OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biology & Philosophy 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
What is an animal personality?	53
Unlimited Associative Learning and the origins of consciousness: a primer and some predictions	53
The math is not the territory: navigating the free energy principle	47
Is co-management a double-edged sword in the protected areas of Sundarbans mangrove?	26
Toolmaking and the evolution of normative cognition	25
Unknotting reciprocal causation between organism and environment	23
Assessing measures of animal welfare	22
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the free energy principle in biology	22
Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?	18
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	18
When imprecision is a good thing, or how imprecise concepts facilitate integration in biology	18
Defining the niche for niche construction: evolutionary and ecological niches	18
Out of our skull, in our skin: the Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis	15
Is free-energy minimisation the mark of the cognitive?	14
How to do things with nonwords: pragmatics, biosemantics, and origins of language in animal communication	13
Hutchinson’s ecological niche for individuals	13
Limiting the explanatory scope of extended active inference: the implications of a causal pattern analysis of selective niche construction, developmental niche construction, and organism-niche coordin	12
Broadening the problem agenda of biological individuality: individual differences, uniqueness and temporality	12
What are the major transitions?	12
The living fossil concept: reply to Turner	11
The free energy principle: it’s not about what it takes, it’s about what took you there	11
Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation	11
Free energy: a user’s guide	9
The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness	9
The value of and in novel ecosystem(s)	8

Complex vocal learning and three-dimensional mating environments	8
The learning-consciousness connection	8
A continuum of intentionality: linking the biogenic and anthropogenic approaches to cognition	8
Niche construction and teleology: organisms as agents and contributors in ecology, development, and evolution	8
The evolution of episodic-like memory: the importance of biological and ecological constraints	7
Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition	7
Retiring the “Cinderella view”: the spinal cord as an intrabodily cognitive extension	6
Understanding immunity: an alternative framework beyond defense and strength	6
Positive Wild Animal Welfare	6
Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building	6
Adaptive immunity or evolutionary adaptation? Transgenerational immune systems at the crossroads	6
Learning and the biology of consciousness: a commentary on Birch, Ginsburg, and Jablonka	6
When can cultural selection explain adaptation?	6
Do transposable elements have functions of their very own?	5
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat	5
Is cancer a matter of luck?	5
A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes	5
Evolutionary biology meets consciousness: essay review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul	5
Caring animals and care ethics	5
Causes with material continuity	4
Against the generalised theory of function	4
The proximate-ultimate distinction and the active role of the organism in evolution	4
Natural information, factivity and nomicity	4
Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study	4
Homology thinking reconciles the conceptual conflict between typological and population thinking	4
Biolinguistics and biological systems: a complex systems analysis of language	4
What are ecological mechanisms? Suggestions for a fine-grained description of causal mechanisms in invasion ecology	4
Uniqueness in the life sciences: how did the elephant get its trunk?	4
Teleosemantics and the free energy principle	4
An enactive-developmental systems framing of cognizing systems	4
Social norms and superorganisms	4
Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate	4
Bacterial communication	3
Remembering emotions	3
What is cognitive about ‘plant cognition’?	3
The extra ingredient	3
A universal ethology challenge to the free energy principle: species of inference and good regulators	3
Affordances and organizational functions	3
Two kinds of historical explanation in Evolutionary Biology	3
The gay gene(s)? Rethinking the concept of sexual orientation in the context of science	3
The ‘niche’ in niche-based theorizing: much ado about nothing	3
A relic of design: against proper functions in biology	3
Putting races on the ontological map: a close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race	3
Perceptual awareness or phenomenal consciousness?A dilemma	3
Epistemology and anomaly detection in astrobiology	3
What could cognition be, if not human cognition?: Individuating cognitive abilities in the light of evolution	3
What is foraging?	3
Dosis sola facit venenum: reconceptualising biological realism	3
Reciprocal causation and biological practice	3
Animal sentience and the Capabilities Approach to justice	3

Darwin’s empirical claim and the janiform character of fitness proxies	3
Assessing unlimited associative learning as a transition marker	2
Emotionshaping: a situated perspective on emotionreading	2
Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart	2
Sex by design: a new account of the animal sexes	2
Roles of mitonuclear ecology and sex in conceptualizing evolutionary fitness	2
Caring animals and the ways we wrong them	2
Causal-role myopia and the functional investigation of junk DNA	2
Natural artificiality, niche construction, and the content-open mediation of human behavior	2
An oak is an oak, or not? Understanding and dealing with confusion and disagreement in biological classification	2
Computational indeterminacy and explanations in cognitive science	2
Introduction to niches and mechanisms in ecology and evolution	2
The coordination dilemma for epidemiological modelers	2
Unlimited associative learning and consciousness: further support and some caveats about a link to stress	2
Scaffolds and scaffolding: an explanatory strategy in evolutionary biology	2
Has social constructionism about race outlived its usefulness? Perspectives from a race skeptic	2
The selectionist rationale for evolutionary progress	2
Great ape enculturation studies: a neglected resource in cognitive development research	2
All about levels: transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution	2
Carving the mind at its homologous joints	2
Unlimited associative learning and the origins of consciousness: the missing point of view	2
Attention explains the transition to unlimited associative learning better than consciousness	2
The evolution of complex multicellularity in animals	1
Not by demography alone: Neanderthal extinction and null hypotheses in paleoanthropological explanation	1
Cognitive functions are not reducible to biological ones: the case of minimal visual perception	1
An argument for global realism about the units of selection	1
Unlimited plasticity of embodied, cognitive subjects: a new playground for the UAL framework	1
The struggle for life and adaptation by natural selection	1
Development and microbiology	1
On plants and principles	1
Cleaning, sculpting or preparing? Scientific knowledge in Caitlin Wylie’s preparing dinosaurs	1
(Cat)egory mistake: the invalidity of animal shelter behavior assessments	1
Tools of the trade: the bio-cultural evolution of the human propensity to trade	1
Minimal residual disease: premises before promises	1
Skepticism, the critical standpoint, and the origin of birds: a partial critique of Havstad and Smith (2019)	1
What basic emotions really are: modularity, motivation, and behavioral variability	1
Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective	1
Better models of the evolution of cooperation through situated cognition	1
In praise of animals	1
Emergentism in the biological framework: the case of fitness	1
An account of conserved functions and how biologists use them to integrate cell and evolutionary biology	1
Cooperation, correlation and the evolutionary dominance of tag-based strategies	1
Does the study of facilitation require a revision of the Hutchinsonian niche concept?	1
Standard aberration: cancer biology and the modeling account of normal function	1
Neutral and niche theory in community ecology: a framework for comparing model realism	1
Hypothesis-driven science in large-scale studies: the case of GWAS	1
Gradualism, natural selection, and the randomness of mutation–fisher, Kimura, and Orr, connecting the dots	1
DNA barcoding and the changing ontological commitments of taxonomy	1
Higher level constructive neutral evolution	1
Demographic explanations of neanderthal extinction: a reply to Currie and Meneganzin	1
Bargaining and descriptive content: prospects for a teleosemantic ethics	1
The evolution of multispecies populations: a multilevel selection perspective	1
A critical review of plant sentience: moving beyond traditional approaches	1
Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms	1
Everything in moderation or moderating everything? Nutrient balancing in the context of evolution and cancer metabolism	1
The integrative approach to inferring homology: morphology and development combined	1