OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biosemiotics 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Un-binding the Umwelt: The Differential Contributions of the Five Classical Senses can be Understood Through Hindu Tantra	45
Time Transformation in the Sign System of the Conditioned Reflex	38
The Landscape of Fear as a Safety Eco-Field: Experimental Evidence	19
Weismann’s Barrier and Crick’s Barrier Still Preclude Two Kinds of Lamarckism	18
Supplementary notes on Kalevi Kull, ‘The Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics: Beauty is Perfect Semiotic Fitting’	13
UAL is a Token, not a Type	11
Questions for Jablonka and Ginsburg Drawn from Lamarck’s Life-Made World	10
Introduction	8
RNA’s Role in the Origins of Life: An Agentic ‘Manager’, or Recipient of ‘Off-loaded’ Constraints?	8
The Evolution of Consciousness and Agency	7
Perceptions of Context. Epistemological and Methodological Implications for Meta-Studying Zoo-Communication	6
A Foray into the Worlds of Plants and Fungi	6
Learning and the Evolution of Conscious Agents	6
Understanding Subjecthood and Experience	6
Atacama Desert’s Solastalgia: Color and Water for Dumping	6
Phantom Signs – Hidden (Bio)Semiosis in the Human Body(?)	6
Semiocide as Negation: Review of Michael Marder’s Dump Philosophy	5
Does Autogenic Semiosis Underpin Minimal Cognition?	5
Correction to: Poti-Interpretants, Sin-Interpretants, and Legi-Interpretants: Rethinking Semiotic Causation as Production of Signs	5
What Future for Evolutionary Biology? Response to Commentaries on “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis”	5
Can quantitative approaches develop bio/semiotic theory?	5
And the Flesh in Between: Towards a Health Semiotics	5
Semiosis at a Fundamental Level: Wisdom and Innovation	5
Experimental Semiotics: A Systematic Categorization of Experimental Studies on the Bootstrapping of Communication Systems	5
Interspecific Cohabitation in Urban Context: Modelling, Diagnostic and Problem-Solving from a Semiotics Perspective	4

Semiotic Function of Empathy in Text Emotion Assessment	4
A Biosemiotic Perspective on Reward-Based Animal Training Techniques	4
Qualitative and Quantitative Examples of Natural and Artificial Phenomena	4
A Functional - Helix Conceptualization of the Emergent Properties of the Animal Kingdom: Chronoception as a Key Sensory Process	4
Joining Forces Against Neo-Darwinism: Linking Organicism and Biosemiotics	4
Embodied human language models vs. Large Language Models, or why Artificial Intelligence cannot explain the modal be able to	4
Between Teleophilia and Teleophobia	4
Semiotic and Physical Requirements on Emergent Autogenic System	4
De-sign Agency as the envoy of intentionality: trajectories toward Cultural Sensitivity and Environmental Sensibility	3
Animalista, Narco-Cultural, Conservacionista. Visions of Nature Around the Case of Hippos in Colombia	3
Aesthetics or Communication?: Social Semiotic Traits of Structured Forms in Studies of “Animal Beauty”	3
Metaphysics of the Organic Whole: Ehrenfels, Uexküll, and Merleau-Ponty	3
Event Matching and the Biological Production of Spacetime	3
The Anthropic Principle for the Evolutionary Biology of Consciousness: Beyond Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism	3
Resolving Mechanism/Semiotic Duality	3
Towards a Biosemiotic Theory of Evolution	3
The Philosophy of Anti-Dumping as the Affirmation of Life	3
Utterance-genre-lifeworld and Sign-habit-Umwelt Compared as Phenomenologies. Integrating Socio- and Biosemiotic Concepts?	3
Following Developments of Biosemiotics	3
How Molecules Became Signs	3
More Constraints, More Freedom: Revisit Semiotic Scaffolding, Semiotic Freedom, and Semiotic Emergence	3
Umwelt Theory, Biosemiotics and Damage Limitation	3
Developmental Bioelectricity as an Explanatory Framework for Cognition and Meaning	3
Lofts as Shared Spaces: Examining Socio-Spatial Interactions Among Humans, King Pigeons, and Other Species	3
Good (and Bad) Words for the Ontological (and Anthropomorphic) Description of Behavior	2
Active Inference and Abduction	2
Could the Greatest Illusion of the Modern Synthesis Be Practical?	2
Do Codes Need Interpretation?	2
