OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biosemiotics is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Autogenic Semiosis Underpin Minimal Cognition?	50
Animalista, Narco-Cultural, Conservacionista. Visions of Nature Around the Case of Hippos in Colombia	42
A Functional - Helix Conceptualization of the Emergent Properties of the Animal Kingdom: Chronoception as a Key Sensory Process	25
Act in Animal Utterances and Life-Genres as ‘Communicational’: A Challenge for Ethological and Biosemiotic Pragmatics	13
Understanding Subjecthood and Experience	13
Atacama Desert’s Solastalgia: Color and Water for Dumping	9
Semiocide as Negation: Review of Michael Marder’s Dump Philosophy	9
Introduction	9
Lofts as Shared Spaces: Examining Socio-Spatial Interactions Among Humans, King Pigeons, and Other Species	8
The Biosemiotic Glossary Project: Habit	7
Ethics of Plants: Interconnections between Biosemiotics and Critical Plant Studies	7
Correction to: Neither Dogmas nor Barriers are Absolute	7
Closures as a Precondition of Life, Agency, and Semiosis	7
Neither Dogmas nor Barriers are Absolute	6
An Umwelt-to-Umwelt Rhythmical Interaction: A Biosemiotic Reading of Cultural Embodiment in the Context of Humanitarian VR	6
Meaning without Agency: The Establishment of Meaningful Time Relations as Prerequisite for the Emergence of Biosemiosis	6
Res Cogitans – The Evolution of Thinking	6
Organizing Microbial Diversity and Interspecies Relations through Diagrams: Trees, Maps, and the Visual Semiotics of the Living	6
Semiotics, Biosemiotics, and Aesthetics: the Concept of Beauty and Beyond	6
Ecosemiotic Analysis of Species Reintroduction: the Case of European Mink (Mustela lutreola) in Estonia	5
The Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics: Beauty is the Perfect Semiotic Fitting	5
The Evolvability of Evolutionary Theories: A Reply to Denis Noble	5
Biosemiotics as an Ongoing Endeavour	4
Something Critical Occurs at a Fractional Dimension Between Two and Three... A Proposal for Knitting Together Semiophysics and Biosemiotics	4
Metaphysics of the Organic Whole: Ehrenfels, Uexküll, and Merleau-Ponty	4

Perception, Action, and Sense Making: The Three Realms of the Aesthetic	4
Extending the Life World: Phenomenological Triangulation Along Two Planes	4
Biosemiotic Achievement Award Goes to an Ethologist	4
On the Evolution of Symbols and Prediction Models	4
What Future for Evolutionary Biology? Response to Commentaries on “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis”	4
Organic Crosstalk: a New Perspective in Medicine	4
Good (and Bad) Words for the Ontological (and Anthropomorphic) Description of Behavior	4
Consciousness as Telos: An Evo-Devo Approach	3
Launching a Transdisciplinary Call for Semioethical Virtue Ethics in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene	3
Minimal Properties of a Natural Semiotic System: Response to Commentaries on “How Molecules Became Signs”	3
Interpretation as a Form of Thermodynamic Work	3
Beauty: Synthesis of Intellect and Senses Commentary on the Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics	3
Umwelt Theory and Dis/Harmony: Forays into Dis/Ability, Dis/Ease, Trauma, and Ethological Divergence	3
The Role of Semioethics in Biosemiotics	3
Umwelt Collapse: The Loss of Umwelt-Ecosystem Integration	3
Use of Quantitative Measures in Zoosemiotics: how Machines Are Becoming a New Pair of Ears and Eyes for Researchers	3
Sensitive Souls and Biosemiotic Agency as Emergence	3
Consciousness and Learning from the Biosemiotic Perspective	3
The built environment in Social Media: towards a Biosemiotic Approach	3
Metasemiosis as Extended Second-Order Semiosis: Revising Metacognition Models	3
Data and Context	3