OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress is 3. 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
Chronic stress triggers impairments of the redox status of salivary glands associated with different histological responses in rats	13
Early life adversity ablates sex differences in active versus passive threat responding in mice	13
Implementing a single‐person virtual Trier social stress test via zoom: validation and outcomes	11
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
Repeated presentation of visual threats drives innate fear habituation and is modulated by threat history and acute stress exposure	10
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
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

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
Pre-reproductive stress in adolescent female rats alters maternal care and DNA methylation patterns across generations	6
The impact of chronic stress on the PFC transcriptome: a bioinformatic meta-analysis of publicly available RNA-sequencing datasets	6
Chronic restraint stress induces abnormal behaviors in pain sensitivity and cognitive function in mice: the role of Keap1/Nrf2 pathway	6
Sleep restriction during opioid abstinence affects the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in male and female rats	6
Psychosocial stress in women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhea and potential implications for cardiovascular disease risk	6
PLC, PTH and NF-κB increased during orthodontic bone remodeling in chronic stress rats	6
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) supplementation alleviates dexamethasone treatment-induced oxidative stress and inflammation response in broiler chickens	6
Vagally mediated heart rate variability, stress, and perceived social support: a focus on sex differences	5
Subjective cognitive complaints and its associations to response inhibition and neural activation in patients with stress-related exhaustion disorder	5
Increasing resolution in stress neurobiology: from single cells to complex group behaviors	5
Electroacupuncture improves sleep deprivation-induced cognitive impairment by suppressing hippocampal inflammatory response in mice	5
Differential impact of prenatal PTSD symptoms and preconception trauma exposure on placental NR3C1 and FKBP5 methylation	5
Prior exposure to a sensorimotor game in virtual reality does not enhance stress reactivity toward the OpenTSST VR	5
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	5
Association of stress-related neural activity and baseline interleukin-6 plasma levels in healthy adults	5
Chronic adolescent stress alters GR-FKBP5 interactions in the hippocampus of adult female rats	5
Inhibition of prefrontal cortex parvalbumin interneurons mitigates behavioral and physiological sequelae of chronic stress in male mice	5
CCK1R2R ^-/- ameliorates myocardial damage caused by unpredictable stress via altering fatty acid metabolism	5
Caregiving stress and burden associated with cardiometabolic risk in family caregivers of individuals with cancer	5
Differences in acute stress responses depending on first or second language in a Hispanic-American sample	4
Cumulative maternal lifetime stress & child asthma: effect modification by BMI	4
Decreased amygdala-sensorimotor connectivity mediates the association between prenatal stress and broad autism phenotype in young adults: Project Ice Storm	4
Integrating the pattern of negative emotion processing and acute stress response with childhood stress among healthy young adults	4
Stress in performance-related pay: the effect of payment contracts and social-evaluative threat	4
The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health, gut microbiota composition and serum cortisol levels	4
Cortisol levels versus self-report stress measures during pregnancy as predictors of adverse infant outcomes: a systematic review	4
Lack of bombesin receptor-activated protein homologous protein impairs hippocampal synaptic plasticity and promotes chronic unpredictable mild stress induced behavioral changes in mice	4
Investigating adverse daily life effects following a psychosocial laboratory stress task, and the moderating role of Psychopathology	3
DHEA-S production capacity in relation to perceived prolonged stress	3
The chronic stress risk phenotype mirrored in the human retina as a neurodegenerative condition	3
Effects of psychosocial stress on prosociality: the moderating role of current life stress and thought control	3
Stress adaptation in rats associate with reduced expression of cerebrovascular K_v7.4 channels and biphasic neurovascular responses	3
Accumbal μ-opioid receptors and salt taste-elicited hedonic responses in a rodent model of prenatal adversity, and their correlates using human functional genomics	3
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	3
Stress, rhythm, choice and the munchies – tribute to Mary F. Dallman	3
From ligands to behavioral outcomes: understanding the role of mineralocorticoid receptors in brain function	3
A single dose of ketamine cannot prevent protracted stress-induced anhedonia and neuroinflammation in rats	3
Sex differences in body temperature and neural power spectra in response to repeated restraint stress	3