OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of the History of Biology is 0. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Friedrich Miescher’s Discovery in the Historiography of Genetics: From Contamination to Confusion, from Nuclein to DNA	9
Morphology and Phylogeny	8
Characterized by Darkness: Reconsidering the Origins of the Brutish Neanderthal	7
Axiomatic Natural Philosophy and the Emergence of Biology as a Science	7
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century	6
Re-forming Morphology: Two Attempts to Rehabilitate the Problem of Form in the First Half of the Twentieth Century	5
Lysenko in Yugoslavia, 1945–1950s: How to De-Stalinize Stalinist Science	5
Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod's Ignored Work	5
Challenging the Adaptationist Paradigm: Morphogenesis, Constraints, and Constructions	5
Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics’s Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel’s Experiments in Peas	4
Let Chromosomes Speak: The Cytogenetics Project at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC)	4
Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	4
The Cyclical Return of the IQ Controversy: Revisiting the Lessons of the Resolution on Genetics, Race and Intelligence	4
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	4
Edinburgh Lamarckians? The Authorship of Three Anonymous Papers (1826–1829)	4
Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	4
Disproportionate Impacts of Radiation Exposure on Women, Children, and Pregnancy: Taking Back our Narrative	3
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	3
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the First Embryological Evolutionary Model on the Origin of Vertebrates	3
Invertebrate Paleontology and Evolutionary Thinking in the US and Britain, 1860–1940	3
Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold	3
“What is Dead May Not Die”: Locating Marginalized Concepts Among Ordinary Biologists	3
Beyond Haeckel’s Law: Walter Garstang and the Evolutionary Biology that Might Have Been	3
Introduction: What Right? Which Organisms? Why Jobs?	3
Redefining Boundaries: Ruth Myrtle Patrick’s Ecological Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1947–1975	3

Valuing Shorebirds: Bureaucracy, Natural History, and Expertise in North American Conservation	2
Blowing in the Wind: Pollen’s Mobility as a Challenge to Measuring Climate by Proxy, 1916–1939	2
Bill Jenkins, Evolution Before Darwin. Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834	2
From Monsters to Malformations: Anatomical Preparations as Objects of Evidence for a Developmental Paradigm of Embryology, 1770–1850	2
Evolution as a Solution: Franco Andrea Bonelli, Lamarck, and the Origin of Man in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italy	2
The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	2
Between Simians and Cell Lines: Rhesus Monkeys, Polio Research, and the Geopolitics of Tissue Culture (1934–1954)	2
Discovering DNA Methylation, the History and Future of the Writing on DNA	2
Macleay’s Choice: Transacting the Natural History Trade in the Nineteenth Century	2
The Twentieth-Century Desire for Morphology	2
The Visual Politics of Maralinga: Experiences, (Re)presentations, and Vulnerabilities	2
A Feeling for the Human Subject: Margaret Lasker and the Genetic Puzzle of Pentosuria	2
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	2
“My Reputation is at Stake.” Humboldt's Mountain Plant Geography in the Making (1803–1825)	2
A Critique of Darwin’s The Descent of Man by a Muslim Scholar in 1912: Muḥammad-Riḍā Iṣfahānī's Examination of the Anatomical and Embryological Similarities Between Human and Other Animals	2
Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology	2
International Culture Collections and the Value of Microbial Life: Johanna Westerdijk’s Fungi and Ernst Georg Pringsheim’s Algae	2
The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species	2
The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness After Three Mile Island	2
Catharine Beecher and the Mechanical Body: Physiology, Evangelism, and American Social Reform from the Antebellum Period to the Gilded Age	2
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932	2
Synthetic Morphology: A Vision of Engineering Biological Form	2
Towards a Sinophone Insect Humanities: A Review Essay	1
James F. Stark, The Cult of Youth: Anti-ageing in Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 262 pp., $99 hardback, ISBN: 9781108484152	1
Beyond the Instinct Debate: Daniel Lehrman’s Contributions to Animal Behavior Studies	1
Reflections on Darwin Historiography	1
The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters	1
Michel Morange, The Black Box of Biology. A History of the Molecular Revolution. Trans. by M. Cobb (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020), 528 pp., $45.00, £36.95, €40.50 Hardback, ISBN: 9780	1
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence	1
A Conversation with Darwin on Man Revisited: 150 Years to The Descent of Man	1
Embracing Mystery: Radiation Risks and Popular Science Writing in the Early Cold War	1
Connecting to the Living History of Radiation Exposure	1
