OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in History and 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Clinical recommendations: The role of mechanisms in the GRADE framework	47
The value-ladenness of transparency in science: Lessons from Lyme disease	32
Book Review	27
Evidence of effectiveness	26
Editorial Board	23
Bringing thought experiments back into the philosophy of science	22
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–1970	17
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics	17
Variability and substantiality. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg school and the neo-Kantian historiography of science	17
The Pragmatist roots of scientific medicine: Reassessing Abraham Flexner's report on medical education	16
Genetics on the neurodiversity spectrum: Genetic, phenotypic and endophenotypic continua in autism and ADHD	15
Book Forum	14
Through the convex Looking Glass: A Helmholtzian lesson for the connection between dynamics and chronogeometry in spacetime theories	14
The principle of simplicity for Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī	13
Book Forum	13
Book Review	13
Book Review	12
Understanding the role of wrongdoing in technological disasters: Utilizing ecofeminist philosophy to examine commemoration	12
Book Review	11
Editorial Board	11
Ship fever, confinement, and the racialization of disease	11
Book Review	11
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics	11
A science for gods, a science for humans: Kant on teleological speculations in natural history	11
When do non-epistemic values play an epistemically illegitimate role in science? How to solve one half of the new demarcation problem	10

Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics	10
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	10
No one solution to the “new demarcation problem”?: A view from the trenches	10
Editorial Board	9
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	9
Book Forum	9
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	9
Adaptation and its analogues: Biological categories for biosemantics	9
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond	9
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	8
Book Forum	8
Book Forum	8
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	8
Methodological reflections on the MOND/dark matter debate	8
Relational Quantum Mechanics, quantum relativism, and the iteration of relativity	8
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction	8
The Metaphysical Challenge of Loop Quantum Gravity	8
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 Analysis	8
Book Forum	8
Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies	8
Book Forum	8
Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach	7
The delusive benefit of the doubt	7
Rewriting the Quantum “Revolution”	7
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening	7
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition	7
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics	7
Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science	7
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 science	7
Chomsky in the playground: Idealization in generative linguistics	7
Gauge invariance through gauge fixing	7
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies	7
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview	6
Structuralism and the conformity of mathematics and nature	6
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint	6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project	6
Bottoms up: The Standard Model Effective Field Theory from a model perspective	6
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain	6
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes	6
How to make value-driven climate science for policy more ethical	6
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	6
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models	6
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities	6
Science, politics and regulation: The trust-based approach to the demarcation problem	6
Priority and privilege in scientific discovery	6
Multiple discoveries, inevitability, and scientific realism	6
Beyond Mendelism and Biometry	6
The Dual Dynamical Foundation of Orthodox Quantum Mechanics	5

Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	5
Operational theories as structural realism	5
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation	5
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations	5
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms	5
Joint representation: Modeling a phenomenon with multiple biological systems	5
Scientific realism and empirical confirmation: A puzzle	5
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	5
Selection in molecular evolution	5
Scale in the history of medicine	5
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism	5
From Wald to Schnorr: von Mises’ definition of randomness in the aftermath of Ville’s Theorem	5
Mixed mathematics and metaphysical physics: Descartes and the mechanics of the flow of water	5
Ructions over fluxions: Maclaurin’s draft, The Analyst Controversy and Berkeley’s anti-mathematical philosophy	5
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	5
Clarifying some misconceptions in interpreting Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments	5
Epistemic interests and the objectivity of inquiry	5
Why Reichenbach wasn't entirely wrong, and Poincaré was almost right, about geometric conventionalism	5
Book Forum	5
Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”	4
Experimentation in the cosmic laboratory	4
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	4
Mach's principle and Mach's hypotheses	4
Book Forum	4
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	4
The curvature argument	4
Editorial Board	4
Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?	4
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory	4
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy	4
Editorial Board	4
Anatomical identifications of stars: Textual descriptions in Ptolemy's star catalogue	4
Book Review	4
Editorial Board	4
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence	4
On the ‘cognitive map debate’ in insect navigation	4
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	4
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?	4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	4
The algorithmic turn in conservation biology: Characterizing progress in ethically-driven sciences	4
Spinoza on the resistance of bodies	4
Book Forum	4
Book Review	4
Editorial Board	4
On the relativity of magnitudes	4
Does democracy require value-neutral science? Analyzing the legitimacy of scientific information in the political sphere	4
Some reflections on Robert Batterman's a middle way	4
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories	4
Editorial Board	4
Book Review	4
Editorial Board	4
Book Forum	4
The Relativity of Theory by Moti Mizrahi: Reply by the Author	4
Introduction to values and pluralism in the environmental sciences: From inferences to institutions	4
Publish without bias or perish without replications	4
The environment: An ambiguous concept in Waddington's biology	4
Creativity, pursuit and epistemic tradition	4