OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Profiling of research domain criteria-based behaviors following single prolonged stress in male C57BL/6J mice	65
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and repeated wheezing from 6 to 30 months of age: exploring the role of race and ethnicity	59
Repeated exposure to the smell of innate fear, trimethylthiazoline, promotes fear habituation and hippocampal cell proliferation in rats	24
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	24
Inverse association between stress induced cortisol elevations and negative emotional reactivity to stress in humans	24
Acute stress in female adolescent rats increases anxiety-like but not depression-like behaviors	24
Testosterone and cortisol responses to acute and prolonged stress during officer training school	22
Can the DEX/CRH test or markers of oxidative stress distinguish work-related stress from major depressive disorder and normal controls?	21
Stress exacerbates DNCB-induced atopic dermatitis in BALB/c mice: association with modulation of the gut microbiome	18
Antidepressant-like effects of valproic acid in rodents go back to the 1980s: a comment to enrich the reviewed evidence by Goudarzi et al. (2026) “Valproic acid effects on stress-induced depression-li	16
Explaining variations in allostatic load in later life: a longitudinal cohort study of socioeconomic life course mechanisms in Germany	16
Implementing a single‐person virtual Trier social stress test via zoom: validation and outcomes	15
Individual differences in behavioral responses to predator odor predict subsequent stress reactivity in female rats	14
Repeated presentation of visual threats drives innate fear habituation and is modulated by threat history and acute stress exposure	13
Chronic stress triggers impairments of the redox status of salivary glands associated with different histological responses in rats	12
Loneliness as a driver of allostatic load: mechanisms linking social disconnection to physiological dysregulation and health disparities	12
Diurnal cortisol patterns in chronic pain: Associations with work-family spillover, work, and home stress	11
Early life adversity ablates sex differences in active versus passive threat responding in mice	11
Female rats are more responsive than are males to the protective effects of voluntary physical activity against the behavioral consequences of inescapable stress	10
The effect of music listening style on music-induced analgesia	9
Sex differences in the murine HPA axis after acute and repeated restraint stress	9
Acute psychosocial stress weakens the sense of agency in healthy adults	9
HIV status affects PTSD symptom severity, psychophysiology, and heart rate variability in women with low but not high exposure to childhood maltreatment	9
Harsh parenting and rs11621961 at the SERPINA6/1 locus: gene-environment interaction effects on hair c	9
Assessment of depression in patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome: a double-blind study	9

Behavior, synaptic mitochondria, and microglia are differentially impacted by chronic adolescent stress and repeated endotoxin exposure in male and female rats	8
The influence of acute stress exposure on cognitive reappraisal: a psychophysiological study	8
Differences in hair cortisol to cortisone ratio between depressed and non-depressed adolescent women	8
Two-week essential oil inhalation treatment modulates the cortisol awakening response and improves self-reported symptoms in stressed adults	8
Psychosocial stress in women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea and potential implications for cardiovascular disease risk	7
The big picture: Mary Dallman, a role model	7
How spatial omics approaches can be used to map the biological impacts of stress in psychiatric disorders: a perspective, overview and technical guide	7
Effects of chronic unpredictable mild stress on gut sensation and function in male mice	7
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) supplementation alleviates dexamethasone treatment-induced oxidative stress and inflammation response in broiler chickens	7
The Stress Phenotyping Framework: A multidisciplinary biobehavioral approach for assessing and therapeutically targeting maladaptive stress physiology	7