OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Brain mechanisms of HPA axis regulation: neurocircuitry and feedback in context Richard Kvetnansky lecture	72
Chronic social defeat stress in female mice leads to sex-specific behavioral and neuroendocrine effects	28
Allostatic load and mental health: a latent class analysis of physiological dysregulation	24
A scoping review of interventions targeting allostatic load	24
N-acetyl cysteine treatment mitigates biomarkers of oxidative stress in different tissues of bile duct ligated rats	23
Low glucocorticoids in stress-related disorders: the role of inflammation	21
Oxytocin, cortisol, and cognitive control during acute and naturalistic stress	20
Resistance training as an acute stressor in healthy young men: associations with heart rate variability, alpha-amylase, and cortisol levels	18
Gut microbiota diversity but not composition is related to saliva cortisol stress response at the age of 2.5 months	17
Prenatal stress and increased susceptibility to anxiety-like behaviors: role of neuroinflammation and balance between GABAergic and glutamatergic transmission	17
Priorities in stress research: a view from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health	16
Laughter yoga reduces the cortisol response to acute stress in healthy individuals	15
Infrared thermography is an effective, noninvasive measure of HPA activation	15
Sex- and stress-dependent effects of a single injection of ketamine on open field and forced swim behavior	14
Acute stress reduces reward-related neural activity: Evidence from the reward positivity	13
Early life stress decreases cell proliferation and the number of putative adult neural stem cells in the adult hypothalamus	12
Prefrontal cortex PACAP signaling: organization and role in stress regulation	11
Lower activity of salivary alpha-amylase in youths with depression	11
Exhaustion disorder and altered brain activity in frontal cortex detected with fNIRS	11
Experience and activity-dependent control of glucocorticoid receptors during the stress response in large-scale brain networks	11
Cortisol levels versus self-report stress measures during pregnancy as predictors of adverse infant outcomes: a systematic review	11
Early life stress due to repeated maternal separation alters the working memory acquisition brain functional network	11
Early social deprivation does not affect cortisol response to acute and chronic stress in zebrafish	10
Behavioral and neuroendocrine consequences of disrupting a long-term monogamous social bond in aging prairie voles	10
Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in post-traumatic stress disorder and cocaine use disorder	10

Sex differences in stress-induced sleep deficits	10
Alterations of autonomic nervous system and HPA axis basal activity and reactivity to acute stress: a comparison of traumatized adolescents and healthy controls	10
Stress-induced expression pattern of glutamate signaling genes associated with anhedonia	10
Induction of acute stress through an internet-delivered Trier Social Stress Test as assessed by photoplethysmography on a smartphone	9
Stress and stress-related disease states as topics of multi-approach research	9
Noradrenergic enhancement of object recognition and object location memory in mice	9
The gonadal response to social stress and its relationship to cortisol	9
Psychobiological evidence of the stress resilience fostering properties of a cosmetic routine	9
Safe in my heart: resting heart rate variability longitudinally predicts emotion regulation, worry, and sense of safeness during COVID-19 lockdown	9
Everyday moral decision-making after acute stress exposure: do social closeness and timing matter?	9
Anxiogenic-like effect of chronic lipopolysaccharide is associated with increased expression of matrix metalloproteinase 9 in the rat amygdala	9
A validation study on fingernail cortisol: correlations with one-month cortisol levels estimated by hair and saliva samples	8
The effects of light exposure on the cortisol stress response in human males	8
Social isolation in mice: behavior, immunity, and tumor growth	8
Effect of acute psychosocial stress on the brain-derived neurotrophic factor in humans – a randomized cross within trial	8
The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health, gut microbiota composition and serum cortisol levels	8
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) supplementation alleviates dexamethasone treatment-induced oxidative stress and inflammation response in broiler chickens	8
Hair cortisol predicts avoidance behavior and depressiveness after first-time and single-event trauma exposure in motor vehicle crash victims	8
Cortisol changes in healthy children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
A proposed role for glucocorticoids in mediating dopamine-dependent cue-reward learning	7
Mild-to-moderate schizotypal traits relate to physiological arousal from social stress	7
Vagally mediated heart rate variability, stress, and perceived social support: a focus on sex differences	7
Design and validation of an electrophysiological based tool to assess chronic stress. Case study: burnout syndrome in caregivers	7
Vasopressin and post-traumatic stress disorder	7
Lack of social touch alters anxiety-like and social behaviors in male mice	7
Cognitive impairments and recovery in patients with work-related stress complaints – four years later	7
Reflections on Bruce S. McEwen’s contributions to stress neurobiology and so much more	7
Acute psychosocial stress increases third-party helping but not punishing behavior	7
The streamlined allostatic load index is associated with perceived stress in life – findings from the MIDUS study	7
Searching for glycomic biomarkers for predicting resilience and vulnerability in a rat model of posttraumatic stress disorder	7
Hippocampal NG2+ pericytes in chronically stressed rats and depressed patients: a quantitative study	7
Caregiving stress and burden associated with cardiometabolic risk in family caregivers of individuals with cancer	7