Correction to: Journal of the History of Biology (2020) 53:45–79 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-020-09592-8

The following corrections should be taken into account for above mentioned article:

p. 49 Sentence "[…] which contributes to all the groups of descriptive bibliography […]" should read "[…] which contributes to all the groups of analytical bibliography […]".

p. 51 Sentence "Besides the descriptions of the formal citation, Gross, Harmon, and Reidy also discuss […]" should read "Besides the descriptions of the formal citation, Gross et al. (2002, p. 53) also discuss […]".

P. 62 The formatting of Graph 1 makes it difficult to distinguish between the two types of bars. A better Graph 1 is published in this Correction.

Graph 1
figure 1

Number of citations and collaborators per section of the Origin of Species

p. 71 Sentence "[…] Chapters 7 and 15 represent special cases […]" should read "[…] Chapter 7 represents special cases […]".

p. 77 Bois-Jourdain's Mélanges historiques, satiriques et anecdotiques (1807) reference is not cited in the paper and should be disregarded.