Journal of the History of Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of the History of Biology is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague14
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation8
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.7
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period7
Situating Commemoration: An Editorial Introduction7
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp7
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science7
“From the Known to the Unknown:” Nature’s Diversity, Materia Medica, and Analogy in 18th Century Botany, Through the Work of Tournefort, the Jussieu Brothers, and Linnaeus5
Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 3365
The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber’s Philosophy of Plants5
Everett Mendelsohn: The Harvard Professor4
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection4
Correction: Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp4
Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization4
Alfredo Morabia, The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19, Baltimore: Johns Hopkin University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781421446783, 232 pp.4
Marco Tamborini, The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780822947356, 283 pp4
Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin’s Origin: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Theory (History, Philosophy, and Theory of the Life Sciences, volume 34), Cham: S3
David P.D. Munns and Kärin Nickelsen. Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life-Support Systems in the Space Age, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN 9780822946540, 216 pp.3
Studying Regeneration Through History as a Way of Looking Forward3
Plants, Pictures, and People2
Lisa Haushofer, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, Oakland: University of California Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780520390409, 270 pp.2
Joel Schwartz, Robert Brown and Mungo Park: Travels and Explorations in Natural History for the Royal Society, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden no. 122, Cham: Springer, 2021, ISBN: 978303074862
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn2
Soraya de Chadarevian, Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 272 pp, 36 halftones, $112.50 Cloth, ISBN 9780226685082
Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics’s Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel’s Experiments in Peas2
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project2
Maura Flannery, In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780300247916, 335 pp.2
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.2
The Making of the Sambucana: On Memory, the Body, and the Production of Bioheritage2
Recapitulation, Heredity, and Freud’s View of Human Nature2
The 2025 Everett Mendelsohn Prize2
Sociobiology on Screen. The Controversy Through the Lens of Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally2
The Pre-Linnaean Herbarium of Paolo Boccone (1633–1704) in Wrocław, Poland: Its History, Description, its Purpose, and its Usefulness for Historians of Science2
Correction: Joel Hagen. Life out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021, ISBN 9780817320898, 360 pp1
Publisher Correction: Peter J. Bowler, Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978110884225-6, 314 pp1
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome1
Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 296 pp1
Culture, Codes, Communities: Culture Collections’ Transformation from Microbial Palaces to Networked Services (1890–1972)1
James Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions 1820–1858, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780822966340, 234 pp.1
The Elementary Organisms1
“At a Glance:” The Role of Diagrammatic Representations in Eugenics Appropriations of the “Infamous Juke Family”1
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones1
The Different Career Patterns of Two Pathbreaking Women Biologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem1
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–19321
The 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize1
Shifting Values and Shifting Risks: Debates on the New Biology in Germany and the United States Before and After Asilomar (1960–1980)1
Peter J. Bowler, Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978110884225-6, 314 pp.1
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Transformist Theory1
The Contributions—and Collapse—of Lamarckism in Pasteurian Molecular Biology: 2. Enzymatic Adaptation, 1920–19651
“Keep the Faith:” Memories of Everett Mendelson1
The 2026 Everett Mendelsohn Prize1
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle’s Approach1
Imperial Microbiology: The National Collection of Type Cultures and the Management of Microorganisms, 1916–19221
Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp.1
On “Hennig’s Dilemma” and the Post-Systematics Wars1
Beginnings: Everett Mendelsohn, 1963–19731
Patrick Spero, André Michaux and Thomas Jefferson and the Conspiracy of 1793, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780813952192, 334 pp.1
Sharon E. Kingsland, A Lab for All Seasons: The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology, 2023, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN: 9780300267228, 385 pp.1
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