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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Forum	77
Selection in molecular evolution	45
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	41
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	33
Book Forum	32
Book Review	31
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	25
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint	24
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	22
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories	21
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	21
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	21
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.	17
Historicizing gender	17
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	17
Book Forum	17
Book Review	16
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change	16
Book Review	15
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability	15
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	14
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	14
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	14
Editorial Board	14
Book Review	14

Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	13
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy	13
The new demarcation problem	13
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	13
Editorial Board	12
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum	12
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life	12
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy	11
Editorial Board	11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	11
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics	11
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany	10
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	10
Book Forum	10
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	10
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	10
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer	10
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning	10
Editorial Board	10
Book Forum	10
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research	10
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	10
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	9
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research	9
How to trust a scientist	9
Berkeley on true motion	9
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality	9
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties	9
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation	8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	8
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	8
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change	8
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	8
Book Review	8
“Population” in biology and statistics	8
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	8
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	8
Book Forum	8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	8
Editorial Board	8
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	7
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	7
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	7
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus	7
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics	7
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	7
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	7
Book Review	6
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW	6

‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	6
Tables turned on table talk	6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project	6
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview	6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	6
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science	6
Book Review	6
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	6
Evidence of effectiveness	6
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	6
Descartes on certainty in deduction	6
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities	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
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond	6
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	6
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	5
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	5
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	5
Book Review	5
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression	5
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	5
Book Forum	5
Book Forum	5
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	5
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	5
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction	5
Editorial Board	5
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	5
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	5
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)	5
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	5
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century	5
Animism and science in European perspective	5
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks	5
Book Review	5
Book Review	4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature	4
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	4
Book review	4
Book Review	4
Understanding the ‘spaceflight treatment’ in plant space biology: Experimental practices, metadata workflows, and data re-analysis	4
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy	4
Book Forum	4
Editorial Board	4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	4
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy	4
Whatever happened to reversion?	4
Why did the clinic make gender?	4
Book Forum	4
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model	4
Modus Darwin redux	4
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?	4
Book Forum	4
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science	4
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	4