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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Everett Mendelsohn, the Harvard Colleague	11
Garland Allen and Marxism: An Appreciation	7
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science	6
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Split & Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780226825328, 256 pp.	6
Vitalism, Holism, and Metaphorical Dynamics of Hans Spemann’s “Organizer” in the Interwar Period	6
Situating Commemoration: An Editorial Introduction	6
Luke Keogh, The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 9780226713618, 288 pp	6
The Shelf Life of Skulls: Anthropology and ‘race’ in the Vrolik Craniological Collection	5
Janina Wellman, Biological Motion: A History of Life, New York: Zone Books, 2024, ISBN: 9781942130819, pp. 336	5
The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber’s Philosophy of Plants	5
Everett Mendelsohn: The Harvard Professor	4
“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	4
Correction: Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876–1914, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 9781108490092, 204 pp	4
2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	4
Studying Regeneration Through History as a Way of Looking Forward	3
Alfredo Morabia, The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19, Baltimore: Johns Hopkin University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781421446783, 232 pp.	3
Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin’s Origin: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Theory (History, Philosophy, and Theory of the Life Sciences, volume 34), Cham: S	3
Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization	3
Mimush Sheep and the Spectre of Inbreeding: Historical Background for Festetics’s Organic and Genetic Laws Four Decades Before Mendel’s Experiments in Peas	3
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.	3
Reflections on Making Mice (2004)	2
Maura Flannery, In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780300247916, 335 pp.	2
Garland Allen’s Last Book Project	2
Remembering Everett Mendelsohn	2
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	2

Recapitulation, Heredity, and Freud’s View of Human Nature	2
The 2025 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	2
The Making of the Sambucana: On Memory, the Body, and the Production of Bioheritage	2
Miguel García-Sancho and James Lowe, A History of Genomics Across Species, Communities, and Projects, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, ISBN: 9783031061295, 380 pp.	2
The Colonial State, African Dog-Owners, and the Political Economy of Rabies Vaccination Campaigns in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 1960s	2
Plants, Pictures, and People	2
Lisa Haushofer, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition, Oakland: University of California Press, 2023, ISBN: 9780520390409, 270 pp.	2
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	2
Sociobiology on Screen. The Controversy Through the Lens of Sociobiology: Doing What Comes Naturally	2
From Entomological Research to Culturing Tissues: Aron Moscona’s Investigative Pathway	2
Publisher Correction: Peter J. Bowler, Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978110884225-6, 314 pp	1
The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach	1
Analysis and/or Interpretation in Neurophysiology? A Transatlantic Discussion Between F. J. J. Buytendijk and K. S. Lashley, 1929–1932	1
The Contributions—and Collapse—of Lamarckism in Pasteurian Molecular Biology: 2. Enzymatic Adaptation, 1920–1965	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
Patrick Spero, André Michaux and Thomas Jefferson and the Conspiracy of 1793, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024, ISBN: 9780813952192, 334 pp.	1
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Transformist Theory	1
Beginnings: Everett Mendelsohn, 1963–1973	1
Model Organisms Unbound	1
William Lawrence Tower’s Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance	1
René Dubos, the Autochthonous Flora, and the Discovery of the Microbiome	1
The Study of Geographical Distribution in the Analysis of Domestication as an Evolutionary Process: Tensions in Alphonse de Candolle’s Approach	1
Karl von Frisch and the Discipline of Ethology	1
Development and Heredity in the Interwar Period: Hans Spemann and Fritz Baltzer on Organizers and Merogones	1
“At a Glance:” The Role of Diagrammatic Representations in Eugenics Appropriations of the “Infamous Juke Family”	1
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.	1
The Elementary Organisms	1
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	1
Imperial Microbiology: The National Collection of Type Cultures and the Management of Microorganisms, 1916–1922	1
The Different Career Patterns of Two Pathbreaking Women Biologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem	1
Havelock Ellis, Sexology, and Sexual Selection in Post-Darwinian Evolutionary Biology	1
Nadine Weidman, Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780674983472, 368 pp.	1
Peter J. Bowler, Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978110884225-6, 314 pp.	1
“Keep the Faith:” Memories of Everett Mendelson	1
Shifting Values and Shifting Risks: Debates on the New Biology in Germany and the United States Before and After Asilomar (1960–1980)	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
The 2024 Everett Mendelsohn Prize	1
Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971–1986	1
Darwin’s “Dark Matter” and the History of Biology: An Editorial Introduction	1