OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Interaction of chronic pain, obesity and time of day on cortisol in female human adolescents	26
Prenatally stress-exposed male rats present lower theta prefrontal activity during attention behaviors to receptive females	25
The effects of stress on working-memory-related prefrontal processing: an fNIRS study	23
Caregiving stress and burden associated with cardiometabolic risk in family caregivers of individuals with cancer	20
Methylomic and transcriptomic predictors of one-month exposure to cortisol in healthy individuals	18
Variation in trauma-related behavioral effects using a preclinical rat model of three predator exposure stress	16
Chronic unpredictable stress shifts rat behavior from exploration to exploitation	15
A laboratory medical anamnesis interview elicits psychological and physiological arousal	13
Cesarean delivery is associated with suppressed activities of the stress axes	13
Subjective cognitive complaints and its associations to response inhibition and neural activation in patients with stress-related exhaustion disorder	13
Diverse roles of glucocorticoids in the ruminant mammary gland: modulation of mammary growth, milk production, and mastitis	12
The association between chronic stress, hair cortisol, and angiographically documented coronary atherosclerosis, a case-control study	12
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and repeated wheezing from 6 to 30 months of age: exploring the role of race and ethnicity	12
Chronic adolescent stress alters GR-FKBP5 interactions in the hippocampus of adult female rats	11
Diurnal cortisol patterns in chronic pain: Associations with work-family spillover, work, and home stress	11
Testing the monitor and acceptance theory: the role of training-induced changes in monitoring- and acceptance-related capacities after attention-based, socio-emotional, or socio-cognitive mental train	11
Exploring the efficacy of sense of Okayness (SOK) as an antidote for stress in older adults: the role of SOK elevation intervention, heart rate variability (HRV), and cognitive performance in stressfu	11
Inverse association between stress induced cortisol elevations and negative emotional reactivity to stress in humans	10
Sex-specific associations between maternal pregnancy-specific anxiety and newborn amygdalar volumes - preliminary findings from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study	10
Identification of salivary microRNA profiles in male mouse model of chronic sleep disorder	10
Food and nutritional insecurity is associated with depressive symptoms mediated by NR3C1 gene promoter 1F methylation	10
Genotypic variation in the promoter region of the CRH-248 gene interacts with early rearing experiences to disrupt the development of the HPA axis in infant rhesus macaques ( Macaca mul	9
Prior exposure to a sensorimotor game in virtual reality does not enhance stress reactivity toward the OpenTSST VR	9
Female rats are more responsive than are males to the protective effects of voluntary physical activity against the behavioral consequences of inescapable stress	9
Increasing resolution in stress neurobiology: from single cells to complex group behaviors	9

Glucocorticoid feedback paradox: a homage to Mary Dallman	8
Sex differences in body temperature and neural power spectra in response to repeated restraint stress	8
The importance of the circadian trough in glucocorticoid signaling: a variation on B-flat	8
Multi-omics in stress and health research: study designs that will drive the field forward	8
Chronic stress triggers impairments of the redox status of salivary glands associated with different histological responses in rats	8
CCK1R2R ^-/- ameliorates myocardial damage caused by unpredictable stress via altering fatty acid metabolism	7
Menstrual attitude and social cognitive stress influence autonomic nervous system in women with premenstrual syndrome	7
The impact of pubertal stress and adult hormone exposure on the transcriptome of the developing hypothalamus	7
Early life adversity ablates sex differences in active versus passive threat responding in mice	7
Help or punishment: acute stress moderates basal testosterone's association with prosocial behavior	7
Association between hair cortisol, hair cortisone, and fatigue in people living with HIV	6
Stress response asymmetries in African American emerging adults exposed to chronic social adversity	6
Assessment of depression in patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome: a double-blind study	6
Acute psychosocial stress weakens the sense of agency in healthy adults	6
Salivary testosterone and cortisol response in acute stress modulated by seven sessions of mindfulness meditation in young males	6
Vagally mediated heart rate variability, stress, and perceived social support: a focus on sex differences	6
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	6
Males with low risk-taking propensity overestimate risk under acute psychological stress	5
Sex differences in the murine HPA axis after acute and repeated restraint stress	5
Juvenile exposure to doxorubicin alters the cardiovascular response to adult-onset psychosocial stress in mice	5
Immune cell dynamics in response to an acute laboratory stressor: a within-person between-group analysis of the biological impact of early life adversity	5
Prenatal exposure to social adversity and infant cortisol in the first year of life	5
Differences between adult and adolescent male mice in approach/avoidance and expression of hippocampal NPY in response to acute footshock	5
Associations of perceived stress and salivary cortisol with the snack and fast-food dietary pattern in women shift workers	5
Chemogenetic inhibition of corticotropin releasing hormone neurons in the paraventricular nucleus attenuates traumatic stress-induced deficit of NREM sleep, but not REM sleep in mice	5
Association of stress-related neural activity and baseline interleukin-6 plasma levels in healthy adults	5
