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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?	38
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	26
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	14
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	12
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information	11
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	11
Forms of life: a literary formalist view on biological individuality	10
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care	10
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality	9
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson	9
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research	9
Michel Morange: The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020	7
The machine-organism relation revisited	7
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	6
Interactions at sea: on the microbiome life-cycle and biogeochemical processes	6
Valuating marine knowledge: Heterogeneous collaborations at the Concarneau marine station	6
Two logics of experiment in biology & medicine: mechanistic/pathway versus populational	6
“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology	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	5
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin—the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021	5
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences	5
Making kangaroos grievable; making grievability non-human	5
Correction: Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	5

Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	5
Ediacaran enigma: uncertainty and underdetermination in precambrian paleontology	4
The historical transformation of individual concepts into populational ones: an explanatory shift in the gestation of the modern synthesis	4
Thinking in 3 dimensions: philosophies of the microenvironment in organoids and organs-on-chip	4
Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution	4
The enactive naturalization of normativity: from self-maintenance to situated interactions	4
Practicing virology: making and knowing a mid-twentieth century experiment with Tobacco mosaic virus	4
Health as temporally extended: theoretical foundations and implications	4
The modern synthesis and “Progress” in evolution: a view from the journal literature	4
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature	3
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences	3
Hawks, Doves, and Perissodus microlepis. Undermining the selected effects theory of function	3
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography	3
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	3
Claude Bernard and life in the laboratory	3
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: a visionary in controversy	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
Race realism goes both ways	3
Philia: the biological foundations of Aristotle’s ethics	3
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill	3
Peter Adkins (ed.), Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024	3
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–1961	3
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture	3
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research	2
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy	2
Postgenomic understandings of fatness and metabolism	2
Paris or Berlin? Claude Bernard’s rivalry with Emil du Bois-Reymond	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
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution	2
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users	2
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century	2
Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history	2
Sherrie L. Lyons, From Cells to Organisms: Re-envisioning Cell Theory, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020	2
Does randomization assert the balance across trial arms? Revisiting Worrall’s criticism	2
Kathryn Nave, A drive to survive: the free energy principle and the meaning of life, The MIT Press, 2025.	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
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	2
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness	2
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021	2
Environmental valuation and knowledge production in Swedish marine and water management	2
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia	2
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	2
Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution	2
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018	2
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	2
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”	2