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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	32
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system	28
What’s in a name? From “fluctuation fit” to “conformational selection”: rediscovery of a concept	23
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	21
The machine-organism relation revisited	15
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	15
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information	12
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	11
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	11
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality	11
Correction to: “Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents	11
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	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
Forms of life: a literary formalist view on biological individuality	9
Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: science and epistemic humility should go together	8
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	7
Michel Morange: The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020	7
Kostas Kampourakis & Tobias Uller (eds.), Philosophy of Science for Biologists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020	6
The enactive naturalization of normativity: from self-maintenance to situated interactions	6
The historical transformation of individual concepts into populational ones: an explanatory shift in the gestation of the modern synthesis	6
Correction: Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	6
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences	6
Health as temporally extended: theoretical foundations and implications	6
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	6

Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded	6
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin—the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021	6
Can populations be healthy? Perspectives from Georges Canguilhem and Geoffrey Rose	5
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: a visionary in controversy	5
The modern synthesis and “Progress” in evolution: a view from the journal literature	5
Making kangaroos grievable; making grievability non-human	5
Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip	5
“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology	5
Beyond the limit: carrying capacity (K) and the holism/reductionism debate	5
Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution	5
Cycles and circulation: a theme in the history of biology and medicine	4
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature	4
Hawks, Doves, and Perissodus microlepis. Undermining the selected effects theory of function	4
Philia: the biological foundations of Aristotle’s ethics	4
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill	4
Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory	4
Peter Adkins (ed.), Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024	4
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences	4
Practicing virology: making and knowing a mid-twentieth century experiment with Tobacco mosaic virus	4
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	3
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	3
Pierre M. Durand, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2021	3
Race realism goes both ways	3
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	3
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	3
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	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
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	3
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare	3
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	3
Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963	2
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021	2
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	2
Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19	2
Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history	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
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia	2
Sherrie L. Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020	2
Croizat’s dangerous ideas: practices, prejudices, and politics in contemporary biogeography	2
Does randomization assert the balance across trial arms? Revisiting Worrall’s criticism	2
Postgenomic understandings of fatness and metabolism	2
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users	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
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research	2
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	2
Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond	2
Reevaluating the grandmother hypothesis	2
Metaphors as models: Towards a typology of metaphor in ancient science	2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2

Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution