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

Article	Citations
Towards a Bayesian mechanics of metacognitive particles: A commentary on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by Friston, Da Costa, Sakthivadivel, Heins, Pavliotis, Ramstead, and Par	152
Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes	85
A unified mechanism for interpreting the emotional content of voice, speech and music: Comment on “The major-minor mode dichotomy in music perception” by Carraturo et al.	78
Language: A special cognitive gadget: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberb..hler, Carel P. van Schaik	70
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	65
From a free energy principle to a free energy model?	58
On the significance of the electrostatic differences between cancer and normal cells	56
Towards data-driven, next-generation understanding of network physiology	55
Trick or treat	50
Are neurodegenerative disorders causing characteristic changes in visual artwork?	50
On microbial syringes: Advances in our understanding of type III secretion systems in bacterial pathogenesis	46
Editorial Board	44
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	41
A forward look to perspectives	38
An exciting path ahead	37
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	31
Unambiguous precision	29
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	28
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	24
From particles to collectives	24
The complexity of simplification	22
Dealing with fragments of past biospheres	21
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	20
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	19
Editorial Board	18

Data-driven theory formulation or theory-driven data interpretation?	18
Mathematical modeling is an efficient research tool to address challenges in mass extinction research	18
Psychocultural histories and explanatory gaps	17
LLMs and generative agent-based models for complex systems research	16
The interplay between biochemical mediators and mechanotransduction in chondrocytes: Unravelling the differential responses in primary knee osteoarthritis	16
Yes, And	14
Mathematical models on Alzheimer's disease and its treatment: A review	14
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	14
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	13
Consciousness and temporality: A psychopathologist's view Commentary to Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness by Northoff, Zilio and Zhangc	12
Editorial Board	12
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	10
Embodied playfulness in musical synchrony: Comment on “musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	9
Interpersonal synchrony implies simultaneity, musical improvisation requires rules. Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	9
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	9
Vocal similarity theory and the biology of musical tonality	8
Distinctions between brain structure, complexity, and function. Comment on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú	8
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	8
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	7
Situating and extending the sense of should	7
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	6
Particular flows and attracting sets	6
Sociality and Timing: Correlation or Causation? Comment on ‘The evolution of social timing’ by Verga L., Kotz S. & Ravignani A.	6
Mechanisms underlying the social effects of music: Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	6
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	6
Inferential dynamics	6
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	6
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	6
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	6
Processing liquid food with hundreds of hertz and tens of kilovolts Comment on “advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods” by F. Zare, N. Ghasemi, N. Bansal an	5
On consensus and cooperation	5
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	5
Mapping and measuring the Mind's Eye - Comment on visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture by Spagna et al.	5
Gut mechanoimmunology: Shaping immune response through physical cues	5
Movement control mechanism of underwater swimmers via resonance entrainment of central pattern generators Comment on “Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimmi	5
Stretching the limits of tightness and looseness in music interaction Reply to comments on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	5
Chimpanzee culture in context	5
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.	5
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	5
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	5
Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain? A review and empirical assessment of clinical case reports and published artworks for systematic evidence of quality and style changes linked to dam	4
A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems	4
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	4
Connecting brain and mind through temporo-spatial dynamics: Towards a theory of common currency	4
The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference	4
Alpha suppression in the context of cross-frequency interactions between fast and intermediate timescales	4
Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	4
Mechanotransduction in tumor dynamics modeling	4
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	4
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	4

Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	4
The genotype concept and language evolution: Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by Balthasar Bickel, Anne-Lise Giraud, Klaus Zuberb..hler, Carel P. van Schaik	3
It's About Time: Rhythmic Foundations of Inner Thought: Comment on “The Sound of Thought: Form Matters The Prosody of Inner Speech” by Hamutal Kreiner, Zohar Eviatar	3
Building bidirectional, signed, and weighted interaction network among microbes	3
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	3
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	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
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
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	3
Patterns of neuronal synchrony in higher-order networks	3
WITHDRAWN: Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	3
Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain development and maintenance	3
Building a Synthetic Theory of Linguistic Evolution? Comment on “Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution” by B. Bickel et al.	3
Since Feeling is First: Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The Affective Pertinentization (APER) Model” by Sergio Salvatore, Arianna Palmieri, Raffaele De Luca Picione, Vincenzo Bochicchio	3
Combining inter-areal, mesoscopic, and neurodynamic models of cortical function	3
Nature heals: An informational entropy account of self-organization and change in field psychotherapy	3
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
Blankets at birth: Transitional objects	2
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	2
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	2
System-specificity of genotype-phenotype map structure	2
Markov border crossings	2
Through the cracks of consciousness - The relevance of temporal dynamics for the psychological baseline of the self and its dissociative counterpart: A commentary on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus	2
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	2
Creative metacognition: A much needed bridge between meta-reasoning and creativity	2
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	2
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	2
Generative models of complex behavior: A behavioral Turing test. Comment on “beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior” by Maselli, Gordon, Eluchans, Lan	2
Editorial Board	2
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	2
Riders on a storm – The evaluation and control of creative processes A comment on: “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Izabela Lebuda and Mathias Benedek	2
The strangest particles in the world	2
What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?	2
Searching for unifying laws of general adaptation syndrome	2
Behavioral and game-theoretic modeling of dengue epidemic: Comment on “Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review” by M. Aguiar et al.	2
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	2
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	2
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	2
Emergence of Life-like properties from nonlinear spatial kinetics	2
Bounding surprisal is only part of the story…Reply to comments on “To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human technological culture”	2
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	2
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	2
Addressing market regime transitions with the tools of behavioral swarms and kinetic theory	2
Editorial Board	2
Cultural mechanics	2
Pushing the boundaries of a physical approach for the study of sensorimotor control	2
Grounding social timing	2
Editorial Board	2
More than one effect in every affect	2
‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	2
The ultimate trick?	2
Creativity, art and brain	2
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	2
Are TPJs conflict detectors or solvers?	2
Calls of the wild: Exploring the evolutionary roots of consonance and dissonance	2
Beyond ‘cold’ creative metacognition: Toward a more integrated framework	2
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	2
Variability allows for adaptation in dynamic environments comment on ‘From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability’ by L. Casartelli, C. Maronati	2
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	2
Prescriptive, descriptive or predictive models: What approach should be taken when empirical data is limited? Reply to comments on “Mathematical models for Dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systema	2
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	2