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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Creativity of Natural Selection? Part II: The Synthesis and Since	14
Friedrich Miescher’s Discovery in the Historiography of Genetics: From Contamination to Confusion, from Nuclein to DNA	8
Morphology and Phylogeny	7
Characterized by Darkness: Reconsidering the Origins of the Brutish Neanderthal	6
Special Issue Editor’s Introduction: “Revisiting the Modern Synthesis”	6
Axiomatic Natural Philosophy and the Emergence of Biology as a Science	6
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century	5
Challenging the Adaptationist Paradigm: Morphogenesis, Constraints, and Constructions	5
Let Chromosomes Speak: The Cytogenetics Project at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC)	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
Lysenko in Yugoslavia, 1945–1950s: How to De-Stalinize Stalinist Science	4
Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod's Ignored Work	4
Disproportionate Impacts of Radiation Exposure on Women, Children, and Pregnancy: Taking Back our Narrative	3
An Origin of Citations: Darwin’s Collaborators and Their Contributions to the Origin of Species	3
Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	3
“What is Dead May Not Die”: Locating Marginalized Concepts Among Ordinary Biologists	3
Invertebrate Paleontology and Evolutionary Thinking in the US and Britain, 1860–1940	3
The New Biology as an Example of Newspeak: The Case of Polish Zoology, 1948–1956	3
Production Hydrobiology in the USSR Under the Pressure of Lysenkoism: Vladimir I. Zhadin’s Forgotten Theory of Biological Productivity (1940)	3
Introduction: What Right? Which Organisms? Why Jobs?	3
Beyond Haeckel’s Law: Walter Garstang and the Evolutionary Biology that Might Have Been	3
Re-forming Morphology: Two Attempts to Rehabilitate the Problem of Form in the First Half of the Twentieth Century	3
Trees, Coral, and Seaweed: An Interpretation of Sketches Found in Darwin’s Papers	3
Redefining Boundaries: Ruth Myrtle Patrick’s Ecological Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1947–1975	3
International Culture Collections and the Value of Microbial Life: Johanna Westerdijk’s Fungi and Ernst Georg Pringsheim’s Algae	2

Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold	2
The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness After Three Mile Island	2
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the First Embryological Evolutionary Model on the Origin of Vertebrates	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
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932	2
Macleay’s Choice: Transacting the Natural History Trade in the Nineteenth Century	2
The Twentieth-Century Desire for Morphology	2
Bill Jenkins, Evolution Before Darwin. Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834	2
Evolution as a Solution: Franco Andrea Bonelli, Lamarck, and the Origin of Man in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italy	2
A Feeling for the Human Subject: Margaret Lasker and the Genetic Puzzle of Pentosuria	2
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	2
Synthetic Morphology: A Vision of Engineering Biological Form	2
Edinburgh Lamarckians? The Authorship of Three Anonymous Papers (1826–1829)	2
Valuing Shorebirds: Bureaucracy, Natural History, and Expertise in North American Conservation	2
Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology	2
The Visual Politics of Maralinga: Experiences, (Re)presentations, and Vulnerabilities	2
From Monsters to Malformations: Anatomical Preparations as Objects of Evidence for a Developmental Paradigm of Embryology, 1770–1850	2
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	2
Catharine Beecher and the Mechanical Body: Physiology, Evangelism, and American Social Reform from the Antebellum Period to the Gilded Age	2
Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	2
Discovering DNA Methylation, the History and Future of the Writing on DNA	2
The Cyclical Return of the IQ Controversy: Revisiting the Lessons of the Resolution on Genetics, Race and Intelligence	2