| Enabling conditions for ‘open-ended evolution’ K Ruiz-Mirazo, J Umerez, A Moreno Biology & Philosophy 23, 67-85, 2008 | 97 | 2008 |
| Cognition and life: The autonomy of cognition A Moreno, J Umerez, J Ibañez Brain and Cognition 34 (1), 107-129, 1997 | 80 | 1997 |
| The autonomy of biological individuals and artificial models A Moreno, A Etxeberria, J Umerez BioSystems 91 (2), 309-319, 2008 | 78 | 2008 |
| Downward causation at the core of living organization A Moreno, J Umerez | 75 | 2000 |
| Organismo y organización en la biología teórica:¿ vuelta al organicismo? A Etxeberria, J Umerez Ludus vitalis 14 (26), 3-38, 2006 | 66 | 2006 |
| Universality without matter? A Moreno, A Etxeberria, J Umerez Artificial Life IV, 406-410, 1994 | 43 | 1994 |
| Semantic Closure: a guiding notion to ground Artificial Life J Umerez European Conference on Artificial Life, 77-94, 1995 | 41 | 1995 |
| Howard Pattee's theoretical biology—a radical epistemological stance to approach life, evolution and complexity J Umerez Biosystems 60 (1-3), 159-177, 2001 | 39 | 2001 |
| Constraint J Umerez, M Mossio Encyclopedia of systems biology, 490-493, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| Dealing with the changeable and blurry edges of living things: a modified version of property-cluster kinds MJ Ferreira Ruiz, J Umerez European Journal for Philosophy of Science 8, 493-518, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| Organised interactive construction: The nature of autonomy and the emergence of intelligence WD Christensen, CA Hooker, A Etxebberia, A Moreno, J Umerez The contribution of artificial life and the sciences of complexity to the …, 2000 | 19 | 2000 |
| Definition of life and research program in artificial life A Moreno, J Umerez, J Fernández Ludus Vitalis 2 (3), 15-33, 1994 | 17 | 1994 |
| The evolution of the symbolic domain in living systems and artificial life J Umerez Evolutionary Systems: Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on …, 1998 | 12 | 1998 |
| Origin of life as the first MST—control hierarchies and Interlevel relation J Umerez, A Moreno World Futures: Journal of General Evolution 45 (1-4), 139-154, 1995 | 12 | 1995 |
| Biological organization from a hierarchical perspective J Umerez Evol Theory Hierarchical Perspect 63, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| Where Does Pattee’s “How Does a Molecule Become a Message?” Belong in the History of Biosemiotics? J Umerez Biosemiotics 2, 269-290, 2009 | 7 | 2009 |
| Encyclopedia of systems biology J Umerez, M Mossio Encyclopedia of Systems Biology,(January), 2013 | 6 | 2013 |
| Réductionnisme, holisme et émergentisme M Mossio, J Umerez Précis de philosophie de la biologie, 157-168, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
| Biological Information: The Causal Roots of Meaning A Moreno, A Etxeberria, J Umerez Workbook of the 1st Principia Cybernetica Workshop 51, 39, 1991 | 4 | 1991 |
| Control Hierarchies: Pattee’s Approach to Function and Control as Time-Dependent Constraints J Umerez | 3 | 2021 |
