OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is 2. 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
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	24
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	22
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–1909	15
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	12
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system	12
Physical explanations in evolutionary biology	11
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	10
The machine-organism relation revisited	8
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	8
Operationism in psychology: an epistemology of exploration by Uljana Feest, 2025, The University of Chicago Press	7
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	7
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care	7
Two logics of experiment in biology & medicine: mechanistic/pathway versus populational	6
Mound builders, mound blunders: mythmaking in nineteenth century American archaeology	6
Valuating marine knowledge: Heterogeneous collaborations at the Concarneau marine station	6
Forms of life: a literary formalist view on biological individuality	6
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	6
“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology	5
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin—the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021	5
Early transitions in the evolution of cognition	5
Interactions at sea: on the microbiome life-cycle and biogeochemical processes	5
Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded	5
Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine	5
Kostas Kampourakis & Tobias Uller (eds.), Philosophy of Science for Biologists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020	5
Correction: Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	5

Charles Pence, Integrative promise: explanatory virtues in biology, Springer (Synthese Library), 2025	5
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences	5
Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip	4
The modern synthesis and “Progress” in evolution: a view from the journal literature	4
Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution	4
Health as temporally extended: theoretical foundations and implications	4
Ediacaran enigma: uncertainty and underdetermination in precambrian paleontology	4
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences	4
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill	4
The historical transformation of individual concepts into populational ones: an explanatory shift in the gestation of the modern synthesis	4
Joachim H. Mowitz and Arno L. Goudsmit: Movements of Form	4
Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory	4
Hawks, Doves, and Perissodus microlepis. Undermining the selected effects theory of function	3
What was really wrong (and right) with vitalism? Methodological naturalism, organicism and immaterialist theories in biology	3
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature	3
Embracing environmental DNA? How values influence the integration of a new technology into an oceanographic expedition	3
Peter Adkins (ed.), Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024	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
Environmental valuation and knowledge production in Swedish marine and water management	2
Does randomization assert the balance across trial arms? Revisiting Worrall’s criticism	2
Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond	2
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research	2
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	2
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness	2
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	2
Race realism goes both ways	2
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	2
Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	2
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”	2
Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life	2
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy	2
Kathryn Nave, A drive to survive: the free energy principle and the meaning of life, The MIT Press, 2025.	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
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	2
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	2
Regulation in ecological systems: an overview	2
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia	2
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	2
Correction: Regulation in ecological systems: an overview	2
Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history	2
Reframing the significance of menstruation: evolutionary insights from an organismal-relational perspective	2
Postgenomic understandings of fatness and metabolism	2
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021	2
The experimental psychology behind coordination	2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	2
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	2
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	2
Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy	2

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