OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Help or punishment: acute stress moderates basal testosterone's association with prosocial behavior	30
Interaction of chronic pain, obesity and time of day on cortisol in female human adolescents	28
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and repeated wheezing from 6 to 30 months of age: exploring the role of race and ethnicity	19
Inverse association between stress induced cortisol elevations and negative emotional reactivity to stress in humans	19
Juvenile exposure to doxorubicin alters the cardiovascular response to adult-onset psychosocial stress in mice	16
Immune cell dynamics in response to an acute laboratory stressor: a within-person between-group analysis of the biological impact of early life adversity	16
Stress exacerbates DNCB-induced atopic dermatitis in BALB/c mice: association with modulation of the gut microbiome	15
Testosterone and cortisol responses to acute and prolonged stress during officer training school	15
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	15
Protective effects of nanocurcumin against stress-induced deterioration in the intestine	14
Early life stress and latent trait cortisol in adolescent girls: a prospective examination	14
Repeated presentation of visual threats drives innate fear habituation and is modulated by threat history and acute stress exposure	13
Can the DEX/CRH test or markers of oxidative stress distinguish work-related stress from major depressive disorder and normal controls?	13
Pre-pandemic electrodermal activity predicts current COVID-related fears: household size during lockdown as a moderating factor	13
Genome-wide association studies of stress score in a Korean Cohort	13
Early life adversity ablates sex differences in active versus passive threat responding in mice	12
Female rats are more responsive than are males to the protective effects of voluntary physical activity against the behavioral consequences of inescapable stress	12
Diurnal cortisol patterns in chronic pain: Associations with work-family spillover, work, and home stress	12
Individual differences in behavioral responses to predator odor predict subsequent stress reactivity in female rats	11
Sex differences in the murine HPA axis after acute and repeated restraint stress	10
Chronic stress triggers impairments of the redox status of salivary glands associated with different histological responses in rats	10
HIV status affects PTSD symptom severity, psychophysiology, and heart rate variability in women with low but not high exposure to childhood maltreatment	10
Assessment of depression in patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome: a double-blind study	9
Exploring the metabolomic profile of cerebellum after exposure to acute stress	8
Acute psychosocial stress weakens the sense of agency in healthy adults	8

Stress and steroid interaction modulates expression of estrogen receptor alpha in the brain, pituitary, and testes of immatureGallus gallus domesticus	8
The influence of acute stress exposure on cognitive reappraisal: a psychophysiological study	7
Differences in hair cortisol to cortisone ratio between depressed and non-depressed adolescent women	7
Behavior, synaptic mitochondria, and microglia are differentially impacted by chronic adolescent stress and repeated endotoxin exposure in male and female rats	7
Applied relaxation and cortisol secretion: findings from a randomized controlled indicated prevention trial in adults with stress, anxiety, or depressive symptoms	7
The Stress Phenotyping Framework: A multidisciplinary biobehavioral approach for assessing and therapeutically targeting maladaptive stress physiology	7
Acute stress and human spatial working memory strategy use	6
Elevated levels of hair cortisol concentrations in professional dementia caregivers	6
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) supplementation alleviates dexamethasone treatment-induced oxidative stress and inflammation response in broiler chickens	6
The impact of chronic stress on the PFC transcriptome: a bioinformatic meta-analysis of publicly available RNA-sequencing datasets	6
Chronic restraint stress induces abnormal behaviors in pain sensitivity and cognitive function in mice: the role of Keap1/Nrf2 pathway	6
Effects of chronic unpredictable mild stress on gut sensation and function in male mice	6
Effectiveness of game-based meditation therapy on neurobiological stress systems in adolescents with posttraumatic symptoms: a randomized controlled trial	6
How spatial omics approaches can be used to map the biological impacts of stress in psychiatric disorders: a perspective, overview and technical guide	6