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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	51
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	35
In Defence of Dimensions	32
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	30
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	26
Grasping in Understanding	20
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	20
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	19
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	19
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	19
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	18
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	18
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	18
Host Specificity in Biological Control	16
Looking for Work in Quantum Thermodynamics	16
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	15
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	15
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	15
Rational Aversion to Information	14
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	14
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	14
On Biologizing Racism	13
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms	13
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science	12
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws	12

Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	12
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	12
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes	11
Biochemical Functions	11
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations	11
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	11
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem	11
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions	11
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space	10
Laws of Nature and Their Supporting Casts	10
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	10
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	10
Front Matter	10
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains	10
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'	10
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	10
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	10
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?	10
Front Matter	10
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes	10
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	9
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	9
The Evolution of Denial	9
On the very idea of biological individuality	9
Realism about Newtonian Gravity	9
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale	9
Actual Causation and Minimality	8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	8
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument	8
Front Matter	8
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice	8
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions	8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?	8
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis	7
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation	7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations	7
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	7
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	7
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	6
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models	6
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	6
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	6
Introspection Is Signal Detection	6
Front Matter	6
The mirage of big-data phrenology	6

What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism	6
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime	6
Geometric Pooling: A User’s Guide	6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	6
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	5
Front Matter	5
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	5
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice	5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	5
Closing the Hole Argument	5
Presentist Velocities	5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5