OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Epistemology is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualizing Scientific Progress Needs a New Humanism	30
The Epistemic Value of Democratic Meritocracy	28
The Philosophy of Epistemic Autonomy: Introduction to Special Issue	19
Hinge Epistemology: Why Choose?	16
Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism	16
ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding	15
Generative AI, Quadruple Deception & Trust	14
Cringe	13
Mechanistic Explanation, Interdisciplinary Integration and Interpersonal Social Coordination	11
Reflexive Research Practice in Women’s Prison Research in Uganda	11
Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice	10
Epistemic Hubris	10
Epistemology and the Pandemic: Lessons from an Epistemic Crisis	9
Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge	9
Epistemic Paternalism and Protective Authority in a Non-Ideal World	9
Credibility Trouble: When ‘I Believe You’ is an Epistemic Wrong	8
Epistemic Domination and ‘Gender Identity Fraud’ Prosecutions	8
An Epistemic Objection to Racial Profiling	8
Challenging Prejudice as the Necessary Condition for Testimonial Injustice: Unveiling the Role of Epistemic Vice	8
Conceptual Engineering, Conceptual Domination, and the Case of Conspiracy Theories	8
On the Inconsistency between Practice and Reporting in Science: The Genesis of Scientific Articles	8
Climate Change and Culpable Ignorance: The Case of Pseudoscience	7
Fake Authority Country: Epistemic Responsibility and the Normativity of Expertise	7
“Do Your Own Research”	7
AI and Epistemic Agency: How AI Influences Belief Revision and Its Normative Implications	7

Lookism as Epistemic Injustice	7
Fake News vs. Echo Chambers	7
The Transmission of Knowledge via Large-Scale Technology: A Shared Agency Account	6
Beyond ‘Infodemic’: Complexity, Knowledge and Populism in COVID-19 Crisis Governance	6
Human-Data Coupling: Informational Personhood & Artificial Intelligence Through Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology	6
Do Political Convictions Infect Every Fibre of Our Being?	6
In Trust We Trust: Epistemic Vigilance and Responsibility	6
Normative Paradigms and Interdisciplinary Research	6
Epistemic Caring: An Ethical Approach for the Co-Constitution of Knowledge in Participatory Research Practice	6
Stability in Liberal Epistocracies	6
Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare	6
Exclusion, Engagement, and Empathy: Revisiting Public Discourse from a Communication Perspective	5
To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist	5
The Wrong of Bullshit	5
The Influence of Disciplinary Origins on Peer Review Normativities in a New Discipline	5
AI-Extended Moral Agency?	5
Conspiracy Theories, Scepticism, and Non-Liberal Politics	5
Softness: An Ecological Paradigm for Embodied Technological Intelligence	5
The Insertion of Islamic Psychology as a Decolonial Epistemological Proposal in the Field of Psychology	5
Costly Displays in a Digital World: Signalling Trustworthiness on Social Media	5
A Tension in the Strong Program: The Relation between the Rational and the Social	4
Scientific Misinformation and Fake News: A Blurred Boundary	4
Epistemic Smothering is Not a Form of Epistemic Paternalism	4
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice	4
The Emergence of Urban Studies as an Academic Field: Article and Journal Level Assessment of Its Development and Openness	4
Defining Wokeness	4
Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Literary Texts as Boundary Objects	4
‘Here’s Me Being Humble’: The Strangeness of Modeling Intellectual Humility	4
Smart Environments	4
How to Fight Linguistic Injustice in Science: Equity Measures and Mitigating Agents	4
The Possibility of Epistemic Nudging	4
How Expertise is Enabled: Why Epistemic Cycles Matter to us All	4
Taming Human Subjects: Researchers’ Strategies for Coping with Vagaries in Social Science Experiments	3
Gatekeeping in Science: Lessons from the Case of Psychology and Neuro-Linguistic Programming	3
Overcoming Eurocentrism: Exploring Ethiopian Modernity Through Entangled Histories and Coloniality	3
Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper Press	3
Conspiracy Theory and (or as) Folk Psychology	3
When Patient Voices Get Lost in Evidence Hierarchies: A Testimony of Rare Adverse Events and Participatory Epistemic Injustice in Drug Safety Monitoring	3
How Can Constitutivism Account for the Persistence of Deep Disagreements?	3
The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication	3
Epistemic Inclusion as the Key to Benefiting from Cognitive Diversity in Science	3
Interstitial Injustice	3
Nudging Humans	3
“I’ll Show You Differences”: Skills, Creativity and Meaning	3
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Conspiracy Theory Theories	3
The Charisma of Reason during the Re-enchantment of the World	3
The Social Indicators of the Reputation of an Expert	3
What Composition of High-Energy Physics Collaborations is Epistemically Optimal?	3
Producing ME/CFS in Dutch Newspapers. A Social-Discursive Analysis About Non/credibility	3
Propositional Versus Encyclopedic Epistemology and Unintentional Plagiarism	3

Epistemic Autonomy and the Shaping of Our Epistemic Lives	3
Two Ways of Seeing Post-Truth as a Stance	3
Epistemic Distance and Antidemocratic Conspiracy Theories	3
