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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Help or punishment: acute stress moderates basal testosterone's association with prosocial behavior	30
Interaction of chronic pain, obesity and time of day on cortisol in female human adolescents	28
Inverse association between stress induced cortisol elevations and negative emotional reactivity to stress in humans	19
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and repeated wheezing from 6 to 30 months of age: exploring the role of race and ethnicity	19
Juvenile exposure to doxorubicin alters the cardiovascular response to adult-onset psychosocial stress in mice	16
Immune cell dynamics in response to an acute laboratory stressor: a within-person between-group analysis of the biological impact of early life adversity	16
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	15
Stress exacerbates DNCB-induced atopic dermatitis in BALB/c mice: association with modulation of the gut microbiome	15
Testosterone and cortisol responses to acute and prolonged stress during officer training school	15
Early life stress and latent trait cortisol in adolescent girls: a prospective examination	14
Protective effects of nanocurcumin against stress-induced deterioration in the intestine	14
Genome-wide association studies of stress score in a Korean Cohort	13
Repeated presentation of visual threats drives innate fear habituation and is modulated by threat history and acute stress exposure	13
Can the DEX/CRH test or markers of oxidative stress distinguish work-related stress from major depressive disorder and normal controls?	13
Pre-pandemic electrodermal activity predicts current COVID-related fears: household size during lockdown as a moderating factor	13
Diurnal cortisol patterns in chronic pain: Associations with work-family spillover, work, and home stress	12
Early life adversity ablates sex differences in active versus passive threat responding in mice	12
Female rats are more responsive than are males to the protective effects of voluntary physical activity against the behavioral consequences of inescapable stress	12
Individual differences in behavioral responses to predator odor predict subsequent stress reactivity in female rats	11
HIV status affects PTSD symptom severity, psychophysiology, and heart rate variability in women with low but not high exposure to childhood maltreatment	10
Sex differences in the murine HPA axis after acute and repeated restraint stress	10
Chronic stress triggers impairments of the redox status of salivary glands associated with different histological responses in rats	10
Assessment of depression in patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome: a double-blind study	9
Stress and steroid interaction modulates expression of estrogen receptor alpha in the brain, pituitary, and testes of immatureGallus gallus domesticus	8
Exploring the metabolomic profile of cerebellum after exposure to acute stress	8

Acute psychosocial stress weakens the sense of agency in healthy adults	8
The Stress Phenotyping Framework: A multidisciplinary biobehavioral approach for assessing and therapeutically targeting maladaptive stress physiology	7
The influence of acute stress exposure on cognitive reappraisal: a psychophysiological study	7
Differences in hair cortisol to cortisone ratio between depressed and non-depressed adolescent women	7
Behavior, synaptic mitochondria, and microglia are differentially impacted by chronic adolescent stress and repeated endotoxin exposure in male and female rats	7
Applied relaxation and cortisol secretion: findings from a randomized controlled indicated prevention trial in adults with stress, anxiety, or depressive symptoms	7
Effects of chronic unpredictable mild stress on gut sensation and function in male mice	6
Effectiveness of game-based meditation therapy on neurobiological stress systems in adolescents with posttraumatic symptoms: a randomized controlled trial	6
How spatial omics approaches can be used to map the biological impacts of stress in psychiatric disorders: a perspective, overview and technical guide	6
Acute stress and human spatial working memory strategy use	6
Elevated levels of hair cortisol concentrations in professional dementia caregivers	6
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) supplementation alleviates dexamethasone treatment-induced oxidative stress and inflammation response in broiler chickens	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
Dietary L-citrulline influences body temperature and inflammatory responses during nitric oxide synthase inhibition and endotoxin challenge in chickens	5
Sleep restriction during opioid abstinence affects the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in male and female rats	5
Increasing resolution in stress neurobiology: from single cells to complex group behaviors	5
Chronic adolescent stress alters GR-FKBP5 interactions in the hippocampus of adult female rats	5
PLC, PTH and NF-κB increased during orthodontic bone remodeling in chronic stress rats	5
Pre-reproductive stress in adolescent female rats alters maternal care and DNA methylation patterns across generations	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
The big picture: Mary Dallman, a role model	5
Inhibition of prefrontal cortex parvalbumin interneurons mitigates behavioral and physiological sequelae of chronic stress in male mice	5
A laboratory medical anamnesis interview elicits psychological and physiological arousal	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
Subjective cognitive complaints and its associations to response inhibition and neural activation in patients with stress-related exhaustion disorder	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
Vagally mediated heart rate variability, stress, and perceived social support: a focus on sex differences	4
Electroacupuncture improves sleep deprivation-induced cognitive impairment by suppressing hippocampal inflammatory response in mice	4
Integrating the pattern of negative emotion processing and acute stress response with childhood stress among healthy young adults	4
Cortisol levels versus self-report stress measures during pregnancy as predictors of adverse infant outcomes: a systematic review	4
Association of stress-related neural activity and baseline interleukin-6 plasma levels in healthy adults	4
Differences in acute stress responses depending on first or second language in a Hispanic-American sample	4
Differential impact of prenatal PTSD symptoms and preconception trauma exposure on placental NR3C1 and FKBP5 methylation	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
Changes in kynurenine pathway metabolites after acute psychosocial stress in healthy males: a single-arm pilot study	3
Stress in performance-related pay: the effect of payment contracts and social-evaluative threat	3
From ligands to behavioral outcomes: understanding the role of mineralocorticoid receptors in brain function	3
Effects of psychosocial stress on prosociality: the moderating role of current life stress and thought control	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
Stress, rhythm, choice and the munchies – tribute to Mary F. Dallman	3
Decreased amygdala-sensorimotor connectivity mediates the association between prenatal stress and broad autism phenotype in young adults: Project Ice Storm	3
Stress adaptation in rats associate with reduced expression of cerebrovascular K_v7.4 channels and biphasic neurovascular responses	3
A single dose of ketamine cannot prevent protracted stress-induced anhedonia and neuroinflammation in rats	3
Does self-perceived income priority matter? The association between income inequality and allostatic load in China	3
The chronic stress risk phenotype mirrored in the human retina as a neurodegenerative condition	3
The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health, gut microbiota composition and serum cortisol levels	3
Cumulative maternal lifetime stress & child asthma: effect modification by BMI	3

Prenatal stress promotes insulin resistance without inflammation or obesity in C57BL/6J male mice	3
DHEA-S production capacity in relation to perceived prolonged stress	3
Investigating adverse daily life effects following a psychosocial laboratory stress task, and the moderating role of Psychopathology	3
Diverse roles of glucocorticoids in the ruminant mammary gland: modulation of mammary growth, milk production, and mastitis	3