analysis	160
Activation of Type I Interferon and Complement component 3a receptor signaling mediates chronic stress-induced social behavior deficits	132
Resting-state functional connectivity in Autoimmune Addison's Disease	106
Empathic abilities as risk and protective factors in the context of stress and health	90
Trauma-informed immunopsychiatry: the moderating role of early life adversity on inflammatory responses	74
- Impairment of social behavior is associated with different transcriptomic profiles of the Habenula in vulnerable and resilient rats exposed to prenatal stress	69
Editorial Board	59
- Internalizing Symptoms Moderate Associations Between Adolescent Hormones and Stress Coping	57
- Maternal reflective functioning and attachment outcomes of an online s inging intervention for postnatal depression: SHAPER-PNDO, a s ingle-arm clinical trial	55
When asking ‘how are you?’ may not be enough: The relationship between stress and alcohol use	54
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)	51
Special issue editorial: Intersectionality and biological embedding	48
The Moderating Effects of Regular Caffeine Use on Cortisol Reactivity under Explicit Negative-Evaluative Stress	47
Women's domain-specific affiliation across the menstrual cycle	46
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	45
Presentation 1: Maternal behavioral health during pregnancy and newborn telomere length	42
Presentation 4: Age, stress, and markers of inflammation among african american adults: Findings from the heart of detroit study	42
Investigation of the impact of the etonogestrel contraceptive implant on anhedonia, reward processing and sustained attention	42
Neural and cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project	40
The effects of physical activity on cortisol and sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis	37
Body movements as biomarkers: Machine Learning-based prediction of HPA axis reactivity to stress	36
Salivary uric acid dynamics are associated with stress response hormones among African Americans in an urban sample	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	34
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)	31

Placenta DNA methylation levels of the promoter region of the leptin receptor gene are associated with infant cortisol	30
Effects of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) and subjective birth experience on the risk of postpartum depression and maternal bonding	30
Insulin-like growth factor-1 and cognition in normoglycemia, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus	30
Reframing glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist research for psychiatric care: Gaps in evidence and translation	29
Volunteering, chronic stress, and systemic inflammation among middle-aged and older adults	29