OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology & Philosophy is 2. 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
Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart	58
Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective	47
Epistemic enhancement, pastism, and fossil anomalies in paleontology and ichnology	36
Biological functions and dysfunctions: a selected dispositions approach	23
Animal metasemantics	15
Molecular-biological machines: a defense	15
Justifying nature-based solutions	13
What is ‘natural’ about naturalistic neuroscience?	13
The integrative approach to inferring homology: morphology and development combined	11
The foundations of bet hedging	10
How to balance conceptual unity and plurality: the case of the individualized niche concept	10
What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework	10
Exploration and perspectival modelling with model organisms: developmental biology as a case study	10
A commitment account of norm externalisation	9
An even better ape? Comments on a better ape	9
Empirical adaptationism revisited: is it testable and is it worth testing?	9
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat	9
Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms	8
Making sense of ‘genetic programs’: biomolecular Post–Newell production systems	8
Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study	7
Teaching and the origin of the normativity	7
Putting races on the ontological map: a close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race	7
What is foraging?	7
Proper functions: etiology without typehood	7
Can a marker approach exclude?	7

Logical fallacies persist in invasion biology and blaming the messengers will not improve accountability in this field: a response to Frank et al.	7
The dual role of sensory systems: reporting on stimuli and affordances	6
Neutral and niche theory in community ecology: a framework for comparing model realism	6
How to relate major transitions in life and cognition?	6
Critical reflections on sex eliminativism	6
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	6
All about levels: transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution	6
The arts and human nature: evolutionary aesthetics and the evolutionary role of australopithecines’ mother–infant interactions	6
An argument for global realism about the units of selection	6
Developing the structure of laws in biology	6
A co-constitutive analysis of individuation: three case studies from the biological sciences	6
Positive Wild Animal Welfare	6
What could cognition be, if not human cognition?: Individuating cognitive abilities in the light of evolution	6
Populations, individuals, and biological race	6
Livability and non-human organisms	6
Beyond reduction and emergence: a framework for tailoring multiscale modeling techniques to specific contexts	5
Cleaning, sculpting or preparing? Scientific knowledge in Caitlin Wylie’s preparing dinosaurs	5
Assessing measures of animal welfare	5
A personal tribute to Frans De Waal (1948–2024), who inspired the philosophy of animal minds	5
Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying	5
Gaia: the Earth is an organism (not a Darwinian individual)	5
Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building	4
The gradational nature of biological functions: lessons from genome biology	4
Correction to: Cultural intelligence, shared intentionality and human cognitive uniquenes	4
The argument from Evel (Knievel): daredevils and the free energy principle	4
The problem of opportunity	4
Against the generalised theory of function	4
DNA barcoding and the changing ontological commitments of taxonomy	4
An enactive-developmental systems framing of cognizing systems	4
Teleosemantics and the free energy principle	4
Demographic explanations of neanderthal extinction: a reply to Currie and Meneganzin	4
Conceptual revision: how Darwin’s analogy supported his theory	4
Internal conflicts and the measurement of evolutionary individuality	3
Precis of A Better Ape	3
Cultural intelligence, shared intentionality and human cognitive uniquenes	3
Caring animals and care ethics	3
Living systems are targeted: a challenge to the teleology of field theory	3
Response to critics	3
Minimal residual disease: premises before promises	3
An account of conserved functions and how biologists use them to integrate cell and evolutionary biology	3
What is social constructionism about race? A reply to Hochman	3
Is there a need for consensus in aging biology?	3
Ecosystem health and malfunctions: an organisational perspective	3
Phylogenetically distant animals sleep: why do sleep researchers care?	3
One kind of adaptationism	3
Model organism futures in precision toxicology: tracking the emergence of a research repertoire	3
Delineating dingoes: framing the domestication process as a landscape	3
The epistemological and conservation value of biological specimens	3
Commitment: From Hunting to Promising	3
Not by demography alone: Neanderthal extinction and null hypotheses in paleoanthropological explanation	3

A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes	3
Dosis sola facit venenum: reconceptualising biological realism	2
The two faces of risk	2
Humans, the Norm-Breakers	2
In praise of animals	2
Moving past ahistorical theories of function and malfunctioning	2
A relic of design: against proper functions in biology	2
Iconic origins of language? An essay review of Steven Mithen’s The Language Puzzle (2024)	2
Social interdependencies: the deep evolutionary roots of morality and normativity	2
Sex by design: a new account of the animal sexes	2
Higher level constructive neutral evolution	2
From depressed mice to depressed patients: a less “standardized” approach to improving translation	2
A more thought-ful ape?	2
The evolution of reproductive characters: an organismal-relational approach	2
Mapping profiles of animal affect	2
Has social constructionism about race outlived its usefulness? Perspectives from a race skeptic	2