OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Epistemology is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualizing Scientific Progress Needs a New Humanism	36
Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism	35
ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding	25
The Epistemic Value of Democratic Meritocracy	19
Generative AI, Quadruple Deception & Trust	16
Hinge Epistemology: Why Choose?	16
Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse	14
Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice	13
Mechanistic Explanation, Interdisciplinary Integration and Interpersonal Social Coordination	13
Cringe	13
Reflexive Research Practice in Women’s Prison Research in Uganda	12
The Philosophy of Epistemic Autonomy: Introduction to Special Issue	12
Epistemology and the Pandemic: Lessons from an Epistemic Crisis	11
Epistemic Paternalism and Protective Authority in a Non-Ideal World	11
Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge	9
Epistemic Hubris	9
On the Inconsistency between Practice and Reporting in Science: The Genesis of Scientific Articles	9
Conceptual Engineering, Conceptual Domination, and the Case of Conspiracy Theories	9
Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts	8
Challenging Prejudice as the Necessary Condition for Testimonial Injustice: Unveiling the Role of Epistemic Vice	8
Climate Change and Culpable Ignorance: The Case of Pseudoscience	8
Fake Authority Country: Epistemic Responsibility and the Normativity of Expertise	8
Epistemic Domination and ‘Gender Identity Fraud’ Prosecutions	8
Credibility Trouble: When ‘I Believe You’ is an Epistemic Wrong	8
Lookism as Epistemic Injustice	8

Normative Paradigms and Interdisciplinary Research	7
Epistemic Caring: An Ethical Approach for the Co-Constitution of Knowledge in Participatory Research Practice	7
“Do Your Own Research”	7
Beyond ‘Infodemic’: Complexity, Knowledge and Populism in COVID-19 Crisis Governance	7
Stability in Liberal Epistocracies	7
AI and Epistemic Agency: How AI Influences Belief Revision and Its Normative Implications	7
Do Political Convictions Infect Every Fibre of Our Being?	7
The Transmission of Knowledge via Large-Scale Technology: A Shared Agency Account	7
Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare	6
Human-Data Coupling: Informational Personhood & Artificial Intelligence Through Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology	6
Flexible or Rigid? A Functionalist Approach to Epistemic Standards	6
The Wrong of Bullshit	6
Conspiracy Theories, Scepticism, and Non-Liberal Politics	6
Smart Environments	6
Costly Displays in a Digital World: Signalling Trustworthiness on Social Media	6
In Trust We Trust: Epistemic Vigilance and Responsibility	6
To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist	6
The Insertion of Islamic Psychology as a Decolonial Epistemological Proposal in the Field of Psychology	5
How to Fight Linguistic Injustice in Science: Equity Measures and Mitigating Agents	5
The Emergence of Urban Studies as an Academic Field: Article and Journal Level Assessment of Its Development and Openness	5
Defining Wokeness	5
AI-Extended Moral Agency?	5
The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People	5
Scientific Misinformation and Fake News: A Blurred Boundary	5
A Tension in the Strong Program: The Relation between the Rational and the Social	5
Exclusion, Engagement, and Empathy: Revisiting Public Discourse from a Communication Perspective	5
The Influence of Disciplinary Origins on Peer Review Normativities in a New Discipline	5
Softness: An Ecological Paradigm for Embodied Technological Intelligence	5
What Composition of High-Energy Physics Collaborations is Epistemically Optimal?	4
The Social Indicators of the Reputation of an Expert	4
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice	4
‘Here’s Me Being Humble’: The Strangeness of Modeling Intellectual Humility	4
The Problem of Disinformation: A Critical Approach	4
The Charisma of Reason during the Re-enchantment of the World	4
Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Literary Texts as Boundary Objects	4
Friend or Foe? Rethinking Epistemic Trespassing	4
How Can Constitutivism Account for the Persistence of Deep Disagreements?	4
Conspiracy Theory and (or as) Folk Psychology	4
How Expertise is Enabled: Why Epistemic Cycles Matter to us All	4
Epistemic Smothering is Not a Form of Epistemic Paternalism	4
Epistemic Distance and Antidemocratic Conspiracy Theories	4
Epistemic Inclusion as the Key to Benefiting from Cognitive Diversity in Science	3
Critical Social Epistemology of Social Media and Epistemic Virtues	3
Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper Press	3
Two Ways of Seeing Post-Truth as a Stance	3
Overcoming Eurocentrism: Exploring Ethiopian Modernity Through Entangled Histories and Coloniality	3
Expert Authority and Its Assessment	3
Epistemic Autonomy and the Shaping of Our Epistemic Lives	3
Nudging Humans	3
Existential Testimonial Injustice	3

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Conspiracy Theory Theories	3
Language in the Godless Age of AI	3
Taming Human Subjects: Researchers’ Strategies for Coping with Vagaries in Social Science Experiments	3
Defending Autonomy as a Criterion for Epistemic Virtue	3
Interstitial Injustice	3
“I’ll Show You Differences”: Skills, Creativity and Meaning	3
Aesthetic Resistance: Reimagining Critical Epistemology and the Grammars of Silence	3
Propositional Versus Encyclopedic Epistemology and Unintentional Plagiarism	3
Knowledge Brokers in Crisis: Public Communication of Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Status Distrust of Scientific Experts	3
The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication	3
When Patient Voices Get Lost in Evidence Hierarchies: A Testimony of Rare Adverse Events and Participatory Epistemic Injustice in Drug Safety Monitoring	3
In-between: The Simultaneity of the Non-simultaneous	3
Producing ME/CFS in Dutch Newspapers. A Social-Discursive Analysis About Non/credibility	3
The Triviality Worry About Gender Terms and Epistemic Injustice	3
Online Illusions of Understanding	3
Is There a New Conspiracism?	3
Gatekeeping in Science: Lessons from the Case of Psychology and Neuro-Linguistic Programming	3