OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology & Philosophy 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
A co-constitutive analysis of individuation: three case studies from the biological sciences	54
Living systems are targeted: a challenge to the teleology of field theory	36
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the free energy principle in biology	31
Humans, the Norm-Breakers	30
Epistemic enhancement, pastism, and fossil anomalies in paleontology and ichnology	29
A more thought-ful ape?	25
Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate	22
Roles of mitonuclear ecology and sex in conceptualizing evolutionary fitness	21
Niche construction and teleology: organisms as agents and contributors in ecology, development, and evolution	21
Higher level constructive neutral evolution	16
The gay gene(s)? Rethinking the concept of sexual orientation in the context of science	15
Cognitive functions are not reducible to biological ones: the case of minimal visual perception	14
Unlimited associative learning and the origins of consciousness: the missing point of view	11
Ecosystem health and malfunctions: an organisational perspective	11
Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart	10
Is co-management a double-edged sword in the protected areas of Sundarbans mangrove?	10
All about levels: transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution	10
Caring animals and care ethics	10
Introduction to niches and mechanisms in ecology and evolution	10
Behavioural ecology of sexual autonomy and the case of protection against risky courtship	7
The evolution of reproductive characters: an organismal-relational approach	7
Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective	7
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	6
Response to critics	6
The math is not the territory: navigating the free energy principle	6

Not by demography alone: Neanderthal extinction and null hypotheses in paleoanthropological explanation	6
Commitment: From Hunting to Promising	6
Is free-energy minimisation the mark of the cognitive?	6
Defining the niche for niche construction: evolutionary and ecological niches	6
Gradualism, natural selection, and the randomness of mutation–fisher, Kimura, and Orr, connecting the dots	5
Interventionism as a dangerously anthropocentric concept	5
Two kinds of historical explanation in Evolutionary Biology	5
What are ecological mechanisms? Suggestions for a fine-grained description of causal mechanisms in invasion ecology	5
Correction to: A co-constitutive analysis of individuation: three case studies from the biological sciences	5
Skepticism, the critical standpoint, and the origin of birds: a partial critique of Havstad and Smith (2019)	5
Positive Wild Animal Welfare	5
Sex eliminativism	5
Emotionshaping: a situated perspective on emotionreading	5
Molecular-biological machines: a defense	4
Neutral and niche theory in community ecology: a framework for comparing model realism	4
Phylogenetically distant animals sleep: why do sleep researchers care?	4
Biological functions and dysfunctions: a selected dispositions approach	4
Hypothesis-driven science in large-scale studies: the case of GWAS	4
A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes	4
Darwin’s empirical claim and the janiform character of fitness proxies	4
Rage against the what? The machine metaphor in biology	4
Has social constructionism about race outlived its usefulness? Perspectives from a race skeptic	4
Exo-autopoietic bodies: the quest for the theoretical identity of living beings	4
When should researchers cite study differences in response to a failure to replicate?	4
Evolvability: filling the explanatory gap between adaptedness and the long-term mathematical conception of fitness	4
When can cultural selection explain adaptation?	4
Minimal residual disease: premises before promises	4
Frogs recognize prey: a causal-behavioral teleosemantics	4
Natural artificiality, niche construction, and the content-open mediation of human behavior	4
The evolution of complex multicellularity in animals	3
Adaptive immunity or evolutionary adaptation? Transgenerational immune systems at the crossroads	3
Tools of the trade: the bio-cultural evolution of the human propensity to trade	3
Bacterial communication	3
An oak is an oak, or not? Understanding and dealing with confusion and disagreement in biological classification	3
What could cognition be, if not human cognition?: Individuating cognitive abilities in the light of evolution	3
The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness	3
Empirical adaptationism revisited: is it testable and is it worth testing?	3
The selectionist rationale for evolutionary progress	3
Unknotting reciprocal causation between organism and environment	3
What basic emotions really are: modularity, motivation, and behavioral variability	3
Does the study of facilitation require a revision of the Hutchinsonian niche concept?	3
Social norms and superorganisms	3
The learning-consciousness connection	3
The integrative approach to inferring homology: morphology and development combined	2
Assessing measures of animal welfare	2
Epistemology and anomaly detection in astrobiology	2
Justifying nature-based solutions	2
What if worms were sentient? Insights into subjective experience from the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome	2
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat	2
Standard aberration: cancer biology and the modeling account of normal function	2

Reliability models in cultural phylogenetics	2
Is there a need for consensus in aging biology?	2
Circadian clocks signal future states of affairs	2
Affordances and organizational functions	2
Beyond congruence: evidential integration and inferring the best evolutionary scenario	2
Everything in moderation or moderating everything? Nutrient balancing in the context of evolution and cancer metabolism	2
What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework	2
Epistemic commitments have no “Off” button: on the embodiment of commitments by way of model formulation	2
Animal sentience and the Capabilities Approach to justice	2
Explanatory gaps in evolutionary theory	2
Learning and the biology of consciousness: a commentary on Birch, Ginsburg, and Jablonka	1
The proximate-ultimate distinction and the active role of the organism in evolution	1
(Cat)egory mistake: the invalidity of animal shelter behavior assessments	1
On conserving or remaking the natural world	1
The foundations of bet hedging	1
A personal tribute to Frans De Waal (1948–2024), who inspired the philosophy of animal minds	1
Natural information, factivity and nomicity	1
Caring animals and the ways we wrong them	1
Reciprocal causation and biological practice	1
The problem of opportunity	1
Delineating dingoes: framing the domestication process as a landscape	1
An account of conserved functions and how biologists use them to integrate cell and evolutionary biology	1
An even better ape? Comments on a better ape	1
How to do things with nonwords: pragmatics, biosemantics, and origins of language in animal communication	1
Exploration and perspectival modelling with model organisms: developmental biology as a case study	1
Causal-role myopia and the functional investigation of junk DNA	1
The case of poor postpartum mental health: a consequence of an evolutionary mismatch – not of an evolutionary trade-off	1
Correction: What are definitions of life good for? Transdisciplinary and other definitions in astrobiology	1
An enactive-developmental systems framing of cognizing systems	1
Understanding immunity: an alternative framework beyond defense and strength	1
Beyond reduction and emergence: a framework for tailoring multiscale modeling techniques to specific contexts	1
A critical review of plant sentience: moving beyond traditional approaches	1
Natural selection requires no teleology in addition to heritable variation in fitness	1
Cleaning, sculpting or preparing? Scientific knowledge in Caitlin Wylie’s preparing dinosaurs	1
The value of and in novel ecosystem(s)	1
From philosophy to anaesthesiology and back: an interdisciplinary reflection on the neural correlates of state consciousness	1
Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms	1
Scaffolds and scaffolding: an explanatory strategy in evolutionary biology	1
Putting races on the ontological map: a close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race	1
Biolinguistics and biological systems: a complex systems analysis of language	1