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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Daniel Navon, Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 348 pp. 11 halftones, $40.00 Cloth, ISBN: 9780226638096	10
A Conversation with Darwin on Man Revisited: 150 Years to The Descent of Man	9
How to Civilize Elites: Controlling “Foreign Scientists” at a Field Station in the Galápagos Islands	8
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle’s Approach	7
James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780691233796, 515 pp.	7
Marga Vicedo, Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother, Boston: Beacon Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780807055519, 272 pp.	6
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp	6
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	4
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–1892	4
Laura J. Martin, Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780674979420, 336 pp.	4
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn	4
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.	4
Nathan Crowe, Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946274, 299 pp.	4
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague	4
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	4
Three-Dimensional Phylogeny in Two Dimensions: How Darwin and Other Nineteenth-Century Naturalists Created Three-Dimensional Figures of the Natural System by Combining Trees of Life and Maps of Affini	3
From Entomological Research to Culturing Tissues: Aron Moscona’s Investigative Pathway	3
The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	3
Catharine Beecher and the Mechanical Body: Physiology, Evangelism, and American Social Reform from the Antebellum Period to the Gilded Age	3
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	3
Pattern Without Process: Eugen Smirnov and the Earliest Project of Numerical Taxonomy (1923–1938)	3
Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp.	3
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp.	2
How Phenograms and Cladograms Became Molecular Phylogenetic Trees	2
The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-Century Fisheries Science	2

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the First Embryological Evolutionary Model on the Origin of Vertebrates	2
JHB’s “New Developments in Darwin Studies?” Redux	2
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach	2
Chen Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	2
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome	2
Mary Anne Andrei, Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780226730318, 250 pp.	2
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century	2
Correction to: Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	2
Book Review: Jenny Bangham. Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics	2
Stefanie Gänger, A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9781108842167, 300 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
Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226822723, 630 pp.	1
A Biogeographical Debate at the Origins of Limnology in Switzerland and Italy: The Issue over Pelagic Fauna Between Pietro Pavesi and François-Alphonse Forel	1
Developing Sex: From Recremental Semen to Developmental Endocrinology	1
The Elementary Organisms	1
A Feeling for the Human Subject: Margaret Lasker and the Genetic Puzzle of Pentosuria	1
The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber’s Philosophy of Plants	1
Alexander Dalrymple, the Utility of Coral Reefs, and Charles Darwin’s Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs	1
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.	1
Correction to: Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	1
Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care	1
William Lawrence Tower’s Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance	1
From Monsters to Malformations: Anatomical Preparations as Objects of Evidence for a Developmental Paradigm of Embryology, 1770–1850	1
Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	1
Darwin’s “Dark Matter” and the History of Biology: An Editorial Introduction	1
The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species	1
Asilomar Across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise	1
Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–1995	1
Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 336	1
Introduction: What Right? Which Organisms? Why Jobs?	1
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection	1
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science	1
Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971–1986	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