Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science is 1. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Clinical recommendations: The role of mechanisms in the GRADE framework47
The value-ladenness of transparency in science: Lessons from Lyme disease32
Book Review27
Evidence of effectiveness26
Editorial Board23
Bringing thought experiments back into the philosophy of science22
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics17
Variability and substantiality. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg school and the neo-Kantian historiography of science17
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–197017
The Pragmatist roots of scientific medicine: Reassessing Abraham Flexner's report on medical education16
Genetics on the neurodiversity spectrum: Genetic, phenotypic and endophenotypic continua in autism and ADHD15
Through the convex Looking Glass: A Helmholtzian lesson for the connection between dynamics and chronogeometry in spacetime theories14
Book Forum14
Book Review13
The principle of simplicity for Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī13
Book Forum13
Understanding the role of wrongdoing in technological disasters: Utilizing ecofeminist philosophy to examine commemoration12
Book Review12
Ship fever, confinement, and the racialization of disease11
Book Review11
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics11
A science for gods, a science for humans: Kant on teleological speculations in natural history11
Book Review11
Editorial Board11
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’10
No one solution to the “new demarcation problem”?: A view from the trenches10
When do non-epistemic values play an epistemically illegitimate role in science? How to solve one half of the new demarcation problem10
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics10
Book Forum9
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics9
Adaptation and its analogues: Biological categories for biosemantics9
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond9
Editorial Board9
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization9
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction8
The Metaphysical Challenge of Loop Quantum Gravity8
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?8
The many faces of unification and pluralism in economics: The case of Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis8
Book Forum8
Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies8
Book Forum8
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey8
Book Forum8
Book Forum8
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–19008
Methodological reflections on the MOND/dark matter debate8
Relational Quantum Mechanics, quantum relativism, and the iteration of relativity8
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics7
Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science7
Is the EHT black hole experiment a new experiment in the guise of an old experiment?7
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science7
Chomsky in the playground: Idealization in generative linguistics7
Gauge invariance through gauge fixing7
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies7
Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach7
The delusive benefit of the doubt7
Rewriting the Quantum “Revolution”7
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening7
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition7
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes6
How to make value-driven climate science for policy more ethical6
The policy of testing hypotheses in Chilean science. The role of a hypothesis-driven research funding programme in the installation of a hypothesis-driven experimental system in visual neuroscience6
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models6
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities6
Science, politics and regulation: The trust-based approach to the demarcation problem6
Priority and privilege in scientific discovery6
Multiple discoveries, inevitability, and scientific realism6
Beyond Mendelism and Biometry6
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview6
Structuralism and the conformity of mathematics and nature6
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project6
Bottoms up: The Standard Model Effective Field Theory from a model perspective6
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain6
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study5
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism5
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation5
From Wald to Schnorr: von Mises’ definition of randomness in the aftermath of Ville’s Theorem5
Mixed mathematics and metaphysical physics: Descartes and the mechanics of the flow of water5
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories5
Epistemic interests and the objectivity of inquiry5
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant5
Scale in the history of medicine5
Why Reichenbach wasn't entirely wrong, and Poincaré was almost right, about geometric conventionalism5
Book Forum5
The Dual Dynamical Foundation of Orthodox Quantum Mechanics5
Operational theories as structural realism5
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations5
Ructions over fluxions: Maclaurin’s draft, The Analyst Controversy and Berkeley’s anti-mathematical philosophy5
Clarifying some misconceptions in interpreting Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments5
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms5
Joint representation: Modeling a phenomenon with multiple biological systems5
Scientific realism and empirical confirmation: A puzzle5
Selection in molecular evolution5
Book Forum4
The Relativity of Theory by Moti Mizrahi: Reply by the Author4
Introduction to values and pluralism in the environmental sciences: From inferences to institutions4
Publish without bias or perish without replications4
The environment: An ambiguous concept in Waddington's biology4
Creativity, pursuit and epistemic tradition4
Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”4
Experimentation in the cosmic laboratory4
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time4
Mach's principle and Mach's hypotheses4
Book Forum4
Putting inference to the best explanation into context4
The curvature argument4
Editorial Board4
Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?4
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory4
Editorial Board4
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy4
Anatomical identifications of stars: Textual descriptions in Ptolemy's star catalogue4
Book Review4
Editorial Board4
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence4
On the ‘cognitive map debate’ in insect navigation4
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori4
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer4
