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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Functional - Helix Conceptualization of the Emergent Properties of the Animal Kingdom: Chronoception as a Key Sensory Process	55
Understanding Subjecthood and Experience	14
Atacama Desert’s Solastalgia: Color and Water for Dumping	11
Act in Animal Utterances and Life-Genres as ‘Communicational’: A Challenge for Ethological and Biosemiotic Pragmatics	10
On the Origin of Information in Biology — Complementarity of Nucleotides as Objective Tokens and as Objective-Semantic-Information Carrying Symbols	10
Ethics of Plants: Interconnections between Biosemiotics and Critical Plant Studies	9
Semiocide as Negation: Review of Michael Marder’s Dump Philosophy	9
Animalista, Narco-Cultural, Conservacionista. Visions of Nature Around the Case of Hippos in Colombia	9
Review of: Pedro Atã and João Queiroz, Mind as an External Sign: A semiotic externalist philosophy of cognitive science. Synthese Library Vol. 531, Springer Cham, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0	8
Closures as a Precondition of Life, Agency, and Semiosis	8
Information is Non-physical at both the Micro and Macro Levels	8
Lofts as Shared Spaces: Examining Socio-Spatial Interactions Among Humans, King Pigeons, and Other Species	8
How Do Organisms Measure Spacetime? Measurement by the Insider Players	8
The Biosemiotic Glossary Project: Habit	7
Why Has Avian Archaeology not yet Emerged?	7
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	6
Semiotics, Biosemiotics, and Aesthetics: the Concept of Beauty and Beyond	6
Motivation and Meaning: A Biosemiotic Perspective	5
Umwelt Degeneracy as the Primary Cause of North Atlantic Pink Salmon Invasion	5
Biosemiotics as an Ongoing Endeavour	5
Res Cogitans – The Evolution of Thinking	5
Organizing Microbial Diversity and Interspecies Relations through Diagrams: Trees, Maps, and the Visual Semiotics of the Living	5
Ecosemiotic Analysis of Species Reintroduction: the Case of European Mink (Mustela lutreola) in Estonia	5
Utilitarianism, Biosemiotics, and History	5

Meaning without Agency: The Establishment of Meaningful Time Relations as Prerequisite for the Emergence of Biosemiosis	5
Bioindicator Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Semiotic Agents: A Biosemiotics-Oriented and Ethical Reframing Toward Meaningful Sustainability	5
Ultraviolet “Umwelten”: Exploring Semantic Organs Beyond the Visible Spectrum	4
On the Evolution of Symbols and Prediction Models	4
Something Critical Occurs at a Fractional Dimension Between Two and Three... A Proposal for Knitting Together Semiophysics and Biosemiotics	4
Metaphysics of the Organic Whole: Ehrenfels, Uexküll, and Merleau-Ponty	4
Perception, Action, and Sense Making: The Three Realms of the Aesthetic	4
Extending the Life World: Phenomenological Triangulation Along Two Planes	4
A Biosemiotic View on Edible Identity	4
Consciousness as Telos: An Evo-Devo Approach	3
Launching a Transdisciplinary Call for Semioethical Virtue Ethics in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene	3
Memes as Structural Signals: A Chemical Model of Interpretive Compatibility	3
A new Frontier for Organismal Biology	3
Poti-Interpretants, Sin-Interpretants, and Legi-Interpretants: Rethinking Semiotic Causation as Production of Signs	3
Sensitive Souls and Biosemiotic Agency as Emergence	3
Umwelt Theory and Dis/Harmony: Forays into Dis/Ability, Dis/Ease, Trauma, and Ethological Divergence	3
Consciousness and Learning from the Biosemiotic Perspective	3
Minimal Properties of a Natural Semiotic System: Response to Commentaries on “How Molecules Became Signs”	3
Modes of Bonding and Morphogenesis. Deleuze, Ruyer, and the Rearticulation of Life and Nonlife	3
The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and Purposiveness	3
Biosemiotic Achievement Award Goes to an Ethologist	3
The Role of Semioethics in Biosemiotics	3
Metasemiosis as Extended Second-Order Semiosis: Revising Metacognition Models	3
Umwelt Collapse: The Loss of Umwelt-Ecosystem Integration	3
The Evolutionary Origin(s) of the Umwelt	3
Correction: Simple Utterances but Complex Understanding? Meta-studying the Fuzzy Mismatch between Animal Semantic Capacities in Varied Contexts	3
Umwelt-based Analysis of Multispecies Places: Guidelines for Application	2
Umwelt Theory, Biosemiotics and Damage Limitation	2
Perception and Cognition: A Metaconceptual Approach	2
Following Developments of Biosemiotics	2
Special Issue: Empirical Approaches and Theoretical Modelling in Biosemiotics	2
There is Umwelt Before Consciousness, and Learning Transverses Both	2
Correction to: Poti-Interpretants, Sin-Interpretants, and Legi-Interpretants: Rethinking Semiotic Causation as Production of Signs	2
Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2021	2
More Constraints, More Freedom: Revisit Semiotic Scaffolding, Semiotic Freedom, and Semiotic Emergence	2
Interview with Gerd B. Müller on Theoretical Biology	2
The Musical Turn in Biosemiotics	2
Phantom Signs – Hidden (Bio)Semiosis in the Human Body(?)	2
Experimental Semiotics: A Systematic Categorization of Experimental Studies on the Bootstrapping of Communication Systems	2
A Foray into Welt and Umwelt: Rereading the Onto-Ethological Discussion between Heidegger and Uexküll	2
Biosemiotics, Global Semiotics and Semioethics	2
Do Codes Need Interpretation?	2
An Integrated Bayesian-Heuristic Semiotic Model for Understanding Human and SARS-CoV-2 Representational Structures	2
Semio-Materialism: A Quest for a Science of Culture	2
Vibrant Worlds: An Artistic Interpretation of Material Intelligence in the Spider’s Umwelt	1
Modelling Animal Creativity from Uexküllian Approach—Attention, Search Image and Search Tone	1
“It Can Still Touch Your Feelings”: Kinetic Semiotics and Postdigital Embodiment as Markers of Dynamic Cultural Modelling Within the VR Umwelt	1
Some Reflections on the Evolution of Conscious Agents: The Relevance of body Plans	1
A Foray into the Worlds of Plants and Fungi	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
Agency Within and Beyond Biosemiotics	1
The Explanatory Role of Umwelt in Evolutionary Theory: Introducing von Baer’s Reflections on Teleological Development	1
Semioethics, Ideology and New Humanism	1
What if Consciousness has no Function?	1
Questions for Jablonka and Ginsburg Drawn from Lamarck’s Life-Made World	1
When Matter Loses Its Habit: Clays, Microorganisms and Strategic Devices for Moita Redonda Regeneration, Ceará	1
Inheritance Extended and Distributed: Evolutionary Foundations of Memory Systems	1
The Sense of Microbial Harmony as a Cognitive Biosemiotic Framework for Health and Well-Being	1
Linguistic Umwelten: The Polysemiotic Species	1
Deleuze and Biosemiotics: Biological Emergence, Agency, and Subjectivity in Logic of Sense and A Thousand Plateaus	1
Mythology and Zoosemiotics: Exploring Snake Narratives in Greek, Aztec, and Amazonian Cultures	1
A Methodology for the Study of Interspecific Cohabitation Issues in the City	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
What is Food? Towards a Biosemiotic Definition	1