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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reflexive Research Practice in Women’s Prison Research in Uganda	66
ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding	52
Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse	33
The Epistemic Value of Democratic Meritocracy	29
Hinge Epistemology: Why Choose?	28
Mechanistic Explanation, Interdisciplinary Integration and Interpersonal Social Coordination	25
Generative AI, Quadruple Deception & Trust	23
Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism	20
Cringe	20
The Philosophy of Epistemic Autonomy: Introduction to Special Issue	18
Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge	17
Conceptual Engineering, Conceptual Domination, and the Case of Conspiracy Theories	17
Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice	17
On the Inconsistency between Practice and Reporting in Science: The Genesis of Scientific Articles	16
Epistemic Paternalism and Protective Authority in a Non-Ideal World	15
Epistemic Hubris	15
Challenging Prejudice as the Necessary Condition for Testimonial Injustice: Unveiling the Role of Epistemic Vice	14
Fake Authority Country: Epistemic Responsibility and the Normativity of Expertise	14
Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts	13
Credibility Trouble: When ‘I Believe You’ is an Epistemic Wrong	13
Respectful Disposal: Spatial and Material Practices of Incinerating Necro-Waste	13
Lookism as Epistemic Injustice	12
AI and Epistemic Agency: How AI Influences Belief Revision and Its Normative Implications	11
“Do Your Own Research”	11
Resisting Reclamation: Intra-Community Hierarchies and the R-Slur	11

Epistemic Domination and ‘Gender Identity Fraud’ Prosecutions	11
Do Political Convictions Infect Every Fibre of Our Being?	10
Stability in Liberal Epistocracies	10
Two Conceptions of Testimonial Undervaluation	10
Meaning Dominance – When Polysemy Creates Hermeneutical Injustice	9
What Is Interesting About Conspiracy Theories?	9
The Transmission of Knowledge via Large-Scale Technology: A Shared Agency Account	9
Normative Paradigms and Interdisciplinary Research	8
Epistemic Caring: An Ethical Approach for the Co-Constitution of Knowledge in Participatory Research Practice	8
Costly Displays in a Digital World: Signalling Trustworthiness on Social Media	8
Beyond ‘Infodemic’: Complexity, Knowledge and Populism in COVID-19 Crisis Governance	8
Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare	8
To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist	8
Human-Data Coupling: Informational Personhood & Artificial Intelligence Through Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology	8
Conspiracy Theories, Scepticism, and Non-Liberal Politics	8
What Groups Can Tell Us About Expertise	7
Flexible or Rigid? A Functionalist Approach to Epistemic Standards	7
Defining Wokeness	7
The Wrong of Bullshit	7
How to Fight Linguistic Injustice in Science: Equity Measures and Mitigating Agents	7
The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People	7
The Insertion of Islamic Psychology as a Decolonial Epistemological Proposal in the Field of Psychology	6
Scientific Misinformation and Fake News: A Blurred Boundary	6
Making Sense of Epistemic Authority	6
Epistemic Distance and Antidemocratic Conspiracy Theories	6
Softness: An Ecological Paradigm for Embodied Technological Intelligence	6
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice	6
Epistemic Smothering is Not a Form of Epistemic Paternalism	6
Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Literary Texts as Boundary Objects	6
Smart Environments	6
AI-Extended Moral Agency?	6
The Influence of Disciplinary Origins on Peer Review Normativities in a New Discipline	6
‘Here’s Me Being Humble’: The Strangeness of Modeling Intellectual Humility	6
Taming Human Subjects: Researchers’ Strategies for Coping with Vagaries in Social Science Experiments	5
Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper Press	5
Conspiracy Theory and (or as) Folk Psychology	5
The Problem of Disinformation: A Critical Approach	5
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Conspiracy Theory Theories	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
Language in the Godless Age of AI	5
How Can Constitutivism Account for the Persistence of Deep Disagreements?	5
How Expertise is Enabled: Why Epistemic Cycles Matter to us All	5
When Patient Voices Get Lost in Evidence Hierarchies: A Testimony of Rare Adverse Events and Participatory Epistemic Injustice in Drug Safety Monitoring	5
The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication	5
Producing ME/CFS in Dutch Newspapers. A Social-Discursive Analysis About Non/credibility	5
Friend or Foe? Rethinking Epistemic Trespassing	5
The Social Indicators of the Reputation of an Expert	5
What Composition of High-Energy Physics Collaborations is Epistemically Optimal?	5
Doing Your Own Patient Activist Research	4

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