OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theory in Biosciences 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rethinking some roots of ecosystem approach in aquatic ecology: between the food cycle and lake metabolism	16
Thermodynamic principles for system biology and the patterns of flower pigmentation	15
Optimal harvesting and stability of a predator–prey model for fish populations with schooling behavior	12
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of structured populations in periodically fluctuating environments: a G function approach	10
Investigation of memory influences on bio-heat responses of skin tissue due to various thermal conditions	10
Clustering systems of phylogenetic networks	9
Pattern formation features might explain homoplasy: fertile surfaces in higher fungi as an example	9
Spaces of mathematical chemistry	9
A new symbiotic, holistic and gradualist model proposal for the concept of “living organism”	8
Understanding the photosynthesis in relation to climate change in grapevines	8
The essence of life revisited: how theories can shed light on it	8
The limits of the mathematization of the living and the idea of formal morphology of the living world following Husserlian phenomenology	8
Forbidden codon combinations in error-detecting circular codes	8
Descriptive versus causal morphology: gynandromorphism and intersexuality	8
MLACNN: an attention mechanism-based CNN architecture for predicting genome-wide DNA methylation	7
Mathematics of life spaces: continuation of the 2018 large dimensions course	7
Symmetrical distributions of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases during the evolution of the genetic code	7
Postmortem communication	6
Hypothesis: bacteria live on the edge of phase transitions with a cell cycle regulated by a water-clock	5
Do concepts of individuality account for individuation practices in studies of host–parasite systems? A modeling account of biological individuality	5
Mathematical analysis of a modified Volterra-Leslie chemostat Model	5
Radioresistance and radiosensitivity: a biophysical approach on bacterial cells robustness	4
Network representation and analysis of energy coupling mechanisms in cellular metabolism by a graph-theoretical approach	4
Second-order division in sectors as a prepattern for sensory organs in vertebrate development	4
On combinatorial and biofunctional symmetries hidden in polynucleotide sequences	4

Methodological notes on pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 research	4
The bubble theory: exploring the transition from first replicators to cells and viruses in a landscape-based scenario	4
Rethinking life and predicting its origin	4
Information transmission in a two-step cascade: interplay of activation and repression	3
Dynamics of neural fields with exponential temporal kernel	3
Application of network pharmacology in synergistic action of Chinese herbal compounds	3
How much biology is in the product? Role and relevance of biological evolution and function for bio-inspired design	3
An epidemic dynamics model with limited isolation capacity	3
Stationary distribution and density function analysis of SVIS epidemic model with saturated incidence and vaccination under stochastic environments	3
Delay induced interaction of humoral- and cell-mediated immune responses with cancer	3
Consciousness, decision making, and volition: freedom beyond chance and necessity	3
Geometry and symmetry in biochemical reaction systems	3
Wartime forced sex as a male mating strategy	2
A computational investigation of cis-gene regulation in evolution	2
Self-similarity and the maximum entropy principle in the genetic code	2
Molecular characterization of chilli leaf curl Ahmedabad virus: homology modelling and evaluation of viral proteins interacting with host protein SnRK1 and docking against flavonoids—an in silico appr	2
Goethe and Candolle: National forms of scientific writing?	2
A life dedicated to research and ideal: Johannes Müller between empirical universality and idealistic vitalism mirrored in lecture notes from 1851	2
Innovations are disproportionately likely in the periphery of a scientific network	2
Editorial	2
The shadow of “the Eclipse of Darwinism”: the problem of evolutionary mechanisms in Republican China, 1910s–1930s	2
A biosemiotic interpretation of certain genital morphological structures in the spiders Dysdera erythrina and Dysdera crocata (Araneae: Dysderidae)	2
Flow analysis of Carreau fluid model induced by the ciliary cells, smooth muscle cells and pressure gradient at the ampullar region entrance	1
Formal verification confirms the role of p53 protein in cell fate decision mechanism	1
2-Site versus 3-site models of ATP hydrolysis by F1-ATPase: definitive mathematical proof using combinatorics and conservation equations	1
Nutrient supply, cell spatial correlation and Gompertzian tumor growth	1
First principles of terrestrial life: exemplars for potential extra-terrestrial biology	1
The biological Maxwell's demons: exploring ideas about the information processing in biological systems	1
Prioritizing cervical cancer candidate genes using chaos game and fractal-based time series approach	1
Modeling stress-induced responses: plasticity in continuous state space and gradual clonal evolution	1
The historical nature of biological complexity and the ineffectiveness of the mathematical approach to it	1
Stability of a diffusive-delayed HCV infection model with general cell-to-cell incidence function incorporating immune response and cell proliferation	1
Introduction to the special issue: quantifying collectivity	1