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

Article	Citations
Book Forum	61
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	52
Book Forum	33
Book Review	26
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	23
Selection in molecular evolution	22
Social emergence and unpredictability	22
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	22
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	22
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	22
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.	21
Modernizing the German forest—How a changing economy divided forestry economists, 1850-1900	20
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	20
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	18
Book Forum	18
Editorial Board	17
Historicizing gender	16
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	16
Book Forum	16
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	15
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	14
‘The tensor calculus knows physics better than the physicist’: Bachelard on the role of ‘Covariant Differentiation’ in Relativity theory	14
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	12
Pragmatic pluralism and problem framing: Why pragmatism demands pluralism	12
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	12

How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life	12
Editorial Board	11
The views of Danylo Samoylovich (1744–1805) on the prevention, course and treatment of the plague	11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	11
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum	11
Editorial Board	11
Laws, meta-laws, and hydrogenic symmetries: Adapting Lange’s account	10
The conceptual evolution of exclusion rules in the DSM: Problems with determining when one diagnosis should rule out another	10
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	9
Book Forum	9
How to be a scientific realist: a normative–pragmatist proposal	9
Book Forum	9
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	8
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	8
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer	8
Berkeley on true motion	8
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	8
Seeing Duhem's bon sens through Dewey's logic. Judgment as the central function of knowing	8
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	8
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality	8
How to trust a scientist	8
Book Forum	7
“Population” in biology and statistics	7
Book Review	7
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	7
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	7
Iberian oceanography: The Strait of Gibraltar region and the Portuguese research vessel ‘Albacora’ in the international scientific framework (1925–1940)	7
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	7
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research	6
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	6
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	6
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change	6
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	6
Editorial Board	6
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	6
Descartes on certainty in deduction	6
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	5
Tables turned on table talk	5
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	5
Systematizing the interpretation of quantum theory via reconstruction	5
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	5
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	5
Book Forum	5
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	5
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	5
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	5
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	5
Book Review	5
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	5
Editorial Board	5

Objectivity and objectification. On the ethics and epistemologies of skin colour measurements in the social sciences	5
Editorial Board	4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	4
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	4
Psychology and the 20th-century Galileo cult: Kurt Lewin vs. Karl Bühler	4
Book Review	4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	4
Value-freedom & patient autonomy	4
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	4
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks	4
Book Forum	4
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	4
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	4
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	3
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction	3
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)	3
Revisiting the Einstein-Bergson debate	3
Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?	3
Book Forum	3
Editorial Board	3
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	3
Book Forum	3
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	3
Typing Physics: The essential role of typists in intra-scientific communication	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
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	3
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	3
A goal-directed approach to disease classification	3
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	3
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy	3
Editorial Board	3
Book Forum	3
Book review	3
Is Farr's cholera law of elevation a counterexample to selective realism?	3
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	3
Animism and science in European perspective	3
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	3
What does it mean to predict earthquakes?	3
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model	3
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?	3
Book Review	3
Modus Darwin redux	3