OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 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
Book Forum	35
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	27
Book Forum	24
Book Review	22
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	22
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	22
Selection in molecular evolution	21
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	20
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.	18
Social emergence and unpredictability	18
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	17
Modernizing the German forest—How a changing economy divided forestry economists, 1850-1900	17
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	17
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	16
Book Forum	15
Editorial Board	14
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	13
Book Forum	13
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	13
Historicizing gender	13
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	12
‘The tensor calculus knows physics better than the physicist’: Bachelard on the role of ‘Covariant Differentiation’ in Relativity theory	11
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	11
Pragmatic pluralism and problem framing: Why pragmatism demands pluralism	10
Editorial Board	10

Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	9
The conceptual evolution of exclusion rules in the DSM: Problems with determining when one diagnosis should rule out another	9
Laws, meta-laws, and hydrogenic symmetries: Adapting Lange’s account	9
The views of Danylo Samoylovich (1744–1805) on the prevention, course and treatment of the plague	9
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life	9
Editorial Board	9
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	8
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	8
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	8
Book Forum	8
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality	8
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer	8
Book Forum	8
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	8
Berkeley on true motion	7
Book Forum	7
How to be a scientific realist: a normative–pragmatist proposal	7
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	7
Seeing Duhem's bon sens through Dewey's logic. Judgment as the central function of knowing	7
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	6
“Population” in biology and statistics	6
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research	6
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	6
Iberian oceanography: The Strait of Gibraltar region and the Portuguese research vessel ‘Albacora’ in the international scientific framework (1925–1940)	6
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	6
Editorial Board	6
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	6
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change	6
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	6
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	5
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	5
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	5
Editorial Board	5
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	5
Is Emergy really a theory of value ?	5
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	5
Systematizing the interpretation of quantum theory via reconstruction	5
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	5
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	5
Objectivity and objectification. On the ethics and epistemologies of skin colour measurements in the social sciences	5
Descartes on certainty in deduction	5
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	4
Book Review	4
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	4
Revisiting the Einstein-Bergson debate	4
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	4
Book Forum	4
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 neuroscience	4
Book Review	4

Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks	4
Psychology and the 20th-century Galileo cult: Kurt Lewin vs. Karl Bühler	4
Book Forum	4
Tables turned on table talk	4
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	4
Editorial Board	4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	4
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	4
Book Review	3
Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?	3
Zygmunt Zawirski: The forgotten forefather of quantum logic	3
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression	3
Book Forum	3
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	3
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	3
Editorial Board	3
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	3
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy	3
Modus Darwin redux	3
Book review	3
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	3
Animism and science in European perspective	3
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	3
Value-freedom & patient autonomy	3
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	3
Is Farr's cholera law of elevation a counterexample to selective realism?	3
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature	3
Book Forum	3
Editorial Board	3
Book Forum	3
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	3
Book Forum	3
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction	3
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	3
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	3
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)	3
What does it mean to predict earthquakes?	3
Typing Physics: The essential role of typists in intra-scientific communication	3