OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology & Philosophy is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Epistemic enhancement, pastism, and fossil anomalies in paleontology and ichnology	60
Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart	48
Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective	37
Biological functions and dysfunctions: a selected dispositions approach	23
Molecular-biological machines: a defense	17
Animal metasemantics	15
The fragmentary nature of biological individuals	13
What is ‘natural’ about naturalistic neuroscience?	13
How to balance conceptual unity and plurality: the case of the individualized niche concept	12
What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework	11
Exploration and perspectival modelling with model organisms: developmental biology as a case study	10
The integrative approach to inferring homology: morphology and development combined	10
The foundations of bet hedging	10
Empirical adaptationism revisited: is it testable and is it worth testing?	10
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat	9
Justifying nature-based solutions	9
A commitment account of norm externalisation	8
Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms	8
An even better ape? Comments on a better ape	8
Making sense of ‘genetic programs’: biomolecular Post–Newell production systems	7
Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study	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
Putting races on the ontological map: a close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race	7
Proper functions: etiology without typehood	7
Can a marker approach exclude?	7

What is foraging?	7
Critical reflections on sex eliminativism	6
Developing the structure of laws in biology	6
A co-constitutive analysis of individuation: three case studies from the biological sciences	6
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	6
Populations, individuals, and biological race	6
Livability and non-human organisms	6
How to relate major transitions in life and cognition?	6
What could cognition be, if not human cognition?: Individuating cognitive abilities in the light of evolution	6
Teaching and the origin of the normativity	6
An argument for global realism about the units of selection	6
The dual role of sensory systems: reporting on stimuli and affordances	6
All about levels: transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution	6
Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying	6
Neutral and niche theory in community ecology: a framework for comparing model realism	5
A personal tribute to Frans De Waal (1948–2024), who inspired the philosophy of animal minds	5
Cleaning, sculpting or preparing? Scientific knowledge in Caitlin Wylie’s preparing dinosaurs	5
The arts and human nature: evolutionary aesthetics and the evolutionary role of australopithecines’ mother–infant interactions	5
Assessing measures of animal welfare	5
The problem of opportunity	5
Positive Wild Animal Welfare	5
Beyond reduction and emergence: a framework for tailoring multiscale modeling techniques to specific contexts	5