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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Planer R. J. & Sterelny K., From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 276 pp	29
Embodied cognition and the imaging of bio-pathologies: the question of experiential primacy in detecting diagnostic phenomena	28
Under the spell of SARS-CoV-2: A closer look at the sociopolitical dynamics	22
Circulating bodies: human-animal movements in science and medicine	20
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	18
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	15
Romanticizing evolutionary biology	14
Ben Bradley, Darwin’s psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020	13
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	11
“Havens of mercy”: health, medical research, and the governance of the movement of dogs in twentieth-century America	11
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	11
Rethinking psychiatric symptoms: the role of measurement heterogeneity in diagnostic validity	11
Finding value-ladenness in evolutionary psychology: Examining Nelson’s arguments	10
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	10
Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge	9
Animal research unbound: The messiness of the moral and the ethnographer’s dilemma	8
Of rats and children: plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930)	8
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	8
What’s in a name? From “fluctuation fit” to “conformational selection”: rediscovery of a concept	7
Malin Ah-King, The female turn. How evolutionary science shifted perceptions about females, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022	7
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	6
Seeing clearly through COVID-19: current and future questions for the history and philosophy of the life sciences	6
Laboratory animal strain mobilities: handling with care for animal sentience and biosecurity	6
Matthew’s (1915) climate and evolution, the “New York School of Biogeography”, and the rise and fall of “Holarcticism”	6
Values in evolutionary biology: a comparison between the contemporary debate on organic progress and Canguilhem’s biological philosophy	6

Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	6
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	6
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system	6
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy	6
Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits?	6
Correction to: John N. Prebble, searching for a mechanism. A history of cell bioenergetics	5
Race realism goes both ways	5
The machine-organism relation revisited	5
Can science help discover the nature of well-being?	5
The holobiont self: understanding immunity in context	5
Were Huxley’s social views constituted by his biological work, and vice versa? Progress, perfection, & social values in Julian Huxley’s biological worldview	5
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	5
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–1909	5
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare	5
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care	5
Mathias Grote, Membranes to molecular machines: active matter and the remaking of life, The University of Chicago Press, 2019	5
Pierre M. Durand, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2021	4
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality	4
“Batesonian Mendelism” and “Pearsonian biometry”: shedding new light on the controversy between William Bateson and Karl Pearson	4
Question-driven stepwise experimental discoveries in biochemistry: two case studies	4
The road from evidence to policies and the erosion of the standards of democratic scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Genuine versus bogus scientific controversies: the case of statins	4
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	4
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises	4
Correction to: “Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents	4
Natural selection according to Darwin: cause or effect?	4
Attention: a descriptive taxonomy	4
Overlooked contributions of Ayurveda literature to the history of physiology of digestion and metabolism	3
Empirical assumptions behind the violation of expectation experiments in human and non-human animals	3
A strategy to what end? “The strategy of model building in population biology” in its programmatic context	3
A work in progress: William Bateson’s vibratory theory of repetition of parts	3
Constraint-based reasoning in cell biology: on the explanatory role of context	3
Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability	3
The discovery of archaea: from observed anomaly to consequential restructuring of the phylogenetic tree	3
When remediating one artifact results in another: control, confounders, and correction	3
Bernd Rosslenbroich, Properties of life. Toward a theory of organismic biology. Vienna series in theoretical biology, 2023, The MIT Press, 326 Pages, ISBN 9780262546201 (Paperback)	3
Ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic: age-based discrimination in triage decisions and beyond	3
Correction to: From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life	2
Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder: from modeling syndromes to modeling endophenotypes	2
The hatching of consciousness	2
Games and genes: human diversity meets cytogenetics—Mexico 1968	2
Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool?	2
The life sciences and the history of analytic philosophy	2
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review	2
Correction to: Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	2
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information	2
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	2
Normative implications of postgenomic deterministic narratives: the case study of epigenetic harm	2
Science, misinformation and digital technology during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2

Mechanisms of macromolecular reactions	2
Epidemiological models and COVID-19: a comparative view	2
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	2
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	2
Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: science and epistemic humility should go together	2
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	2