OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Foundations of Physics is 3. 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
Is Time the Real Line?	19
Modeling the Past Hypothesis: A Mechanical Cosmology	19
From Joint to Single-System $$\psi$$-Onticity Without Preparation Independence	16
Einstein Completeness as Categoricity	15
Position as an Independent Variable and the Emergence of the 1/2-Time Fractional Derivative in Quantum Mechanics	15
Beyond the Quantum Membrane Paradigm: A Philosophical Analysis of the Structure of Black Holes in Full QG	15
Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin	15
Perspectives in and on Quantum Theory	13
Anti-foundationalist Coherentism as an Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics	13
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Interpretation of de Broglie Matter Waves	13
Spontaneous Collapse Theories and Temporal Primitivism about Time’s Direction	13
A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics	12
The Point of Primitive Ontology	12
Weak Ratios	12
Can the Ontology of Bohmian Mechanics Consists Only in Particles? The PBR Theorem Says No	11
A Pilot-Wave Approach to the Many-Body Problem: Beyond the Small Entanglement Approximation	11
The Radiation Field, at the Origin of the Quantum Canonical Operators	10
Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Fractional Space Time Dimensions	10
New Insights on the Quantum-Classical Division in Light of Collapse Models	10
Towards a Better Understanding of the Electron’s Magnetic Moment: A Reply to Sanchioni	10
Quantum Probability Geometrically Realized in Projective Space	10
Affine Geometry and Relativity	10
Schrödinger Cats and Quantum Complementarity	9
Quantum Physics, Digital Computers, and Life from a Holistic Perspective	9
On the Emergent Origin of the Inertial Mass	9

Quantum Interference and the Limits of Separability	9
From Hamilton-Jacobi to Bohm: Why the Wave Function Isn’t Just Another Action	8
Is the Universe in a Mixed State?	8
Mathematical Models of Photons	8
Are Hilbert Spaces Unphysical? Hardly, My Dear!	8
Do(es the Influence of) Empty Waves Survive in Configuration Space?	7
Has the Problem of the Motion of a Heavy Symmetric Top been Solved in Quadratures?	7
Relativistic Corrections to the Quantization of a Classical Spinning Particle with Constant Electric and Magnetic Fields	7
A Note on the Electron’s Magnetic Moment	6
Learning from Paradoxes	6
Aspects of Superdeterminism Made Intuitive	6
The Non-vanishing Imprint of Gravitational Waves as the Result of Its Nonlinear Evolution in Space	6
Relational Properties and Relational Quantum Mechanics	6
Energy in Newtonian Gravity	6
Generalized Aharonov-Bohm Effect	5
The Identification of Mean Quantum Potential with Fisher Information Leads to a Strong Uncertainty Relation	5
Causal Set Theory is (Strongly) Causal	5
On the Growing Universe of Causal Set Theory—An Order-Type Approach	5
Coarse-grained Entropy Balance of the Szilard Engine	5
Eliminating the ‘Impossible’: Recent Progress on Local Measurement Theory for Quantum Field Theory	5
Prediction and Inference: From Models and Data to Artificial Intelligence	5
Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time	5
Emergent Phenomena in Nature: A Paradox with Theory?	5
Objective Collapse Induced by a Macroscopic Object	5
From Global Time to Local Physics	5
Non-Relativistic Regime and Topology: Topological Term in the Einstein Equation	5
The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics	5
A proof that no-signalling implies microcausality in quantum field theory	5
Proposed Experiments for Detecting Contextual Hidden Variables	4
Thermodynamic Signature of Logical Depth in Quantum Circuits	4
Stochastic Electric Dipole Oscillator in a Nonuniform, Static Electric Field, used to Derive the Classical Electromagnetic Zero-point Radiation Spectrum	4
Convergence to Bohmian Mechanics in a de Broglie-Like Pilot-Wave System	4
A Decoherence-Based Approach to the Classical Limit in Bohm’s Theory	4
Correction to Article “Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin” in Foundations of Physics (2026) 56:10	4
Understanding Time Reversal in Quantum Mechanics: A New Derivation	4
Unitary Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics is a Stronger Physical Postulate than Linear Time Evolution	4
Hodology	4
The estimation of the mean value of copies of uncertain positions and its relation to the basic structure of quantum mechanics	4
Beyond the Born Rule in Quantum Gravity	4
On the Alternatives to the Ideal Mathematical Points-Like Separatedness	4
Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?	4
On the Role of an Intrinsic Action Uncertainty in Classical Dynamics	4
Conservation Laws in Quantum Database Search	4
Building Spacetime from Effective Interactions Between Quantum Fluctuations	4
Avoiding Sparseness in a Flash Ontology	4
A Diagrammatic Formulation of Local Realism	4
Achronotopic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	4
Comment on a No-Go Theorem for $$\psi $$-Ontic Models	3
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Particle Trajectories	3
A Case Study for Leibnizian Ideas in Wolfram Model	3

Non-relativistic Twistor Theory: Newtonian Limits and Gravitationally Induced Collapse	3
The Position-Momentum Commutator as a Generalized Function: Resolution of the Apparent Discrepancy Between Continuous and Discrete Bases	3
Life, the Multiverse, and Fine-Tuning	3
On Efforts to Decouple Early Universe Cosmology and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology	3
Proposed Experiments to Clarify the Real Nature of the Quantum Waves	3
Weak Particle Presence	3
Does Locality Imply Reality of the Wave Function? Hardy’s Theorem Revisited	3
A Stochastic Model of Mathematics and Science	3
Contemporary Perspectivism as a Framework of Scientific Inquiry in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond	3
Eliminativism and the QCD $$\theta _{\text {YM}}$$-Term: What Gauge Transformations Cannot Do	3
A Viable Varying Speed of Light Model in the RW Metric	3
The Determinacy Problem in Quantum Mechanics	3
Relational Quantum Mechanics and Contextuality	3
A Note on Penrose’s Spin-Geometry Theorem and the Geometry of ‘Empirical Quantum Angles’	3
The Decoherent Arrow of Time and the Entanglement Past Hypothesis	3
Black Hole Entropy from Non-dirichlet Sectors, and a Bounce Solution	3
Revisiting the Charged Harmonic Oscillator in a Uniform Electric Field	3
Phenomenology, Perspectivalism and (Quantum) Physics	3
Infrared Acceleration Radiation	3
Plane Wave Solutions to a Proposed “Equation of Everything”	3
Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Gravity Are Also Tests of the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	3
Fisher Information and Quantum Origins of the Adiabatic Law	3
Curved Spacetimes from Quantum Mechanics	3
The Intrinsic and Extrinsic Hierarchy Problems	3
Quantum Mereology and Subsystems from the Spectrum	3
On perspectivism and relationalism of Relational Quantum Mechanics	3
The Heuristic Power of Theory Classification, the Case of General Relativity	3
What Price Fiber Bundle Substantivalism? On How to Avoid Holes in Fibers	3
An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical Principles	3
Relational Quantum Mechanics: Ozawa’s Intersubjectivity Theorem as Justification of the Postulate on Internally Consistent Descriptions	3