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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Forum	35
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	25
Book Forum	23
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	22
Book Review	22
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	22
Selection in molecular evolution	20
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	20
Social emergence and unpredictability	18
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	18
Modernizing the German forest—How a changing economy divided forestry economists, 1850-1900	16
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.	16
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	16
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	15
Book Forum	14
Historicizing gender	13
Editorial Board	13
Book Forum	13
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	12
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	12
‘The tensor calculus knows physics better than the physicist’: Bachelard on the role of ‘Covariant Differentiation’ in Relativity theory	11
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	11
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	11
Pragmatic pluralism and problem framing: Why pragmatism demands pluralism	10
Laws, meta-laws, and hydrogenic symmetries: Adapting Lange’s account	9

The views of Danylo Samoylovich (1744–1805) on the prevention, course and treatment of the plague	9
Editorial Board	9
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life	9
Editorial Board	9
The conceptual evolution of exclusion rules in the DSM: Problems with determining when one diagnosis should rule out another	9
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	9
Book Forum	8
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer	8
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	8
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality	8
Book Forum	8
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	8
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	7
How to be a scientific realist: a normative–pragmatist proposal	7
Berkeley on true motion	7
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	7
Seeing Duhem's bon sens through Dewey's logic. Judgment as the central function of knowing	7
Book Forum	6
“Population” in biology and statistics	6
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	6
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research	6
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	6
Iberian oceanography: The Strait of Gibraltar region and the Portuguese research vessel ‘Albacora’ in the international scientific framework (1925–1940)	6
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	6
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	5
Descartes on certainty in deduction	5
Editorial Board	5
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	5
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	5
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	5
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	5
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	5
Objectivity and objectification. On the ethics and epistemologies of skin colour measurements in the social sciences	5
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change	5
Editorial Board	5
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	5
Systematizing the interpretation of quantum theory via reconstruction	5
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	5
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	4
Book Review	4
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	4
Book Review	4
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks	4
Book Forum	4
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	4
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	4
Book Forum	4
Editorial Board	4
Tables turned on table talk	4

Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	4
Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?	3
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction	3
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)	3
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	3
Revisiting the Einstein-Bergson debate	3
Animism and science in European perspective	3
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	3
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	3
Modus Darwin redux	3
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	3
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	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
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	3
Psychology and the 20th-century Galileo cult: Kurt Lewin vs. Karl Bühler	3
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	3
Book review	3
Book Forum	3
Book Forum	3
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	3
Book Forum	3
What does it mean to predict earthquakes?	3
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	3
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	3
Is Farr's cholera law of elevation a counterexample to selective realism?	3
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	3
Value-freedom & patient autonomy	3
Zygmunt Zawirski: The forgotten forefather of quantum logic	3
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	3
Editorial Board	3
Book Review	3
Typing Physics: The essential role of typists in intra-scientific communication	3