History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Papers
(The H4-Index of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is 11. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?32
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system28
What’s in a name? From “fluctuation fit” to “conformational selection”: rediscovery of a concept23
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press22
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–190921
The machine-organism relation revisited15
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 202015
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information12
Correction to: “Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents11
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson11
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality11
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality11
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