OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biosemiotics 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
A Functional - Helix Conceptualization of the Emergent Properties of the Animal Kingdom: Chronoception as a Key Sensory Process	44
Understanding Subjecthood and Experience	28
Animalista, Narco-Cultural, Conservacionista. Visions of Nature Around the Case of Hippos in Colombia	17
Act in Animal Utterances and Life-Genres as ‘Communicational’: A Challenge for Ethological and Biosemiotic Pragmatics	14
Introduction	11
Atacama Desert’s Solastalgia: Color and Water for Dumping	10
Semiocide as Negation: Review of Michael Marder’s Dump Philosophy	9
Closures as a Precondition of Life, Agency, and Semiosis	8
Lofts as Shared Spaces: Examining Socio-Spatial Interactions Among Humans, King Pigeons, and Other Species	8
On the Origin of Information in Biology — Complementarity of Nucleotides as Objective Tokens and as Objective-Semantic-Information Carrying Symbols	8
Ethics of Plants: Interconnections between Biosemiotics and Critical Plant Studies	8
Human-Animal Adoption: Bioethical Challenges and Considerations	7
An Umwelt-to-Umwelt Rhythmical Interaction: A Biosemiotic Reading of Cultural Embodiment in the Context of Humanitarian VR	7
The Biosemiotic Glossary Project: Habit	7
Correction to: Neither Dogmas nor Barriers are Absolute	7
Semiotics, Biosemiotics, and Aesthetics: the Concept of Beauty and Beyond	6
Ecosemiotic Analysis of Species Reintroduction: the Case of European Mink (Mustela lutreola) in Estonia	6
Res Cogitans – The Evolution of Thinking	6
Neither Dogmas nor Barriers are Absolute	6
Utilitarianism, Biosemiotics, and History	6
The Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics: Beauty is the Perfect Semiotic Fitting	5
Meaning without Agency: The Establishment of Meaningful Time Relations as Prerequisite for the Emergence of Biosemiosis	5
Organizing Microbial Diversity and Interspecies Relations through Diagrams: Trees, Maps, and the Visual Semiotics of the Living	5
Organic Crosstalk: a New Perspective in Medicine	5
Umwelt Theory and Dis/Harmony: Forays into Dis/Ability, Dis/Ease, Trauma, and Ethological Divergence	4

Metaphysics of the Organic Whole: Ehrenfels, Uexküll, and Merleau-Ponty	4
Biosemiotics as an Ongoing Endeavour	4
Something Critical Occurs at a Fractional Dimension Between Two and Three... A Proposal for Knitting Together Semiophysics and Biosemiotics	4
Consciousness as Telos: An Evo-Devo Approach	4
Extending the Life World: Phenomenological Triangulation Along Two Planes	4
Perception, Action, and Sense Making: The Three Realms of the Aesthetic	4
Consciousness and Learning from the Biosemiotic Perspective	4
Biosemiotic Achievement Award Goes to an Ethologist	4
On the Evolution of Symbols and Prediction Models	4
Launching a Transdisciplinary Call for Semioethical Virtue Ethics in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene	3
Umwelt Collapse: The Loss of Umwelt-Ecosystem Integration	3
Sensitive Souls and Biosemiotic Agency as Emergence	3
The built environment in Social Media: towards a Biosemiotic Approach	3
Correction: Simple Utterances but Complex Understanding? Meta-studying the Fuzzy Mismatch between Animal Semantic Capacities in Varied Contexts	3
Beauty: Synthesis of Intellect and Senses Commentary on the Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics	3
The Role of Semioethics in Biosemiotics	3
Metasemiosis as Extended Second-Order Semiosis: Revising Metacognition Models	3
A new Frontier for Organismal Biology	3
Minimal Properties of a Natural Semiotic System: Response to Commentaries on “How Molecules Became Signs”	3
The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and Purposiveness	2
Modes of Bonding and Morphogenesis. Deleuze, Ruyer, and the Rearticulation of Life and Nonlife	2
Interpretation as a Form of Thermodynamic Work	2
De-sign Agency as the envoy of intentionality: trajectories toward Cultural Sensitivity and Environmental Sensibility	2
Semio-Materialism: A Quest for a Science of Culture	2
