OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	13
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp	10
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague	7
The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-Century Fisheries Science	7
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century	6
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	5
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection	4
“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 Linnaeus	4
Situating Commemoration: An Editorial Introduction	4
The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber’s Philosophy of Plants	4
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.	4
Correction: Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp	4
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science	4
2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	4
Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 336	4
Studying Regeneration Through History as a Way of Looking Forward	3
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.	3
Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics’s Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel’s Experiments in Peas	3
Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization	3
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
Everett Mendelsohn: The Harvard Professor	3
The 2025 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	2
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project	2
Maura Flannery, In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780300247916, 335 pp.	2
Sociobiology on Screen. The Controversy Through the Lens of Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally	2

Reflections on Making Mice (2004)	2
Recapitulation, Heredity, and Freud’s View of Human Nature	2
The Making of the Sambucana: On Memory, the Body, and the Production of Bioheritage	2
Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	2
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: 97830307486	2
Correction to: Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	2
The Colonial State, African Dog-Owners, and the Political Economy of Rabies Vaccination Campaigns in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 1960s	2
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn	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
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
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.	1
A Critique of Darwin’s The Descent of Man by a Muslim Scholar in 1912: Muḥammad-Riḍā Iṣfahānī's Examination of the Anatomical and Embryological Similarities Between Human and Other Animals	1
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones	1
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome	1
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932	1
The Contributions—and Collapse—of Lamarckism in Pasteurian Molecular Biology: 2. Enzymatic Adaptation, 1920–1965	1
Correction: Joel Hagen. Life out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021, ISBN 9780817320898, 360 pp	1
Beginnings: Everett Mendelsohn, 1963–1973	1
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 978022668508	1
Correction to: The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	1
“Keep the Faith:” Memories of Everett Mendelson	1
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	1
Model Organisms Unbound	1
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 pp	1
Imperial Microbiology: The National Collection of Type Cultures and the Management of Microorganisms, 1916–1922	1
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Transformist Theory	1
Patrick Spero, André Michaux and Thomas Jefferson and the Conspiracy of 1793, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780813952192, 334 pp.	1
From Entomological Research to Culturing Tissues: Aron Moscona’s Investigative Pathway	1
The Elementary Organisms	1
“At a Glance:” The Role of Diagrammatic Representations in Eugenics Appropriations of the “Infamous Juke Family”	1
Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp.	1
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle’s Approach	1
The 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	1