OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the History of Biology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Friedrich Miescher’s Discovery in the Historiography of Genetics: From Contamination to Confusion, from Nuclein to DNA	9
Morphology and Phylogeny	8
Axiomatic Natural Philosophy and the Emergence of Biology as a Science	7
Characterized by Darkness: Reconsidering the Origins of the Brutish Neanderthal	7
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century	6
Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod's Ignored Work	5
Challenging the Adaptationist Paradigm: Morphogenesis, Constraints, and Constructions	5
Re-forming Morphology: Two Attempts to Rehabilitate the Problem of Form in the First Half of the Twentieth Century	5
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
Disproportionate Impacts of Radiation Exposure on Women, Children, and Pregnancy: Taking Back our Narrative	4
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
Edinburgh Lamarckians? The Authorship of Three Anonymous Papers (1826–1829)	4
Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	4
Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold	3
Redefining Boundaries: Ruth Myrtle Patrick’s Ecological Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1947–1975	3
Beyond Haeckel’s Law: Walter Garstang and the Evolutionary Biology that Might Have Been	3
Introduction: What Right? Which Organisms? Why Jobs?	3
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	3
Discovering DNA Methylation, the History and Future of the Writing on DNA	3
“What is Dead May Not Die”: Locating Marginalized Concepts Among Ordinary Biologists	3
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the First Embryological Evolutionary Model on the Origin of Vertebrates	3
The First Brazilian Thesis of Evolution: Haeckel's Recapitulation Theory and Its Relations with the Idea of Progress	2

Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932	2
Between Simians and Cell Lines: Rhesus Monkeys, Polio Research, and the Geopolitics of Tissue Culture (1934–1954)	2
Valuing Shorebirds: Bureaucracy, Natural History, and Expertise in North American Conservation	2
The Visual Politics of Maralinga: Experiences, (Re)presentations, and Vulnerabilities	2
The Twentieth-Century Desire for Morphology	2
The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species	2
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	2
Synthetic Morphology: A Vision of Engineering Biological Form	2
Model Organisms Unbound	2
Macleay’s Choice: Transacting the Natural History Trade in the Nineteenth Century	2
International Culture Collections and the Value of Microbial Life: Johanna Westerdijk’s Fungi and Ernst Georg Pringsheim’s Algae	2
From Monsters to Malformations: Anatomical Preparations as Objects of Evidence for a Developmental Paradigm of Embryology, 1770–1850	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
“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
Blowing in the Wind: Pollen’s Mobility as a Challenge to Measuring Climate by Proxy, 1916–1939	2
Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology	2
A Feeling for the Human Subject: Margaret Lasker and the Genetic Puzzle of Pentosuria	2
Evolution as a Solution: Franco Andrea Bonelli, Lamarck, and the Origin of Man in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italy	2