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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	64
Book Forum	44
Book Review	44
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories	31
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	31
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation	25
Selection in molecular evolution	23
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	21
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	20
Book Forum	20
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	19
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint	18
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies	17
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes	17
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy	15
Book Review	15
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	15
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change	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
Book Review	13
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	13
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability	13
Historicizing gender	13

Book Forum	13
Editorial Board	13
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	12
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	12
The new demarcation problem	12
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy	12
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics	11
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
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	10
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	10
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning	10
Editorial Board	10
Book Review	10
Editorial Board	10
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	10
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany	10
Book Forum	10
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation	9
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	9
Book Review	9
Book Forum	9
Berkeley on true motion	9
How to trust a scientist	9
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research	9
“Population” in biology and statistics	8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	8
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties	8
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	8
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	8
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	8
Book Forum	8
Descartes on certainty in deduction	7
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW	7
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics	7
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	7
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	7
Editorial Board	7
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	7
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	7
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	7
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus	7
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	7
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	7
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science	7
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond	6
Book Review	6

Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview	6
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities	6
Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–1980	6
Evidence of effectiveness	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
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?	6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project	6
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	6
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	6
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition	6
Book Review	6
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	6
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	5
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction	5
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	5
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks	5
Editorial Board	5
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	5
Animism and science in European perspective	5
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?	5
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression	5
Book Forum	5
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	5
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	5
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	5
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century	5
Book Review	5
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	5
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	5
Book Forum	5
Editorial Board	4
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	4
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	4
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?	4
From planning to entrepreneurship: On the political economy of scientific pursuit	4
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity	4
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?	4
Book review	4
Modus Darwin redux	4
Book Forum	4
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model	4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature	4
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy	4
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy	4
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?	4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	4
Book Review	4
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	4
Book Forum	4
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	4
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization	4
Book Review	4
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective	4