OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Studies is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Gesa Lindemann: Approaches to the World. The Multiple Dimensions of the Social	20
Desiring to Know: Curiosity as a Tendency toward Discovery	19
Sache Selbst and its Ansicht in the Thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer	17
The World and Its Nightmare (Levinas on Sense and Nonsense)	16
An Exercise in “Primitive Natural Science” of Naturally Occurring Types of ‘Ownership’	16
Rejoinder to Michael Lynch’s “Promise and Silence: A Comment on Livingston’s ‘Ethnomethodology’s Broken Promise’ ”	13
Sociology Guided by the Lived Body: A Program of General Sociology?	12
Reconceptualizing Testimony: Integrating Socio-Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Insights into Analytic Epistemology	12
Negotiating the Sharedness of Activities and Stances in Social Virtual Reality: Alignment and Affiliation in the Activity of Throwing Darts at a Co-Participant	12
‘Phenomenology’ is Blue: The Synaesthetic Dynamics of Being-in-the-World	11
Edmund Husserl on Position-Taking (Stellungnahme) as the Essence of Human Life	10
Intercorporeal Construction of We-Ness in Classroom Interaction	8
Managing Coherence in Conversational Storytelling	8
Borderline Personality as a Disorder of Temporality–A Phenomenological Meta-Synthesis	7
Self-Interpretive Event or Responsive Failure? Reading Foucault’s Confessions via Bernhard Waldenfels	7
Expression of Affect and Illocution	7
Consistent Histories and Life Narratives. A Phenomenological Perspective on Virtual Operativity	7
Levinas on Empathy, Desire, and the Caress	6
Reading What is Not There: Ethnomethodological Analysis of the Membership Category, Action, and Reason in Novels and Short Stories	6
Editors’ Introduction –The Postulate of Adequacy: Meaning, Causality, Performativity	5
Existence and Perspectivity: Jan Patočka’s Three Movements of Human Life Reconsidered	5
A Critical Phenomenology of Vulnerability: Toward a Paradigm Shift? A Contribution to an Interdisciplinary Trialogue on Vulnerability	5
Adam Buben: Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality	5
The Entelechy of Social Health	5
Exercising One’s Voice: Merleau-Ponty and the Grounds of Conversation	5

Situated Attention, Agency, and Self-Integration	5
Helmuth Plessner’s Schellingian Reconciliation of Idealism and Realism About the Psyche	5
The Paradox of Social Scientific Knowledge: Schutz’s Conception of the Methodological Postulates for the Social Sciences	5
On Husserl’s Theory of Alien Experience in the Logical Investigations	5
‘Teleological Mechanics of the Mind’: Herbart and Lipps on Tendency	5
Michael Lynch (Ed): Harold Garfinkel: Studies of Work in the Sciences	4
Husserlian Phenomenology of Limit-Problems: a “‘Geometry’ of Lived Experience”?	4
Carl-Göran Heidegren and Henrik Lundberg: What is the Sociology of Philosophy? Studies of Swedish and Scandinavian Philosophy	4
Postphenomenology Unchained: Rethinking Human-Technology-World Relations as Enroulement	4
Reverent Awe and the Field of Consciousness	4
Interspecies Haptic Sociality: The Interactional Constitution of the Horse’s Esthesiologic Body in Equestrian Activities	4
Theoretical Schizophrenia or Theoretical Rescue? Re-Reading Thomas Luckmann’s Invisible Religion from an African Perspective	4
Turning the Natural World into a Moral World: Michel Henry on the Vocation of Life	4
Erik Kuravsky: Transcendence in Heidegger’s Early Thought: Toward Being as Event	4
Provincializing Nature: A Phenomenological Account of Descola’s Relative Universalism	4
From Tendencies and Drives to Affectivity and Ethics: Husserl and Scheler on the Mother–Child Relationship	4
Fieldwork in Philosophy: Articulating a Theoretical Sensibility	3
For Real?—Epistemic Trust Within Online Environments and the Lures of Conspiracy Thinking	3
Husserl’s Phenomenology of Wishing	3
Correction to: Eros In-between and All-around	3
Architectonics of a Method: On the Relations Between Husserlian Phenomenology and Its Feminist and Critical Successors	3
The Horizons of Chronic Shame	3
Editorial: Social Interaction and the Theater Rehearsal	3
Dark Horizons: Posttraumatic Anxiety in Husserl’s Freiburg Ethics	3
Interactional Contingencies in Rehearsing a Theater Scene: The Consequentiality of Body Arrangements as Action Unfolds	3
Reference Distributed Between Multiple Bodies: Uses of Japanese Medial Deictic Expressions in Instruction	3
Destiny, Love and Rational Faith in Husserl’s Post World War I Ethics	3
Consciousness of Emotion and Emotive Consciousness in Geiger and Husserl	3
Taxonomy of Mediated Sociality: A Phenomenological Approach	2
Lived-through Experience, Multi-perspective Methodology, Contentious Polysemy: Challenges in the Study of Vulnerability	2
Affectivity in its Relation to Personal Identity	2
Striving, Willing, and Acting in Pfänder and Husserl	2
“For Example” Formulations and the Interactional Work of Exemplification	2
Gestures as Archives: Truth, Loss, and Resistance	2
Husserlian Productive Phantasie: A Progression?	2
Responding to the Extra-Ordinary – Bernhard Waldenfels (1934–2026)	2
Correction to: The Causality of Freedom: Max Weber and the Practical Activation of Schutz’s Postulate of Adequacy	2
Navigating Affiliation and Disaffiliation in the Work of Co-parenting	2
Tuning-in as Practical Embodiment in Music and Everyday Life	2
Knowledge Accumulation in Theatre Rehearsals: The Emergence of a Gesture as a Solution for Embodying a Certain Aesthetic Concept	2
Limits of Empathy, Limits of Alterity ? The Challenges and Shortcomings of Empathy with respect to Children and in Child Abuse Situations	2
On a Differential Anthropology of Organic Beings with Eugen Fink	2
How to Start a Fight: A Qualitative Video Analysis of the Trajectories Toward Violence Based on Phone-Camera Recorded Fights	2
Desiring the Good for the Other: Extending Levinas’ Platonica in Totality and Infinity towards an Ethics of Eros	2
Why Does Social Virtual Reality Feel So Real? A Phenomenological Study of Spatiality, Embodiment, and Continuity Between Digital and Physical Realities	2
Revising Plessner’s Transformativism: Toward a Generic Conception of the Human Life-Form	2
Secularization – Just a Myth or a Modern Myth of Origin? Thomas Luckmann’s Contribution to the Critique of Secularization	2
Disorientation as an Emotional Experience: An Introduction from an Interactionist Perspective	2
Unveiling Human Nature or how Conceptual Analysis can Help Anthropology	2
Transcendental Phenomenology and the Foundation of Marxism: A Critical Analysis of Ian Angus’ Phenomenological Marxism	2

The Atmosphere Order: A Dialogue Between Hermann Schmitz and Erving Goffman	2
From Empathy to Empathesis: Conceptual Clarification and the Ethics of Understanding	2