OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Neurobiology of Stress is 27. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	129
Differences in gut microbiota associated with stress resilience and susceptibility to single prolonged stress in female rodents	93
Editorial Board	68
Sex differences in the association between basal serum cortisol concentrations and cortical thickness	60
Transient impact of chronic social stress on effort-based reward motivation in non-food restricted mice: Involvement of corticosterone	55
Genomic regulation of Krüppel-like-factor family members by corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain	52
Effects of stress on endophenotypes of suicide across species: A role for ketamine in risk mitigation	52
Coffee polyphenols ameliorate early-life stress-induced cognitive deficits in male mice	49
Kappa opioid receptor antagonism protects working memory performance from mild stress exposure in Rhesus macaques	48
Pre-COVID brain network topology prospectively predicts social anxiety alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic	47
Early social isolation differentially affects the glucocorticoid receptor system and alcohol-seeking behavior in male and female Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats	44
The interaction between social hierarchy and depression/anxiety: Involvement of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)	43
Prebiotic supplementation modulates selective effects of stress on behavior and brain metabolome in aged mice	42
Psychosocial stress-induced intestinal permeability in healthy humans: What is the evidence?	40
The zona incerta regulates burying behavior and normalizes anxiety-like behavior in inescapable stressful male mice by object cue	37
Resource scarcity but not maternal separation provokes unpredictable maternal care sequences in mice and both upregulate Crh-associated gene expression in the amygdala	37
Resilience or susceptibility to traumatic stress: Potential influence of the microbiome	36
Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development	35
Early life adversity targets the transcriptional signature of hippocampal NG2+ glia and affects voltage gated sodium (Nav) channels properties	32
Dynamics of stress-induced c-fos expression in the rat prelimbic cortex: lessons from intronic and mature RNA and protein analyses	32
Prenatal exposures and cell type proportions are main drivers of FKBP5 DNA methylation in maltreated and non-maltreated children	31
Dl-3-n-Butylphthalide mitigates stress-induced cognitive deficits in mice through inhibition of NLRP3-Mediated neuroinflammation	31
The functional connectome in posttraumatic stress disorder	30
Chronic adolescent stress increases exploratory behavior but does not appear to change the acute stress response in adult male C57BL/6 mice	30
Immune system regulation and role of the human leukocyte antigen in posttraumatic stress disorder	29

Stress-induced vulnerability to develop cocaine addiction depends on cofilin modulation	29
Gene expression correlates of advanced epigenetic age and psychopathology in postmortem cortical tissue	28
What the hippocampus tells the HPA axis: Hippocampal output attenuates acute stress responses via disynaptic inhibition of CRF+ PVN neurons	27
Withdrawal notice to: “Elevated GABAergic neurotransmission prevents chronic intermittent ethanol induced hyperexcitability of intrinsic and extrinsic inputs to the ventral subiculum of female rats” [	27