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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
What’s in a name? From “fluctuation fit” to “conformational selection”: rediscovery of a concept	27
Were Huxley’s social views constituted by his biological work, and vice versa? Progress, perfection, & social values in Julian Huxley’s biological worldview	25
Between hoping to die and longing to live longer	20
Animal research unbound: The messiness of the moral and the ethnographer’s dilemma	18
Blood and plasma donors during the COVID-19 pandemic: arguments against financial stimulation	18
Planer R. J. & Sterelny K., From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 276 pp	15
Robert E. Kohler, Inside Science: Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019, 264 pp., $35.00	14
Embodied cognition and the imaging of bio-pathologies: the question of experiential primacy in detecting diagnostic phenomena	14
Under the spell of SARS-CoV-2: A closer look at the sociopolitical dynamics	13
Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019, 400 pp., $40.00 (paper)/$120.00	12
Seeing clearly through COVID-19: current and future questions for the history and philosophy of the life sciences	11
Who's afraid of epigenetics? Habits, instincts, and Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory	11
The holobiont self: understanding immunity in context	11
Malin Ah-King, The female turn. How evolutionary science shifted perceptions about females, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022	11
Values in evolutionary biology: a comparison between the contemporary debate on organic progress and Canguilhem’s biological philosophy	10
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	10
Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge	10
Laboratory animal strain mobilities: handling with care for animal sentience and biosecurity	10
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	9
Circulating bodies: human-animal movements in science and medicine	9
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system	9
Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits?	8
Matthew’s (1915) climate and evolution, the “New York School of Biogeography”, and the rise and fall of “Holarcticism”	8
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	8
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	8

David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	8
The legacy of the fieldwork of E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman in Mexico (1892–1906) for research on poorly known mammals	8
Finding value-ladenness in evolutionary psychology: Examining Nelson’s arguments	7
Aging biomarkers and the measurement of health and risk	7
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	7
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare	7
Is Wilson’s religion Durkheim’s, or Hobbes’s Leviathan?	6
Of rats and children: plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930)	6
Can science help discover the nature of well-being?	6
Darwin’s “horrid” doubt, in context	6
Ben Bradley, Darwin’s psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020	6
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	6
Ateleological propagation in Goethe’s Metamorphosis of plants	6
Correction to: John N. Prebble, searching for a mechanism. A history of cell bioenergetics	6
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	6
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–1909	6
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	6
“Havens of mercy”: health, medical research, and the governance of the movement of dogs in twentieth-century America	6
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy	6
The machine-organism relation revisited	5
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	5
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	5
Genuine versus bogus scientific controversies: the case of statins	5
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	5
Mathias Grote, Membranes to molecular machines: active matter and the remaking of life, The University of Chicago Press, 2019	5
Attention: a descriptive taxonomy	5
Empirical assumptions behind the violation of expectation experiments in human and non-human animals	5
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care	5
Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability	5
Mechanisms of macromolecular reactions	4
Question-driven stepwise experimental discoveries in biochemistry: two case studies	4
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	4
When remediating one artifact results in another: control, confounders, and correction	4
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality	4
Pierre M. Durand, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2021	4
Covid-19 and the need for more history and philosophy of RNA	4
The road from evidence to policies and the erosion of the standards of democratic scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information	4
“Un-Promethean” science and the future of humanity: Heidegger’s warning	3
Can aging research generate a theory of health?	3
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review	3
Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool?	3
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness	3
Games and genes: human diversity meets cytogenetics—Mexico 1968	3
Medical toolkit organisms and Covid-19	3
Loneliness and negative effects on mental health as trade-offs of the policy response to COVID-19	3
“Batesonian Mendelism” and “Pearsonian biometry”: shedding new light on the controversy between William Bateson and Karl Pearson	3
The discovery of archaea: from observed anomaly to consequential restructuring of the phylogenetic tree	3
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	3
Natural selection according to Darwin: cause or effect?	3

Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: science and epistemic humility should go together	3
The hatching of consciousness	2
Correction to: From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life	2
Epidemiological models and COVID-19: a comparative view	2
How political philosophies can help to discuss and differentiate theories in community ecology	2
