Topic · Evolution and Science Education
Most cited papers in Evolution and Science Education
What are the most cited papers in Evolution and Science Education?
The most cited paper in Evolution and Science Education is "Naturalistic inquiry" (Yvonna S. Lincoln, Egon G. Guba, Joseph J. Pilotta, 1985), with 36,480 citations. Next come "APE: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R language" (12,865) and "The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme" (7,845).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 250 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naturalistic inquiry Yvonna S. Lincoln, Egon G. Guba, Joseph J. Pilotta · International Journal of Intercultural Relations | 1985 | 36,480 |
| 2 | APE: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R language Emmanuel Paradis, Julien Claude, Korbinian Strimmer · Bioinformatics | 20 Jan 2004 | 12,865 |
| 3 | The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme Stephen Jay Gould, Richard C Lewontin · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 21 Sep 1979 | 7,845 |
| 4 | Accommodation of a scientific conception: Toward a theory of conceptual change George J. Posner, Kenneth A. Strike, Peter W. Hewson et al. · Science Education | Apr 1982 | 5,128 |
| 5 | PLEIOTROPY, NATURAL SELECTION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SENESCENCE George Christopher Williams · Evolution | Dec 1957 | 4,343 |
| 6 | THE GENETIC BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE Joseph Felsenstein · Evolution | Sep 1975 | 3,554 |
| 7 | Growth of biological thought Jane Maienschein · Nature | Jun 1994 | 2,268 |
| 8 | A Confutation of Convergent Realism Larry Laudan · Philosophy of Science | Mar 1981 | 1,558 |
| 9 | The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions Kevin N. Laland, Tobias Uller, Marcus W. Feldman et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 11 Aug 2015 | 1,423 |
| 10 | Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds? JOHN L. WORRALL · dialectica | 1989 | 1,272 |
| 11 | Phenotypic plasticity and evolution by genetic assimilation Massimo Pigliucci, Courtney J. Murren, Carl D. Schlichting · Journal of Experimental Biology | 26 May 2006 | 1,143 |
| 12 | Darwin's dangerous idea Melanie S. Mitchell · Complexity | Sep 1996 | 1,127 |
| 13 | Episodic Memory and Autonoesis: Uniquely Human? Endel Tulving · Oxford University Press eBooks | 10 Feb 2005 | 994 |
| 14 | Darwinism and human affairs James F. Crow · Cell | May 1980 | 955 |
| 15 | THE HUMAN CAREER: HUMAN BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL ORIGINS Henry M. McHenry · Evolution | Mar 1991 | 890 |
| 16 | How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together Kevin N. Laland, John Odling‐Smee, Sean Myles · Nature Reviews Genetics | 18 Jan 2010 | 884 |
| 17 | The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? Robert H. Cowie, Philippe Bouchet, Benoît Fontaine · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 10 Jan 2022 | 867 |
| 18 | Chance and Necessity Jacques Monod, Alfred A. Knopf, A. S. Iberall et al. · Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control | Mar 1973 | 835 |
| 19 | Public Acceptance of Evolution Jon D. Miller, Eugenie C. Scott, Shinji Okamoto · Science | 10 Aug 2006 | 828 |
| 20 | Student conceptions of natural selection and its role in evolution Beth A. Bishop, Charles Anderson · Journal of Research in Science Teaching | May 1990 | 812 |
| 21 | Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution A. Lloyd · Briefings in Bioinformatics | 2000 | 799 |
| 22 | Coincidence, coevolution, or causation? DNA content, cell size, and the C-value enigma T. Ryan Gregory · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | Feb 2001 | 715 |
| 23 | The evolution of individuality Rudolf A. Raff · Cell | Aug 1988 | 715 |
| 24 | Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life Maureen A. O’Malley · Acta Biotheoretica | Jun 2006 | 701 |
| 25 | Darwinism and the Expansion of Evolutionary Theory Stephen Jay Gould · Science | 23 Apr 1982 | 693 |
| 26 | CONCLUDING REMARKS OF THE CHAIRMAN Carl R. Stern · Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology | 1950 | 678 |
| 27 | Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought Tim Ingold · Ethnos | Mar 2006 | 628 |
| 28 | Evo–devo: extending the evolutionary synthesis Gerd B. Müller · Nature Reviews Genetics | 6 Nov 2007 | 618 |
| 29 | Evolution in four dimensions: Genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic variation in the history of life Michael J. Benton · Journal of Clinical Investigation | Nov 2005 | 616 |
| 30 | Wonders and the order of nature Roy S. Porter · Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences | 26 Apr 1999 | 604 |
| 31 | Demography and Cultural Innovation: a Model and its Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Culture Stephen J. Shennan · Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Apr 2001 | 592 |
| 32 | Genetics, Paleontology, and Evolution W. W. Howells · American Anthropologist | 12 Oct 1950 | 581 |
| 33 | Development and evaluation of the conceptual inventory of natural selection Dianne L. Anderson, Kathleen Mary Fisher, Gregory J. Norman · Journal of Research in Science Teaching | 15 Nov 2002 | 579 |
| 34 | THE EFFECT OF ESSENTIALISM ON TAXONOMY—TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF STASIS (I) David L. Hull · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | Feb 1965 | 578 |
| 35 | Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions T. Ryan Gregory · Evolution Education and Outreach | 8 Apr 2009 | 570 |
| 36 | Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process Laurence D. Hurst · Heredity | Dec 2000 | 564 |
| 37 | Genes, Culture, Democracy, and Happiness Ronald F. Inglehart, Hans‐Dieter Klingemann · The MIT Press eBooks | 15 Sep 2000 | 555 |
| 38 | Some neo-Darwinian decision rules for altruism: Weighing cues for inclusive fitness as a function of the biological importance of the decision. Eugene Burnstein, Christian S. Crandall, Shinobu Kitayama · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Nov 1994 | 554 |
| 39 | Species Philip Kitcher · Philosophy of Science | Jun 1984 | 548 |
| 40 | THE BALDWIN EFFECT AND GENETIC ASSIMILATION: REVISITING TWO MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE MEDIATED BY PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY Erika Crispo · Evolution | 21 Aug 2007 | 540 |
| 41 | PERSPECTIVE: A CRITIQUE OF SEWALL WRIGHT'S SHIFTING BALANCE THEORY OF EVOLUTION Jerry A. Coyne, Nick Barton, Michael Turelli · Evolution | Jun 1997 | 529 |
| 42 | Some simple evo devo theses: how true might they be for language? Noam Chomsky · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 7 Jan 2010 | 504 |
| 43 | The Human Function Compunction: Teleological explanation in adults Deborah A. Kelemen, Evelyn Rosset · Cognition | 11 Feb 2009 | 496 |
| 44 | The scope of teleological thinking in preschool children Deborah A. Kelemen · Cognition | Apr 1999 | 493 |
| 45 | THE EXISTENCE OF GOD Richard G. Swinburne · Philosophical Books | Oct 1965 | 483 |
| 46 | Cognitive and Contextual Factors in the Emergence of Diverse Belief Systems: Creation versus Evolution E. Margaret Evans · Cognitive Psychology | May 2001 | 479 |
| 47 | A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable Anjan Chakravartty | 18 Oct 2007 | 465 |
| 48 | THE SPECIES CONCEPT George Gaylord Simpson · Evolution | Dec 1951 | 440 |
| 49 | The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection A. W. F. Edwards · Genetics | Apr 2000 | 439 |
| 50 | Genetic Information: A Metaphor In Search of a Theory Paul E. Griffiths · Philosophy of Science | Sep 2001 | 431 |
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