OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology & Philosophy is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Unlimited associative learning and the origins of consciousness: the missing point of view	47
Unlimited plasticity of embodied, cognitive subjects: a new playground for the UAL framework	29
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	26
Higher level constructive neutral evolution	26
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the free energy principle in biology	23
Ecosystem health and malfunctions: an organisational perspective	22
Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective	18
Unlimited associative learning and consciousness: further support and some caveats about a link to stress	18
Niche construction and teleology: organisms as agents and contributors in ecology, development, and evolution	16
The math is not the territory: navigating the free energy principle	15
Roles of mitonuclear ecology and sex in conceptualizing evolutionary fitness	14
Humans, the Norm-Breakers	13
Epistemic enhancement, pastism, and fossil anomalies in paleontology and ichnology	12
A more thought-ful ape?	12
Commitment: From Hunting to Promising	12
The evolution of reproductive characters: an organismal-relational approach	11
All about levels: transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution	11
Behavioural ecology of sexual autonomy and the case of protection against risky courtship	10
Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate	9
Introduction to niches and mechanisms in ecology and evolution	9
Caring animals and care ethics	9
A co-constitutive analysis of individuation: three case studies from the biological sciences	8
Is free-energy minimisation the mark of the cognitive?	8
The gay gene(s)? Rethinking the concept of sexual orientation in the context of science	8
Defining the niche for niche construction: evolutionary and ecological niches	8

Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart	7
Out of our skull, in our skin: the Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis	7
Broadening the problem agenda of biological individuality: individual differences, uniqueness and temporality	6
Gradualism, natural selection, and the randomness of mutation–fisher, Kimura, and Orr, connecting the dots	6
Is co-management a double-edged sword in the protected areas of Sundarbans mangrove?	6
Phylogenetically distant animals sleep: why do sleep researchers care?	6
Cognitive functions are not reducible to biological ones: the case of minimal visual perception	6
Response to critics	6
Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition	5
What basic emotions really are: modularity, motivation, and behavioral variability	5
Bacterial communication	5
Hypothesis-driven science in large-scale studies: the case of GWAS	5
The selectionist rationale for evolutionary progress	5
Molecular-biological machines: a defense	4
Not by demography alone: Neanderthal extinction and null hypotheses in paleoanthropological explanation	4
Biological functions and dysfunctions: a selected dispositions approach	4
The learning-consciousness connection	4
When can cultural selection explain adaptation?	4
An oak is an oak, or not? Understanding and dealing with confusion and disagreement in biological classification	4
Exo-autopoietic bodies: the quest for the theoretical identity of living beings	4
Interventionism as a dangerously anthropocentric concept	4
Has social constructionism about race outlived its usefulness? Perspectives from a race skeptic	4
When should researchers cite study differences in response to a failure to replicate?	4
Frogs recognize prey: a causal-behavioral teleosemantics	4
Emotionshaping: a situated perspective on emotionreading	4
A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes	4