Creative Agency Via Higher-Dimensional Constraints	2
Four Epistemological Gaps in Alloanimal Episodic Memory Studies	2
A Textual Deconstruction of the RNA World	2
Semiotically Mediated Human-Bee Communication in the Practice of Brazilian Meliponiculture	2
Dynamic Encoding in a Simple Autogenic System	2
Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2021	2
The Biosemiotic Glossary Project: Habit	2
Interview with Gerd B. Müller on Theoretical Biology	2
Extending the Life World: Phenomenological Triangulation Along Two Planes	2
Biosemiotics, Global Semiotics and Semioethics	2
Umwelt and Melody: The Inter-Species Dynamics of Search and Rescue Dog Teams	2
Making the Umwelt Bubble of the Modern Synthesis Burst	2
Response to Denis Noble’s Article “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis,” Biosemiotics	2
Closures as a Precondition of Life, Agency, and Semiosis	2
Criticizing the Modern Synthesis: between Phenomenal Characteristics and Synthetic Principles	2
Biosemiotics and Development: Metaphors and Facts	2
Lyapunov Stability as a Metric for Meaning in Biological Systems	2
Man in Relation to the World: Umwelt–Welt Transition	2
Semiotic Fitting, Co-option, and the Art of Life	2
A Foray into Welt and Umwelt: Rereading the Onto-Ethological Discussion between Heidegger and Uexküll	2
Semiotic Brains Build Cognitive Niches	2
The Plurality of Evolutionary Worldviews	2

Consciousness and Learning from the Biosemiotic Perspective	1
The Semiotic Approach to Bacterial Chemotaxis	1
Mythology and Zoosemiotics: Exploring Snake Narratives in Greek, Aztec, and Amazonian Cultures	1
Agency and Choice in Evolution	1
An Umwelt-to-Umwelt Rhythmical Interaction: A Biosemiotic Reading of Cultural Embodiment in the Context of Humanitarian VR	1
Illusions of Linguistics and Illusions of Modern Synthesis: Two Parallel Stories	1
Descriptive Phenomenology as an Alternative to Prevent the Theory-Ladenness of Observation in the Study of Animal Behavior: Opening towards an Etho-Phenomenology	1
The Explanatory Role of Umwelt in Evolutionary Theory: Introducing von Baer’s Reflections on Teleological Development	1
Signs of Consciousness?	1
Complementarity of Description and the Promise of Semiotics in Dealing with an Eluding Object	1
Deleuze and Biosemiotics: Biological Emergence, Agency, and Subjectivity in Logic of Sense and A Thousand Plateaus	1
Symbol Grounding Precedes Interpretation	1
Embracing the Learning Turn: The ecological context of learning	1
The Advent and Fall of a Vocabulary Learning Bias from Communicative Efficiency	1
Energy and Expectation: The Dynamics of Living Consciousness	1
Sign-free Biosemantics and Transcendental Phenomenology: a Better Non-Metaphysical Approach to Close the Mind-body Gap	1
Correction to: Neither Dogmas nor Barriers are Absolute	1
Biosemiotic Aesthetics May Unify General Semiotics	1
An Integrated Account of Rosen’s Relational Biology and Peirce’s Semiosis. Part II: Analysis of Protein Synthesis	1
The Implications of Umwelt in Poetics: The Case of Ye Xie, a Seventeenth-Century Chinese Poet and Critic	1
Expanding the Reach of Biosemiotics	1
René Thom, Reader of Jakob von Uexküll (Meaning as Topological Space)	1
The Metaethics of Meaning-Making: Jonathan Birch’s the Edge of Sentience	1
Correction: Organizing Microbial Diversity and Interspecies Relations through Diagrams: Trees, Maps, and the Visual Semiotics of the Living	1
A Semiotic Modern Synthesis: Conducting Quantitative Studies in Zoosemiotics and Interpreting Existing Ethological Studies through a Semiotic Framework	1
Quantification and Realism: Locating Semiosis in the Description of Biological Systems	1
Ambiguity in Plant Cognition	1
Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2022	1
Simple Utterances but Complex Understanding? Meta-studying the Fuzzy Mismatch between Animal Semantic Capacities in Varied Contexts	1
A Humanist’s Response to Denis Noble’s “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis”	1
Animal Attention in the Context of Zoosemiotics	1
How Minimal Can Consciousness Be?	1
How Agents Use Biological Codes and Artifacts to Interpret their Innenwelt and make Sense of their Mitwelt	1