OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theory in Biosciences 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Rethinking some roots of ecosystem approach in aquatic ecology: between the food cycle and lake metabolism	15
Thermodynamic principles for system biology and the patterns of flower pigmentation	12
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of structured populations in periodically fluctuating environments: a G function approach	11
Pattern formation features might explain homoplasy: fertile surfaces in higher fungi as an example	10
Clustering systems of phylogenetic networks	10
Descriptive versus causal morphology: gynandromorphism and intersexuality	9
Spaces of mathematical chemistry	9
A new symbiotic, holistic and gradualist model proposal for the concept of “living organism”	9
Investigation of memory influences on bio-heat responses of skin tissue due to various thermal conditions	9
Forbidden codon combinations in error-detecting circular codes	9
Mathematics of life spaces: continuation of the 2018 large dimensions course	8
The limits of the mathematization of the living and the idea of formal morphology of the living world following Husserlian phenomenology	8
Understanding the photosynthesis in relation to climate change in grapevines	8
MLACNN: an attention mechanism-based CNN architecture for predicting genome-wide DNA methylation	8
Symmetrical distributions of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases during the evolution of the genetic code	7
Postmortem communication	6
Mathematical analysis of a modified Volterra-Leslie chemostat Model	5
Hypothesis: bacteria live on the edge of phase transitions with a cell cycle regulated by a water-clock	5
The bubble theory: exploring the transition from first replicators to cells and viruses in a landscape-based scenario	4
On combinatorial and biofunctional symmetries hidden in polynucleotide sequences	4
Tumor growth dynamics under adaptive therapy: a multi-scale computational approach	4
A generalized Price equation for fuzzy set-mappings	4
Network representation and analysis of energy coupling mechanisms in cellular metabolism by a graph-theoretical approach	4
Do concepts of individuality account for individuation practices in studies of host–parasite systems? A modeling account of biological individuality	4
Radioresistance and radiosensitivity: a biophysical approach on bacterial cells robustness	4

Rethinking life and predicting its origin	3
Stationary distribution and density function analysis of SVIS epidemic model with saturated incidence and vaccination under stochastic environments	3
Geometry and symmetry in biochemical reaction systems	3
Second-order division in sectors as a prepattern for sensory organs in vertebrate development	3
Information transmission in a two-step cascade: interplay of activation and repression	3
Dynamics of neural fields with exponential temporal kernel	3
Delay induced interaction of humoral- and cell-mediated immune responses with cancer	3
Methodological notes on pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 research	3
How much biology is in the product? Role and relevance of biological evolution and function for bio-inspired design	3
An epidemic dynamics model with limited isolation capacity	3
A computational investigation of cis-gene regulation in evolution	2
Goethe and Candolle: National forms of scientific writing?	2
A life dedicated to research and ideal: Johannes Müller between empirical universality and idealistic vitalism mirrored in lecture notes from 1851	2
Application of network pharmacology in synergistic action of Chinese herbal compounds	2
Editorial	2
The shadow of “the Eclipse of Darwinism”: the problem of evolutionary mechanisms in Republican China, 1910s–1930s	2
Molecular characterization of chilli leaf curl Ahmedabad virus: homology modelling and evaluation of viral proteins interacting with host protein SnRK1 and docking against flavonoids—an in silico appr	2
Wartime forced sex as a male mating strategy	2
Innovations are disproportionately likely in the periphery of a scientific network	2
A biosemiotic interpretation of certain genital morphological structures in the spiders Dysdera erythrina and Dysdera crocata (Araneae: Dysderidae)	1
First principles of terrestrial life: exemplars for potential extra-terrestrial biology	1
Formal verification confirms the role of p53 protein in cell fate decision mechanism	1
Self-similarity and the maximum entropy principle in the genetic code	1
Flow analysis of Carreau fluid model induced by the ciliary cells, smooth muscle cells and pressure gradient at the ampullar region entrance	1
Modeling stress-induced responses: plasticity in continuous state space and gradual clonal evolution	1
The historical nature of biological complexity and the ineffectiveness of the mathematical approach to it	1
The biological Maxwell's demons: exploring ideas about the information processing in biological systems	1
Stability of a diffusive-delayed HCV infection model with general cell-to-cell incidence function incorporating immune response and cell proliferation	1