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 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