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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The new demarcation problem	40
Genetics on the neurodiversity spectrum: Genetic, phenotypic and endophenotypic continua in autism and ADHD	32
Severe weather event attribution: Why values won't go away	29
On value-laden science	27
Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge: Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing community	23
On the very idea of pursuitworthiness	22
Three legs of the missing heritability problem	19
‘Species’ without species	18
The death of the cortical column? Patchwork structure and conceptual retirement in neuroscientific practice	17
Does democracy require value-neutral science? Analyzing the legitimacy of scientific information in the political sphere	17
Robustness reasoning in climate model comparisons	17
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease	17
Understanding climate phenomena with data-driven models	16
Peirce on the justification of abduction	15
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology	15
Value management and model pluralism in climate science	14
Galton's Quincunx: Probabilistic causation in developmental behavior genetics	14
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function	13
Scientific inertia in animal-based research in biomedicine	13
The five problems of irreversibility	11
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences	11
Environmentality in biomedicine: microbiome research and the perspectival body	11
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI	11
Beyond Mendelism and Biometry	11
(Mis)Understanding scientific disagreement: Success versus pursuit-worthiness in theory choice	11

The futility of decision making research	11
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms	10
Is meta-analysis of RCTs assessing the efficacy of interventions a reliable source of evidence for therapeutic decisions?	10
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability	9
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain	9
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately	9
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory	9
Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science	9
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	9
The politics of environments before the environment: Biopolitics in the longue durée	9
Bias as an epistemic notion	8
The value-ladenness of transparency in science: Lessons from Lyme disease	8
Two concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics	8
Heritable changeability: Epimutation and the legacy of negative definition in epigenetic concepts	8
Unifying heritability in evolutionary theory	8
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies	8
A child of prediction. On the History, Ontology, and Computation of the Lennard-Jonesium	8
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part I: General framework and particle-mechanics examples	8
String theory, Einstein, and the identity of physics: Theory assessment in absence of the empirical	8
How to trust a scientist	8
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening	8
The emergence of objectivity: Fleck, Foucault, Kuhn and Hacking	8
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties	8
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	8
Structure, scale and emergence	7
Individual differences, uniqueness, and individuality in behavioural ecology	7
Epistemic interests and the objectivity of inquiry	7
Science, politics and regulation: The trust-based approach to the demarcation problem	7
Multiple discoveries, inevitability, and scientific realism	7
Transparency and secrecy in citizen science: Lessons from herping	7
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	7
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition	7
Scale in the history of medicine	7
Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics	7
Quantum gravity at low energies	7
Synthetic biology as a technoscience: The case of minimal genomes and essential genes	7
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science	7
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics	7
Taking approximations seriously: The cases of the Chew and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio models	6
How uncertainty can save measurement from circularity and holism	6
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories	6
Describing model relations: The case of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) family in financial economics	6
Countering medical nihilism by reconnecting facts and values	6
Newton on active and passive quantities of matter	6
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy	6
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning	6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project	6
Network effects in a bounded confidence model	6
Governance, expertise, and the ‘culture of care’: The changing constitutions of laboratory animal research in Britain, 1876–2000	6
Pluralizing measurement: Physical geodesy's measurement problem and its resolution	6

Values in early-stage climate engineering: The ethical implications of “doing the research”	6
How non-epistemic values can be epistemically beneficial in scientific classification	6
Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity	6
An algebraic approach to physical fields	6
What could mathematics be for it to function in distinctively mathematical scientific explanations?	5
Growing knowledge: Epistemic objects in agricultural extension work	5
Integrating dark matter, modified gravity, and the humanities	5
Divergence of values and goals in participatory research	5
Expert judgment in climate science: How it is used and how it can be justified	5
Edge cases in animal research law: Constituting the regulatory borderlands of the UK's Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act	5
Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?	5
On the ‘cognitive map debate’ in insect navigation	5
No-go theorems: What are they good for?	5
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science	5
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science	5
Animal culture: But of which kind?	5
Babbage’s guidelines for the design of mathematical notations	5
Animal deception and the content of signals	5
Accelerating agriculture: Data-intensive plant breeding and the use of genetic gain as an indicator for agricultural research and development	5
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism	5
Sins of inquiry: How to criticize scientific pursuits	5
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science	5
Syndrome du jour: The historiography and moral implications of Diagnosing Darwin	5
Evaluating community science	5
Francis Galton’s regression towards mediocrity and the stability of types	5
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?	5
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint	5
Evidence of effectiveness	5
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?	4
Charles Darwin as a statistical thinker	4
Towards noncommutative quantum reality	4
Disciplining cattle reproduction: Veterinary reproductive science, bull infertility, and the mid-twentieth century transformation of Swedish dairy cattle breeding	4
Some historiographical tools for the study of intellectual legacies	4
Epistemic benefits of the material theory of induction	4
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research	4
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization	4
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities	4
Drawing scales apart: The origins of Wilson's conception of effective field theories	4
The Metaphysical Challenge of Loop Quantum Gravity	4
Value disputes in urban ecological restoration: Lessons from the Chicago Wilderness	4
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview	4
Predicting and explaining with machine learning models: Social science as a touchstone	4
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	4
Beyond descriptive accuracy: The central dogma of molecular biology in scientific practice	4
The twin origins of renormalization group concepts	4
Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate	4
What is narrative possibility?	4
How many properties of spin does a particle have?	4
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy	4
Taking up statistical thermodynamics: Equilibrium fluctuations and irreversibility	4
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	4
Distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate roles for values in transdisciplinary research	4
Methodological reflections on the MOND/dark matter debate	4
The methodological strategies of agroecological research and the values with which they are linked	4
Priority and privilege in scientific discovery	4
Discovering autoinhibition as a design principle for the control of biological mechanisms	4
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	4
Maxwell's role in turning the concept of model into the methodology of modeling	4
Mazingira and the malady of malaria: Perceptions of malaria as an environmental disease in contemporary Zanzibar	4
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under	4
Angular momentum without rotation: Turbocharging relationalism	4
The morphological paradigm in robotics	4
Cosmological realism	4
Operational theories as structural realism	4
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective	4
Scientific realism and empirical confirmation: A puzzle	4
How and when did locality become ‘local realism’? A historical and critical analysis (1963–1978)	4
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond	4
Enzyme classification and the entanglement of values and epistemic standards	4
No one solution to the “new demarcation problem”?: A view from the trenches	4