OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neurobiology of Stress is 26. 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
Editorial Board	66
Editorial Board	53
Sex differences in the association between basal serum cortisol concentrations and cortical thickness	53
Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation	50
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques	42
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice	39
Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice	38
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	37
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone	36
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain	35
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	31
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)	31
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?	30
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents	30
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses	29
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue	29
Early life adversity targets the transcriptional signature of hippocampal NG2+ glia and affects voltage gated sodium (Nav) channels properties	28
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children	28
Chronic adolescent stress increases exploratory behavior but does not appear to change the acute stress response in adult male C57BL/6 mice	28
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation	28
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue	27
Stress-induced vulnerability to develop cocaine addiction depends on cofilin modulation	27
Immune system regulation and role of the human leukocyte antigen in posttraumatic stress disorder	27
Chronic stress and cytogenesis ablation disrupt hippocampal neuron connectivity, with fluoxetine restoring function with sex-specific effects	26

Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development	26
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	26