OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Interaction of chronic pain, obesity and time of day on cortisol in female human adolescents	22
Sex-specific associations between maternal pregnancy-specific anxiety and newborn amygdalar volumes - preliminary findings from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study	20
Prenatally stress-exposed male rats present lower theta prefrontal activity during attention behaviors to receptive females	20
Methylomic and transcriptomic predictors of one-month exposure to cortisol in healthy individuals	19
Variation in trauma-related behavioral effects using a preclinical rat model of three predator exposure stress	17
Chronic unpredictable stress shifts rat behavior from exploration to exploitation	16
A laboratory medical anamnesis interview elicits psychological and physiological arousal	15
CCK1R2R ^-/- ameliorates myocardial damage caused by unpredictable stress via altering fatty acid metabolism	15
Identification of salivary microRNA profiles in male mouse model of chronic sleep disorder	14
Subjective cognitive complaints and its associations to response inhibition and neural activation in patients with stress-related exhaustion disorder	14
Early life adversity ablates sex differences in active versus passive threat responding in mice	13
Diverse roles of glucocorticoids in the ruminant mammary gland: modulation of mammary growth, milk production, and mastitis	13
Female rats are more responsive than are males to the protective effects of voluntary physical activity against the behavioral consequences of inescapable stress	13
Inverse association between stress induced cortisol elevations and negative emotional reactivity to stress in humans	11
Sex- and stress-dependent effects of a single injection of ketamine on open field and forced swim behavior	11
Sex differences in body temperature and neural power spectra in response to repeated restraint stress	10
Prior exposure to a sensorimotor game in virtual reality does not enhance stress reactivity toward the OpenTSST VR	10
Multi-omics in stress and health research: study designs that will drive the field forward	10
Food and nutritional insecurity is associated with depressive symptoms mediated by NR3C1 gene promoter 1F methylation	10
Exploring the efficacy of sense of Okayness (SOK) as an antidote for stress in older adults: the role of SOK elevation intervention, heart rate variability (HRV), and cognitive performance in stressfu	10
Diurnal cortisol patterns in chronic pain: Associations with work-family spillover, work, and home stress	10
The impact of pubertal stress and adult hormone exposure on the transcriptome of the developing hypothalamus	9
Testing the monitor and acceptance theory: the role of training-induced changes in monitoring- and acceptance-related capacities after attention-based, socio-emotional, or socio-cognitive mental train	9
Chronic adolescent stress alters GR-FKBP5 interactions in the hippocampus of adult female rats	8
Help or punishment: acute stress moderates basal testosterone's association with prosocial behavior	8

Chronic stress triggers impairments of the redox status of salivary glands associated with different histological responses in rats	8
Increasing resolution in stress neurobiology: from single cells to complex group behaviors	8
Caregiving stress and burden associated with cardiometabolic risk in family caregivers of individuals with cancer	8
The importance of the circadian trough in glucocorticoid signaling: a variation on B-flat	7
The association between chronic stress, hair cortisol, and angiographically documented coronary atherosclerosis, a case-control study	7
Cesarean delivery is associated with suppressed activities of the stress axes	7
Glucocorticoid feedback paradox: a homage to Mary Dallman	6
Lifetime exposure to violence and other life stressors and hair cortisol concentration in women	6
Juvenile exposure to doxorubicin alters the cardiovascular response to adult-onset psychosocial stress in mice	6
Chronic stress resulting from stressful life events and its role in the onset of primary Sjögren’s syndrome: a comparative analysis using the modified Holmes-Rahe stress scale	6
Genotypic variation in the promoter region of the CRH-248 gene interacts with early rearing experiences to disrupt the development of the HPA axis in infant rhesus macaques ( Macaca mul	6
Stress response asymmetries in African American emerging adults exposed to chronic social adversity	6
Immune cell dynamics in response to an acute laboratory stressor: a within-person between-group analysis of the biological impact of early life adversity	6
Menstrual attitude and social cognitive stress influence autonomic nervous system in women with premenstrual syndrome	6
Differences between adult and adolescent male mice in approach/avoidance and expression of hippocampal NPY in response to acute footshock	6
Sex differences in the murine HPA axis after acute and repeated restraint stress	6
Associations of perceived stress and salivary cortisol with the snack and fast-food dietary pattern in women shift workers	5
California Stress, Trauma, and Resilience Study (CalSTARS) protocol: A multiomics-based cross-sectional investigation and randomized controlled trial to elucidate the biology of ACEs and test a precis	5
Sex differences in stress-induced sleep deficits	5
Elevated miR-34a expression and altered transcriptional profile are associated with adverse electromechanical remodeling in the heart of male rats exposed to social stress	5
Salivary testosterone and cortisol response in acute stress modulated by seven sessions of mindfulness meditation in young males	5
HIV status affects PTSD symptom severity, psychophysiology, and heart rate variability in women with low but not high exposure to childhood maltreatment	5
Acute psychosocial stress weakens the sense of agency in healthy adults	5
Effects of social tolerance on stress: hair cortisol concentrations in the tolerant Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana) and the despotic long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)	5
Stress, working memory, and academic performance: a neuroscience perspective	5
