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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis	62
How Molecules Became Signs	39
Learning and the Evolution of Conscious Agents	28
Ecoacoustics and Multispecies Semiosis: Naming, Semantics, Semiotic Characteristics, and Competencies	23
Active Inference and Abduction	18
The Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics: Beauty is the Perfect Semiotic Fitting	17
Natural Code of Subjective Experience	13
Multimodal Modeling: Bridging Biosemiotics and Social Semiotics	11
The Ecosemiosphere is a Grounded Semiosphere. A Lotmanian Conceptualization of Cultural-Ecological Systems	10
Can Animals Refer? Meta-Positioning Studies of Animal Semantics	9
Vivoscapes: an Ecosemiotic Contribution to the Ecological Theory	8
Semiogenesis: A Dynamic System Approach to Agency and Structure	7
Embracing the Learning Turn: The ecological context of learning	7
Causation and Information: Where Is Biological Meaning to Be Found?	7
The Evolutionary Origin(s) of the Umwelt	6
In the Case of Protosemiosis: Indexicality vs. Iconicity of Proteins	6
A Cognitive-Semiotic Approach to Agency: Assessing Ideas from Cognitive Science and Neuroscience	6
There is Umwelt Before Consciousness, and Learning Transverses Both	5
Signs of Consciousness?	5
Learning as Becoming Conscious: A note on Jablonka and Ginsburg’s Notion of Learning	5
What Future for Evolutionary Biology? Response to Commentaries on “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis”	5
Facing Up to the Hard Problem of Biosemiotics	5
Toward a Practical Theory of Timing: Upbeat and E-Series Time for Organisms	5
Beauty: Synthesis of Intellect and Senses Commentary on the Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics	4
Everybody Lies: Deception Levels in Various Domains of Life	4

Four Epistemological Gaps in Alloanimal Episodic Memory Studies	4
The Importance of Biosemiotics for Morphology	4
Natural Selection and Self-Organization Do Not Make Meaning, while the Agent’s Choice Does	4
Consciousness and Learning from the Biosemiotic Perspective	4
Perceptions of Context. Epistemological and Methodological Implications for Meta-Studying Zoo-Communication	4
An Integrated Bayesian-Heuristic Semiotic Model for Understanding Human and SARS-CoV-2 Representational Structures	4
The negentropic theory of ontogeny: A new model of eutherian life history transitions?	4
Simple Utterances but Complex Understanding? Meta-studying the Fuzzy Mismatch between Animal Semantic Capacities in Varied Contexts	4
Lyapunov Stability as a Metric for Meaning in Biological Systems	3
Towards a Biosemiotic Theory of Evolution	3
Semiotic Function of Empathy in Text Emotion Assessment	3
Can quantitative approaches develop bio/semiotic theory?	3
Data and Context	3
Signs of Life and Death: The Semiotic Self-Destruction of the Biosphere	3
To Understand the Origin of Life We Must First Understand the Role of Normativity	3
Agency and Choice in Evolution	3
Creative Agency Via Higher-Dimensional Constraints	3
Making the Umwelt Bubble of the Modern Synthesis Burst	3
Introduction	3
The Living Sign. Reading Noble from a Biosemiotic Perspective	3
Umwelt Collapse: The Loss of Umwelt-Ecosystem Integration	3
An Integrated Account of Rosen’s Relational Biology and Peirce’s Semiosis. Part I: Components and Signs, Final Cause and Interpretation	3
An Integrated Account of Rosen’s Relational Biology and Peirce’s Semiosis. Part II: Analysis of Protein Synthesis	3
The Plurality of Evolutionary Worldviews	3
Experimental Semiotics: A Systematic Categorization of Experimental Studies on the Bootstrapping of Communication Systems	3
UAL is a Token, not a Type	3
On the Evolution of Symbols and Prediction Models	3
Total Umwelten Create Shared Meaning the Emergent Properties of Animal Groups as a Result of Social Signalling	3
Ecosemiotic Analysis of Species Reintroduction: the Case of European Mink (Mustela lutreola) in Estonia	3
