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 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
Embracing the Learning Turn: The ecological context of learning	7
Causation and Information: Where Is Biological Meaning to Be Found?	7
Semiogenesis: A Dynamic System Approach to Agency and Structure	7
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
The Evolutionary Origin(s) of the Umwelt	6
Facing Up to the Hard Problem of Biosemiotics	5
Toward a Practical Theory of Timing: Upbeat and E-Series Time for Organisms	5
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
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
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 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
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