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 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
Ecosystem health and malfunctions: an organisational perspective	11
Unlimited associative learning and the origins of consciousness: the missing point of view	11
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
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
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
Behavioural ecology of sexual autonomy and the case of protection against risky courtship	7
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
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	6
Response to critics	6
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
Gradualism, natural selection, and the randomness of mutation–fisher, Kimura, and Orr, connecting the dots	5
Interventionism as a dangerously anthropocentric concept	5
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
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