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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	27
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	24
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–1909	20
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system	15
Physical explanations in evolutionary biology	12
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	12
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	11
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	10
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	8
Operationism in psychology: an epistemology of exploration by Uljana Feest, 2025, The University of Chicago Press	7
Forms of life: a literary formalist view on biological individuality	7
The machine-organism relation revisited	7
Mound builders, mound blunders: mythmaking in nineteenth century American archaeology	7
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care	7
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	6
Charles Pence, Integrative promise: explanatory virtues in biology, Springer (Synthese Library), 2025	6
Two logics of experiment in biology & medicine: mechanistic/pathway versus populational	6
Valuating marine knowledge: Heterogeneous collaborations at the Concarneau marine station	6
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	6
Early transitions in the evolution of cognition	6
Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine	5
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences	5
Interactions at sea: on the microbiome life-cycle and biogeochemical processes	5
Kostas Kampourakis & Tobias Uller (eds.), Philosophy of Science for Biologists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020	5
Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded	4

Kersten T. Hall, Insulin—the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021	4
Joachim H. Mowitz and Arno L. Goudsmit: Movements of Form	4
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature	4
The historical transformation of individual concepts into populational ones: an explanatory shift in the gestation of the modern synthesis	4
Correction: Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	4
The modern synthesis and “Progress” in evolution: a view from the journal literature	4
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill	4
Ediacaran enigma: uncertainty and underdetermination in precambrian paleontology	4
“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology	4
Health as temporally extended: theoretical foundations and implications	4
Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip	4
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences	4
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
Embracing environmental DNA? How values influence the integration of a new technology into an oceanographic expedition	3
Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory	3
Hawks, Doves, and Perissodus microlepis. Undermining the selected effects theory of function	3
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	3
Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution	3
What was really wrong (and right) with vitalism? Methodological naturalism, organicism and immaterialist theories in biology	3
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	3
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”	2
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	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
The experimental psychology behind coordination	2
Race realism goes both ways	2
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	2
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	2
Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy	2
Georges Canguilhem on sex determination and the normativity of life	2
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy	2
Kathryn Nave, A drive to survive: the free energy principle and the meaning of life, The MIT Press, 2025.	2
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021	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
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	2
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	2
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia	2
Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	2
Reframing the significance of menstruation: evolutionary insights from an organismal-relational perspective	2
Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history	2
Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond	2
Postgenomic understandings of fatness and metabolism	2
Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963	2
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research	2
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness	2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	2
Regulation in ecological systems: an overview	2
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	2

From the ports to the hinterland. Plague, bacteriology, and politics in Argentina (1899–1940)	2
Environmental valuation and knowledge production in Swedish marine and water management	2
Correction to: Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	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
Romanticizing evolutionary biology	1
From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life	1
Natural selection no vera causa? Bradley (2022) as a new emanation of an old dichotomy	1
The Kantian background of Uexküll’s notions of time and space	1
“The nodules are alive and well on the sea floor”: deep ocean minerals, invertebrate traces, and multispecies histories of abyssal environments	1
Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	1
Ancestry inferences from DNA testing results: The problem of sociogenetic essentialism	1
Rewilding: history, intervention and the quest for immanence	1
Claude Bernard’s non reception of Darwinism	1
Collecting human remains in nineteenth-century Paris: the case of the Société Anatomique de Paris and the Musée Dupuytren	1
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises	1
Do heritable immune responses extend physiological individuality?	1
Two kinds of evolutionary individuals: the concept of common interest as an evolutionary foundation of dualism on biological individuality	1
Narratives in exposomics: A reversed heuristic determinism?	1
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research	1
In search of the microbial path to Terroir: a place-based history of the ecologization of French cheese microbiology, 1990–2000s	1
Correction: Regulation in ecological systems: an overview	1
A tale of two cities: emotion and reason in the formation of moral judgement and possible metaethical implications	1
Inferential schema in Akkadian diagnosis: the case of Ah̬h̬$$\bar{a}$$zu	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
The DSM validation method and its decision points: value judgments, metaphysical presuppositions, and validators	1
The concepts and origins of cell mortality	1
Measurement under uncertainty: theory-measurement relations in early electrophysiological research	1
Sentience in the history of early plant physiology: Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle’s contribution	1
Empirical vitalism: observing an organism’s formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object	1
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review	1
From genetic to postgenomic determinisms: The role of the environment reconsidered	1
Rethinking the history of microbiology: new actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecologies	1
Listening to placebos: the contested lessons of antidepressants debates	1
Creative environmental engineering’ and the cost of environmental claims: legitimisation of tire artificial reefs by us federal scientists in 1960s–1970s	1
Understanding organisms by intuiting life: Kant, Goethe, and Steiner	1
Reappraising Claude Bernard’s legacy: an introduction	1
Correction to: Editorial introduction: Biomedicine and life sciences as a challenge to human temporality	1
Pierre-Olivier Méthot (ed.), Philosophy, history and biology: essays in honour of Jean Gayon, Cham: Springer Verlag, 2023	1
Francesca Michelini & Kristian Köchy (eds.), Jakob von Uexküll and philosophy: life, environments, anthropology, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020	1
Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool?	1
Jeffry L. Ramsey, Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science, New York: Routledge, 2024	1
Do corals dream of simulated seas?	1
“Batesonian Mendelism” and “Pearsonian biometry”: shedding new light on the controversy between William Bateson and Karl Pearson	1