OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology & Philosophy is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
From allostatic agents to counterfactual cognisers: active inference, biological regulation, and the origins of cognition	67
The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures	53
Unlimited Associative Learning and the origins of consciousness: a primer and some predictions	48
What is an animal personality?	44
The math is not the territory: navigating the free energy principle	41
Character identity mechanisms: a conceptual model for comparative-mechanistic biology	37
Defining aging	28
Is co-management a double-edged sword in the protected areas of Sundarbans mangrove?	22
Toolmaking and the evolution of normative cognition	20
Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning	20
Unknotting reciprocal causation between organism and environment	18
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the free energy principle in biology	18
Assessing measures of animal welfare	17
When imprecision is a good thing, or how imprecise concepts facilitate integration in biology	16
Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?	15
The evolutionary role of affordances: ecological psychology, niche construction, and natural selection	15
Defining the niche for niche construction: evolutionary and ecological niches	14
Out of our skull, in our skin: the Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis	13
Chimpanzee normativity: evidence and objections	13
Is free-energy minimisation the mark of the cognitive?	13
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	13
Narrative niche construction: memory ecologies and distributed narrative identities	12
Limiting the explanatory scope of extended active inference: the implications of a causal pattern analysis of selective niche construction, developmental niche construction, and organism-niche coordin	11
Beyond quantitative and qualitative traits: three telling cases in the life sciences	11
The living fossil concept: reply to Turner	11

Anthropogenic climate change as a monumental niche construction process: background and philosophical aspects	11
Does proper function come in degrees?	10
How to do things with nonwords: pragmatics, biosemantics, and origins of language in animal communication	10
What are the major transitions?	10
Zoocentrism in the weeds? Cultivating plant models for cognitive yield	10
Race and medicine in light of the new mechanistic philosophy of science	10
Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation	9
The free energy principle: it’s not about what it takes, it’s about what took you there	9
Broadening the problem agenda of biological individuality: individual differences, uniqueness and temporality	8
A role for representations in inflexible behavior	7
Niche construction and teleology: organisms as agents and contributors in ecology, development, and evolution	7
Complex vocal learning and three-dimensional mating environments	6
A continuum of intentionality: linking the biogenic and anthropogenic approaches to cognition	6
Hutchinson’s ecological niche for individuals	6
Causal inference in biomedical research	6
The learning-consciousness connection	6
The use and limitations of null-model-based hypothesis testing	6
Internal perspectivalism: the solution to generality problems about proper function and natural norms	6
Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition	6
Retiring the “Cinderella view”: the spinal cord as an intrabodily cognitive extension	5
The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness	5
Learning and the biology of consciousness: a commentary on Birch, Ginsburg, and Jablonka	5
Do transposable elements have functions of their very own?	5
Is cancer a matter of luck?	5
The evolution of episodic-like memory: the importance of biological and ecological constraints	4
Understanding immunity: an alternative framework beyond defense and strength	4
Microbiome causality: further reflections (a response to our commentators)	4
Dynamical causes	4
Free energy: a user’s guide	4
Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building	4
Social norms and superorganisms	4
A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes	4
Caring animals and care ethics	4
Against the generalised theory of function	4
Evolutionary biology meets consciousness: essay review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul	4
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat	4
Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate	4