OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress is 3. 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
Brain mechanisms of HPA axis regulation: neurocircuitry and feedback in context Richard Kvetnansky lecture	86
Chronic social defeat stress in female mice leads to sex-specific behavioral and neuroendocrine effects	32
Oxytocin, cortisol, and cognitive control during acute and naturalistic stress	22
Prenatal stress and increased susceptibility to anxiety-like behaviors: role of neuroinflammation and balance between GABAergic and glutamatergic transmission	20
Cortisol levels versus self-report stress measures during pregnancy as predictors of adverse infant outcomes: a systematic review	20
Gut microbiota diversity but not composition is related to saliva cortisol stress response at the age of 2.5 months	19
Acute stress reduces reward-related neural activity: Evidence from the reward positivity	17
Early life stress decreases cell proliferation and the number of putative adult neural stem cells in the adult hypothalamus	16
Sex- and stress-dependent effects of a single injection of ketamine on open field and forced swim behavior	15
Infrared thermography is an effective, noninvasive measure of HPA activation	15
Sex differences in stress-induced sleep deficits	15
A validation study on fingernail cortisol: correlations with one-month cortisol levels estimated by hair and saliva samples	14
Measuring stress: a review of the current cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) measurement techniques and considerations for the future of mental health monitoring	14
The streamlined allostatic load index is associated with perceived stress in life – findings from the MIDUS study	13
Vagally mediated heart rate variability, stress, and perceived social support: a focus on sex differences	13
Lack of social touch alters anxiety-like and social behaviors in male mice	13
Prefrontal cortex PACAP signaling: organization and role in stress regulation	13
Alterations of autonomic nervous system and HPA axis basal activity and reactivity to acute stress: a comparison of traumatized adolescents and healthy controls	11
Chronic unpredictable stress shifts rat behavior from exploration to exploitation	11
Induction of acute stress through an internet-delivered Trier Social Stress Test as assessed by photoplethysmography on a smartphone	10
The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health, gut microbiota composition and serum cortisol levels	10
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) supplementation alleviates dexamethasone treatment-induced oxidative stress and inflammation response in broiler chickens	10
Safe in my heart: resting heart rate variability longitudinally predicts emotion regulation, worry, and sense of safeness during COVID-19 lockdown	10
Cortisol changes in healthy children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Stress and stress-related disease states as topics of multi-approach research	9

The gonadal response to social stress and its relationship to cortisol	9
Caregiving stress and burden associated with cardiometabolic risk in family caregivers of individuals with cancer	9
Everyday moral decision-making after acute stress exposure: do social closeness and timing matter?	9
Effectiveness of game-based meditation therapy on neurobiological stress systems in adolescents with posttraumatic symptoms: a randomized controlled trial	8
Males with low risk-taking propensity overestimate risk under acute psychological stress	8
Stress and steroid interaction modulates expression of estrogen receptor alpha in the brain, pituitary, and testes of immatureGallus gallus domesticus	8
Effect of acute psychosocial stress on the brain-derived neurotrophic factor in humans – a randomized cross within trial	8
Menstrual variation in the acute testosterone and cortisol response to laboratory stressors correlate with baseline testosterone fluctuations at a within- and between-person level	8
Female rats are more responsive than are males to the protective effects of voluntary physical activity against the behavioral consequences of inescapable stress	7
DHEA-S production capacity in relation to perceived prolonged stress	7
Food and nutritional insecurity is associated with depressive symptoms mediated by NR3C1 gene promoter 1F methylation	7
What moderates salivary markers of inflammation reactivity to stress? A descriptive report and meta-regression	7
Elevated miR-34a expression and altered transcriptional profile are associated with adverse electromechanical remodeling in the heart of male rats exposed to social stress	6
The association between chronic stress, hair cortisol, and angiographically documented coronary atherosclerosis, a case-control study	6
Behavioral effects of chronic stress in Carioca high- and low-conditioned freezing rats	6
Differential effects of recent versus past traumas on mood, social support, binge drinking, emotional eating and BMI, and on neural responses to acute stress	6
Lifetime exposure to violence and other life stressors and hair cortisol concentration in women	6
Voluntary wheel running promotes resilience to the behavioral effects of unpredictable chronic mild stress in male and female mice	6
Physiological behavior during stress anticipation across different chronic stress exposure adaptive models	6
Testosterone and cortisol responses to acute and prolonged stress during officer training school	6
Glucocorticoid feedback paradox: a homage to Mary Dallman	6
Pre-pandemic electrodermal activity predicts current COVID-related fears: household size during lockdown as a moderating factor	6
Changes in kynurenine pathway metabolites after acute psychosocial stress in healthy males: a single-arm pilot study	6
