OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Biosemiotics is 3. 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
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
Closures as a Precondition of Life, Agency, and Semiosis	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
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
Semiotics, Biosemiotics, and Aesthetics: the Concept of Beauty and Beyond	6
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
The Biosemiotic Fundamentals of Aesthetics: Beauty is the Perfect Semiotic Fitting	5
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
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
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
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