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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a Bayesian mechanics of metacognitive particles: A commentary on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by Friston, Da Costa, Sakthivadivel, Heins, Pavliotis, Ramstead, and Par	117
Data-rich modeling helps answer increasingly complex questions on variant and disease interactions	70
From a free energy principle to a free energy model?	67
On the significance of the electrostatic differences between cancer and normal cells	65
Inferential dynamics	64
Particular flows and attracting sets	54
Towards data-driven, next-generation understanding of network physiology	49
Are neurodegenerative disorders causing characteristic changes in visual artwork?	49
Trick or treat	47
Situating and extending the sense of should	44
Aging, Inflammaging and Adaptation	43
Editorial Board	42
On microbial syringes: Advances in our understanding of type III secretion systems in bacterial pathogenesis	42
The role of synchronization in neural systems and their consequence to the neural behavior	41
The chiral mind: The role of symmetry in the growth of new hierarchical layers in cognition	33
Sociality and Timing: Correlation or Causation? Comment on ‘The evolution of social timing’ by Verga L., Kotz S. & Ravignani A.	32
A look forward to further developments: Building bridges between mathematics and economics in a multiscale fashion	31
Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods	27
A forward look to perspectives	26
An exciting path ahead	24
From physics to sentience: Deciphering the semantics of the free-energy principle and evaluating its claims	23
Potential of electric field in liquid foods processing Comment on “Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods” by F. Zare, N. Ghasemi, N. Bansal & H. Hosano	21
Unambiguous precision	21
From particles to collectives	20
Processing liquid food with hundreds of hertz and tens of kilovolts Comment on “advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods” by F. Zare, N. Ghasemi, N. Bansal an	18

Advancements in non-invasive microwave brain stimulation	17
The complexity of simplification	16
Dealing with fragments of past biospheres	16
Social timing: More than combinatorial probabilities?	16
Prognostic potential of reading art in brain damage and the possible contribution of non-invasive brain stimulation	15
Editorial Board	14
Data-driven theory formulation or theory-driven data interpretation?	14
Non-invariants may be used for socially-relevant perceptual decisions	14
Psychocultural histories and explanatory gaps	13
Mathematical modeling is an efficient research tool to address challenges in mass extinction research	13
Vocal similarity theory and the biology of musical tonality	13
On consensus and cooperation	12
Language as a means to reduce uncertainty	9
How can we relax the cost of reward and punishment?	9
Breaking Archaeology's glass ceiling in technological innovation. Comment on “Snakes and ladders in Paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago” by H.M. Manrique, K.	8
From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability	7
Distinctions between brain structure, complexity, and function. Comment on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú	6
Going deeper into the feelings in creative metacognition: Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	6
Consciousness and temporality: A psychopathologist's view Commentary to Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus activity modulates contents of consciousness by Northoff, Zilio and Zhangc	6
Movement control mechanism of underwater swimmers via resonance entrainment of central pattern generators Comment on “Control of movement of underwater swimmers: Animals, simulated animates and swimmi	6
Editorial Board	6
Putting the framework to work: Comment on “a systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Lebuda & Benedek	6
Yes, And	6
Aromatic patterns: Tryptophan aromaticity as a catalyst for the emergence of life and rise of consciousness	5
Interpersonal synchrony implies simultaneity, musical improvisation requires rules. Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	5
Building models, testing models: Asymmetric roles of SLF III networks?	5
Coordinating actions as active agents in a dynamic musical environment: Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	5
The music we march to: Beyond beat, floating intentionality and improvisation	5
Mapping and measuring the Mind's Eye - Comment on visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture by Spagna et al.	5
Mechanisms underlying the social effects of music: Comment on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	5
Heritability of white matter in twins: A diffusion neuroimaging review	4
Embodied playfulness in musical synchrony: Comment on “musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability” by Tal-Chen Rabinowitch	4
Rotating waves and multistability in locomotion models	4
Alpha suppression in the context of cross-frequency interactions between fast and intermediate timescales	4
Mechanotransduction in tumor dynamics modeling	4
The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference	4
Chimpanzee culture in context	4
Consonance and dissonance perception. A critical review of the historical sources, multidisciplinary findings, and main hypotheses	4
Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update	4
