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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Forum	53
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	49
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	33
Book Forum	26
Book Review	23
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	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
Social emergence and unpredictability	21
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	21
Selection in molecular evolution	20
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.	19
Book Forum	18
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	18
Editorial Board	17
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	16
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	16
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	16
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	16
Historicizing gender	15
Book Forum	14
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	14
The conceptual evolution of exclusion rules in the DSM: Problems with determining when one diagnosis should rule out another	12
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life	12
Editorial Board	12

Editorial Board	11
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum	11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	11
The views of Danylo Samoylovich (1744–1805) on the prevention, course and treatment of the plague	11
Pragmatic pluralism and problem framing: Why pragmatism demands pluralism	11
Book Forum	10
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	10
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer	9
Book Forum	9
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality	9
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	9
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	8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	8
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	8
How to trust a scientist	8
Book Review	8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	8
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	8
Iberian oceanography: The Strait of Gibraltar region and the Portuguese research vessel ‘Albacora’ in the international scientific framework (1925–1940)	8
Book Forum	8
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	7
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	7
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	7
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research	7
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change	7
“Population” in biology and statistics	7
Descartes on certainty in deduction	6
Systematizing the interpretation of quantum theory via reconstruction	6
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	6
Editorial Board	6
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	6
Objectivity and objectification. On the ethics and epistemologies of skin colour measurements in the social sciences	6
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	6
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	6
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	6
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	5
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	5
Book Review	5
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	5
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	5
Book Forum	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
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	5
Editorial Board	5
Tables turned on table talk	5
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	5
Editorial Board	5
Book Forum	4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	4

Value-freedom & patient autonomy	4
Book Forum	4
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	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
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	4
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)	4
Book Review	4
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks	4
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	4
Animism and science in European perspective	4
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	4
Editorial Board	3
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy	3
Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?	3
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	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 review	3
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature	3
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy	3
Why did the clinic make gender?	3
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model	3
Modus Darwin redux	3
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	3
Is Farr's cholera law of elevation a counterexample to selective realism?	3
Book Forum	3
Book Review	3
Book Forum	3
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?	3
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	3
A goal-directed approach to disease classification	3
Book Forum	3
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	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
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	3
Book Forum	3
Understanding the ‘spaceflight treatment’ in plant space biology: Experimental practices, metadata workflows, and data re-analysis	3
Editorial Board	3