Childhood maltreatment and within-person associations between cortisol and affective experience	5
Emotional stress & decision-making: an emotional stressor significantly reduces loss aversion	5
Immediate stress alters social and object interaction and recognition memory in nearly isogenic rat strains with differing stress reactivity	5
Early life adversity ablates sex differences in active versus passive threat responding in mice	5
The same stress has divergent effects on social versus asocial manifestations of anxiety-like behavior over time	5
Lack of bombesin receptor-activated protein homologous protein impairs hippocampal synaptic plasticity and promotes chronic unpredictable mild stress induced behavioral changes in mice	5
Associations of perceived stress and salivary cortisol with the snack and fast-food dietary pattern in women shift workers	5
Reward anticipation buffers neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses to acute psychosocial stress in healthy young adults	5
Change in toddlers’ cortisol activity during a year in childcare. Associations with childcare quality, child temperament, well-being and maternal education	5
Age-dependent changes in hormonal stress reactivity following repeated restraint stress throughout adolescence in male rats	5
Help or punishment: acute stress moderates basal testosterone's association with prosocial behavior	5
Pre-reproductive stress in adolescent female rats alters maternal care and DNA methylation patterns across generations	4
Effects of psychosocial stress on prosociality: the moderating role of current life stress and thought control	4
Applied relaxation and cortisol secretion: findings from a randomized controlled indicated prevention trial in adults with stress, anxiety, or depressive symptoms	4
Stress and its contribution to the development of depression symptoms are reduced in caregivers of elderly with higher educational level	4
Sex-specific associations between maternal pregnancy-specific anxiety and newborn amygdalar volumes - preliminary findings from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study	4
Chronic stress predicts post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms via executive function deficits among urban American Indian children	4
Joint associations of regular exercise and healthy diet with psychobiological stress reactivity in a healthy male sample	4
The effect of kangaroo care on modulate chronic stress response in preterm infants and mothers	4
Interaction ofFKBP5variant rs3800373 and city living alters the neural stress response in the anterior cingulate cortex	4
Association of stress-related neural activity and baseline interleukin-6 plasma levels in healthy adults	4
Increasing resolution in stress neurobiology: from single cells to complex group behaviors	4
Restraint stress induces uterine microenvironment disorder in mice during early pregnancy through the β₂-AR/cAMP/PKA pathway	4
A single dose of ketamine cannot prevent protracted stress-induced anhedonia and neuroinflammation in rats	4
From ligands to behavioral outcomes: understanding the role of mineralocorticoid receptors in brain function	4
Exploring the metabolomic profile of cerebellum after exposure to acute stress	4
Effects of social tolerance on stress: hair cortisol concentrations in the tolerant Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana) and the despotic long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)	4

Maternal prenatal distress exposure negatively associates with the stability of neonatal frontoparietal network	3
Gender roles are related to cortisol habituation to repeated social evaluative stressors in adults: secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial	3
Stress adaptation in rats associate with reduced expression of cerebrovascular K_v7.4 channels and biphasic neurovascular responses	3
Venlafaxine reduces the striatal il6/il10 ratio and increases hippocampal GR expression in female mice subjected to chronic social instability stress	3
Stress response asymmetries in African American emerging adults exposed to chronic social adversity	3
Multi-omics in stress and health research: study designs that will drive the field forward	3
Possible roles of brain derived neurotrophic factor and corticotropin releasing hormone neurons in the nucleus of hippocampal commissure functioning within the avian neuroendocrine regulation of stres	3
Endotoxin-induced cytokine, chemokine and white blood cell profiles of variable stress-responding sheep	3
Burnout among high school students is linked to their telomere length and relatedness with peers	3
Association between hair cortisol, hair cortisone, and fatigue in people living with HIV	3
Menstrual attitude and social cognitive stress influence autonomic nervous system in women with premenstrual syndrome	3
Identification of salivary microRNA profiles in male mouse model of chronic sleep disorder	3
Children’s hair cortisol and hair testosterone concentrations in response to environmental changes: from summer holidays to school	3
Developmental and adult stress: effects of steroids and neurosteroids	3
The effect of depressive-like behavior in pregnant rat dams on the cardiovascular system in their offspring	3
The cortisol awakening response and the late positive potentials evoked by unpleasant emotional pictures in healthy adults	3
Immune cell dynamics in response to an acute laboratory stressor: a within-person between-group analysis of the biological impact of early life adversity	3
The importance of the circadian trough in glucocorticoid signaling: a variation on B-flat	3
Variation in trauma-related behavioral effects using a preclinical rat model of three predator exposure stress	3