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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Inverse association between stress induced cortisol elevations and negative emotional reactivity to stress in humans	45
Help or punishment: acute stress moderates basal testosterone's association with prosocial behavior	35
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	22
Profiling of research domain criteria-based behaviors following single prolonged stress in male C57BL/6J mice	21
Juvenile exposure to doxorubicin alters the cardiovascular response to adult-onset psychosocial stress in mice	20
Immune cell dynamics in response to an acute laboratory stressor: a within-person between-group analysis of the biological impact of early life adversity	20
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	18
Protective effects of nanocurcumin against stress-induced deterioration in the intestine	17
Testosterone and cortisol responses to acute and prolonged stress during officer training school	17
Can the DEX/CRH test or markers of oxidative stress distinguish work-related stress from major depressive disorder and normal controls?	17
Individual differences in behavioral responses to predator odor predict subsequent stress reactivity in female rats	16
Stress exacerbates DNCB-induced atopic dermatitis in BALB/c mice: association with modulation of the gut microbiome	16
Diurnal cortisol patterns in chronic pain: Associations with work-family spillover, work, and home stress	15
Early life adversity ablates sex differences in active versus passive threat responding in mice	13
Chronic stress triggers impairments of the redox status of salivary glands associated with different histological responses in rats	13
Implementing a single‐person virtual Trier social stress test via zoom: validation and outcomes	11
Repeated presentation of visual threats drives innate fear habituation and is modulated by threat history and acute stress exposure	10
Acute psychosocial stress weakens the sense of agency in healthy adults	10
Loneliness as a driver of allostatic load: mechanisms linking social disconnection to physiological dysregulation and health disparities	10
Female rats are more responsive than are males to the protective effects of voluntary physical activity against the behavioral consequences of inescapable stress	10
Sex differences in the murine HPA axis after acute and repeated restraint stress	9
HIV status affects PTSD symptom severity, psychophysiology, and heart rate variability in women with low but not high exposure to childhood maltreatment	9
The effect of music listening style on music-induced analgesia	9
Assessment of depression in patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome: a double-blind study	9

Effects of chronic unpredictable mild stress on gut sensation and function in male mice	8
The influence of acute stress exposure on cognitive reappraisal: a psychophysiological study	8
The Stress Phenotyping Framework: A multidisciplinary biobehavioral approach for assessing and therapeutically targeting maladaptive stress physiology	8
Behavior, synaptic mitochondria, and microglia are differentially impacted by chronic adolescent stress and repeated endotoxin exposure in male and female rats	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
Differences in hair cortisol to cortisone ratio between depressed and non-depressed adolescent women	7
Acute stress and human spatial working memory strategy use	7
Dietary L-citrulline influences body temperature and inflammatory responses during nitric oxide synthase inhibition and endotoxin challenge in chickens	7
Applied relaxation and cortisol secretion: findings from a randomized controlled indicated prevention trial in adults with stress, anxiety, or depressive symptoms	7
The big picture: Mary Dallman, a role model	7