OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology & Philosophy 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Epistemic enhancement, pastism, and fossil anomalies in paleontology and ichnology	66
Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective	39
Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart	25
Molecular-biological machines: a defense	18
Animal metasemantics	16
Biological functions and dysfunctions: a selected dispositions approach	13
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat	11
The fragmentary nature of biological individuals	11
What is ‘natural’ about naturalistic neuroscience?	11
What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework	10
Empirical adaptationism revisited: is it testable and is it worth testing?	10
Justifying nature-based solutions	10
Exploration and perspectival modelling with model organisms: developmental biology as a case study	9
An even better ape? Comments on a better ape	8
A commitment account of norm externalisation	8
How to balance conceptual unity and plurality: the case of the individualized niche concept	8
Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms	8
The foundations of bet hedging	8
Can a marker approach exclude?	7
Teaching and the origin of the normativity	7
What is foraging?	7
Logical fallacies persist in invasion biology and blaming the messengers will not improve accountability in this field: a response to Frank et al.	7
Putting races on the ontological map: a close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race	7
Making sense of ‘genetic programs’: biomolecular Post–Newell production systems	7
The dual role of sensory systems: reporting on stimuli and affordances	6

Livability and non-human organisms	6
Populations, individuals, and biological race	6
How to relate major transitions in life and cognition?	6
Critical reflections on sex eliminativism	6
Developing the structure of laws in biology	6
A co-constitutive analysis of individuation: three case studies from the biological sciences	6
An argument for global realism about the units of selection	6
Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying	5
The arts and human nature: evolutionary aesthetics and the evolutionary role of australopithecines’ mother–infant interactions	5
Assessing measures of animal welfare	5
What could cognition be, if not human cognition?: Individuating cognitive abilities in the light of evolution	5
Neutral and niche theory in community ecology: a framework for comparing model realism	5
Beyond reduction and emergence: a framework for tailoring multiscale modeling techniques to specific contexts	5
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	5
Positive Wild Animal Welfare	5
A conventional view	5
A personal tribute to Frans De Waal (1948–2024), who inspired the philosophy of animal minds	5
Gaia: the Earth is an organism (not a Darwinian individual)	4
The gradational nature of biological functions: lessons from genome biology	4
Cleaning, sculpting or preparing? Scientific knowledge in Caitlin Wylie’s preparing dinosaurs	4
The argument from Evel (Knievel): daredevils and the free energy principle	4
The problem of opportunity	4
Demographic explanations of neanderthal extinction: a reply to Currie and Meneganzin	4
Homeostasis and causal control	3
Commitment: From Hunting to Promising	3
Not by demography alone: Neanderthal extinction and null hypotheses in paleoanthropological explanation	3
A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes	3
Model organism futures in precision toxicology: tracking the emergence of a research repertoire	3
Minimal residual disease: premises before promises	3
Correction to: Cultural intelligence, shared intentionality and human cognitive uniquenes	3
Ecosystem health and malfunctions: an organisational perspective	3
Living systems are targeted: a challenge to the teleology of field theory	3
Phylogenetically distant animals sleep: why do sleep researchers care?	3
Internal conflicts and the measurement of evolutionary individuality	3
A contextual approach to hybridization in the twenty-first century: purity, endangered species, and red wolves	3
DNA barcoding and the changing ontological commitments of taxonomy	3
Conceptual revision: how Darwin’s analogy supported his theory	3
One kind of adaptationism	3
Response to critics	3
Is there a need for consensus in aging biology?	3
Delineating dingoes: framing the domestication process as a landscape	3
From depressed mice to depressed patients: a less “standardized” approach to improving translation	2
In praise of animals	2
Mapping profiles of animal affect	2
An account of conserved functions and how biologists use them to integrate cell and evolutionary biology	2
The epistemological and conservation value of biological specimens	2
Which cultural complexity needs cumulative explanation?	2
The two faces of risk	2
Social interdependencies: the deep evolutionary roots of morality and normativity	2
Dosis sola facit venenum: reconceptualising biological realism	2

Precis of A Better Ape	2
Cultural intelligence, shared intentionality and human cognitive uniquenes	2
Humans, the Norm-Breakers	2
Iconic origins of language? An essay review of Steven Mithen’s The Language Puzzle (2024)	2
A more thought-ful ape?	2
Of what is “cellular memory” the name? Perspectives across the life sciences	2
What is social constructionism about race? A reply to Hochman	2
Sex by design: a new account of the animal sexes	2