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Top Articles
| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Explanation: a mechanist alternative | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2005 | 824 |
| 2 | Modeling mechanisms | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2005 | 201 |
| 3 | Against normal function | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2000 | 198 |
| 4 | ‘Everything is everywhere: but the environment selects’: ubiquitous distribution and ecological determinism in microbial biogeography | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2008 | 182 |
| 5 | Bacteria are small but not stupid: cognition, natural genetic engineering and socio-bacteriology | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2007 | 156 |
| 6 | Is meta-analysis the platinum standard of evidence? | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2011 | 145 |
| 7 | Biological races in humans | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2013 | 145 |
| 8 | Defining ‘health’ and ‘disease’ | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2009 | 144 |
| 9 | Strategies in the interfield discovery of the mechanism of protein synthesis | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2002 | 143 |
| 10 | Re-thinking organisms: The impact of databases on model organism biology | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2012 | 139 |
| 11 | Kant and Blumenbach on the Bildungstrieb: A Historical Misunderstanding | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2000 | 135 |
| 12 | Is the precautionary principle unscientific? | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2003 | 134 |
| 13 | Better prepared than synthesized: Adolf Butenandt, Schering Ag and the transformation of sex steroids into drugs (1930–1946) | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2005 | 125 |
| 14 | Thinking about evolutionary mechanisms: natural selection | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2005 | 124 |
| 15 | The epigenetic landscape in the course of time: Conrad Hal Waddington’s methodological impact on the life sciences | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2013 | 118 |
| 16 | Organisms≠Machines | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2013 | 118 |
| 17 | Between the farm and the clinic: agriculture and reproductive technology in the twentieth century | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2007 | 117 |
| 18 | The concept of mechanism in biology | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2012 | 113 |
| 19 | Regularities and causality; generalizations and causal explanations | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2005 | 112 |
| 20 | Beyond reduction: mechanisms, multifield integration and the unity of neuroscience | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2005 | 107 |
| 21 | Scientific perspectivism: A philosopher of science’s response to the challenge of big data biology | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2012 | 106 |
| 22 | Natural history and information overload: The case of Linnaeus | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2012 | 104 |
| 23 | Four notions of biological function | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2003 | 99 |
| 24 | Data-driven sciences: From wonder cabinets to electronic databases | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2012 | 99 |
| 25 | Are viruses alive? The replicator paradigm sheds decisive light on an old but misguided question | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2016 | 98 |
| 26 | How biologists conceptualize genes: an empirical study | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2004 | 92 |
| 27 | Epigenetics: A way to bridge the gap between biological fields | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2017 | 92 |
| 28 | Mechanism, vitalism and organicism in late nineteenth and twentieth-century biology: the importance of historical context | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2005 | 90 |
| 29 | In defence of classification | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2001 | 89 |
| 30 | Introduction to “Transforming pregnancy since 1900” | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2014 | 88 |
| 31 | Kant on the history of nature: The ambiguous heritage of the critical philosophy for natural history | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2006 | 87 |
| 32 | Introduction: Making sense of data-driven research in the biological and biomedical sciences | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2012 | 86 |
| 33 | Collection and collation: theory and practice of Linnaean botany | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2007 | 85 |
| 34 | The roles of integration in molecular systems biology | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2012 | 84 |
| 35 | The consent problem within DNA biobanks | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2006 | 81 |
| 36 | Metagenomics and biological ontology | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2007 | 79 |
| 37 | On the nature of cross-disciplinary integration: A philosophical framework | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2016 | 79 |
| 38 | On the origin of the typological/population distinction in Ernst Mayr’s changing views of species, 1942–1959 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2003 | 77 |
| 39 | Systems biology and the integration of mechanistic explanation and mathematical explanation | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2013 | 73 |
| 40 | Of worms and programmes: Caenorhabditis elegans and the study of development | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 1998 | 72 |
| 41 | History, objectivity, and the construction of molecular phylogenies | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2008 | 71 |
| 42 | To be or not to be alive: How recent discoveries challenge the traditional definitions of viruses and life | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2016 | 70 |
| 43 | ‘What makes you a scientist is the way you look at things’: ornithology and the observer 1930–1955 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2002 | 69 |
| 44 | On the nature of the species problem and the four meanings of ‘species’ | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2005 | 68 |
| 45 | The Face of Nature: Precise Measurement, Mapping, and Sensibility in the Work of Alexander von Humboldt | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 1999 | 66 |
| 46 | Naturalising purpose: From comparative anatomy to the ‘adventure of reason’ | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2006 | 65 |
| 47 | Blood groups and human groups: Collecting and calibrating genetic data after World War Two | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2014 | 65 |
| 48 | The machine conception of the organism in development and evolution: A critical analysis | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2014 | 64 |
| 49 | Grene and Hull on types and typological thinking in biology | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2015 | 64 |
| 50 | Biology meets physics: Reductionism and multi-scale modeling of morphogenesis | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C:Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 2017 | 63 |