OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physics of Life Reviews 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
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	167
Situating and extending the sense of should	90
Coordinating actions as active agents in a dynamic musical environment: Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	86
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	73
Particular flows and attracting sets	73
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	63
Editorial Board	59
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	57
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	55
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	53
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	52
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	50
Editorial Board	47
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	42
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	40
Editorial Board	35
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	30
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	30
Insoluble organic matter in chondrites: Archetypal melanin-like PAH-based multifunctionality at the origin of life?	27
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	26
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	24
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	24
The vigor law as a kinematic invariant at work in perceptual-cognitive processes	23
Commentary on “ ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago”	22
Parametric control of limb mechanics is accomplished in the spinal cord by parallel-distributed processing	22

From local match/mismatch signals to updating of task-relevant beliefs: The temporo-parietal junction and its embedment in cortical networks	21
The structure of biological complexity: Comment on “Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems” by Gosak et al.	19
Neuromuscular invariants in action execution and perception	18
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	17
To comment or not to comment, that is the question!	17
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	16
The spontaneous brain activity as a possible common ground between different theoretical frameworks. Comment on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by G. N	16
When patterns come to life	16
Adding a mental health perspective on social timing	15
Editorial Board	15
The role mathematics can play in physics of life	15
Transversal aromaticity: Tryptophan as a bridge between molecular patterns and consciousness explained	14
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	12
The devil is in the method details. Comment on ‘Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture’ by Spagna et al.	12
A system sciences approach to consonance/dissonance: From biological constraints to cultural differences	12
The second law of thermodynamics, life and Earth‘s planetary machinery revisited	11
What are the psychic forces present within a psychopathological state? Comment on “Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy” by Pietro Sara	11
Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour	10
Affect and human functioning: Comment on the affective grounds of the mind: The Affective Pertinientization (APER) model by S. Salvatore, A. Palmieri, R. De Luca Picione, V. Bochnicchio, M. Reho, M. R	10
The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception	10
From a mathematical science of living systems to biology and economics	10
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	10
Visual context drives uncertainty-reduction and novelty-seeking exploration during action understanding	9
Determinism of formamide-based biogenic prebiotic reactions	9
Bridging nonlinear dynamics and physiology: Implications for CPGs and biomimetic robotics. Reply to comments on “Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming ro	9
A natural experiment to understand genetic influences on brain structures. Comment on “Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review” by Giovanni Videtta, Chiara Colli, Letizi	9
GLMY Homology Theory Meets idopNetwork: Dissecting Soil Microbiota Resilience Under Forest Thinning and Climate Change: Comment on “Topological change of soil microbiota networks for forest resilience	8
Is sharing always caring? Entropy, boundaries and the plurality of psychotherapeutic process: Comment on “Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psycho	7
A contribution to understanding the application of Pulsed Electric Fields in liquid food processing	7
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	7
Preliminaries to artificial consciousness: A multidimensional heuristic approach	7
The too many facets of motor output variability. Comment on “From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability” by Casartelli, L., Maronati, C., &	6
Species extinction in different time scales	6
Knowledge clustering and the acquisition of creative expertise	6
Social timing as an active, multisensory, and embodied process. A commentary on “The evolution of social timing” by Verga, Kotz and Ravignani	6
Particularly average	6
The hare and the honey: Health care as transformative learning	6
Why Paleolithic Rockstars were both enigmatic and sporadic: A comment on: ‘Snakes and Ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	6
How many more uses of bricks can we generate? How knowledge is somewhat neglected in a model full of knowledge	6
From Parrondo's paradox to collective intelligence	6
Comment on “Physics-based character animation and human motor control” by J. Llobera & C. Charbonnier	6
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	6
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	6
Creative metacognition and its relation to the conceptualization, assessment, and nurture of creativity: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	5
A meta-perspective on the creative metacognition framework. Reply to comments on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition”	5
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	5
The fine-grained temporal dynamics of social timing: a window into sociality of embodied social agents. Comment on “The evolution of social timing” by L. Verga, S. A. Kotz, & A. Ravignani	5
