Stefanie E. Mayer

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Stefanie E. Mayer is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Biological Psychiatry. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefanie E. Mayer has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9 papers in Clinical Psychology and 5 papers in Biological Psychiatry. Recurrent topics in Stefanie E. Mayer's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (17 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (5 papers). Stefanie E. Mayer is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (17 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (5 papers). Stefanie E. Mayer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Stefanie E. Mayer's co-authors include Elissa S. Epel, Eli Puterman, Aric A. Prather, George M. Slavich, Wendy Berry Mendes, Alexandra D. Crosswell, Nestor L. Lopez‐Duran, James L. Abelson, Srijan Sen and Iván Vargas and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Medicine and Health Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Stefanie E. Mayer

26 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science

2018 625 citations Elissa S. Epel, Alexandra D. Crosswell et al. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefanie E. Mayer United States	12	408	407	243	241	183	27	1.2k
Danielle Gianferante United States	13	352 0.9×	343 0.8×	168 0.7×	224 0.9×	111 0.6×	15	932
Meghan E. Quinn United States	10	420 1.0×	368 0.9×	187 0.8×	321 1.3×	85 0.5×	19	1.1k
Ian A. Boggero United States	15	198 0.5×	312 0.8×	208 0.9×	258 1.1×	133 0.7×	48	1.2k
Nilofar Sarvaiya United States	3	221 0.5×	335 0.8×	232 1.0×	165 0.7×	100 0.5×	3	1.1k
Amy S. DeSantis United States	17	484 1.2×	237 0.6×	171 0.7×	310 1.3×	194 1.1×	25	1.2k
Jens C. Prüssner Germany	5	549 1.3×	165 0.4×	215 0.9×	146 0.6×	159 0.9×	5	837
Kentaro Shirotsuki Japan	14	301 0.7×	198 0.5×	156 0.6×	171 0.7×	94 0.5×	37	824
Mercedes Almela Spain	19	427 1.0×	148 0.4×	266 1.1×	252 1.0×	99 0.5×	32	905
François Ducrocq France	14	269 0.7×	594 1.5×	209 0.9×	103 0.4×	113 0.6×	40	1.2k
Carolina Villada Spain	17	448 1.1×	132 0.3×	240 1.0×	166 0.7×	88 0.5×	31	752

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Hamlat, Elissa J., Stefanie E. Mayer, Barbara Laraia, et al.. (2025). Maternal childhood adversity accelerates epigenetic aging of children.. Health Psychology. 44(5). 479–488. 1 indexed citations

Verosky, Sara C., et al.. (2024). Localizing somatic symptoms associated with childhood maltreatment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(19). e2318128121–e2318128121. 2 indexed citations

Abelson, James L., et al.. (2023). Do diurnal salivary cortisol curves carry meaningful information about the regulatory biology of the HPA axis in healthy humans?. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 150. 106031–106031. 6 indexed citations

Laraia, Barbara, et al.. (2023). Cohort profile: the longitudinal National Growth and Health Study (NGHS) of black and white girls from Northern California tracking how behavioural and psychosocial risk factors predict cardiovascular risk and biological ageing in midlife and in offspring. BMJ Open. 13(11). e072957–e072957. 4 indexed citations

Mayer, Stefanie E., Jue Lin, Elissa J. Hamlat, et al.. (2022). Intergenerational effects of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on offspring telomere length in Black and White women. Psychological Medicine. 53(13). 6171–6182. 9 indexed citations

Mayer, Stefanie E., Aric A. Prather, Eli Puterman, et al.. (2021). The long shadow of childhood trauma for depression in midlife: examining daily psychological stress processes as a persistent risk pathway. Psychological Medicine. 52(16). 4029–4038. 11 indexed citations

Mayer, Stefanie E., Melissa K. Peckins, Kate R. Kuhlman, et al.. (2020). The roles of comorbidity and trauma exposure and its timing in shaping HPA axis patterns in depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 120. 104776–104776. 17 indexed citations

Mitić, Božena, Olaf Kunert, Stefanie E. Mayer, et al.. (2019). Phenolic compounds of Iris adriatica and their antimycobacterial effects. Acta Pharmaceutica. 69(4). 673–681. 7 indexed citations

Mayer, Stefanie E., Aric A. Prather, Eli Puterman, et al.. (2019). Cumulative lifetime stress exposure and leukocyte telomere length attrition: The unique role of stressor duration and exposure timing. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 104. 210–218. 48 indexed citations

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Mitić, Božena, et al.. (2018). Metabolic profiling of rhizomes of native populations of the strictly endemic Croatian species Iris adriatica. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 153(2). 317–324. 18 indexed citations

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Mayer, Stefanie E., Nestor L. Lopez‐Duran, Srijan Sen, & James L. Abelson. (2018). Chronic stress, hair cortisol and depression: A prospective and longitudinal study of medical internship. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 92. 57–65. 100 indexed citations

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Epel, Elissa S., Alexandra D. Crosswell, Stefanie E. Mayer, et al.. (2018). More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 49. 146–169. 625 indexed citations breakdown →

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Erickson, Thane M., Stefanie E. Mayer, Nestor L. Lopez‐Duran, et al.. (2017). Mediators of compassionate goal intervention effects on human neuroendocrine responses to the Trier Social Stress Test. Stress. 20(6). 533–540. 11 indexed citations

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Mayer, Stefanie E., et al.. (2017). The psychology of HPA axis activation: Examining subjective emotional distress and control in a phobic fear exposure model. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 82. 189–198. 17 indexed citations

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Mayer, Stefanie E., et al.. (2016). Trait and state rumination interact to prolong cortisol activation to psychosocial stress in females. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 74. 324–332. 49 indexed citations

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Kistner, Katrin, Stefanie E. Mayer, Dominique Massotte, et al.. (2016). Functional and structural characterization of axonal opioid receptors as targets for analgesia. Molecular Pain. 12. 23 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Duran, Nestor L., Ellen W. McGinnis, Kate R. Kuhlman, et al.. (2015). HPA-axis stress reactivity in youth depression: evidence of impaired regulatory processes in depressed boys. Stress. 18(5). 545–553. 42 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Duran, Nestor L., Stefanie E. Mayer, & James L. Abelson. (2014). Modeling neuroendocrine stress reactivity in salivary cortisol: adjusting for peak latency variability. Stress. 17(4). 285–295. 66 indexed citations

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Mayer, Stefanie E., James L. Abelson, & Nestor L. Lopez‐Duran. (2014). Effortful control and context interact in shaping neuroendocrine stress responses during childhood. Hormones and Behavior. 66(2). 457–465. 11 indexed citations

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Abelson, James L., Thane M. Erickson, Stefanie E. Mayer, et al.. (2014). Brief cognitive intervention can modulate neuroendocrine stress responses to the Trier Social Stress Test: Buffering effects of a compassionate goal orientation. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 44. 60–70. 64 indexed citations

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