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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	35
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	22
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–1909	16
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	13
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system	12
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	11
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information	11
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	10
Correction to: “Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents	10
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	10
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality	8
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care	6
Michel Morange: The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020	6
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	6
The machine-organism relation revisited	6
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	6
Forms of life: a literary formalist view on biological individuality	6
Interactions at sea: on the microbiome life-cycle and biogeochemical processes	6
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin—the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021	5
Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded	5
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences	5
Health as temporally extended: theoretical foundations and implications	5
Correction: Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	5
Two logics of experiment in biology & medicine: mechanistic/pathway versus populational	5
The historical transformation of individual concepts into populational ones: an explanatory shift in the gestation of the modern synthesis	5

Kostas Kampourakis & Tobias Uller (eds.), Philosophy of Science for Biologists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020	5
Valuating marine knowledge: Heterogeneous collaborations at the Concarneau marine station	5
The enactive naturalization of normativity: from self-maintenance to situated interactions	4
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: a visionary in controversy	4
Practicing virology: making and knowing a mid-twentieth century experiment with Tobacco mosaic virus	4
Can populations be healthy? Perspectives from Georges Canguilhem and Geoffrey Rose	4
“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology	4
The modern synthesis and “Progress” in evolution: a view from the journal literature	4
Making kangaroos grievable; making grievability non-human	4
Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution	4
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences	3
Philia: the biological foundations of Aristotle’s ethics	3
Hawks, Doves, and Perissodus microlepis. Undermining the selected effects theory of function	3
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature	3
Peter Adkins (ed.), Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024	3
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	3
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill	3
Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory	3
Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip	3
Ediacaran enigma: uncertainty and underdetermination in precambrian paleontology	3
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	2
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	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
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
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	2
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	2
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	2
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research	2
Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy	2
Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963	2
Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	2
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	2
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	2
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	2
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness	2
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users	2
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”	2
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021	2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2
Race realism goes both ways	2
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises	1
The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review	1
Ancestry inferences from DNA testing results: The problem of sociogenetic essentialism	1
Claude Bernard’s non reception of Darwinism	1
Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account	1
Correction to: Editorial introduction: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality	1
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research	1
Collecting human remains in nineteenth-century Paris: the case of the Société Anatomique de Paris and the Musée Dupuytren	1
Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life	1

Medawar and Hamilton on the selective forces in the evolution of ageing	1
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy	1
In search of the microbial path to Terroir: a place-based history of the ecologization of French cheese microbiology, 1990–2000s	1
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	1
Narratives in exposomics: A reversed heuristic determinism?	1
Rethinking the history of peptic ulcer disease and its relevance for network epistemology	1
William Bechtel & Linus Ta-Lun Huang, Philosophy of neuroscience, 2022. Cambridge University Press	1
Listening to placebos: the contested lessons of antidepressants debates	1
Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool?	1
Romanticizing evolutionary biology	1
Understanding organisms by intuiting life: Kant, Goethe, and Steiner	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
Pierre-Olivier Méthot (ed.), Philosophy, history and biology: essays in honour of Jean Gayon, Cham: Springer Verlag, 2023	1
Planer R. J. & Sterelny K., From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 276 pp	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
From the ports to the hinterland. Plague, bacteriology, and politics in Argentina (1899–1940)	1
Empirical vitalism: observing an organism’s formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object	1
Descriptive understanding and prediction in COVID-19 modelling	1
Francesca Michelini & Kristian Köchy (eds.), Jakob von Uexküll and philosophy: life, environments, anthropology, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020	1
Sherrie L. Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020	1
Do corals dream of simulated seas?	1
From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life	1
Correction to: Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	1
Sorting sex, controlling sex: Masui Kiyoshi’s chicken research and experimental system, 1915–1950	1
Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge	1
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review	1
“Batesonian Mendelism” and “Pearsonian biometry”: shedding new light on the controversy between William Bateson and Karl Pearson	1
Jeffry L. Ramsey, Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science, New York: Routledge, 2024	1
Rethinking the history of microbiology: new actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecologies	1
Homeorhesis: envisaging the logic of life trajectories in molecular research on trauma and its effects	1
Five common misconceptions regarding flattening-the-curve of COVID-19	1
Does randomization assert the balance across trial arms? Revisiting Worrall’s criticism	1
Reappraising Claude Bernard’s legacy: an introduction	1
Biological constraints as norms in evolution	1
Inferential schema in Akkadian diagnosis: the case of Ah̬h̬$$\bar{a}$$zu	1
Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history	1
From genetic to postgenomic determinisms: The role of the environment reconsidered	1
Postgenomic understandings of fatness and metabolism	1
Do heritable immune responses extend physiological individuality?	1
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy	1
Re-situations of scientific knowledge: a case study of a skirmish over clusters vs clines in human population genomics	1
“The nodules are alive and well on the sea floor”: deep ocean minerals, invertebrate traces, and multispecies histories of abyssal environments	1
Contrasting Narratives of Race and Fatness in Covid-19	1
A tale of two cities: emotion and reason in the formation of moral judgement and possible metaethical implications	1