Lifetime exposure to violence and other life stressors and hair cortisol concentration in women	5
Stress, working memory, and academic performance: a neuroscience perspective	4
Measuring stress: a review of the current cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) measurement techniques and considerations for the future of mental health monitoring	4
Examination of the role of adrenergic receptor stimulation in the sensitization of neuroinflammatory-based depressive-like behavior in isolated Guinea pig pups	4
California Stress, Trauma, and Resilience Study (CalSTARS) protocol: A multiomics-based cross-sectional investigation and randomized controlled trial to elucidate the biology of ACEs and test a precis	4
Effects of social tolerance on stress: hair cortisol concentrations in the tolerant Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana) and the despotic long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)	4
Multiple brain regions are involved in reaction to acute restraint stress in CYLD-knockout mice	4
Platelet serotonin concentration and trait aggression in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder: a preliminary study	4
HIV status affects PTSD symptom severity, psychophysiology, and heart rate variability in women with low but not high exposure to childhood maltreatment	4
Elevated miR-34a expression and altered transcriptional profile are associated with adverse electromechanical remodeling in the heart of male rats exposed to social stress	4
Regulating interpersonal stress: the link between heart-rate variability, physical exercise and social perspective taking under stress	4
Stress and steroid interaction modulates expression of estrogen receptor alpha in the brain, pituitary, and testes of immatureGallus gallus domesticus	4
Stress in performance-related pay: the effect of payment contracts and social-evaluative threat	3
Post-stress glucose consumption facilitates hormesis and resilience to severe stress	3
Acute stress reduces reward-related neural activity: Evidence from the reward positivity	3
Habitual use of psychological coping strategies is associated with physiological stress responding during negative memory recollection in humans	3
Cortisol levels versus self-report stress measures during pregnancy as predictors of adverse infant outcomes: a systematic review	3
Immediate stress alters social and object interaction and recognition memory in nearly isogenic rat strains with differing stress reactivity	3
Testosterone and cortisol responses to acute and prolonged stress during officer training school	3
The influence of acute stress exposure on cognitive reappraisal: a psychophysiological study	3
Changes in kynurenine pathway metabolites after acute psychosocial stress in healthy males: a single-arm pilot study	3
Prenatal stress and increased susceptibility to anxiety-like behaviors: role of neuroinflammation and balance between GABAergic and glutamatergic transmission	3
The effect of exposure to natural sounds on stress reduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
A mismatch between early and recent life stress predicts better response inhibition, but not cognitive inhibition	3

Differences in acute stress responses depending on first or second language in a Hispanic-American sample	3
Integrating the pattern of negative emotion processing and acute stress response with childhood stress among healthy young adults	3
Voluntary alcohol consumption during distinct phases of adolescence differentially alters adult fear acquisition, extinction and renewal in male and female rats	3
Testosterone and cortisol are more predictive of choice behavior than a social nudge in adult males on a simple gift give-get task	3
Exploring the metabolomic profile of cerebellum after exposure to acute stress	3
Cold pressor stress effects on cardiac repolarization	3
The influence of stress on distractor-response bindings	3
Differential impact of prenatal PTSD symptoms and preconception trauma exposure on placental NR3C1 and FKBP5 methylation	3
Positive affect and resilience in tertiary education students	3
Study of glucose homeostasis in burnout cases using an oral glucose tolerance test	2
Differences in hair cortisol to cortisone ratio between depressed and non-depressed adolescent women	2
The impact of virtual reality scenes on stress response characteristics of individuals with different personality traits	2
Spleen tissue changes after restraint stress: effects of aerobic exercise training	2
Applied relaxation and cortisol secretion: findings from a randomized controlled indicated prevention trial in adults with stress, anxiety, or depressive symptoms	2
The Stress Phenotyping Framework: A multidisciplinary biobehavioral approach for assessing and therapeutically targeting maladaptive stress physiology	2
Physiological behavior during stress anticipation across different chronic stress exposure adaptive models	2
Cumulative maternal lifetime stress & child asthma: effect modification by BMI	2
Alterations of autonomic nervous system and HPA axis basal activity and reactivity to acute stress: a comparison of traumatized adolescents and healthy controls	2
Sex-dependent expression of N-cadherin-GluA1 pathway-related molecules in the prefrontal cortex mediates anxiety-like behavior in male offspring following prenatal stress	2
The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health, gut microbiota composition and serum cortisol levels	2
Occupational stress is associated with sex and subregion specific modifications of the amygdala volumes	2
Effects of chronic unpredictable mild stress on gut sensation and function in male mice	2
Corticosterone rapidly modulates dorsomedial hypothalamus serotonin and behavior in an estrogen- and progesterone-dependent manner in adult female rats: potential role of organic cation transporter 3	2
The cortisol awakening response and the late positive potentials evoked by unpleasant emotional pictures in healthy adults	2