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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	126
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	50
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	41
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	33
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	29
In Defence of Dimensions	28
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	26
Grasping in Understanding	25
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	25
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	22
The Demise of Brain Death	22
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	20
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	19
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	17
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	16
Host Specificity in Biological Control	16
Rational Aversion to Information	16
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	16
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	15
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	15
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	15
On Biologizing Racism	15
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	15
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms	14
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws	13

Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	13
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions	13
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	13
Biochemical Functions	13
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	13
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts	12
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes	12
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem	12
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations	12
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes	12
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science	12
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space	11
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?	11
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	10
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	10
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale	9
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	9
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'	9
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	9
On the very idea of biological individuality	9
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	9
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains	8
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	8
Front Matter	8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?	8
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	8
The Costs of HARKing	8
Two Forms of Inconsistency in Quantum Foundations	8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions	8
Actual Causation and Minimality	8
Front Matter	8
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	8
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice	8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	8
The Evolution of Denial	7
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	7
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument	7
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation	7
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations	7
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	7
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	7
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis	6
The mirage of big-data phrenology	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	6
Front Matter	6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models	6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	6
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide	6

Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism	6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	6
Front Matter	5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	5
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice	5
Presentist Velocities	5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	5
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry	5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	5
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime	5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	5
Closing the Hole Argument	5
Front Matter	5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	5
Introspection Is Signal Detection	5