OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Quarterly Review of Biology is 0. 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.)

Article	Citations
:Microbiology of Infectious Disease: Integrating Genomics with Natural History	35
:The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants	30
In Memoriam	15
:The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to AI to Aliens	11
:The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution	10
:Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life	9
To the Last Smoke: An Anthology. By Stephen J. Pyne. Tucson (Arizona): University of Arizona Press. $29.95 (paper). x + 436 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-8165-4012-9. 2020.	9
:The Lives of Seaweeds. A Natural History of Our Planet’s Seaweeds and Other Algae	6
Effective Conservation Science: Data Not Dogma. Edited by Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier, and Brian Silliman. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $100.00 (hardcover); $49.95 (paper).	6
:On the Origin of Being: Understanding the Science of Evolution to Enhance Your Quality of Life	6
Directory of Publishers	5
:Common Bees of Western North America. Princeton Field Guides	5
:Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved	5
:The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage	4
:Animal as Machine: The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt	4
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund	3
:Conservation of Marine Birds	2
:Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others	1
:Parasites: The Inside Story	1
Thinking through Climate Change: A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene. Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors. By Adam Briggle. Palgrave (Macmillan). Cham (Switzerl	1
:Yellowstone’s Birds: Diversity and Abundance in the World’s First National Park	1
: Neurobiological Evolution of Humans: From Neurons to Narratives	1
:Communication between Honeybees: More Than Just a Dance in the Dark	1
:One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward: One Woman’s Path to Becoming a Biologist	1
:Cryptic Species: Morphological Stasis, Circumscription, and Hidden Diversity. The Systematics Association Special Volume 89	1

:Landscape Evolution: Landforms, Ecosystems, and Soils	1
:The Ecology of Collective Behavior	1
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. By Oliver Milman. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $27.95. vii + 260 p.; index. ISBN: 9781324006596 (hc); 9781324006602	0
:Organisms Amplify Diversity: An Autocatalytic Hypothesis	0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed	0
:Field Guide to Sharks, Rays & Chimaeras of the East Coast of North America	0
:Evolutionary Ecology of Amphibians	0
:Hymenoptera: The Natural History and Diversity of Wasps, Bees, and Ants	0
:Nematodes as Model Organisms	0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed	0
:Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic	0
:Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change	0
Front Matter	0
: The Evolution of Imperfection: The Science of Why We Aren’t and Can’t Be Perfect	0
: Darwin’s Racism, Sexism, and Idolization: Their Tragic Societal and Scientific Repercussions	0
:All You Need to Know About Spiders	0
:Inshore Fishes of Britain and Ireland	0
The Nucleus. Second Edition. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Edited by Ana Pombo, Martin W. Hetzer, and Tom Misteli. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pre	0
:Extinctions: From Dinosaurs to You	0
Directory of Publishers	0
: Smithsonian Trees of North America	0
:George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks	0
:Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East	0
Turtles of the World: A Guide to Every Family. By Jeffrey E. Lovich and Whit Gibbons. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $29.95. 240 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-691-22322-3 (h	0
:Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More	0
:Caribou: Wind Walkers of the Northern Wilderness	0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed	0
:The Lives of Sharks. A Natural History of Shark Life	0
:Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes	0
:Birds of Costa Rica. Princeton Field Guides	0
The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic. By Charles H. Pence. Academic Press. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and New York: Elsevier. $106.25 (paper). vii + 182 p.	0
Reviewers of Books	0
:Human Nature	0
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund	0
:Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils	0
: Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals	0
:Understanding Evo-Devo. Understanding Life Series	0
How Might Artificial Intelligence Influence Human Evolution?	0
:Origin Africa: A Natural History	0
Conservation Genetics in Mammals: Integrative Research Using Novel Approaches. Edited by Jorge Ortega and Jesus E. Maldonado. Cham (Switzerland) and New York: Springer. $179.99. vii + 378 p.; i	0
