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

Article	Citations
Rethinking some roots of ecosystem approach in aquatic ecology: between the food cycle and lake metabolism	17
Thermodynamic principles for system biology and the patterns of flower pigmentation	16
Clustering systems of phylogenetic networks	14
Investigation of memory influences on bio-heat responses of skin tissue due to various thermal conditions	14
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of structured populations in periodically fluctuating environments: a G function approach	14
Pattern formation features might explain homoplasy: fertile surfaces in higher fungi as an example	12
Forbidden codon combinations in error-detecting circular codes	11
Spaces of mathematical chemistry	10
Descriptive versus causal morphology: gynandromorphism and intersexuality	10
A new symbiotic, holistic and gradualist model proposal for the concept of “living organism”	10
Postmortem communication	9
Understanding the photosynthesis in relation to climate change in grapevines	9
Mathematics of life spaces: continuation of the 2018 large dimensions course	9
Hypothesis: bacteria live on the edge of phase transitions with a cell cycle regulated by a water-clock	7
A generalized Price equation for fuzzy set-mappings	7
MLACNN: an attention mechanism-based CNN architecture for predicting genome-wide DNA methylation	7
Mathematical analysis of a modified Volterra-Leslie chemostat Model	6
The bubble theory: exploring the transition from first replicators to cells and viruses in a landscape-based scenario	6
Symmetrical distributions of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases during the evolution of the genetic code	6
Do concepts of individuality account for individuation practices in studies of host–parasite systems? A modeling account of biological individuality	5
On combinatorial and biofunctional symmetries hidden in polynucleotide sequences	5
Tumor growth dynamics under adaptive therapy: a multi-scale computational approach	5
A semi-analytical approach and theoretical investigation to multi-dimensional DNA models	4
Radioresistance and radiosensitivity: a biophysical approach on bacterial cells robustness	4
Rethinking life and predicting its origin	4

Network representation and analysis of energy coupling mechanisms in cellular metabolism by a graph-theoretical approach	4
Optimal representation in biological systems	4
A novel passivity-based design for Lipschitz nonlinear systems with application to hepatitis B disease	4
Application of network pharmacology in synergistic action of Chinese herbal compounds	3
Dynamics of neural fields with exponential temporal kernel	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
Wartime forced sex as a male mating strategy	3
An epidemic dynamics model with limited isolation capacity	3
How much biology is in the product? Role and relevance of biological evolution and function for bio-inspired design	3
The shadow of “the Eclipse of Darwinism”: the problem of evolutionary mechanisms in Republican China, 1910s–1930s	2
Editorial	2
Self-similarity and the maximum entropy principle in the genetic code	2
A computational investigation of cis-gene regulation in evolution	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
Goethe and Candolle: National forms of scientific writing?	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
A biosemiotic interpretation of certain genital morphological structures in the spiders Dysdera erythrina and Dysdera crocata (Araneae: Dysderidae)	2
Stability of a diffusive-delayed HCV infection model with general cell-to-cell incidence function incorporating immune response and cell proliferation	1
Myths of past biases and progress in biology	1
Normalizing need not be the norm: count-based math for analyzing single-cell data	1
Growth dynamics of breast cancer stem cells: effects of self-feedback and EMT mechanisms	1
Analyzing the double-chain deoxyribonucleic acid model: bifurcation, chaos, and sensitivity insights through advanced analytical techniques	1
Modeling influenza transmission and control: epidemic theory insights across Mexico, Italy, and South Africa	1
2-Site versus 3-site models of ATP hydrolysis by F1-ATPase: definitive mathematical proof using combinatorics and conservation equations	1
Introduction to the special issue: quantifying collectivity	1
Growth modeling approach with the Verhulst coexistence dynamic properties for regulation purposes	1
Prioritizing cervical cancer candidate genes using chaos game and fractal-based time series approach	1
The historical nature of biological complexity and the ineffectiveness of the mathematical approach to it	1
Stability of density-dependent model with indirect feedback and biomass inhibition	1
Modeling stress-induced responses: plasticity in continuous state space and gradual clonal evolution	1
Revisiting institutional punishment in the N-person prisoner’s dilemma	1
Role of predator and time delay on an eco-epidemic spatial model: an appearance of chaos and complexity	1
Formal verification confirms the role of p53 protein in cell fate decision mechanism	1
First principles of terrestrial life: exemplars for potential extra-terrestrial biology	1