OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Physics of Life Reviews 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Reputation and reciprocity	87
Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems	70
The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure	64
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	61
From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics	57
The art of adapting to extreme environments: The model system Pseudoalteromonas	54
The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference	49
How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?	47
Impacts of climate change on vegetation pattern: Mathematical modeling and data analysis	42
Dynamic and thermodynamic models of adaptation	42
Laws of nature that define biological action and perception	41
A systematic framework of creative metacognition	41
Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition	40
Improving cancer treatments via dynamical biophysical models	39
Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things	33
Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet	29
An elegant nano-injection machinery for sabotaging the host: Role of Type III secretion system in virulence of different human and animal pathogenic bacteria	28
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	27
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	26
Prebiotic chemistry and origins of life research with atomistic computer simulations	23
Insoluble organic matter in chondrites: Archetypal melanin-like PAH-based multifunctionality at the origin of life?	23
Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior	23
Creativity, information, and consciousness: The information dynamics of thinking	22
Belowground feedbacks as drivers of spatial self-organization and community assembly	22
Motor invariants in action execution and perception	21

The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation	21
Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain? A review and empirical assessment of clinical case reports and published artworks for systematic evidence of quality and style changes linked to dam	20
Unified representation of Life's basic properties by a 3-species Stochastic Cubic Autocatalytic Reaction-Diffusion system of equations	18
The distinguishing electrical properties of cancer cells	17
Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability	16
To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human technological culture	16
Knowledge gaps and missing links in understanding mass extinctions: Can mathematical modeling help?	16
Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness	15
What is life? Active particles tools towards behavioral dynamics in social-biology and economics	14
Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture	14
Structure and function in artificial, zebrafish and human neural networks	13
Plant-soil feedback as a driver of spatial structure in ecosystems	13
An active inference model of hierarchical action understanding, learning and imitation	13
Mechanotransduction in tumor dynamics modeling	13
The evolution of social timing	12
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	9
Collective fluctuation implies imminent state transition	9
‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	8
Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimming robots	7
Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation: A comprehensive survey	6
Environmental factors and their impact on chronic pain development and maintenance	6
‘Phase transitions’ in bacteria – From structural transitions in free living bacteria to phenotypic transitions in bacteria within biofilms	6
The interplay between biochemical mediators and mechanotransduction in chondrocytes: Unravelling the differential responses in primary knee osteoarthritis	6
Combining dynamic modeling with machine learning can be the key for the integration of mathematical and clinical oncology	6
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	6
Escaping a blind alley: The ZLS as a ‘cultural crucible’?	5
Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics	5
Living on the edge – practical information geometry for studying the emergence and propagation of life forms	5
Boundary versus enabling conditions for the origins of life	5
Critical transition across the Waddington landscape as an interpretative model	5
Sparse coupling and Markov blankets	5
Chimpanzee culture in context	5
At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory	5
Focusing on relevant data and correcting misconceptions reaffirms the ape ZLS	4
Thresholds, bifurcation and chaos in biological phenomena	4
Evolution and irreversibility: Two distinct phenomena and their distinct laws of nature	4
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	4
Mentalising allostasis: The sense that I should eat	4
Spatial pattern formation, community assembly and resilience	4
Computational creativity beyond machine learning	4
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	4
Perception and response of skeleton to mechanical stress	4
It is useful to analyze correlation graphs	4
Can a mathematical model of mass extinctions do without environmental noise?	4
Bounding surprisal is only part of the story…Reply to comments on “To copy or not to copy? That is the question! From chimpanzees to the foundation of human technological culture”	4
Inferential dynamics	4
Cultural evolution in the science of culture and cultural evolution	3
Computational models and neural bases of statistical learning in music and language	3
Variational free energy, individual fitness, and population dynamics under acute stress	3
Very particular: Comment on “How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?”	3

Prescriptive, descriptive or predictive models: What approach should be taken when empirical data is limited? Reply to comments on “Mathematical models for Dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systema	3
Network models of biological adaptation at the molecular scale	3
Cognition coming about: Self-organisation and free-energy	3
Physics-based character animation and human motor control	3
The inner speech of the IDyOT	3
Laws of nature in action, perception and thinking	3
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	3
Connectivity analyses for task-based fMRI	3
A new perspective on cooperation through the lens of Parrondo's paradox	3
Physical reasoning is the missing link between action goals and kinematics	3
Nuancing the heterarchical theory of visual mental imagery	3
Synchronization, free energy and the embryogenesis of the cortex	3
The statistical mechanics of life	3
The rise of computer modeling in prebiotic chemistry	2
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	2
What animal cultures may beget: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	2
Computational investigation of the primordial soup	2
Bridging neurodegenerative diseases and artistic expressivity: The significance of testable models and causal inference	2
Cancer modelling as fertile ground for new mathematical challenges	2
Towards predictive neural network dynamical theory	2
What kind of explanation is the constructing and coasting strategy?	2
Untenable propositions and alternative avenues.	2
Concept of swarming and synchrony in aquatic animal movements	2
An atomistic approach to prebiotic chemistry: A tool to overcome the limits of laboratory simulations	2
On the right way to crack nuts and farm fruit	2
The oscillatory nature of the motor and perceptive kinematics invariants	2
The epistemic value of conformity	2
Toward multiscale derivation of behavioral dynamics	2
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	2
Information-theoretic characterization of the complete genotype-phenotype map of a complex pre-biotic world	2
Mechanisms underlying the social effects of music: Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	2
Cancer's unique bioelectric properties: From cells to body-wide networks	2
Situating and extending the sense of should	2
Addressing misconceptions on Latent Solution tests	2
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	2
Changes in style as a diagnostic medical tool or a way to study creativity in art?	2
Adaptation through the lens of single-cell multi-omics data	2
Functional asymmetry and the consequences of action	2
Studying naturalistic actions requires research programs and not trade-off decisions in individual studies	2
Origins, transitions, and traces of life	2
Delayed feedback control of synchronization patterns	2
Beyond ‘cold’ creative metacognition: Toward a more integrated framework	2
A predictive model of attention	2
Regarding flows under the free energy principle	2
Combining inter-areal, mesoscopic, and neurodynamic models of cortical function	2
How to distinguish between referent configuration and internal models hypotheses of motor control?	2
Yes, And	2
Ensemble of correlation, parenclitic and synolitic graphs as a tool to detect universal changes in complex biological systems	2
Vocal similarity theory and the biology of musical tonality	2
PET brain imaging in neurological disorders	2
The chiral mind: The role of symmetry in the growth of new hierarchical layers in cognition	2
The problem with solutions: A commentary of “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	2
Beyond connectionism: A neuronal dance of ephaptic and synaptic interactions	2
Energy dissipation and storage in adaptation and homeostasis	2
How should the political animals of the 21st century feel?	2
The riddle of TPJ function in language processing	2
What art can tell us about the human brain, in health and disease	2
Escaping anthropocentrism in the study of non-human culture: Comment on “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten	2
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	2
The nonequilibrium boundaries of living systems	2
Some minimal notes on notation and minima	2
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	2
Comment on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”	2
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2