OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	33
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	25
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–1909	24
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	22
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information	16
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system	16
Correction to: “Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents	12
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	12
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	11
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality	11
The machine-organism relation revisited	10
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care	10
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	10
Forms of life: a literary formalist view on biological individuality	8
Michel Morange: The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020	7
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences	6
Kostas Kampourakis & Tobias Uller (eds.), Philosophy of Science for Biologists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020	6
Two logics of experiment in biology & medicine: mechanistic/pathway versus populational	6
Correction: Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	6
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	6
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	6
Valuating marine knowledge: Heterogeneous collaborations at the Concarneau marine station	6
Making kangaroos grievable; making grievability non-human	5
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin—the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021	5
The historical transformation of individual concepts into populational ones: an explanatory shift in the gestation of the modern synthesis	5

Can populations be healthy? Perspectives from Georges Canguilhem and Geoffrey Rose	5
Health as temporally extended: theoretical foundations and implications	5
Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded	5
Ediacaran enigma: uncertainty and underdetermination in precambrian paleontology	5
“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology	5
The enactive naturalization of normativity: from self-maintenance to situated interactions	5
Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip	4
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: a visionary in controversy	4
Philia: the biological foundations of Aristotle’s ethics	4
Practicing virology: making and knowing a mid-twentieth century experiment with Tobacco mosaic virus	4
Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution	4
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature	4
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences	4
The modern synthesis and “Progress” in evolution: a view from the journal literature	4
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill	4
Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory	4
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare	3
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	3
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	3
Kōzai Toyoko . Shutō to iu "eisei": Kinsei Nihon ni okeru yobō sesshu no rekishi [The Road to Immunization: A History of Smallpox in Early Modern	3
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	3
Hawks, Doves, and Perissodus microlepis. Undermining the selected effects theory of function	3
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	3
Race realism goes both ways	3
Peter Adkins (ed.), Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024	3
Pierre M. Durand, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2021	2
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	2
Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	2
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users	2
Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy	2
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy	2
Sherrie L. Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020	2
Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond	2
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research	2
Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963	2
Death in advance or people living with dementia? Extending the philosophical discourse of Schweda and Jongsma through the persistence of self and other strengths	2
Postgenomic understandings of fatness and metabolism	2
Does randomization assert the balance across trial arms? Revisiting Worrall’s criticism	2
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021	2
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia	2
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	2
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness	2
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”	2
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	2
Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history	2
Metaphors as models: Towards a typology of metaphor in ancient science	2
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	2
Reevaluating the grandmother hypothesis	2

Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic borders: Transpacific plant and insect migration and the rise of anti-Asian racism in America, 1890–1950, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2022	1
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review	1
Planer R. J. & Sterelny K., From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 276 pp	1
Biological constraints as norms in evolution	1
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research	1
Correction to: Darwin’s “horrid” doubt, in context	1
Mathias Grote, Membranes to molecular machines: active matter and the remaking of life, The University of Chicago Press, 2019	1
Claude Bernard’s non reception of Darwinism	1
Malin Ah-King, The female turn. How evolutionary science shifted perceptions about females, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022	1
The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review	1
Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	1
Homeorhesis: envisaging the logic of life trajectories in molecular research on trauma and its effects	1
“The nodules are alive and well on the sea floor”: deep ocean minerals, invertebrate traces, and multispecies histories of abyssal environments	1
Pierre-Olivier Méthot (ed.), Philosophy, history and biology: essays in honour of Jean Gayon, Cham: Springer Verlag, 2023	1
Empirical vitalism: observing an organism’s formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object	1
Medawar and Hamilton on the selective forces in the evolution of ageing	1
Correction to: Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	1
Francesca Michelini & Kristian Köchy (eds.), Jakob von Uexküll and philosophy: life, environments, anthropology, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020	1
“Batesonian Mendelism” and “Pearsonian biometry”: shedding new light on the controversy between William Bateson and Karl Pearson	1
Do corals dream of simulated seas?	1
Romanticizing evolutionary biology	1
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy	1
Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life	1
Inferential schema in Akkadian diagnosis: the case of Ah̬h̬$$\bar{a}$$zu	1
Sorting sex, controlling sex: Masui Kiyoshi’s chicken research and experimental system, 1915–1950	1
Rethinking psychiatric symptoms: the role of measurement heterogeneity in diagnostic validity	1
Understanding organisms by intuiting life: Kant, Goethe, and Steiner	1
Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge	1
The concepts and origins of cell mortality	1
Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account	1
Contrasting Narratives of Race and Fatness in Covid-19	1
Rethinking the history of peptic ulcer disease and its relevance for network epistemology	1
Collecting human remains in nineteenth-century Paris: the case of the Société Anatomique de Paris and the Musée Dupuytren	1
In search of the microbial path to Terroir: a place-based history of the ecologization of French cheese microbiology, 1990–2000s	1
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises	1
Narratives in exposomics: A reversed heuristic determinism?	1
Reappraising Claude Bernard’s legacy: an introduction	1
Descriptive understanding and prediction in COVID-19 modelling	1
Rethinking the history of microbiology: new actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecologies	1
From the ports to the hinterland. Plague, bacteriology, and politics in Argentina (1899–1940)	1
Rethinking ageing: introduction	1
Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool?	1
William Bechtel & Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Philosophy of neuroscience, 2022. Cambridge University Press	1
Of rats and children: plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930)	1
Jeffry L. Ramsey, Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science, New York: Routledge, 2024	1
Ancestry inferences from DNA testing results: The problem of sociogenetic essentialism	1
A tale of two cities: emotion and reason in the formation of moral judgement and possible metaethical implications	1
Do heritable immune responses extend physiological individuality?	1
Correction to: Editorial introduction: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality	1
Listening to placebos: the contested lessons of antidepressants debates	1
Five common misconceptions regarding flattening-the-curve of COVID-19	1
From genetic to postgenomic determinisms: The role of the environment reconsidered	1
From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life	1
Re-situations of scientific knowledge: a case study of a skirmish over clusters vs clines in human population genomics	1