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

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	18
The World and Its Nightmare (Levinas on Sense and Nonsense)	17
An Exercise in “Primitive Natural Science” of Naturally Occurring Types of ‘Ownership’	15
Rejoinder to Michael Lynch’s “Promise and Silence: A Comment on Livingston’s ‘Ethnomethodology’s Broken Promise’ ”	14
Sociology Guided by the Lived Body: A Program of General Sociology?	13
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
Consistent Histories and Life Narratives. A Phenomenological Perspective on Virtual Operativity	11
Managing Coherence in Conversational Storytelling	10
Edmund Husserl on Position-Taking (Stellungnahme) as the Essence of Human Life	9
Expression of Affect and Illocution	7
‘Phenomenology’ is Blue: The Synaesthetic Dynamics of Being-in-the-World	7
Levinas on Empathy, Desire, and the Caress	7
Self-Interpretive Event or Responsive Failure? Reading Foucault’s Confessions via Bernhard Waldenfels	7
Reading What is Not There: Ethnomethodological Analysis of the Membership Category, Action, and Reason in Novels and Short Stories	7
Intercorporeal Construction of We-Ness in Classroom Interaction	7
Editors’ Introduction –The Postulate of Adequacy: Meaning, Causality, Performativity	6
The Entelechy of Social Health	5
On Husserl’s Theory of Alien Experience in the Logical Investigations	5
Borderline Personality as a Disorder of Temporality–A Phenomenological Meta-Synthesis	5
Existence and Perspectivity: Jan Patočka’s Three Movements of Human Life Reconsidered	5
Human–Computer Interaction Research Needs a Theory of Social Structure: The Dark Side of Digital Technology Systems Hidden in User Experience	5
The Paradox of Social Scientific Knowledge: Schutz’s Conception of the Methodological Postulates for the Social Sciences	5

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

Transcendental Phenomenology and the Foundation of Marxism: A Critical Analysis of Ian Angus’ Phenomenological Marxism	2
Limits of Empathy, Limits of Alterity ? The Challenges and Shortcomings of Empathy with respect to Children and in Child Abuse Situations	2