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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Is Time the Real Line?	29
Modeling the Past Hypothesis: A Mechanical Cosmology	24
Position as an Independent Variable and the Emergence of the 1/2-Time Fractional Derivative in Quantum Mechanics	19
Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin	18
Beyond the Quantum Membrane Paradigm: A Philosophical Analysis of the Structure of Black Holes in Full QG	16
Einstein Completeness as Categoricity	15
From Joint to Single-System $$\psi$$-Onticity Without Preparation Independence	15
Spontaneous Collapse Theories and Temporal Primitivism about Time’s Direction	14
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	12
Weak Ratios	12
A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics	12
The Point of Primitive Ontology	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
New Insights on the Quantum-Classical Division in Light of Collapse Models	10
Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Fractional Space Time Dimensions	10
Affine Geometry and Relativity	10
Schrödinger Cats and Quantum Complementarity	10
Quantum Probability Geometrically Realized in Projective Space	10
Towards a Better Understanding of the Electron’s Magnetic Moment: A Reply to Sanchioni	9
The Paradox of Classical Reasoning	9
Quantum Physics, Digital Computers, and Life from a Holistic Perspective	9

Mathematical Models of Photons	9
On the Emergent Origin of the Inertial Mass	9
Is the Universe in a Mixed State?	9
Are Hilbert Spaces Unphysical? Hardly, My Dear!	9
Relativistic Corrections to the Quantization of a Classical Spinning Particle with Constant Electric and Magnetic Fields	8
From Hamilton-Jacobi to Bohm: Why the Wave Function Isn’t Just Another Action	8
Has the Problem of the Motion of a Heavy Symmetric Top been Solved in Quadratures?	8
Learning from Paradoxes	7
Towards an Information Description of Space-Time	7
Aspects of Superdeterminism Made Intuitive	7
A Note on the Electron’s Magnetic Moment	7
Relational Properties and Relational Quantum Mechanics	7
Do(es the Influence of) Empty Waves Survive in Configuration Space?	7
The Identification of Mean Quantum Potential with Fisher Information Leads to a Strong Uncertainty Relation	6
How Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics can Enrich Each Other: The Case of the Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation	6
Energy in Newtonian Gravity	6
The Non-vanishing Imprint of Gravitational Waves as the Result of Its Nonlinear Evolution in Space	6
Objective Collapse Induced by a Macroscopic Object	6
Non-Relativistic Regime and Topology: Topological Term in the Einstein Equation	5
Relativistic QFT from a Bohmian Perspective: A Proof of Concept	5
A proof that no-signalling implies microcausality in quantum field theory	5
Conservation Laws in Quantum Database Search	5
On the Growing Universe of Causal Set Theory—An Order-Type Approach	5
Prediction and Inference: From Models and Data to Artificial Intelligence	5
Causal Set Theory is (Strongly) Causal	5
Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time	5
The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics	5
Emergent Phenomena in Nature: A Paradox with Theory?	5
What is It Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years	5
From Global Time to Local Physics	5
Coarse-grained Entropy Balance of the Szilard Engine	5
Generalized Aharonov-Bohm Effect	5
Thermodynamic Signature of Logical Depth in Quantum Circuits	5
Eliminating the ‘Impossible’: Recent Progress on Local Measurement Theory for Quantum Field Theory	5
Weak Particle Presence	4
A Decoherence-Based Approach to the Classical Limit in Bohm’s Theory	4
Building Spacetime from Effective Interactions Between Quantum Fluctuations	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
Convergence to Bohmian Mechanics in a de Broglie-Like Pilot-Wave System	4
Black Hole Entropy from Non-dirichlet Sectors, and a Bounce Solution	4
Correction to Article “Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin” in Foundations of Physics (2026) 56:10	4
Beyond the Born Rule in Quantum Gravity	4
Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?	4
Hodology	4
Achronotopic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	4
Avoiding Sparseness in a Flash Ontology	4
A Diagrammatic Formulation of Local Realism	4
On the Alternatives to the Ideal Mathematical Points-Like Separatedness	4
Swampland Revisited	4

Revisiting the Charged Harmonic Oscillator in a Uniform Electric Field	4
Proposed Experiments for Detecting Contextual Hidden Variables	4
On the Role of an Intrinsic Action Uncertainty in Classical Dynamics	4
What Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics?	4
The estimation of the mean value of copies of uncertain positions and its relation to the basic structure of quantum mechanics	4
Phenomenology, Perspectivalism and (Quantum) Physics	4
Infrared Acceleration Radiation	3
On Efforts to Decouple Early Universe Cosmology and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology	3
Eliminativism and the QCD $$\theta _{\text {YM}}$$-Term: What Gauge Transformations Cannot Do	3
The Position-Momentum Commutator as a Generalized Function: Resolution of the Apparent Discrepancy Between Continuous and Discrete Bases	3
Comment on a No-Go Theorem for $$\psi $$-Ontic Models	3
Why the Global Phase is Not Real	3
A Note on Penrose’s Spin-Geometry Theorem and the Geometry of ‘Empirical Quantum Angles’	3
Microscopic Legendre Transform, Canonical Ensemble and Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy Principle	3
A Misleading Naming Convention: De Sitter ‘Tachyonic’ Scalar Fields	3
The Determinacy Problem in Quantum Mechanics	3
Plane Wave Solutions to a Proposed “Equation of Everything”	3
The Decoherent Arrow of Time and the Entanglement Past Hypothesis	3
Life, the Multiverse, and Fine-Tuning	3
An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical Principles	3
Quantum Mereology and Subsystems from the Spectrum	3
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Particle Trajectories	3
A Viable Varying Speed of Light Model in the RW Metric	3
Evading Quantum Mechanics à la Sudarshan: Quantum-Mechanics-Free Subsystem as a Realization of Koopman-von Neumann Mechanics	3
Is Superluminal Signaling Possible in Collapse Theories of Quantum Mechanics?	3
Simulation of Afshar’s Double Slit Experiment	3
Relational Quantum Mechanics: Ozawa’s Intersubjectivity Theorem as Justification of the Postulate on Internally Consistent Descriptions	3
The Intrinsic and Extrinsic Hierarchy Problems	3
Does Locality Imply Reality of the Wave Function? Hardy’s Theorem Revisited	3
Relational Quantum Mechanics and Contextuality	3
On perspectivism and relationalism of Relational Quantum Mechanics	3
The Heuristic Power of Theory Classification, the Case of General Relativity	3
A Case Study for Leibnizian Ideas in Wolfram Model	3
Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Gravity Are Also Tests of the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	3
Curved Spacetimes from Quantum Mechanics	3
Fisher Information and Quantum Origins of the Adiabatic Law	3
Physical Thinking and the GHZ Theorem	3
Contemporary Perspectivism as a Framework of Scientific Inquiry in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond	3
A Stochastic Model of Mathematics and Science	3
Proposed Experiments to Clarify the Real Nature of the Quantum Waves	3