OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Epistemology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Reflexive Research Practice in Women’s Prison Research in Uganda	70
Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse	52
The Epistemic Value of Democratic Meritocracy	36
Mechanistic Explanation, Interdisciplinary Integration and Interpersonal Social Coordination	35
Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism	32
Generative AI, Quadruple Deception & Trust	26
The Philosophy of Epistemic Autonomy: Introduction to Special Issue	26
Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice	23
Hinge Epistemology: Why Choose?	21
Cringe	20
ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding	20
Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge	17
Disinformation as Quasi-Object: A Case Study in the Construction of Expertise	17
Epistemic Paternalism and Protective Authority in a Non-Ideal World	16
Epistemic Hubris	16
On the Inconsistency between Practice and Reporting in Science: The Genesis of Scientific Articles	15
Conceptual Engineering, Conceptual Domination, and the Case of Conspiracy Theories	15
Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts	14
Challenging Prejudice as the Necessary Condition for Testimonial Injustice: Unveiling the Role of Epistemic Vice	14
Lookism as Epistemic Injustice	13
Credibility Trouble: When ‘I Believe You’ is an Epistemic Wrong	13
Fake Authority Country: Epistemic Responsibility and the Normativity of Expertise	13
“Do Your Own Research”	12
Epistemic Domination and ‘Gender Identity Fraud’ Prosecutions	12
Respectful Disposal: Spatial and Material Practices of Incinerating Necro-Waste	11

Resisting Reclamation: Intra-Community Hierarchies and the R-Slur	11
AI and Epistemic Agency: How AI Influences Belief Revision and Its Normative Implications	11
Stability in Liberal Epistocracies	10
What Is Interesting About Conspiracy Theories?	10
Do Political Convictions Infect Every Fibre of Our Being?	10
Two Conceptions of Testimonial Undervaluation	10
Epistemic Caring: An Ethical Approach for the Co-Constitution of Knowledge in Participatory Research Practice	9
To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist	9
The Transmission of Knowledge via Large-Scale Technology: A Shared Agency Account	9
Beyond ‘Infodemic’: Complexity, Knowledge and Populism in COVID-19 Crisis Governance	9
Meaning Dominance – When Polysemy Creates Hermeneutical Injustice	9
Conspiracy Theories, Scepticism, and Non-Liberal Politics	8
Costly Displays in a Digital World: Signalling Trustworthiness on Social Media	8
The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People	8
Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare	8
Flexible or Rigid? A Functionalist Approach to Epistemic Standards	8
Human-Data Coupling: Informational Personhood & Artificial Intelligence Through Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology	8
Normative Paradigms and Interdisciplinary Research	8
The Wrong of Bullshit	8
The Insertion of Islamic Psychology as a Decolonial Epistemological Proposal in the Field of Psychology	7
How to Fight Linguistic Injustice in Science: Equity Measures and Mitigating Agents	7
The Influence of Disciplinary Origins on Peer Review Normativities in a New Discipline	7
Smart Environments	7
Defining Wokeness	7
Softness: An Ecological Paradigm for Embodied Technological Intelligence	7
What Groups Can Tell Us About Expertise	7
AI-Extended Moral Agency?	6
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice	6
The Social Indicators of the Reputation of an Expert	6
The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication	6
How Expertise is Enabled: Why Epistemic Cycles Matter to us All	6
Epistemic Distance and Antidemocratic Conspiracy Theories	6
Making Sense of Epistemic Authority	6
Epistemic Smothering is Not a Form of Epistemic Paternalism	6
Language in the Godless Age of AI	6
When Patient Voices Get Lost in Evidence Hierarchies: A Testimony of Rare Adverse Events and Participatory Epistemic Injustice in Drug Safety Monitoring	6
The Problem of Disinformation: A Critical Approach	6
Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Literary Texts as Boundary Objects	6
Scientific Misinformation and Fake News: A Blurred Boundary	6
‘Here’s Me Being Humble’: The Strangeness of Modeling Intellectual Humility	6
How Can Constitutivism Account for the Persistence of Deep Disagreements?	6
What Composition of High-Energy Physics Collaborations is Epistemically Optimal?	6
Friend or Foe? Rethinking Epistemic Trespassing	6
Conspiracy Theory and (or as) Folk Psychology	5
Doing Your Own Patient Activist Research	5
Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper Press	5
Epistemic Inclusion as the Key to Benefiting from Cognitive Diversity in Science	5
Overcoming Eurocentrism: Exploring Ethiopian Modernity Through Entangled Histories and Coloniality	5
“I’ll Show You Differences”: Skills, Creativity and Meaning	5
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Conspiracy Theory Theories	5

Taming Human Subjects: Researchers’ Strategies for Coping with Vagaries in Social Science Experiments	5
Producing ME/CFS in Dutch Newspapers. A Social-Discursive Analysis About Non/credibility	5
