OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is 2. 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
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	12
Physical explanations in evolutionary biology	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
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
Operationism in psychology: an epistemology of exploration by Uljana Feest, 2025, The University of Chicago Press	7
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
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	6
Charles Pence, Integrative promise: explanatory virtues in biology, Springer (Synthese Library), 2025	6
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
Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine	5
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
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
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
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
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
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