OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	32
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system	28
What’s in a name? From “fluctuation fit” to “conformational selection”: rediscovery of a concept	23
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	20
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–1909	20
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	15
The machine-organism relation revisited	14
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information	12
Correction to: “Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents	11
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality	11
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	11
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	11
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care	10
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	10
Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: science and epistemic humility should go together	9
Michel Morange: The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020	8
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences	7
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	6
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	6
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin—the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021	6
The enactive naturalization of normativity: from self-maintenance to situated interactions	6
Kostas Kampourakis & Tobias Uller (eds.), Philosophy of Science for Biologists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020	6
The historical transformation of individual concepts into populational ones: an explanatory shift in the gestation of the modern synthesis	6
“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology	6
Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded	6

Correction: Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	6
Health as temporally extended: theoretical foundations and implications	6
Can populations be healthy? Perspectives from Georges Canguilhem and Geoffrey Rose	6
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: a visionary in controversy	5
Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip	5
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill	5
Beyond the limit: carrying capacity (K) and the holism/reductionism debate	5
Practicing virology: making and knowing a mid-twentieth century experiment with Tobacco mosaic virus	5
Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution	5
Making kangaroos grievable; making grievability non-human	5
The modern synthesis and “Progress” in evolution: a view from the journal literature	5
Philia: the biological foundations of Aristotle’s ethics	5
Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory	4
Kōzai Toyoko . Shutō to iu "eisei": Kinsei Nihon ni okeru yobō sesshu no rekishi [The Road to Immunization: A History of Smallpox in Early Modern	4
Hawks, Doves, and Perissodus microlepis. Undermining the selected effects theory of function	4
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences	4
Cycles and circulation: a theme in the history of biology and medicine	4
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature	4
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	4
Peter Adkins (ed.), Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024	4
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	3
Race realism goes both ways	3
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	3
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	3
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare	3
Pierre M. Durand, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2021	3
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	3
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	3
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	3
A. S. Barwich, Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020	2
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”	2
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia	2
Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond	2
Croizat’s dangerous ideas: practices, prejudices, and politics in contemporary biogeography	2
Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19	2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2
Death in advance or people living with dementia? Extending the philosophical discourse of Schweda and Jongsma through the persistence of self and other strengths	2
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research	2
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, When Maps become the World, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020	2
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	2
Reevaluating the grandmother hypothesis	2
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021	2
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	2
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness	2
Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	2
Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963	2
Postgenomic understandings of fatness and metabolism	2
Metaphors as models: Towards a typology of metaphor in ancient science	2
Does randomization assert the balance across trial arms? Revisiting Worrall’s criticism	2
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users	2

Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy	1
A tale of two cities: emotion and reason in the formation of moral judgement and possible metaethical implications	1
Sorting sex, controlling sex: Masui Kiyoshi’s chicken research and experimental system, 1915–1950	1
Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account	1
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises	1
Homeorhesis: envisaging the logic of life trajectories in molecular research on trauma and its effects	1
Francesca Michelini & Kristian Köchy (eds.), Jakob von Uexküll and philosophy: life, environments, anthropology, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020	1
Credibility and evidence in the handling of SARS-CoV-2	1
Contrasting Narratives of Race and Fatness in Covid-19	1
Rethinking the history of peptic ulcer disease and its relevance for network epistemology	1
The concepts and origins of cell mortality	1
Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	1
COVID-19 and the selection problem in national cause-of-death statistics	1
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review	1
Correction to: Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	1
From the ports to the hinterland. Plague, bacteriology, and politics in Argentina (1899–1940)	1
Do heritable immune responses extend physiological individuality?	1
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research	1
Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life	1
Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history	1
Romanticizing evolutionary biology	1
Listening to placebos: the contested lessons of antidepressants debates	1
Pierre-Olivier Méthot (ed.), Philosophy, history and biology: essays in honour of Jean Gayon, Cham: Springer Verlag, 2023	1
Ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic: age-based discrimination in triage decisions and beyond	1
Five common misconceptions regarding flattening-the-curve of COVID-19	1
Correction to: Editorial introduction: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality	1
Claude Bernard’s non reception of Darwinism	1
Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic borders: Transpacific plant and insect migration and the rise of anti-Asian racism in America, 1890–1950, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2022	1
Empirical vitalism: observing an organism’s formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object	1
The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review	1
Correction to: Darwin’s “horrid” doubt, in context	1
Cristian Saborido, Filosofía de la Medicina, Madrid: Tecnos, 2020	1
Narratives in exposomics: A reversed heuristic determinism?	1
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy	1
Biological constraints as norms in evolution	1
Rethinking ageing: introduction	1
Sherrie L. Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020	1
From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life	1
“The nodules are alive and well on the sea floor”: deep ocean minerals, invertebrate traces, and multispecies histories of abyssal environments	1
Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool?	1
Collecting human remains in nineteenth-century Paris: the case of the Société Anatomique de Paris and the Musée Dupuytren	1
“Batesonian Mendelism” and “Pearsonian biometry”: shedding new light on the controversy between William Bateson and Karl Pearson	1
Taxon names and varieties of reference	1
From genetic to postgenomic determinisms: The role of the environment reconsidered	1
Jeffry L. Ramsey, Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science, New York: Routledge, 2024	1
Reappraising Claude Bernard’s legacy: an introduction	1
Re-situations of scientific knowledge: a case study of a skirmish over clusters vs clines in human population genomics	1
Medawar and Hamilton on the selective forces in the evolution of ageing	1
In search of the microbial path to Terroir: a place-based history of the ecologization of French cheese microbiology, 1990–2000s	1
Planer R. J. & Sterelny K., From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 276 pp	1
William Bechtel & Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Philosophy of neuroscience, 2022. Cambridge University Press	1
Seeing clearly through COVID-19: current and future questions for the history and philosophy of the life sciences	1
Descriptive understanding and prediction in COVID-19 modelling	1