OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Identity, politics, and the pandemic: Why is COVID-19 a disaster for feminism(s)?	30
Ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic: age-based discrimination in triage decisions and beyond	22
Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits?	19
Immunitarianism: defence and sacrifice in the politics of Covid-19	18
COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values	18
Aging biomarkers and the measurement of health and risk	17
The COVID-19 pandemic: a case for epistemic pluralism in public health policy	15
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare	13
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	12
Does anybody really know what time it is?	12
Epidemiological models and COVID-19: a comparative view	11
Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage	11
COVID-19 heralds a new epistemology of science for the public good	11
What are the COVID-19 models modeling (philosophically speaking)?	10
The myth of Frederic Clements’s mutualistic organicism, or: on the necessity to distinguish different concepts of organicism	10
Can aging research generate a theory of health?	10
Beyond politics: additional factors underlying skepticism of a COVID-19 vaccine	10
How disinformation kills: philosophical challenges in the post-Covid society	9
Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account	9
Mouse avatars of human cancers: the temporality of translation in precision oncology	9
COVID-19, immunoprivilege and structural inequalities	8
Human domestication and the roles of human agency in human evolution	8
The meaning of Freedom after Covid-19	8
Ageing and the goal of evolution	8
Science communication: challenges and dilemmas in the age of COVID-19	8

COVID-19, other zoonotic diseases and wildlife conservation	8
Demented patients and the quandaries of identity: setting the problem, advancing a proposal	8
Flattening the curve is flattening the complexity of covid-19	8
The holobiont self: understanding immunity in context	8
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: a visionary in controversy	7
Loneliness and negative effects on mental health as trade-offs of the policy response to COVID-19	7
Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19	7
Introduction: microbes, networks, knowledge—disease ecology and emerging infectious diseases in time of COVID-19	7
The road from evidence to policies and the erosion of the standards of democratic scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The history and philosophy of taxonomy as an information science	6
COVID-19: Rethinking the nature of viruses	6
COVID-19, a critical juncture in China’s wildlife protection?	6
Imagination and remembrance: what role should historical epidemiology play in a world bewitched by mathematical modelling of COVID-19 and other epidemics?	6
The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review	6
The time of one's life: views of aging and age group justice	6
Between hoping to die and longing to live longer	6
The plasticity of ageing and the rediscovery of ground-state prevention	6
Neither superorganisms nor mere species aggregates: Charles Elton’s sociological analogies and his moderate holism about ecological communities	6
The molecular vista: current perspectives on molecules and life in the twentieth century	6
Explanatory goals and explanatory means in multilevel selection theory	6
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research	6
Software engineering standards for epidemiological models	6
Croizat’s dangerous ideas: practices, prejudices, and politics in contemporary biogeography	6
The Kantian account of mechanical explanation of natural ends in eighteenth and nineteenth century biology	5
What’s my age again? Age categories as interactive kinds	5
Historical reflection on Taijin-kyōfushō during COVID-19: a global phenomenon of social anxiety?	5
“Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents	5
On evidence fiascos and judgments in COVID-19 policy	5
Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition	5
Cycles and circulation: a theme in the history of biology and medicine	5
Small RNA research and the scientific repertoire: a tale about biochemistry and genetics, crops and worms, development and disease	5
Descriptive understanding and prediction in COVID-19 modelling	5
Rethinking the history of peptic ulcer disease and its relevance for network epistemology	5
What’s all the fuss about? The inheritance of acquired traits is compatible with the Central Dogma	5
Who's afraid of epigenetics? Habits, instincts, and Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory	5
Making sense of nature conservation after the end of nature	5
Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	5
COVID-19 and the selection problem in national cause-of-death statistics	5
Christian Reiß, Der Axolotl: Ein Labortier im Heimaquarium, 1864–1914, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020, 299 pp., € 29.90	5
Ontologically simple theories do not indicate the true nature of complex biological systems: three test cases	5
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users	4
Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: science and epistemic humility should go together	4
The ‘Is’ and the ‘Ought’ of the Animal Organism: Hegel’s Account of Biological Normativity	4
Can populations be healthy? Perspectives from Georges Canguilhem and Geoffrey Rose	4
Neanderthals as familiar strangers and the human spark: How the ‘golden years’ of Neanderthal research reopen the question of human uniqueness	4
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy	4
Ethnobotanical profiles of wild edible plants recorded from Mongolia by Yunatov during 1940–1951	4
Making policy decisions under plural uncertainty: responding to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Emergence of scientific understanding in real-time ecological research practice	4
Assessing the quality of evidence from epidemiological agent-based models for the COVID-19 pandemic	4

The failure of drug repurposing for COVID-19 as an effect of excessive hypothesis testing and weak mechanistic evidence	4
Why translational medicine is, in fact, “new,” why this matters, and the limits of a predominantly epistemic historiography	4