The Colonial State, African Dog-Owners, and the Political Economy of Rabies Vaccination Campaigns in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 1960s	1
The Vera Causa of Endangered Species Legislation: Alfred Newton and the Wild Bird Preservation Acts, 1869–1894	1
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project	1
Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalism (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 278 pp., 16 b&w illus., $27.50 Paper, ISBN: 9780226706290	1
Collaboration, Gender, and Leadership at the Minnesota Seaside Station, 1901–1907	1
Correction: Joel Hagen. Life out of Balance: Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021, ISBN 9780817320898, 360 pp	1
Joan Steigerwald, Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life: Organic Vitality in Germany Around 1800 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), 460 pp., $55.00 Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-8229-4553-3	1
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–1892	1
The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-Century Fisheries Science	1
From Entomological Research to Culturing Tissues: Aron Moscona’s Investigative Pathway	1
Alisha Rankin. The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021, ISBN 9780226744858, 329 pp.	1
The Darwin Correspondence Project and Pedagogy	1
Alexander Moritzi, a Swiss Pre-Darwinian Evolutionist: Insights into the Creationist-Transmutationist Debates of the 1830s and 1840s	1
Gregory Morgan. Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021, ISBN 1421444011, xiv + 373 pp.	1
Lords of the Fly Revisited	1
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones	1
David P.D. Munns and Kärin Nickelsen. Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life-Support Systems in the Space Age, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN 9780822946540, 216 pp.	1
Ayo Wahlberg, Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China	1

René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome	1
Chen Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	1
Model Organisms Unbound	1
Muscles or Movements? Representation in the Nascent Brain Sciences	0
A “Central Bureau of Feminine Algology:” Algae, Mutualism, and Gendered Ecological Perspectives, 1880–1910	0
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague	0
The Social Politics of Karl Escherich’s 1933 Inaugural Presidential Lecture	0
Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 296 pp	0
The Business with “Bugs”: Ruminology and the Commercial Feed Industry in the United States	0
Reading and Writing the History of Biology at JHB	0
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Transformist Theory	0
“Keep the Faith:” Memories of Everett Mendelson	0
Mary Anne Andrei, Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780226730318, 250 pp.	0
A “Mean Quarrelsome Spirit:” Controversy in British Systematics, 1822–1836	0
2023 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.	0
The Return of the Geneticist: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Edward Chapin, and Museum Taxonomy	0
Laura J. Martin, Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780674979420, 336 pp.	0
Making a French Connection: Darwin, Brown-Séquard and the Epilepsy Studies	0
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection	0
Karl S. Matlin, Crossing the Boundaries of Life: Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780226819235, 368 pp	0
Three-Dimensional Phylogeny in Two Dimensions: How Darwin and Other Nineteenth-Century Naturalists Created Three-Dimensional Figures of the Natural System by Combining Trees of Life and Maps of Affini	0
Correction to: The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	0
“From the Known to the Unknown:” Nature’s Diversity, Materia Medica, and Analogy in 18th Century Botany, Through the Work of Tournefort, the Jussieu Brothers, and Linnaeus	0
A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon’s Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil	0
Correction to: Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	0
Everett Mendelsohn: The Harvard Professor	0
Alexander Dalrymple, the Utility of Coral Reefs, and Charles Darwin’s Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs	0
Correction to: Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	0
Everett Mendelsohn at the MBL	0
Announcement of JHB Topical Collections	0
Vanessa Heggie, Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 253 pp., 9 b&w illus., $40.00 Cloth, ISBN: 9780226650883	0
Liguus Landscapes: Amateur Liggers, Professional Malacology, and the Social Lives of Snail Sciences	0
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.	0
Raf De Bont, Nature’s Diplomats: Science, Internationalism & Preservation, 1920–1960. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946618, x + 373 pp	0
2021 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Marga Vicedo, Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother, Boston: Beacon Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780807055519, 272 pp.	0
Inaugural Editorial	0
Remembering Garland Edward Allen, III (1936–2023), Second Editor of Journal of the History of Biology	0