Measuring stress: a review of the current cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) measurement techniques and considerations for the future of mental health monitoring	5
Males with low risk-taking propensity overestimate risk under acute psychological stress	5
Association between hair cortisol, hair cortisone, and fatigue in people living with HIV	5
Prenatal exposure to social adversity and infant cortisol in the first year of life	4
Vagally mediated heart rate variability, stress, and perceived social support: a focus on sex differences	4
Voluntary alcohol consumption during distinct phases of adolescence differentially alters adult fear acquisition, extinction and renewal in male and female rats	4
Interaction ofFKBP5variant rs3800373 and city living alters the neural stress response in the anterior cingulate cortex	4
Examination of the role of adrenergic receptor stimulation in the sensitization of neuroinflammatory-based depressive-like behavior in isolated Guinea pig pups	4
Integrating the pattern of negative emotion processing and acute stress response with childhood stress among healthy young adults	4
Immediate stress alters social and object interaction and recognition memory in nearly isogenic rat strains with differing stress reactivity	4
Regulating interpersonal stress: the link between heart-rate variability, physical exercise and social perspective taking under stress	4
Frontiers of stress research: the 2nd Munich Winter Conference on Stress	4
Post-stress glucose consumption facilitates hormesis and resilience to severe stress	4
Exploring the metabolomic profile of cerebellum after exposure to acute stress	4
The influence of stress on distractor-response bindings	4
Association of stress-related neural activity and baseline interleukin-6 plasma levels in healthy adults	4
Habitual use of psychological coping strategies is associated with physiological stress responding during negative memory recollection in humans	4
Cortisol levels versus self-report stress measures during pregnancy as predictors of adverse infant outcomes: a systematic review	4
Stress and its contribution to the development of depression symptoms are reduced in caregivers of elderly with higher educational level	4
Early life stress decreases cell proliferation and the number of putative adult neural stem cells in the adult hypothalamus	4
Cold pressor stress effects on cardiac repolarization	3
Early life stress and latent trait cortisol in adolescent girls: a prospective examination	3
The effect of exposure to natural sounds on stress reduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Positive affect and resilience in tertiary education students	3
Prenatal stress and increased susceptibility to anxiety-like behaviors: role of neuroinflammation and balance between GABAergic and glutamatergic transmission	3

Stress and steroid interaction modulates expression of estrogen receptor alpha in the brain, pituitary, and testes of immatureGallus gallus domesticus	3
The influence of acute stress exposure on cognitive reappraisal: a psychophysiological study	3
The cortisol awakening response and the late positive potentials evoked by unpleasant emotional pictures in healthy adults	3
Differences in acute stress responses depending on first or second language in a Hispanic-American sample	3
A mismatch between early and recent life stress predicts better response inhibition, but not cognitive inhibition	3
Differential effects of recent versus past traumas on mood, social support, binge drinking, emotional eating and BMI, and on neural responses to acute stress	3
Age-dependent changes in hormonal stress reactivity following repeated restraint stress throughout adolescence in male rats	3
Prefrontal cortex PACAP signaling: organization and role in stress regulation	3
Differential impact of prenatal PTSD symptoms and preconception trauma exposure on placental NR3C1 and FKBP5 methylation	3
Lack of bombesin receptor-activated protein homologous protein impairs hippocampal synaptic plasticity and promotes chronic unpredictable mild stress induced behavioral changes in mice	3
Multiple brain regions are involved in reaction to acute restraint stress in CYLD-knockout mice	3
Testosterone and cortisol responses to acute and prolonged stress during officer training school	3
Platelet serotonin concentration and trait aggression in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder: a preliminary study	3
Acute stress reduces reward-related neural activity: Evidence from the reward positivity	3
Applied relaxation and cortisol secretion: findings from a randomized controlled indicated prevention trial in adults with stress, anxiety, or depressive symptoms	2
Venlafaxine reduces the striatal il6/il10 ratio and increases hippocampal GR expression in female mice subjected to chronic social instability stress	2
Stress in performance-related pay: the effect of payment contracts and social-evaluative threat	2
The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health, gut microbiota composition and serum cortisol levels	2
Changes in kynurenine pathway metabolites after acute psychosocial stress in healthy males: a single-arm pilot study	2
Lack of social touch alters anxiety-like and social behaviors in male mice	2
Psychological, endocrine and polygenic predictors of emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in a longitudinal birth cohort	2
Norepinephrine promotes neuronal apoptosis of hippocampal HT22 cells by up-regulating the expression of long non-coding RNA MALAT1	2
Effects of chronic stress on bladder morphology of rats and impact of comfort food diet as an ameliorating agent	2
Testosterone and cortisol are more predictive of choice behavior than a social nudge in adult males on a simple gift give-get task	2
Protective effects of nanocurcumin against stress-induced deterioration in the intestine	2
Spleen tissue changes after restraint stress: effects of aerobic exercise training	2
Sex-dependent expression of N-cadherin-GluA1 pathway-related molecules in the prefrontal cortex mediates anxiety-like behavior in male offspring following prenatal stress	2
What moderates salivary markers of inflammation reactivity to stress? A descriptive report and meta-regression	2