OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	54
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	37
In Defence of Dimensions	32
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	31
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	26
Grasping in Understanding	22
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	21
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	20
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	20
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	19
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	19
Looking for Work in Quantum Thermodynamics	18
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	18
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	18
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	17
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	16
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	16
Rational Aversion to Information	15
Host Specificity in Biological Control	15
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	15
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms	14
On Biologizing Racism	14
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	14
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	13
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science	13

Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws	13
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	12
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions	12
Biochemical Functions	12
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem	11
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	11
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes	11
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations	11
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes	11
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?	10
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	10
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains	10
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale	10
Front Matter	10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space	10
Front Matter	10
On the very idea of biological individuality	10
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	10
Laws of Nature and Their Supporting Casts	10
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	10
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	10
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	9
Actual Causation and Minimality	9
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection	9
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	9
Realism about Newtonian Gravity	9
The Evolution of Denial	9
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument	8
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice	8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions	8
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations	8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	8
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation	8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?	8
Front Matter	8
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis	7
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	7
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	7
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	7
The mirage of big-data phrenology	7
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	7
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime	6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	6
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	6
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism	6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models	6

Introspection Is Signal Detection	6
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice	6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	6
Front Matter	6
Geometric Pooling: A User’s Guide	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	6
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	5
Closing the Hole Argument	5
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	5
Presentist Velocities	5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	5
Front Matter	5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	5
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints	5