OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychoneuroendocrinology is 31. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations between psychological distress and hair cortisol during pregnancy and the early postpartum: A meta-analysis	131
Activation of Type I Interferon and Complement component 3a receptor signaling mediates chronic stress-induced social behavior deficits	113
Resting-state functional connectivity in Autoimmune Addison's Disease	108
Empathic abilities as risk and protective factors in the context of stress and health	83
Trauma-informed immunopsychiatry: the moderating role of early life adversity on inflammatory responses	77
- Impairment of social behavior is associated with different transcriptomic profiles of the Habenula in vulnerable and resilient rats exposed to prenatal stress	76
Editorial Board	65
Effects of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) and subjective birth experience on the risk of postpartum depression and maternal bonding	65
- Internalizing Symptoms Moderate Associations Between Adolescent Hormones and Stress Coping	54
- Maternal reflective functioning and attachment outcomes of an online s inging intervention for postnatal depression: SHAPER-PNDO, a s ingle-arm clinical trial	51
Exploring sampling bias by assessing sex ratios in stress research: a comparative metascience study	50
Association between parent work-family conflict and offspring inflammation	48
Impact of Loneliness on Diurnal Cortisol in Youth during COVID-19	47
Disentangling the effects of depression and perceived stress on cortisol levels in individuals with obesity	46
Stress impairs response to antidepressants by activating HPA axis and immune system	43
When asking ‘how are you?’ may not be enough: The relationship between stress and alcohol use	43
The Moderating Effects of Regular Caffeine Use on Cortisol Reactivity under Explicit Negative-Evaluative Stress	42
Neural and cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project	41
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)	41
Women's domain-specific affiliation across the menstrual cycle	40
Special issue editorial: Intersectionality and biological embedding	40
Presentation 1: The moderating effects of religious service attendance and exposure to neighborhoods high in violent crime on conditions associated with glucocorticoid resistance amongst Black adolesc	39
Presentation 4: Age, stress, and markers of inflammation among african american adults: Findings from the heart of detroit study	38
Presentation 1: Maternal behavioral health during pregnancy and newborn telomere length	37
Investigation of the impact of the etonogestrel contraceptive implant on anhedonia, reward processing and sustained attention	37

Placenta DNA methylation levels of the promoter region of the leptin receptor gene are associated with infant cortisol	36
The association between COVID-19 pandemic and maternal isolated hypothyroxinemia in first and second trimesters	35
Allostatic load and depressive symptoms in older adults: An analysis of 12-year panel data	35
Chronic stress derails brain serotonin and its role in postpartum behavior	33
Announcement: 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)	32
Salivary uric acid dynamics are associated with stress response hormones among African Americans in an urban sample	32
Insulin-like growth factor-1 and cognition in normoglycemia, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus	31
Oxidative stress and inflammatory pathways in female eating disorders and borderline personality disorders with emotional dysregulation as linking factors with impulsivity and trauma	31