Bernd Rosslenbroich, Properties of life. Toward a theory of organismic biology. Vienna series in theoretical biology, 2023, The MIT Press, 326 Pages, ISBN 9780262546201 (Paperback)	2
Humboldt, Darwin, and theory of evolution	2
Overlooked contributions of Ayurveda literature to the history of physiology of digestion and metabolism	2
Correction to: “Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents	2
Normative implications of postgenomic deterministic narratives: the case study of epigenetic harm	2
Science, misinformation and digital technology during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
A strategy to what end? “The strategy of model building in population biology” in its programmatic context	2
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises	2
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia	2
The life sciences and the history of analytic philosophy	2
Ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic: age-based discrimination in triage decisions and beyond	2
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	2
A work in progress: William Bateson’s vibratory theory of repetition of parts	2
Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder: from modeling syndromes to modeling endophenotypes	2
Sterelny, Kim. The Pleistocene Social Contract. New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. xi + 200 pp.	2
Constraint-based reasoning in cell biology: on the explanatory role of context	2
Science communication: challenges and dilemmas in the age of COVID-19	2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2
Correction to: Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	2
COVID-19, immunoprivilege and structural inequalities	1
History, philosophy, and science education: reflections on genetics 20 years after the human genome project	1
Jacob Stegenga, Care & Cure. An introduction to philosophy of medicine, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2018, 288 pp.	1
Correction to: Darwin’s perception of nature and the question of disenchantment: a semantic analysis across the six editions of On the Origin of Species	1
Jimena Canales, Bedeviled: a shadow history of demons in science, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020	1
Croizat’s dangerous ideas: practices, prejudices, and politics in contemporary biogeography	1
Cristian Saborido, Filosofía de la Medicina, Madrid: Tecnos, 2020	1
Reevaluating the grandmother hypothesis	1
The essentialism of early modern psychiatric nosology	1
Von Baer, the intensification of uniqueness, and historical explanation	1
Obesogenic vs. fatphobic: an examination of environment in relation to fatness	1
Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	1
How disinformation kills: philosophical challenges in the post-Covid society	1
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021	1
Kraepelin’s psychiatry in the pragmatic age	1
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	1
Health as temporally extended: theoretical foundations and implications	1
Georg Striedter, Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022	1
From the harmony to the tension: Helmuth Plessner and Kurt Goldstein’s readings of Jakob von Uexküll	1
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research	1
Covid-19 and ageing: four alternative conceptual frameworks	1
Claude Bernard’s non reception of Darwinism	1
On diversity of human-nature relationships in environmental sciences and its implications for the management of ecological crisis	1
What are the COVID-19 models modeling (philosophically speaking)?	1
Making policy decisions under plural uncertainty: responding to the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Jeffry L. Ramsey, Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science, New York: Routledge, 2024	1
Controlling systems and controlling legacies: Barbara McClintock’s 1961 conversation with two bacterial geneticists	1
COVID-19 and the problem of clinical knowledge	1
The concepts and origins of cell mortality	1
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences	1
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	1
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users	1
Mouse avatars of human cancers: the temporality of translation in precision oncology	1
The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review	1
Making kangaroos grievable; making grievability non-human	1
A hapless mathematical contribution to biology	1
kerry lynn macintosh, Enhanced beings: human germline modification and the law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018	1
Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded	1
On evidence fiascos and judgments in COVID-19 policy	1
Ross L. Jones, Anatomists of Empire: race, evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World, North Melbourne: australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020	1
Flattening the curve is flattening the complexity of covid-19	1
Janina Wellmann, The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760–1830 (translated by Kate Sturge). New York: Zone Books, 2017, 432 pp. ISBN: 978–1-935,408–76-5	1
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”	1
Philipp Fischer, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Christoph Hoffmann, Hans Hofmann, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Hannes Rickli, Natures of Data: A Discussion Between Biology, History and Philosophy of Science and Ar	1
Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963	1
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	1
Seeking the first phylogenetic method–Edvard A. Vainio (1853–1929) and his troubled endeavour towards a natural lichen classification in the late nineteenth century Finland	1
The molecular vista: current perspectives on molecules and life in the twentieth century	1
A. S. Barwich, Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020	1
Justin Garson, What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019	1
Life’s organization between matter and form: Neo-Aristotelian approaches and biosemiotics	1
Michel Morange: The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020	1
Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	1
The time of one's life: views of aging and age group justice	1
A tale of two cities: emotion and reason in the formation of moral judgement and possible metaethical implications	1