Friend or Foe? Rethinking Epistemic Trespassing	3
The Problem of Disinformation: A Critical Approach	3
Language in the Godless Age of AI	3
Expert Authority and Its Assessment	2
Woman: Concept, Prototype and Stereotype	2
Taking Virtuous Acts, not Virtuous Traits, as Evaluatively and Conceptually Primary	2
The Evolutionary Dimension of Scientific Progress	2
The Normative Turn in Conspiracy Theory Theory?	2
Aesthetic Resistance: Reimagining Critical Epistemology and the Grammars of Silence	2
Status Distrust of Scientific Experts	2
Bots: Some Less-Considered Epistemic Problems	2
Scientism and the Problem of Self-Referential Incoherence	2
Social Indicators of Trust in the Age of Informational Chaos	2
Other-Oriented Hermeneutical Injustice, Affected Ignorance, or Human Ignorance?	2
Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust	2
Why Post-Truth Cannot Be Our Epistemological Compass	2
Epistemic Bunkers	2
Is There a New Conspiracism?	2
Knowledge Brokers in Crisis: Public Communication of Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
The Triviality Worry About Gender Terms and Epistemic Injustice	2
Critical Social Epistemology of Social Media and Epistemic Virtues	2
Social Exclusion, Epistemic Injustice, and Intellectual Self-Trust	2
Exempting Oneself from Knowing Better. Epistemic Laziness and Conspiracy Theories	2
A Quasi-Fideist Approach to QAnon	2
The University As Infrastructure of Becoming: Re-Activating Academic Freedom Through Humility in Times of Radical Uncertainty	2
A Contemporary Marxist Critique of Neoliberal Capitalism: Beyond Revolution and Neo-Keynesianism	2
Artificial Epistemic Authorities	2
Online Illusions of Understanding	2
In-between: The Simultaneity of the Non-simultaneous	2
Defending Autonomy as a Criterion for Epistemic Virtue	2
Life, Mind and Matter: Chemistry for an Ecological Era	2
On the Intellectual Vice of Epistemic Apathy	1
The Epistemic Import of Narratives	1
The Dialectic of Progress and the Cultivation of Resistance in Critical Social Theory	1
It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice	1
Reframing Metanarratives on Africa and the Caribbean Through Decolonial Pedagogy: Duoethnography as Embodied Methodology	1
Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice	1
Reclaiming Control: Extended Mindreading and the Tracking of Digital Footprints	1
Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge	1
Machine Advisors: Integrating Large Language Models Into Democratic Assemblies	1
Is Philosophy Exceptional? A Corpus-Based, Quantitative Study	1
Three People Make a Tiger: the Illusory Truth Effect is Detrimental to a Network’s Likelihood of Reaching True Beliefs	1
Post-Science in a Post-Modern World	1
Transcultural Identity of Twerking: A Cultural Evolution Study of Women’s Bodily Practices of the Slavic and East African Communities	1
Epistemic Injustice in the Medical Context: Introduction to Special Issue	1
Becoming a Knower: Fabricating Knowing Through Coaction	1
Enhanced Epistemic Trust and the Value-Free Ideal as a Social Indicator of Trust	1
Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy	1
Post-Enquiry and Disagreement. A Socio-Epistemological Model of the Normative Significance of Disagreement Between Scientists and Denialists	1
Testimonial Authority and Knowledge Transmission	1
Promoting Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: A Systematic Review, a Critical Literature Review, and a Pathway Forward	1
Towards Epistemic Translatability: On Epistemic Difference and Hermeneutical Injustice	1
Peer Review and Natural-Like Social Relations of Production in Academia	1
Two Kinds of Vaccine Hesitancy	1
Conscious Perception as Augmented Reality	1
Judging Expert Trustworthiness: The Difference Between Believing and Following the Science	1
Epistemic Autonomy and Intellectual Humility: Mutually Supporting Virtues	1
Misreferencing Practice of Scientists: Inside Researchers’ Sociological and Bibliometric Profiles	1
Citizens in Search of Facts: A Case Study from the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review on Measure 82	1
Are ‘Conspiracy Theories’ So Unlikely to Be True? A Critique of Quassim Cassam’s Concept of ‘Conspiracy Theories’	1
Perspectives on Post-Truth	1
Epistemic Class Injustice: Class Composition and Industrial Action	1
The Epistemological Compass and the (Post)Truth about Objectivity	1
Against Intellectual Autonomy: Social Animals Need Social Virtues	1
Lessons from Reckwitz and Rosa: Towards a Constructive Dialogue between Critical Analytics and Critical Theory	1
Epistemology of Folk-Lore	1
A Philosophical Explanation for the Islamization of Philosophy: How Can Mullā Ṣadrā’s Transcendent Philosophy Contribute to the Islamization of Philosophy in Iran?	1
Populism and the New Radical Right: A Necessary Distinction	1
Correction	1
In Defense of Robust Moral Encroachment	1
Watching People Watching People: Culture, Prestige, and Epistemic Authority	1
On Social Robustness Checks on Science: What Climate Policymakers Can Learn from Population Control	1
Science Advice in an Environment of Trust: Trusted, but Not Trustworthy?	1
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice: Jewish Identity, Whiteness, and Zionism	1
The Pitfalls of Epistemic Autonomy without Intellectual Humility	1
The Location of Suicide: Cultural Parameters of a Public Health Territory	1