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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures	58
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	22
Assessing measures of animal welfare	20
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the free energy principle in biology	20
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
Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?	18
A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms	17
Narrative niche construction: memory ecologies and distributed narrative identities	16
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
What are the major transitions?	12
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
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
Zoocentrism in the weeds? Cultivating plant models for cognitive yield	11
Broadening the problem agenda of biological individuality: individual differences, uniqueness and temporality	10

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 arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness	8
Complex vocal learning and three-dimensional mating environments	8
The learning-consciousness connection	8
Free energy: a user’s guide	7
Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition	7
The evolution of episodic-like memory: the importance of biological and ecological constraints	6
Learning and the biology of consciousness: a commentary on Birch, Ginsburg, and Jablonka	6
Understanding immunity: an alternative framework beyond defense and strength	6
The value of and in novel ecosystem(s)	6
Retiring the “Cinderella view”: the spinal cord as an intrabodily cognitive extension	6
Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building	6
Positive Wild Animal Welfare	6
When can cultural selection explain adaptation?	5
Is cancer a matter of luck?	5
On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat	5
Caring animals and care ethics	5
Evolutionary biology meets consciousness: essay review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul	5
A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes	5
Do transposable elements have functions of their very own?	5
Adaptive immunity or evolutionary adaptation? Transgenerational immune systems at the crossroads	5
Homology thinking reconciles the conceptual conflict between typological and population thinking	4
Teleosemantics and the free energy principle	4
An enactive-developmental systems framing of cognizing systems	4
What are ecological mechanisms? Suggestions for a fine-grained description of causal mechanisms in invasion ecology	4
Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study	4
Against the generalised theory of function	4
Biolinguistics and biological systems: a complex systems analysis of language	4
Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate	4
Uniqueness in the life sciences: how did the elephant get its trunk?	4
Causes with material continuity	4
The proximate-ultimate distinction and the active role of the organism in evolution	4
Social norms and superorganisms	4