A Foray into Welt and Umwelt: Rereading the Onto-Ethological Discussion between Heidegger and Uexküll	2
Semiotic Fitting, Co-option, and the Art of Life	2
Poti-Interpretants, Sin-Interpretants, and Legi-Interpretants: Rethinking Semiotic Causation as Production of Signs	2
The Evolutionary Origin(s) of the Umwelt	2
Experimental Semiotics: A Systematic Categorization of Experimental Studies on the Bootstrapping of Communication Systems	2
Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2021	2
Umwelt Theory, Biosemiotics and Damage Limitation	2
Biosemiotics, Global Semiotics and Semioethics	2
The Anthropic Principle for the Evolutionary Biology of Consciousness: Beyond Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism	2
Phantom Signs – Hidden (Bio)Semiosis in the Human Body(?)	2
There is Umwelt Before Consciousness, and Learning Transverses Both	2
The Musical Turn in Biosemiotics	2
An Integrated Bayesian-Heuristic Semiotic Model for Understanding Human and SARS-CoV-2 Representational Structures	2
Correction to: Poti-Interpretants, Sin-Interpretants, and Legi-Interpretants: Rethinking Semiotic Causation as Production of Signs	2
Following Developments of Biosemiotics	2
More Constraints, More Freedom: Revisit Semiotic Scaffolding, Semiotic Freedom, and Semiotic Emergence	2
Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2022	1
The Ecosemiotics of Human-Wolf Relations in a Northern Tourist Economy: A Case Study	1
Semioethics’ Quest for Responsible Semiosis and Some Relevant Intuitions of Religious Philosophy	1
Modelling Animal Creativity from Uexküllian Approach—Attention, Search Image and Search Tone	1
What if Consciousness has no Function?	1
Semioethics, Ideology and New Humanism	1
Sign-free Biosemantics and Transcendental Phenomenology: a Better Non-Metaphysical Approach to Close the Mind-body Gap	1
Interview with Gerd B. Müller on Theoretical Biology	1
Do Codes Need Interpretation?	1
Everybody Lies: Deception Levels in Various Domains of Life	1

The Implications of Umwelt in Poetics: The Case of Ye Xie, a Seventeenth-Century Chinese Poet and Critic	1
A Foray into the Worlds of Plants and Fungi	1
Questions for Jablonka and Ginsburg Drawn from Lamarck’s Life-Made World	1
Facing Up to the Hard Problem of Biosemiotics	1
Semiosis at a Fundamental Level: Wisdom and Innovation	1
A Methodology for the Study of Interspecific Cohabitation Issues in the City	1
Vibrant Worlds: An Artistic Interpretation of Material Intelligence in the Spider’s Umwelt	1
Mythology and Zoosemiotics: Exploring Snake Narratives in Greek, Aztec, and Amazonian Cultures	1
The Explanatory Role of Umwelt in Evolutionary Theory: Introducing von Baer’s Reflections on Teleological Development	1
Perception and Cognition: A Metaconceptual Approach	1
Some Reflections on the Evolution of Conscious Agents: The Relevance of body Plans	1
How Agents Use Biological Codes and Artifacts to Interpret their Innenwelt and make Sense of their Mitwelt	1
Utterance-genre-lifeworld and Sign-habit-Umwelt Compared as Phenomenologies. Integrating Socio- and Biosemiotic Concepts?	1
Semiotic and Physical Requirements on Emergent Autogenic System	1
Time Transformation in the Sign System of the Conditioned Reflex	1
Perfect Liars: The Evolutionary Role of Deception as a Cognitive and Communicative Strategy Across Species	1
To Understand the Origin of Life We Must First Understand the Role of Normativity	1
Linguistic Umwelten: The Polysemiotic Species	1
Deleuze and Biosemiotics: Biological Emergence, Agency, and Subjectivity in Logic of Sense and A Thousand Plateaus	1
Complementarity of Description and the Promise of Semiotics in Dealing with an Eluding Object	1
Agency Within and Beyond Biosemiotics	1
“It Can Still Touch Your Feelings”: Kinetic Semiotics and Postdigital Embodiment as Markers of Dynamic Cultural Modelling Within the VR Umwelt	1
Inheritance Extended and Distributed: Evolutionary Foundations of Memory Systems	1
How Minimal Can Consciousness Be?	1
The Philosophy of Anti-Dumping as the Affirmation of Life	1