Gut mechanoimmunology: Shaping immune response through physical cues	4
The interplay between biochemical mediators and mechanotransduction in chondrocytes: Unravelling the differential responses in primary knee osteoarthritis	4
A decade of thermostatted kinetic theory models for complex active matter living systems	4
Stretching the limits of tightness and looseness in music interaction Reply to comments on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability”	4
Searching for unifying laws of general adaptation syndrome	3
Ant colony optimization: A bibliometric review	3
Game theory and delays in thermostatted models	3
Reputation and reciprocity	3
Editorial Board	3
Blankets at birth: Transitional objects	3
LLMs and generative agent-based models for complex systems research	3

Physics of collective transport and traffic phenomena in biology: Progress in 20 years	3
System-specificity of genotype-phenotype map structure	3
Pushing the boundaries of a physical approach for the study of sensorimotor control	3
A test run of the free energy principle: All for naught?	3
Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function	3
Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.	3
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	3
Genotype-phenotype maps and the predictability of evolution	3
Multiscale and multi-physical problems	2
Another brick in the wall? Comment on “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by I. Lebuda & M. Benedek	2
Combining inter-areal, mesoscopic, and neurodynamic models of cortical function	2
Brain anatomy and dynamics: A commentary on “Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics” by Papo and Buldú (2024)	2
Generative models of complex behavior: A behavioral Turing test. Comment on “beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior” by Maselli, Gordon, Eluchans, Lan	2
Past, present, and future: Dissecting the bacterial type III secretion system	2
Creativity, art and brain	2
The ultimate trick?	2
Are TPJs conflict detectors or solvers?	2
Information, computation, and causality in living systems	2
Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review	2
Understanding the role of mechanical stimuli in chondrocyte responsiveness and adaptations: Need for integrating insights on OA-associated changes in the multi-scale mechanical environment	2
Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods	2
Beyond ‘cold’ creative metacognition: Toward a more integrated framework	2
Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy Principle	2
Studying the hierarchy of actions from motor primitives	2
The mechanics of evolution: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptive priors	2
Variability allows for adaptation in dynamic environments comment on ‘From neural noise to co-adaptability: Rethinking the multifaceted architecture of motor variability’ by L. Casartelli, C. Maronati	2
Cultural mechanics	2
Grounding social timing	2
Motor variability in task-space and body-space	2
Addressing market regime transitions with the tools of behavioral swarms and kinetic theory	2
Emergence of Life-like properties from nonlinear spatial kinetics	2
Photobiomodulation effects on cancer cells through modifications of their bioelectric properties	2
Listening to dissonant and atonal music induces psychological tension and anxiety	2
Language follows a distinct mode of extra-genomic evolution	2
Behavioral and game-theoretic modeling of dengue epidemic: Comment on “Mathematical models for dengue fever epidemiology: A 10-year systematic review” by M. Aguiar et al.	2
Mathematical oncology: A new frontier in cancer biology and clinical decision making	2
‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago	2
The strangest particles in the world	2
Fine-tuning social timing: From non-human to human animals and back	2
Riders on a storm – The evaluation and control of creative processes A comment on: “A systematic framework of creative metacognition” by Izabela Lebuda and Mathias Benedek	2
Editorial Board	2
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	2
Classification of particles with respect to active inference properties as a path towards formalizing agency Comment on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things” by K. Friston, L. Da Cost	2
Markov border crossings	2
Heterarchy or hierarchy? Insights from a new model of visual imagination	2
Multiple applications of pulsed electric fields are game changer in food industry and biomedicine	2
The epistemic value of conformity	2
Measures, constructs, and constructing measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain?”	2
Editorial Board	2
Unlocking the doors of perception: A new era in sensory and consciousness sciences	2
The interplay between inflammatory mediators and mechanotransduction is mediated by ion channels in articular chondrocytes: Functional consequences in osteoarthritis	2
Through the cracks of consciousness - The relevance of temporal dynamics for the psychological baseline of the self and its dissociative counterpart: A commentary on “Beyond task response—Pre-stimulus	2
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”	2
Implications of electrical properties of cells for treatment specificity of electric/electromagnetic fields-based therapeutic approaches	2
Calls of the wild: Exploring the evolutionary roots of consonance and dissonance	2
Creative metacognition: A much needed bridge between meta-reasoning and creativity	2