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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dogs for Life: Beagles, Drugs, and Capital in the Twentieth Century	9
Characterized by Darkness: Reconsidering the Origins of the Brutish Neanderthal	7
The Cyclical Return of the IQ Controversy: Revisiting the Lessons of the Resolution on Genetics, Race and Intelligence	6
Eclipsing the Eclipse?: A Neo-Darwinian Historiography Revisited	6
Diauxic Inhibition: Jacques Monod's Ignored Work	6
Edinburgh Lamarckians? The Authorship of Three Anonymous Papers (1826–1829)	6
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	5
Disproportionate Impacts of Radiation Exposure on Women, Children, and Pregnancy: Taking Back our Narrative	4
Introduction: What Right? Which Organisms? Why Jobs?	4
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	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
The Cosmology of Evidence: Suffering, Science, and Biological Witness After Three Mile Island	4
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the First Embryological Evolutionary Model on the Origin of Vertebrates	4
Model Organisms Unbound	4
Discovering DNA Methylation, the History and Future of the Writing on DNA	4
Wild Laboratories of Climate Change: Plants, Phenology, and Global Warming, 1955–1980	4
Let Chromosomes Speak: The Cytogenetics Project at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC)	4
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932	3
International Culture Collections and the Value of Microbial Life: Johanna Westerdijk’s Fungi and Ernst Georg Pringsheim’s Algae	3
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome	3
“My Reputation is at Stake.” Humboldt's Mountain Plant Geography in the Making (1803–1825)	3
Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology	3
Redefining Boundaries: Ruth Myrtle Patrick’s Ecological Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1947–1975	3
Collaboration, Gender, and Leadership at the Minnesota Seaside Station, 1901–1907	3
Locating the Boundaries of the Nuclear North: Arctic Biology, Contaminated Caribou, and the Problem of the Threshold	3

A Feeling for the Human Subject: Margaret Lasker and the Genetic Puzzle of Pentosuria	2
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	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
The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species	2
Catharine Beecher and the Mechanical Body: Physiology, Evangelism, and American Social Reform from the Antebellum Period to the Gilded Age	2
Chen Ziying and Woods Hole: Bringing the Marine Biological Laboratory to Amoy, China, 1930–1936	2
Species Choice and Model Use: Reviving Research on Human Development	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
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–1892	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
Blowing in the Wind: Pollen’s Mobility as a Challenge to Measuring Climate by Proxy, 1916–1939	2
Towards a Sinophone Insect Humanities: A Review Essay	1
Gregory Morgan. Cancer Virus Hunters: A History of Tumor Virology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021, ISBN 1421444011, xiv + 373 pp.	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
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
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones	1
Ayo Wahlberg, Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China	1
Developing Sex: From Recremental Semen to Developmental Endocrinology	1
Embracing Mystery: Radiation Risks and Popular Science Writing in the Early Cold War	1
A Conversation with Darwin on Man Revisited: 150 Years to The Descent of Man	1
The Vera Causa of Endangered Species Legislation: Alfred Newton and the Wild Bird Preservation Acts, 1869–1894	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 Colonial State, African Dog-Owners, and the Political Economy of Rabies Vaccination Campaigns in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 1960s	1
Beyond the Instinct Debate: Daniel Lehrman’s Contributions to Animal Behavior Studies	1
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project	1
Reflections on Darwin Historiography	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
Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–1995	1
Nonhuman Primates in Public Health: Between Biological Standardization, Conservation and Care	1
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach	1
A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon’s Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil	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
Muscles or Movements? Representation in the Nascent Brain Sciences	1
Lords of the Fly Revisited	1
The Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters	1
A “Central Bureau of Feminine Algology:” Algae, Mutualism, and Gendered Ecological Perspectives, 1880–1910	1
The Elementary Organisms	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
Connecting to the Living History of Radiation Exposure	1