:The Biology of Death: How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, and Populations	0
Revisiting Rapoport’s Rule: The History of an Idea and Alternative Explanations for Latitudinal Variation in Geographic Range Size	0
:The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, From the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us	0
:Insect Diapause	0
:Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know	0
:Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology	0
:Two Acres of Time: Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig	0
Sensitive Period Diversity: Insights From Evolutionary Models	0
Directory of Publishers	0
:Deep Water: From the Frilled Shark to the Dumbo Octopus and From the Continental Shelf to the Mariana Trench	0

Exploring the Factors Driving the Success of Urban-Exploiting Spiders	0
Quantitative Analysis of Ecological Networks. By Mark R. T. Dale and Marie-Josée Fortin. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $115.00 (hardcover); $49.99 (paper). x + 221 p. + 16	0
Index to Articles Volume 100 (2025)	0
:Seaweeds of the World: A Guide to Every Order	0
:Why Conserve Nature?: Perspectives on Meanings and Motivations. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation	0
:Evolutionary Developmental Biology: A Reference Guide	0
:Snakes of Australia	0
:Pocket Guide to Birds of Australia	0
Index to Reviewers of Books	0
Animal Rights and Conservation: A Fresh Perspective	0
:The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Disease	0
:Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs	0
Immortal: Our Cells, DNA, and Bodies. By David Goldman. Academic Press. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and New York: Elsevier. $72.20 (paper). xvi + 188 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-323-85692-8. 2	0
Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States. By Walter E. Meshaka Jr., Suzanne L. Collins, R. Bruce Bury, and Malcolm L. McCallum. Gainesville (Florida): University Press of Florida. $5	0
:Understanding Genes. Understanding Life Series	0
Why Brains Don’t Compute. By Dale Purves. New York and (Cham) Switzerland: Springer. $119.99 (hardcover); $89.00 (eBook). xv + 168 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-3-030-71063-7 (hc); 978-3-030-71064	0
:Planktonia: The Nightly Migration of the Ocean’s Smallest Creatures	0
:Principles of Behavioral Neuroscience	0
:Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics	0
Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature. By Richard Rhodes. New York: Doubleday. $30.00. xiii + 270 p. + 16 pl.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9780385545556 (hc); 9780385545563 (eb). 2021.	0
Taste and Smell: A Unifying Chemosensory Theory	0
Index to Reviewers of Books	0
: Evolution and Development: Conceptual Issues	0
Index to Reviewers of Books	0
:Mosquitoes: A Laboratory Manual	0
The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest. By Dara Saville; Foreword by Jesse Wolf Hardin. Albuquerque (New Mexico): University of New Me	0
: Behavioural Responses to a Changing World: Challenges and Applications	0
:California Amphibians and Reptiles	0
: The Gull Guide: North America	0
:Understanding Living Systems. Understanding Life Series	0
:Do Plants Know Math?	0
Front Matter	0
Unraveling the Environment-Phenotype-Genotype Nexus: Successful Approaches from Bird Colors and How to Apply Them to Other Traits and Taxa	0
:Cellular and Molecular Approaches in Fish Biology	0
:Exploring Animal Behavior through Sound. Volume 1. Methods	0
:Plastic Pollution and Marine Conservation: Approaches to Protect Biodiversity and Marine Life	0
:Philip Henry Gosse: A Biography	0
:Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel. Band 3: Familienkorrespondenz: April 1857 - März 1859	0
:Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities	0
Announcement: 100 Years, Volume 100, Number 4	0
A Paradigm Shift, or a Paradigm Adjustment? The Evolution of the Oleaceae Mating System as a Small-Scale Kuhnian Case Study	0
:Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins—From Spices to Vices	0
:Demographic Methods across the Tree of Life	0
:Climate Change Adaptation: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer. Columbia University Earth Institute Sustainability Primers	0
:Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification	0
:The Lives of Lichens: A Natural History	0
: The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog and Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science	0
The Handbook of Acoustic Bat Detection. By Volker Runkel, Guido Gerding, and Ulrich Marckmann; translated by Iain Macmillan. Exeter (United Kingdom): Pelagic Publishing. $50.00 (paper). xii + 1	0
:Human Migration: Biocultural Perspectives	0
A Primer of Life Histories: Ecology, Evolution, and Application. By Jeffrey A. Hutchings. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $85.00 (hardcover); $42.95 (paper). xiv + 226 p.; ill.; s	0
