OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	49
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	36
In Defence of Dimensions	34
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	31
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	29
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	28
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	28
The Demise of Brain Death	26
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	22
Grasping in Understanding	19
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	19
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	19
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	18
Rational Aversion to Information	18
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	18
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	18
Host Specificity in Biological Control	17
Looking for Work in Quantum Thermodynamics	16
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	15
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	15
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	15
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	15
On Biologizing Racism	14
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	14
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	13

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

Presentist Velocities	6
Introspection Is Signal Detection	6
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism	6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	6
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	6
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime	6
Front Matter	6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide	6
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	6
Front Matter	6