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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reflexive Research Practice in Women’s Prison Research in Uganda	75
Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse	54
Mechanistic Explanation, Interdisciplinary Integration and Interpersonal Social Coordination	48
Hinge Epistemology: Why Choose?	34
Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism	30
Disinformation as Quasi-Object: A Case Study in the Construction of Expertise	29
The Philosophy of Epistemic Autonomy: Introduction to Special Issue	26
Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice	24
Generative AI, Quadruple Deception & Trust	22
ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding	21
The Epistemic Value of Democratic Meritocracy	21
Cringe	20
Epistemic Paternalism and Protective Authority in a Non-Ideal World	18
On the Inconsistency between Practice and Reporting in Science: The Genesis of Scientific Articles	17
Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge	16
Conceptual Engineering, Conceptual Domination, and the Case of Conspiracy Theories	16
Epistemic Hubris	15
How Has ‘Opening Up’ Science Changed Scientific Practices?	14
Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts	13
Epistemic Domination and ‘Gender Identity Fraud’ Prosecutions	13
Fake Authority Country: Epistemic Responsibility and the Normativity of Expertise	13
Challenging Prejudice as the Necessary Condition for Testimonial Injustice: Unveiling the Role of Epistemic Vice	13
Respectful Disposal: Spatial and Material Practices of Incinerating Necro-Waste	12
“Do Your Own Research”	12
Credibility Trouble: When ‘I Believe You’ is an Epistemic Wrong	12

A Portrait of the Scientist as a User: Openness and Temporality of Scientific Software	12
More Than a NASA Badge: MetaDocencia and Capacity Building for Open Science Communities in Latin America	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
Do Political Convictions Infect Every Fibre of Our Being?	10
Stability in Liberal Epistocracies	10
Meaning Dominance – When Polysemy Creates Hermeneutical Injustice	10
Two Conceptions of Testimonial Undervaluation	10
What Is Interesting About Conspiracy Theories?	10
The Wrong of Bullshit	9
Epistemic Caring: An Ethical Approach for the Co-Constitution of Knowledge in Participatory Research Practice	9
Senses of Time: From the Future via the Present to the Past (and Back Again)	9
Beyond ‘Infodemic’: Complexity, Knowledge and Populism in COVID-19 Crisis Governance	9
The Transmission of Knowledge via Large-Scale Technology: A Shared Agency Account	9
Conspiracy Theories, Scepticism, and Non-Liberal Politics	8
Costly Displays in a Digital World: Signalling Trustworthiness on Social Media	8
The Insertion of Islamic Psychology as a Decolonial Epistemological Proposal in the Field of Psychology	8
To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist	8
Softness: An Ecological Paradigm for Embodied Technological Intelligence	8
Normative Paradigms and Interdisciplinary Research	8
Human-Data Coupling: Informational Personhood & Artificial Intelligence Through Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology	8
Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare	8
How to Fight Linguistic Injustice in Science: Equity Measures and Mitigating Agents	7
Flexible or Rigid? A Functionalist Approach to Epistemic Standards	7
The Influence of Disciplinary Origins on Peer Review Normativities in a New Discipline	7
What Groups Can Tell Us About Expertise	7
Smart Environments	7
The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People	7
Defining Wokeness	7
AI-Extended Moral Agency?	7
Friend or Foe? Rethinking Epistemic Trespassing	6
How Can Constitutivism Account for the Persistence of Deep Disagreements?	6
Making Sense of Epistemic Authority	6
Epistemic Smothering is Not a Form of Epistemic Paternalism	6
‘Here’s Me Being Humble’: The Strangeness of Modeling Intellectual Humility	6
The Social Indicators of the Reputation of an Expert	6
Epistemic Distance and Antidemocratic Conspiracy Theories	6
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice	6
The Problem of Disinformation: A Critical Approach	6
How Expertise is Enabled: Why Epistemic Cycles Matter to us All	6
Language in the Godless Age of AI	6
Critically Engaged Pragmatism: Scientific Norm and Social, Pragmatist Epistemology for AI Science Evaluation Tools	6
Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Literary Texts as Boundary Objects	6
Conspiracy Theory and (or as) Folk Psychology	6
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Conspiracy Theory Theories	5
When Patient Voices Get Lost in Evidence Hierarchies: A Testimony of Rare Adverse Events and Participatory Epistemic Injustice in Drug Safety Monitoring	5
Global Citizen Science as a Source of Epistemic Diversity: The Case of eBird India	5
Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper Press	5
The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication	5
Taming Human Subjects: Researchers’ Strategies for Coping with Vagaries in Social Science Experiments	5

Doing Your Own Patient Activist Research	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
The Triviality Worry About Gender Terms and Epistemic Injustice	4
Existential Testimonial Injustice	4
Gatekeeping in Science: Lessons from the Case of Psychology and Neuro-Linguistic Programming	4
Generative AI as a Knowledge Distribution System	4
Producing ME/CFS in Dutch Newspapers. A Social-Discursive Analysis About Non/credibility	4
Openness and Inequity in Scientific Research	4
Interstitial Injustice	4
Status Distrust of Scientific Experts	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
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
Propositional Versus Encyclopedic Epistemology and Unintentional Plagiarism	4
The Sequence and the Standard: An Account of Participatory Informational Format Exclusion (PIFE)	4
Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust	3
The Normative Turn in Conspiracy Theory Theory?	3
Aesthetic Resistance: Reimagining Critical Epistemology and the Grammars of Silence	3
Critical Social Epistemology of Social Media and Epistemic Virtues	3
Why Post-Truth Cannot Be Our Epistemological Compass	3
Watching People Watching People: Culture, Prestige, and Epistemic Authority	3
The University, Epistemic Power, and Institutional Epistemic Responsibilities	3
Evidence Based Policing as Epistemic Self-Reference: A Systems-Theoretical Analysis	3
Counter-Closure Principles in the Age of Complex Software Systems: A Generalized Challenge from AI	3
Expert Authority and Its Assessment	3
Scientism and the Problem of Self-Referential Incoherence	3
Weapons of the Wise? Infrapolitical Theorising as a Traditional Strategy of Academic Resistance	3
Online Illusions of Understanding	3
Life, Mind and Matter: Chemistry for an Ecological Era	3
Taking Virtuous Acts, not Virtuous Traits, as Evaluatively and Conceptually Primary	3
Transcultural Identity of Twerking: A Cultural Evolution Study of Women’s Bodily Practices of the Slavic and East African Communities	3
Exempting Oneself from Knowing Better. Epistemic Laziness and Conspiracy Theories	3
Woman: Concept, Prototype and Stereotype	3
Artificiality for Balanced Integration: A Virtue-Epistemological Framework Bridging Scientific Objectivity and Social Values	3
The University As Infrastructure of Becoming: Re-Activating Academic Freedom Through Humility in Times of Radical Uncertainty	3
A Contemporary Marxist Critique of Neoliberal Capitalism: Beyond Revolution and Neo-Keynesianism	3
Bots: Some Less-Considered Epistemic Problems	3
Artificial Epistemic Authorities	3
Norm Violations in Online Discourse: Epistemic and Civil Foundations for Platform Design and Moderation	3
Science Advice in an Environment of Trust: Trusted, but Not Trustworthy?	3
Epistemic Bunkers	3
Chatbot Epistemology	3
Social Indicators of Trust in the Age of Informational Chaos	3
Other-Oriented Hermeneutical Injustice, Affected Ignorance, or Human Ignorance?	3
Three People Make a Tiger: the Illusory Truth Effect is Detrimental to a Network’s Likelihood of Reaching True Beliefs	2
Conscious Perception as Augmented Reality	2
Epistemic Autonomy and Intellectual Humility: Mutually Supporting Virtues	2
Promoting Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: A Systematic Review, a Critical Literature Review, and a Pathway Forward	2
Supplementing Remedies to the Replication Crisis	2
Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence, and Propaganda: How Conspiracy Theories Advance Political Causes	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
Epistemic Injustice in the Medical Context: Introduction to Special Issue	2
Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge	2
Peer Review and Natural-Like Social Relations of Production in Academia	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
Mediated Testimony, or the Epistemology of Reporting the Words of Others	2
Epistemic Dispossession in Platform Capitalism: Insights from Iris Marion Young’s Five Faces of Oppression	2
Epistemology of Folk-Lore	2
Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice	2
Post-Enquiry and Disagreement. A Socio-Epistemological Model of the Normative Significance of Disagreement Between Scientists and Denialists	2
Populism and the New Radical Right: A Necessary Distinction	2
The Epistemic Import of Narratives	2
Becoming a Knower: Fabricating Knowing Through Coaction	2
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice: Jewish Identity, Whiteness, and Zionism	2
Shaping the Blue Mind: How Epistemic Culture Influences Epistemic Virtue and Democratic Attitudes in Police Education	2
It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice	2