:Reconciling Agricultural Production with Biodiversity Conservation. Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science, Number 87	0
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund	0
:A New History of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases: Immunization — Chance and Necessity	0
Directory of Publishers	0
:The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden Rules	0
:Antibiofilm Strategies: Current and Future Applications to Prevent, Control and Eradicate Biofilms. Springer Series on Biofilms, Volume 11	0
:Aging: Geroscience as the New Public Health Frontier. Second Edition. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine	0
:Impacts of Human Population on Wildlife: A British Perspective. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation	0
:Foundations of Ecology II: Classic Papers with Commentaries	0
:Invading Ecological Networks. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation	0
:Salamanders & Newts of the World	0
: Foundations of Stream and River Ecology: A Guide to the Classic Literature	0
:Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia: Exploring Tapovan	0
: Writing Science in Plain English	0
:Evolution and the Machinery of Chance: Philosophy, Probability, and Scientific Practice in Biology	0
Influenza: The Cutting Edge. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. Edited by Gabriele Neumann and Yoshihiro Kawaoka. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. $	0
:Sound Communication in Insects. Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 61	0
:New Horizons in Evolution	0
:The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies	0
Front Matter	0
:Understanding DNA Ancestry. Understanding Life Series	0
Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild. By Barbara J. King. Chicago (Illinois): University of Chicago Press. $25.00. ix + 274 p.; index. ISBN	0
: Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World	0
:Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace	0
:Applied Statistics with R: A Practical Guide for the Life Sciences	0
Front Matter	0
:Lung Cancer: Disease Biology and Its Potential for Clinical Translation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine	0
:The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium	0
: Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts of the World: A Guide to Every Order	0
:For Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family	0

: Speciation	0
:The Anthropocene: 101 Questions and Answers for Understanding the Human Impact on the Global Environment	0
:Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals	0
A Mathematical Primer of Molecular Phylogenetics. By Xuhua Xia. Palm Bay (Florida): Apple Academic Press; distributed by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. $149.95 (hardcover); $69.95 (paper). xii	0
:Evolution “On Purpose”: Teleonomy in Living Systems. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology	0
State of the Apes: Killing, Capture, Trade and Conservation. Volume 4. Edited by Helga Rainer, Alison White, and Annette Lanjouw. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $99.99 (har	0
:Ecological Complexity	0
Titles and Authors of Articles and Commentaries	0
:The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science	0
:Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology. Wildlife Management and Conservation	0
:Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests: Ecology, History and Management	0
Index to Reviewers of Books Volume 99 (2024)	0
:A Better Ape: The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How It Made Us Human	0
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund	0
Directory of Publishers	0
Directory of Publishers	0
: Birds at Rest: The Behavior and Ecology of Avian Sleep	0
:Ants: A Visual Guide	0
: Revisiting the Eclipse of Darwinism: A Historiographical and Philosophical Analysis	0
:In Search of Human Evolution: Field Research in Diverse Environments	0
:Epigenetics and Health: A Practical Guide	0
:Blood Groups and Human Heredity, 1900–1950: The First Genetic Marker	0
Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation. Wildlife Management and Conservation. Edited by Christopher E. Moorman, Steven M. Grodsky, and Susan P. Rupp. Published in association with The Wildl	0
: Toxicology of Amphibian Tadpoles	0
:The Bird Name Book: A History of English Bird Names	0
Front Matter	0
:The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works	0
:The Lives of Beetles: A Natural History of Coleoptera	0
:Parasites in Past Civilizations and Their Impact upon Health	0
:The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution	0
Crop Pollination by Bees. Volume 1: Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, and Management. Second Edition. By Keith S. Delaplane. Wallingford (United Kingdom) and Boston (Massachusetts): CABI. $67.5	0
:Biology of Algae, Lichens and Bryophytes	0