Aesthetic Resistance: Reimagining Critical Epistemology and the Grammars of Silence	4
Knowledge Brokers in Crisis: Public Communication of Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Two Ways of Seeing Post-Truth as a Stance	4
Gatekeeping in Science: Lessons from the Case of Psychology and Neuro-Linguistic Programming	4
Defending Autonomy as a Criterion for Epistemic Virtue	4
Generative AI as a Knowledge Distribution System	4
Weapons of the Wise? Infrapolitical Theorising as a Traditional Strategy of Academic Resistance	4
The Triviality Worry About Gender Terms and Epistemic Injustice	4
Propositional Versus Encyclopedic Epistemology and Unintentional Plagiarism	4
Critical Social Epistemology of Social Media and Epistemic Virtues	4
Interstitial Injustice	4
Epistemic Autonomy and the Shaping of Our Epistemic Lives	4
Online Illusions of Understanding	4
Existential Testimonial Injustice	4
Understanding Doxastic Injustice: The Role of Intrapersonal Factors in Epistemic Disempowerment	4
Status Distrust of Scientific Experts	4
The University As Infrastructure of Becoming: Re-Activating Academic Freedom Through Humility in Times of Radical Uncertainty	3
Expert Authority and Its Assessment	3
A Contemporary Marxist Critique of Neoliberal Capitalism: Beyond Revolution and Neo-Keynesianism	3
Taking Virtuous Acts, not Virtuous Traits, as Evaluatively and Conceptually Primary	3
Artificiality for Balanced Integration: A Virtue-Epistemological Framework Bridging Scientific Objectivity and Social Values	3
Watching People Watching People: Culture, Prestige, and Epistemic Authority	3
Science Advice in an Environment of Trust: Trusted, but Not Trustworthy?	3
Social Indicators of Trust in the Age of Informational Chaos	3
Norm Violations in Online Discourse: Epistemic and Civil Foundations for Platform Design and Moderation	3
Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust	3
Bots: Some Less-Considered Epistemic Problems	3
Exempting Oneself from Knowing Better. Epistemic Laziness and Conspiracy Theories	3
Life, Mind and Matter: Chemistry for an Ecological Era	3
Populism and the New Radical Right: A Necessary Distinction	3
Transcultural Identity of Twerking: A Cultural Evolution Study of Women’s Bodily Practices of the Slavic and East African Communities	3
Chatbot Epistemology	3
Counter-Closure Principles in the Age of Complex Software Systems: A Generalized Challenge from AI	3
Epistemic Bunkers	3
Scientism and the Problem of Self-Referential Incoherence	3
Why Post-Truth Cannot Be Our Epistemological Compass	3
The Normative Turn in Conspiracy Theory Theory?	3
The University, Epistemic Power, and Institutional Epistemic Responsibilities	3
Post-Enquiry and Disagreement. A Socio-Epistemological Model of the Normative Significance of Disagreement Between Scientists and Denialists	3
Woman: Concept, Prototype and Stereotype	3
Evidence Based Policing as Epistemic Self-Reference: A Systems-Theoretical Analysis	3
Other-Oriented Hermeneutical Injustice, Affected Ignorance, or Human Ignorance?	3
Artificial Epistemic Authorities	3
Three People Make a Tiger: the Illusory Truth Effect is Detrimental to a Network’s Likelihood of Reaching True Beliefs	2
The Epistemic Import of Narratives	2
Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge	2
Correction	2
The Ethics of Developing Social Structural Explanations of Injustice	2
Judging Expert Trustworthiness: The Difference Between Believing and Following the Science	2
Is Philosophy Exceptional? A Corpus-Based, Quantitative Study	2
Making Sense of Science Denialism	2
Machine Advisors: Integrating Large Language Models Into Democratic Assemblies	2
Against Intellectual Autonomy: Social Animals Need Social Virtues	2
Democracy as a Social Epistemology of Grounding: Document-Things, Little Tools of Democracy, and an Exploration into Their Modes of Grounding	2
Conscious Perception as Augmented Reality	2
Epistemic Autonomy and Intellectual Humility: Mutually Supporting Virtues	2
Epistemic Injustice in the Medical Context: Introduction to Special Issue	2
Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice	2
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice: Jewish Identity, Whiteness, and Zionism	2
A Philosophical Explanation for the Islamization of Philosophy: How Can Mullā Ṣadrā’s Transcendent Philosophy Contribute to the Islamization of Philosophy in Iran?	2
Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence, and Propaganda: How Conspiracy Theories Advance Political Causes	2
Becoming a Knower: Fabricating Knowing Through Coaction	2
In Defense of Robust Moral Encroachment	2
It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice	2
Promoting Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: A Systematic Review, a Critical Literature Review, and a Pathway Forward	2
Epistemology of Folk-Lore	2
Peer Review and Natural-Like Social Relations of Production in Academia	2
Epistemic Dispossession in Platform Capitalism: Insights from Iris Marion Young’s Five Faces of Oppression	2
Testimonial Authority and Knowledge Transmission	2
Two Kinds of Vaccine Hesitancy	2
Digital Epistemology Reconsidered	2
Mediated Testimony, or the Epistemology of Reporting the Words of Others	2