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50The diversity of experimental organisms in biomedical research may be influenced by biomedical fundingBioessays 39 (5): 1600258. 2017.Contrary to concerns of some critics, we present evidence that biomedical research is not dominated by a small handful of model organisms. An exhaustive analysis of research literature suggests that the diversity of experimental organisms in biomedical research has increased substantially since 1975. There has been a longstanding worry that organism‐centric funding policies can lead to biases in experimental organism choice, and thus negatively impact the direction of research and the interpreta…Read more
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27Quantitative Perspectives on Fifty Years of the Journal of the History of BiologyJournal of the History of Biology 50 (4): 695-751. 2017.Journal of the History of Biology provides a fifty-year long record for examining the evolution of the history of biology as a scholarly discipline. In this paper, we present a new dataset and preliminary quantitative analysis of the thematic content of JHB from the perspectives of geography, organisms, and thematic fields. The geographic diversity of authors whose work appears in JHB has increased steadily since 1968, but the geographic coverage of the content of JHB articles remains strongly l…Read more
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23Introduction: Contexts and concepts of adaptability and plasticity in 20th-century plant scienceStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 50 26-28. 2015.
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22Plasticity, stability, and yield: The origins of Anthony David Bradshaw's model of adaptive phenotypic plasticityStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 50 51-66. 2015.
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