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 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
Measuring stress: a review of the current cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) measurement techniques and considerations for the future of mental health monitoring	14
A validation study on fingernail cortisol: correlations with one-month cortisol levels estimated by hair and saliva samples	14
Prefrontal cortex PACAP signaling: organization and role in stress regulation	13
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
Chronic unpredictable stress shifts rat behavior from exploration to exploitation	11
Alterations of autonomic nervous system and HPA axis basal activity and reactivity to acute stress: a comparison of traumatized adolescents and healthy controls	11
Cortisol changes in healthy children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
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
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
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
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