Can major breakthroughs in cancer be achieved through theoretical models?	5
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	5
A brigde toward mathematics theory in living systems: the thermostatted kinetic theory method for crowd dynamics	5

Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	5
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	4
Breaking Archaeology's glass ceiling in technological innovation. Comment on “Snakes and ladders in Paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago” by H.M. Manrique, K.	4
Yes, And	4
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	4
Potential of electric field in liquid foods processing Comment on “Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods” by F. Zare, N. Ghasemi, N. Bansal & H. Hosano	4
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	4
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	4
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	4
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	4
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	4
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	4
More than one effect in every affect	3
Classification of particles with respect to active inference properties as a path towards formalizing agency Comment on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by K. Friston, L. Da Cost	3
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	3
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	3
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	3
The circuit of cognition: Operational closure and the interpenetration of views. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by Salvatore et al.	3
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	3
Languages are Cultural Artifacts and Align with Cultural Evolution: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberbühler, C	3
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	3
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	3
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	3
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	3
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	3
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	3
White matter, and why twin resemblance can still matter	2
Editorial Board	2
The search for universality in evolutionary landscapes	2
Visual sensitivity to biological motion invariants in humans at birth	2
No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art	2
The toughness, elasticity, color, and consistency of cooperation	2
Less is more: Strangeness affords flexibility – A commentary on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by Friston, Da Costa, Sakthivadivel, Heins, Pavliotis, Ramstead, and Parr	2
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	2
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	2
From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics	2
Electrical properties of cancer cells: A next generation biophysical therapeutic target	2
Why predicting secreted effectors and what they do is important	2
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	2
The neural correlates of consciousness studies and the mystery of the human mind-a commentary on "Beyond task response - Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness" by G. Northoff, F. Z	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts	2
On the right way to crack nuts and farm fruit	2
Some additional pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of innovation and technological culture	2
Editorial Board	2
Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language	2
Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI	2
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	2
Can we “read” art…at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes	2
Prestimulus alpha phase, not only power, modulates conscious perception. Comment on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness” by G. Northoff, F. Zilio & J. Z	2
Language is a unique form of communication that transformed human evolution but how unique is linguistic evolution?: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by B. Bick	2
Multilayer coupled mechanism	2
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
Untangling the structure and function of complex neuronal networks	2
The path forward for modeling action-oriented cognition as active inference	2
Creative metacognition in the problem construction process comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
What scholarship on social timing and autism can learn from each other: A Comment on “The evolution of social timing” by Laura Verga, Sonja A. Kotz, and Andrea Ravignani	2
Dynamics and stability of task-specific manifolds	2
The emotional connotations of major and minor: The role of harmonicity and pitch height: Comment on “The Major-Minor Mode Dichotomy in Music Perception” by Carraturo et al	2
Action and perception manifolds have gradients that may play a role in learning	2
Beyond task response - A key to the subjective aspects of consciousness	2
Meta-control and navigating creative trade-offs: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda and Benedek	2
COVID-19 epidemic: From data to mathematical models	2
Does the free energy principle sleep on it?	2
Implications of cell's electrical properties for standard of care in glioblastoma therapy	2
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	2
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	2
Goldstein's ‘catastrophic reactions’ reinterpreted as neuroaesthetic ‘signatures’	2
The importance of tradeoffs in neural and motor variability	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
Homo erectus’ slowly broadening Zone of Bounded Surprisals opened the way to technological culture	2
Current creative potential or generalization to the natural environment? Brief comments on the featured article	2
Quantifying tightness - Looseness of interactions with dynamical systems methods. A Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by T. C. Rabinowitch	2
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
Editorial Board	2
Reaction-diffusion waves in biology: new trends, recent developments	2
All quantum systems are strange	2