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Papers

(The median citation count of Foundations of Chemistry is 0. 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
Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	85
Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry	11
Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration	11
A general definition of the concept of chemical speciation, chemical species transformation and chemical species evolution based on a semantics of meaning	11
Editorial 73	9
Chemistry: progress since 1860—reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt’s Chemistry	6
A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding	6
In praise of triads	6
Editorial 79	6
A defense of placeholder essentialism	5
Interaction, interpretation and representation: the construction and dissemination of chemical knowledge from a Peircean semiotics perspective	4
Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics	4
Editorial 71	4
Understanding entropy	4
Editorial 70 (the platinum issue)	4
Editorial 69	3
EDITORIAL 78	3
Attempts to account for chemical periodicity in terms of the electronic structure of elements: Thomson, Bohr and Madelung	3
Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry	3
What does chemical change tell us about the nature of reality? An exercise in scientific metaphysics	3
Correction: Book review of Paul Sen’s, “Einstein’s Fridge. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe” ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-6	3
Knowledge building in chemistry education	3
An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water	3
Hydrogen over helium: A philosophical position	3
Interview with Olimpia Lombardi	3

Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction?	3
Book review of Paul Sen’s, “Einstein’s Fridge. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe” ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-6	2
Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards	2
Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals’ alchemist and his secret recipes	2
Epistemological obstacles in teaching and learning cellular respiration	2
On the very idea of a social enantiomorphism	2
Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules	2
Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution	2
The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements	2
Editorial 75	2
The problem of chemical laws	2
On the nature of quantum-chemical entities: the case of electron density	1
Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn	1
Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures	1
Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence	1
Introducing the energy–density and local Schrödinger equations	1
What happened when chemists came to classify elements by their atomic number?	1
A brief comment on ‘Mendeleyev Revisited’ by Marks & Marks (foundations of chemistry https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-021–09,398-4)	1
Editor’s note for volume II of the proceedings of the 2022 conference of the international society for the philosophy of chemistry	1
Functional realism suggested from the actualization of affordances	1
Quantum algorithms for simulation of quantum chemistry problems by quantum computers: an appraisal	1
Periodic tables for cations + 1, + 2, + 3 and anions − 1. Quantitative characteristics for manifestations of internal periodicity and kainosymmetry	1
Editorial 76	1
The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation and its role in the reduction of chemistry	1
Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure	1
Revolutions in science, revolutions in chemistry	1
Bifurcations	1
Editor's Note by Michele Friend	1
From complexity to systems	1
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2—turbulent nineteenth century	1
Clashing perspectives: Kantian epistemology and quantum chemistry theory	1
What is in the atomic structure? A literature review in science	1
Chemical jargon: thinking out loud	1
On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means	1
The periodic spiral of elements	1
A case for the engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Jay A. Labinger’s: Connecting Literature and Science. New York: Routledge, 2022	1
What is the electron density?	1
Prospective sustainable agriculture principles inspired by green chemistry	0
Are there distinct views of chemistry behind the old and the new definition of mole?	0
Ethics of the future of chemical sciences	0
Natural kinds, chemical practice, and interpretive communities	0
A brief response to Seifert on laws and the periodic table	0
Celebrating the birth of De Donder’s chemical affinity (1922–2022): from the uncompensated heat to his Ave Maria	0
Book Review	0
Response to the critique by Dr. K. Brad Wray, published in foundations of chemistry October 6, 2022	0
A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	0
Editorial 72	0
What is a mathematician doing…in a chemistry class?	0
Measuring ecologically sound practice in the chemical industry	0
Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency	0

Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 3—rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	0
An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry	0
Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a case study on the concept of quantum number, electronic configuration and review for teaching material	0
Why do chemists take the chemical bond as real?	0
The equilibrium box	0
Why do prima facie intuitive theories work in organic chemistry?	0
Disparities and conceptual connections regarding the concept of substance in general chemistry textbook glossaries	0
Introducing UV–visible spectroscopy at high school level following the historical evolution of spectroscopic instruments: a proposal for chemistry teachers	0
Hasok Chang on the nature of acids	0
Deciphering the physical meaning of Gibbs’s maximum work equation	0
Theodore Richards and the discovery of isotopes	0
The concept of ‘nature’ in chemistry in a digital and ecological age	0
The case of Zinjafr in the medical and mineralogical texts of medieval Persia: a puzzle created in the absence of the concept of chemical elements	0
Laws of nature, metaphysics, and science education: a reply to Scerri	0
“Sharp of taste”: the concept of acidity in the Greek system of natural explanation	0
Bond order and bond energies	0
Editorial 77	0
The irreducibility of chemistry to Everettian quantum mechanics	0
The habit of the pipe: a layperson’s view of the periodic table	0
Improving student success in chemistry through cognitive science	0
Correction to: Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century	0
Identity in the nanoworld: processes and contextuality	0
The value of laws in chemistry	0
Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity	0
Interview with Eric Scerri	0
Connecting De Donder’s equation with the differential changes of thermodynamic potentials: understanding thermodynamic potentials	0
S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history	0
Prelog’s model as the first tool to predict stereoselectivity: identifying patterns in chemical data to construct models	0
Laws of nature according to some philosophers of science and according to chemists	0
On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry	0
Relating screening to atomic properties and electronegativity in the Slater atom	0
Reactivity in chemistry: the propensity view	0
Editorial 80	0
Density functional theory, chemical reactivity, and the Fukui functions	0
Orthogonality properties of states, configurations, and orbitals	0
Usanovich and Nernst colliding: inconsistencies in the all-in-one acid–base concept?	0
Electronegativity provides the relationship between formal charge, oxidation state, and actual charge	0
Scientific laws, Dalton’s postulates, chemical reactions and Wolfram’s NKS	0
The rivers in our tears: chemistry, literature and philosophy in the short story “Best Is Water” by Primo Levi	0
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century	0
Correction to: The value of laws in chemistry	0
Centenary Workshop on the Bifurcation of Acidity -Protonism vs. Electronism	0
Are acids natural kinds?	0
Plato on chemistry	0
Guest Editorial for the Special Issue of the ISPC Annual Conference Held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023	0
Brick by brick	0
Entropy and sign conventions	0
Special theory of relativity in chemistry	0
Research status of the periodic table: a bibliometric analysis	0
Ogawa’s nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium	0
Foreword to the special issue	0
Electronegativity as a new case for emergence and a new problem for reductionism	0
Robert Boyle and the relational and dispositional nature of chemical properties	0
Predicting unknown binary compounds from the view of complex network	0