OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biology & Philosophy is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart	58
Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective	47
Epistemic enhancement, pastism, and fossil anomalies in paleontology and ichnology	36
Biological functions and dysfunctions: a selected dispositions approach	23
Animal metasemantics	15
Molecular-biological machines: a defense	15
What is ‘natural’ about naturalistic neuroscience?	13
Justifying nature-based solutions	13
The integrative approach to inferring homology: morphology and development combined	11
What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework	10
Exploration and perspectival modelling with model organisms: developmental biology as a case study	10
The foundations of bet hedging	10
How to balance conceptual unity and plurality: the case of the individualized niche concept	10
A commitment account of norm externalisation	9
An even better ape? Comments on a better ape	9
Empirical adaptationism revisited: is it testable and is it worth testing?	9
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat	9
Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms	8
Making sense of ‘genetic programs’: biomolecular Post–Newell production systems	8
Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study	7
Teaching and the origin of the normativity	7
Putting races on the ontological map: a close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race	7
What is foraging?	7
Proper functions: etiology without typehood	7
Can a marker approach exclude?	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
Populations, individuals, and biological race	6
Livability and non-human organisms	6
The dual role of sensory systems: reporting on stimuli and affordances	6
Neutral and niche theory in community ecology: a framework for comparing model realism	6
How to relate major transitions in life and cognition?	6
Critical reflections on sex eliminativism	6
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	6
All about levels: transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution	6
The arts and human nature: evolutionary aesthetics and the evolutionary role of australopithecines’ mother–infant interactions	6
An argument for global realism about the units of selection	6
Developing the structure of laws in biology	6
A co-constitutive analysis of individuation: three case studies from the biological sciences	6
Positive Wild Animal Welfare	6
What could cognition be, if not human cognition?: Individuating cognitive abilities in the light of evolution	6
Cultural evolution beyond the individual: what human collective knowledge adds to high fidelity copying	5
Gaia: the Earth is an organism (not a Darwinian individual)	5
Beyond reduction and emergence: a framework for tailoring multiscale modeling techniques to specific contexts	5
Cleaning, sculpting or preparing? Scientific knowledge in Caitlin Wylie’s preparing dinosaurs	5
Assessing measures of animal welfare	5
A personal tribute to Frans De Waal (1948–2024), who inspired the philosophy of animal minds	5