A Semiotic Modern Synthesis: Conducting Quantitative Studies in Zoosemiotics and Interpreting Existing Ethological Studies through a Semiotic Framework	3
Evolution without History?	2
Modelling Animal Creativity from Uexküllian Approach—Attention, Search Image and Search Tone	2
How Minimal Can Consciousness Be?	2
A Humanist’s Response to Denis Noble’s “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis”	2
Closures as a Precondition of Life, Agency, and Semiosis	2
Atacama Desert’s Solastalgia: Color and Water for Dumping	2
De-sign Agency as the envoy of intentionality: trajectories toward Cultural Sensitivity and Environmental Sensibility	2
Autogen is a Kantian Whole in the Non-Entailed World	2
What if Consciousness has no Function?	2
Comment on the Relation between Representation and Information	2
Symptomic Mimicry Between SARS-CoV-2 and the Common Cold Complex	2
Biosemiotic Aesthetics May Unify General Semiotics	2
Illusions of Linguistics and Illusions of Modern Synthesis: Two Parallel Stories	2
Response to Denis Noble’s Article “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis,” Biosemiotics	2
Embodied human language models vs. Large Language Models, or why Artificial Intelligence cannot explain the modal be able to	2
Qualitative and Quantitative Examples of Natural and Artificial Phenomena	2
Interpretation as a Form of Thermodynamic Work	2
A Methodology for the Study of Interspecific Cohabitation Issues in the City	2
The built environment in Social Media: towards a Biosemiotic Approach	2
Energy and Expectation: The Dynamics of Living Consciousness	2

Could the Greatest Illusion of the Modern Synthesis Be Practical?	2
Semiotic Brains Build Cognitive Niches	2
Criticizing the Modern Synthesis: between Phenomenal Characteristics and Synthetic Principles	2
The Evolution of Consciousness and Agency	2
The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and Purposiveness	2
Organic Crosstalk: a New Perspective in Medicine	2
A Textual Deconstruction of the RNA World	1
The Anthropic Principle for the Evolutionary Biology of Consciousness: Beyond Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism	1
To the End of Dogmatism in Molecular Biology	1
Fictionalism of Anticipation	1
Weismann’s Barrier and Crick’s Barrier Still Preclude Two Kinds of Lamarckism	1
Some Reflections on the Evolution of Conscious Agents: The Relevance of body Plans	1
Does Autogenic Semiosis Underpin Minimal Cognition?	1
A Biosemiotic and Ecoacoustic History of Bird-Scaring	1
On the Use of “Illusion”	1
The Semiotic Approach to Bacterial Chemotaxis	1
Resolving Mechanism/Semiotic Duality	1
RNA’s Role in the Origins of Life: An Agentic ‘Manager’, or Recipient of ‘Off-loaded’ Constraints?	1
Old and New Perspectives on the Nature/Culture Opposition in Biology and Anthropology	1
Questions for Jablonka and Ginsburg Drawn from Lamarck’s Life-Made World	1
Minimal Properties of a Natural Semiotic System: Response to Commentaries on “How Molecules Became Signs”	1
Joining Forces Against Neo-Darwinism: Linking Organicism and Biosemiotics	1
Towards a More Effective Thick Description: A Biosemiotic Approach to Meaning in Psychotherapy	1
Semiotic and Physical Requirements on Emergent Autogenic System	1
Semiotics, Biosemiotics, and Aesthetics: the Concept of Beauty and Beyond	1
The Advent and Fall of a Vocabulary Learning Bias from Communicative Efficiency	1
Semiotic Fitting, Co-option, and the Art of Life	1
Good (and Bad) Words for the Ontological (and Anthropomorphic) Description of Behavior	1
Living and Experiencing: Response to Commentaries	1
And the Flesh in Between: Towards a Health Semiotics	1
Sensitive Souls and Biosemiotic Agency as Emergence	1
Between Teleophilia and Teleophobia	1
Ontography and Maieutics, or Speculative Notes on an Ethos for Umwelt Theory	1
Symbol Grounding Precedes Interpretation	1
Expanding the Reach of Biosemiotics	1