Book Review: Sherrie Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory	0
In Memory of Paul Farber (1944–2021), Third Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology	0
Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization	0
A Few Hours a Week: Everett Mendelsohn as Teacher, Mentor, and Exemplar	0
James Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions 1820–1858, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780822966340, 234 pp.	0
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn, a Kind and Generous Mentor	0
Garland E. Allen (1936-2023), Historian of Life Science	0
Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–1995	0
The Making of the Sambucana: On Memory, the Body, and the Production of Bioheritage	0
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp.	0
Correction to: An Origin of Citations: Darwin’s Collaborators and Their Contributions to the Origin of Species	0
Soraya de Chadarevian, Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 272 pp, 36 halftones, $112.50 Cloth, ISBN 978022668508	0
Anita Guerrini, Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR, 2nd ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781421444055, 208 pp.	0
Nicole C. Nelson, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 272 pp., 6 b&w illus., $30.00 Paperback, I	0
Correction to: Macleay’s Choice: Transacting the Natural History Trade in the Nineteenth Century	0
Stefanie Gänger, A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9781108842167, 300 pp.	0
Everett Mendelsohn: A Splendid Mentor, Primary Source, and Champion	0
Pattern Without Process: Eugen Smirnov and the Earliest Project of Numerical Taxonomy (1923–1938)	0
Rena Selya, Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America, Cambridge, USA: MIT Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780262046466, 248 pp.	0
JHB’s “New Developments in Darwin Studies?” Redux	0
Eloge: Paul Lawrence Farber (1944–2021)	0
Sharon E. Kingsland, A Lab for All Seasons: The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology, 2023, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN: 9780300267228, 385 pp.	0
Correction to: Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	0
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920–66, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, ISBN: 0226823016, 348 pp.	0
Dialectical Materialism Serves Voluntarist Productivism: The Epistemic Foundation of Lysenkoism in Socialist China and North Vietnam	0
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn	0
Frequency and Content of the Last Fifty Years of Papers on Aristotle’s Writings on Biological Phenomena	0
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp	0
Lisa Haushofer, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, Oakland: University of California Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780520390409, 270 pp.	0
Correction to: Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod’s Ignored Work	0
The Yale Geochronometric Laboratory and the Rewriting of Global Environmental History	0
2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	0
Reflections on Making Mice (2004)	0
JHB’s Darwin Collection	0
Everett Mendelsohn (1931-2023): Founding Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology	0
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science	0
“At a Glance:” The Role of Diagrammatic Representations in Eugenics Appropriations of the “Infamous Juke Family”	0
Joel Schwartz, Robert Brown and Mungo Park: Travels and Explorations in Natural History for the Royal Society, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden no. 122, Cham: Springer, 2021, ISBN: 97830307486	0
Nathan Crowe, Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946274, 299 pp.	0
Balancing the Synthesis	0
Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care	0

Neeraja Sankaran, A Tale of Two Viruses: Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946304, 312 pp	0
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach	0
Erika Lorraine Milam, Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), 408 pp., 33 b/w illus., $29.95 Cloth, ISBN: 9780691181882	0
Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971–1986	0
Sociobiology on Screen. The Controversy Through the Lens of Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally	0
Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton, The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), 282 pp., £25 (hardcove	0
“Not by a Decree of Fate:” Ellen Richards, Euthenics, and the Environment in the Progressive Era	0
Alfred Wallace’s Baby Orangutan: Game, Pet, Specimen	0
Everett Mendelsohn, One Colleague’s Remembrances	0
Book Review: Daniel Navon, Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 348 pp. 11 halftones, $40.00 Cloth, ISBN: 9780226638096	0
Beginnings: Everett Mendelsohn, 1963–1973	0
Book Review: Jenny Bangham. Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics	0
Buffon, Species and the Forces of Reproduction	0
Correction: Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp	0
Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226822723, 630 pp.	0