OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the History of Biology 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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	9
A Conversation with Darwin on Man Revisited: 150 Years to The Descent of Man	6
Let Chromosomes Speak: The Cytogenetics Project at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC)	6
How Phenograms and Cladograms Became Molecular Phylogenetic Trees	6
Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp.	6
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle’s Approach	5
From Entomological Research to Culturing Tissues: Aron Moscona’s Investigative Pathway	4
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the First Embryological Evolutionary Model on the Origin of Vertebrates	4
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague	4
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn	4
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	4
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	4
Laura J. Martin, Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780674979420, 336 pp.	4
Pattern Without Process: Eugen Smirnov and the Earliest Project of Numerical Taxonomy (1923–1938)	4
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp	4
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.	4
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach	3
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–1892	3
Embracing Mystery: Radiation Risks and Popular Science Writing in the Early Cold War	3
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	3
Nathan Crowe, Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, ISBN: 9780822946274, 299 pp.	3
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.	3
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	3
Catharine Beecher and the Mechanical Body: Physiology, Evangelism, and American Social Reform from the Antebellum Period to the Gilded Age	2
The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	2

Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971–1986	2
Havelock Ellis, Sexology, and Sexual Selection in Post-Darwinian Evolutionary Biology	2
James T. Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780691233796, 515 pp.	2
The Overfishing Problem: Natural and Social Categories in Early Twentieth-Century Fisheries Science	2
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century	2
Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care	2
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp.	2
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome	2
Correction to: Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	2
Chen Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	2
A Feeling for the Human Subject: Margaret Lasker and the Genetic Puzzle of Pentosuria	2
A Biogeographical Debate at the Origins of Limnology in Switzerland and Italy: The Issue over Pelagic Fauna Between Pietro Pavesi and François-Alphonse Forel	1
Stefanie Gänger, A Singular Remedy: Cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9781108842167, 300 pp.	1
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.	1
Book Review: Jenny Bangham. Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics	1
From Monsters to Malformations: Anatomical Preparations as Objects of Evidence for a Developmental Paradigm of Embryology, 1770–1850	1
The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness After Three Mile Island	1
Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	1
Introduction: What Right? Which Organisms? Why Jobs?	1
The Elementary Organisms	1
James Elwick, Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions 1820–1858, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020, ISBN: 9780822966340, 234 pp.	1
Alexander Dalrymple, the Utility of Coral Reefs, and Charles Darwin’s Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs	1
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.	1
Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226822723, 630 pp.	1
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	1
Developing Sex: From Recremental Semen to Developmental Endocrinology	1
Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–1995	1
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection	1
William Lawrence Tower’s Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance	1
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science	1
Correction to: Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	1
JHB’s “New Developments in Darwin Studies?” Redux	1
“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	1
Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 336	1
Darwin’s “Dark Matter” and the History of Biology: An Editorial Introduction	1
The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species	1
Invasion on So Grand a Scale: Darwin, Lyell, and Invasive Species	1