OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal for General Philosophy of Science 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Synthesis of the Formats for Correcting Erroneous and Fraudulent Academic Literature, and Associated Challenges	21
Six Theses on Mechanisms and Mechanistic Science	18
What Does Good Science-Based Advice to Politics Look Like?	16
Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem	13
Should We Strive to Make Science Bias-Free? A Philosophical Assessment of the Reproducibility Crisis	11
Hierarchies, Networks, and Causality: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach	11
Revisiting the Basic/Applied Science Distinction: The Significance of Urgent Science for Science Funding Policy	9
Evolutionary Epistemology: Two Research Avenues, Three Schools, and A Single and Shared Agenda	7
Conceptual Structuralism	7
Explanations of Research Misconduct, and How They Hang Together	7
The Implications of the No-Free-Lunch Theorems for Meta-induction	6
Diagnosing Pseudoscience – by Getting Rid of the Demarcation Problem	6
Machine Learning and the Future of Scientific Explanation	5
Which Methods Are Useful to Justify Public Policies? An Analysis of Cost–Benefit Analysis, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and Non-Aggregate Indicator Systems	5
Otto Neurath’s Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments	5
Homeostatic Property Cluster Theory without Homeostatic Mechanisms: Two Recent Attempts and their Costs	4
Phylogenetic Distribution and Trajectories of Visual Consciousness: Examining Feinberg and Mallatt’s Neurobiological Naturalism	4
Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson	4
Motivating a Pragmatic Approach to Naturalized Social Ontology	3
Fallibilism versus Relativism in the Philosophy of Science	3
Why Computer Simulation Cannot Be an End of Thought Experimentation	3
Direct Inference and Probabilistic Accounts of Induction	3
Improve Popper and Procure a Perfect Simulacrum of Verification Indistinguishable from the Real Thing	3
Empiricism Must, but Cannot, Presuppose Real Causation	3
Cooperative Division of Cognitive Labour: The Social Epistemology of Photosynthesis Research	3

Thinking Crossroads: from Scientific Pluralism to Pluralist History of Science	3
Critique of Wave-Particle Duality of Single-Photons	3
Whewell’s Hylomorphism as a Metaphorical Explanation for How Mind and World Merge	3
Dedekind and Wolffian Deductive Method	3
Rebuttal to Douglas and Elliott	3
Cournot and Renouvier on Scientific Revolutions	3
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Quantification Problem of Psychophysics	2
Scientific Modeling Versus Engineering Modeling: Similarities and Dissimilarities	2
Arnon Levy, Peter Godfrey-Smith (Eds.): The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives	2
The Concept of the Universe in Physical Cosmology	2
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap: An Epistemological Look	2
Disagreement About Scientific Ontology	2
Mario Bunge (1919–2020): Conjoining Philosophy of Science and Scientific Philosophy	2
From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium	2
Pluralizing Darwin: Making Counter-Factual History of Science Significant	2
Methodological Signatures in Early Ethology: The Problem of Animal Subjectivity	2
About the Reaction to Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate	2
Thematic Reclassifications and Emerging Sciences	2