:A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell’s Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical Art	0
: Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life	0
The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund	0
:Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea: A Story of Scientific Method	0
:A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects	0
Index to Reviewers of Books	0
Semi-aquatic Mammals: Ecology and Biology. By Glynnis A. Hood; illustrated by Meaghan Brierley. Baltimore (Maryland): Johns Hopkins University Press. $74.95. xxxi + 469 p.; ill.; subject index.	0
:Paths of Pollen	0
:A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine	0
:An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us	0
:Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion	0
:The Desert Bones: The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa	0
:Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene	0
:Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions	0
:Understanding Charles Darwin. Understanding Life Series	0
Population Genomics: Wildlife. Population Genomics Series. Edited by Paul A. Hohenlohe and Om P. Rajora. Cham (Switzerland) and New York: Springer. $179.99 (hardcover); $139.00 (eBook). xiv + 5	0
:Remapping Race in a Global Context. History and Philosophy of Biology	0
:The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century. Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene	0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed	0
:Birds of Greater Southern Africa. Princeton Field Guides.	0
List of Donors to The Bentley Glass Memorial Endowment Fund	0
:Population Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases. Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Series	0
Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed	0
:The Complete Insect: Anatomy, Physiology, Evolution, and Ecology	0
Index to Reviewers of Books	0
Front Matter	0
:Enchanted by Daphne: The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist	0
:Ethics in Biodiversity Conservation	0
:The Parrot in the Mirror: How Evolving to Be Like Birds Made Us Human	0
Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution. By Arlin Stoltzfus. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $85.00. xiii + 268 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-19-884445-7. [A companion website is avail	0
Directory of Publishers	0
:Terns of North America: A Photographic Guide	0
:Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications	0
:Drawing Nature: The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist	0
:Life Is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe	0
:Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference. Science-Culture Series	0
:How We Age: The Science of Longevity	0
:The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, from Viruses to Brains	0
:Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life. Astrobiology Perspectives on Life of the Universe	0
:The Species–Area Relationship: Theory and Application. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation	0
Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science. By Tara Ivanochko. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $74.99 (hardcover); $39.99 (paper). x + 239 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 97811	0
The Era beyond Eisemann et al. (1984): Insect Pain in the 21st Century	0
: Is a River Alive?	0
: The Foundations of Population Genetics	0
:Ocean Acidification and Marine Wildlife: Physiological and Behavioral Impacts	0
:Plant-Animal Interactions: Source of Biodiversity	0
: Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate	0
:Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic	0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed	0
:Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds	0
Handbook of the Historiography of Biology. Historiographies of Science. Edited by Michael R. Dietrich, Mark E. Borrello, and Oren Harman. Cham (Switzerland) and New York: Springer. $449.99. xiv	0
Collected Contents: Volume 97	0
:Island Biogeography: Geo-environmental Dynamics, Ecology, Evolution, Human Impact, and Conservation	0
:Treasure Your Exceptions: The Science and Life of William Bateson. Second Edition	0
Index to Titles and Authors/Editors of Books Reviewed	0
:Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide	0
:Nonhuman Primate Welfare: From History, Science, and Ethics to Practice	0
: Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould	0
:Shrimps: Their Diversity, Intriguing Adaptations and Varied Lifestyles. Fish & Fisheries Series, Volume 42	0
Is Biological Control of Weeds Conservation’s Blind Spot?	0
Bat Calls of Britain and Europe: A Guide to Species Identification. Edited by Jon Russ. Exeter (United Kingdom): Pelagic Publishing. £49.99. x + 462 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-1-78427-225-8 (hc	0
: Experiments in Bacterial Genetics: A Laboratory Manual	0
:Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition	0