OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	95
Grasping in Understanding	68
In Defence of Dimensions	53
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	51
The Demise of Brain Death	50
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	37
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	28
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	25
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	24
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	24
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	22
Host Specificity in Biological Control	21
The comparison of inequality measurements across countries and time	19
Rational Aversion to Information	19
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	17
Inductive Reasoning with Multi-dimensional Concepts	17
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	16
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	16
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	16
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	16
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	15
On Biologizing Racism	15
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	15
Biochemical functions	14
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	13

Proper Functions are Proximal Functions	13
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	12
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	12
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	12
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms	12
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem	11
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?	11
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	11
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts	11
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations	11
Can the Epistemic Value of Natural Kinds Be Explained Independently of Their Metaphysics?	10
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space	10
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes	10
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'	9
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale	9
On the very idea of biological individuality	9
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	9
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	9
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes	9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	9
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument	8
Actual Causation and Minimality	8
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?	8
The Costs of HARKing	8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions	7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice	7
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	7
Two Forms of Inconsistency in Quantum Foundations	7
The Evolution of Denial	7
The mirage of big-data phrenology	7
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	7
Front Matter	7
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations	7
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	6
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide	6
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	6
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	6
Introspection Is Signal Detection	6
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	6
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	5

Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	5
Front Matter	5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	5
Front Matter	5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	4
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	4
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health	4
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation	4
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	4
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	4
Understanding Structural Representations	4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry	4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality	4
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	4
Closing the Hole Argument	4
Front Matter	4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints	4
Machian Comparativism about Mass	4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	4