The algorithmic turn in conservation biology: Characterizing progress in ethically-driven sciences4
Spinoza on the resistance of bodies4
Book Forum4
Book Review4
Editorial Board4
On the relativity of magnitudes4
Does democracy require value-neutral science? Analyzing the legitimacy of scientific information in the political sphere4
Some reflections on Robert Batterman's a middle way4
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories4
Editorial Board4
Book Review4
Editorial Board4
Individual differences, uniqueness, and individuality in behavioural ecology3
Confirmation, or pursuit-worthiness? Lessons from J. J. Sakurai's 1960 theory of the strong force for the debate on non-empirical physics3
Consistent histories through pragmatist lenses3
The new demarcation problem3
The morphological paradigm in robotics3
Selection, presentism, and pluralist history3
How revealed preference theory can be explanatory3
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation3
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function3
Selection, growth and form. Turing’s two biological paths towards intelligent machinery3
Bodies of evidence: The ‘Excited Delirium Syndrome’ and the epistemology of cause-of-death inquiry3
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science3
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences3
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?3
The politics of environments before the environment: Biopolitics in the longue durée3
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure3
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research3
Accelerating agriculture: Data-intensive plant breeding and the use of genetic gain as an indicator for agricultural research and development3
‘Species’ without species3
Scientific realism, scientific practice, and science communication: An empirical investigation of academics and science communicators3
Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958–1968)3
Book Forum3
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change3
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology3
How many properties of spin does a particle have?3
The operational framework for quantum theories is both epistemologically and ontologically neutral3
Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–19803
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability3
Existence of macroscopic spatial superpositions in collapse theories3
Idealizations and analogies: Explaining critical phenomena3
The case of the vanishing wavefunction2
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature2
Inference to the best neuroscientific explanation2
Development and transfer of automated methods in neuroscience: The DADTA2
Darwin and the French: The species question and ‘man’ in Oceania2
Newton's “law-first” epistemology and “matter-first” metaphysics2
Redefining a discovery: Charles Bell, the respiratory nervous system and the birth of the emotions2
Design principles as minimal models2
Book Review2
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics2
Animism and science in European perspective2
Kant, causation and laws of nature2
Studies A, B, and C merger2
How physics flew the philosophers' nest2
A previously-unknown Iranian treatise on a terrestrial globe2
Positivist or post-positivist philosophy of science? The left Vienna Circle and Thomas Kuhn2
Editorial2
Editorial Board2
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics2
Measurement, decomposition and level-switching in historical science: Geochronology and the ontology of scientific methods2
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle2
Demarcating scientific medicine2
Book Review2
Values in early-stage climate engineering: The ethical implications of “doing the research”2
Getting from here to there: The contingency of historical evidence and the value of speculation2
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Idealisations and the aims of polygenic scores2
Book Review2
Structural losses, structural realism and the stability of Lie algebras2
Animal deception and the content of signals2
Francis Galton’s regression towards mediocrity and the stability of types2
Emergence of a techno-legal specialty: Animal tests to assess chemical safety in the UK, 1945–19602
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy2
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century2
Scaling procedures in climate science: Using temporal scaling to identify a paleoclimate analogue2
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum2
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term2
Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?2
Bias as an epistemic notion2
Three legs of the missing heritability problem2
Theory vs. experiment: The rise of the dynamic view of proteins2
Editorial Board2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism2
Kant on the logical form of organized being2
Editorial Board2
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail2
Book Review2
Babbage’s guidelines for the design of mathematical notations2
Book Review2
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies2
I ain’t afraid of no ghost2
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning2
Mathematics and society reunited: The social aspects of Brouwer's intuitionism2
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals2
Finite-size scaling theory: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to critical phenomena1
Scientific patronage in the age of Darwin: The curious case of William Boyd Dawkins1
Model-as-replica, model-as-instrument: Representational power and contextual versatility in animal models1
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage1
Book Forum1
Editorial Board1
Book Forum1
Hempel on scientific understanding1
When standard measurement meets messy genitalia: Lessons from 20th century phallometry and cervimetry1
Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory1
Contingentism for historians1
Editorial Board1
Book Review1
Editorial Board1
Editorial Board1
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes1
Editorial Board1
Evaluating community science1
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany1
Beyond descriptive accuracy: The central dogma of molecular biology in scientific practice1
Editorial Board1
Animal culture: But of which kind?1
How to trust a scientist1
Book Review1
Maxwell's role in turning the concept of model into the methodology of modeling1
Lotteries, bookmaking and ancient randomizers: Local and global analyses of chance1
Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations1
Book Forum1
Editorial Board1
Book Review1
Editorial Board1
Scientific inertia in animal-based research in biomedicine1
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease1
Divergence of values and goals in participatory research1
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