Foundations of Chemistry

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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry62
Editorial 6910
Interview with Olimpia Lombardi9
Natural kinds, chemical practice, and interpretive communities9
Special theory of relativity in chemistry8
On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means7
A general definition of the concept of chemical speciation, chemical species transformation and chemical species evolution based on a semantics of meaning6
Measuring ecologically sound practice in the chemical industry6
Ogawa’s nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium6
Electronegativity provides the relationship between formal charge, oxidation state, and actual charge5
An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry4
Quantum mechanical atom models, legitimate explanations and mechanisms4
Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration4
Knowledge building in chemistry education4
Celebrating the birth of De Donder’s chemical affinity (1922–2022): from the uncompensated heat to his Ave Maria3
Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure3
An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water3
Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling3
Chemical jargon: thinking out loud3
Interview with Eric Scerri3
Functional realism suggested from the actualization of affordances3
Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity2
Editorial 732
A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding2
Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency2
A simple treatment of chemical equilibrium2
Brick by brick2
Editorial 722
Guest Editorial for the Special Issue of the ISPC Annual Conference Held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20232
From complexity to systems1
The value of laws in chemistry1
On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry1
Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry1
Editor’s note for volume II of the proceedings of the 2022 conference of the international society for the philosophy of chemistry1
Editorial 671
Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics1
Relating screening to atomic properties and electronegativity in the Slater atom1
Chemistry: progress since 1860—reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt’s Chemistry1
Attempts to account for chemical periodicity in terms of the electronic structure of elements: Thomson, Bohr and Madelung1
The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements1
Book review of Paul Sen’s, “Einstein’s Fridge. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe” ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-61
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 3—rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries1
Ethics of the future of chemical sciences1
Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction?1
The irreducibility of chemistry to Everettian quantum mechanics1
Correction to: Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century1
Theodore Richards and the discovery of isotopes1
Plato on chemistry1
What is the electron density?1
Usanovich and Nernst colliding: inconsistencies in the all-in-one acid–base concept?1
Improving chemistry teacher education with the philosophy of chemistry1
Density functional theory, chemical reactivity, and the Fukui functions1
S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history1
Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence1
An integrated vision of the Green Chemistry evolution along 25 years1
Making sense of a pedagogic text1
Bifurcations0
Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures0
Electronegativity as a new case for emergence and a new problem for reductionism0
Editorial 750
Prospective sustainable agriculture principles inspired by green chemistry0
Book Review0
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century0
Robert Boyle and the relational and dispositional nature of chemical properties0
The habit of the pipe: a layperson’s view of the periodic table0
Identity in the nanoworld: processes and contextuality0
Why do prima facie intuitive theories work in organic chemistry?0
Is the problem of molecular structure just the quantum measurement problem?0
Conceptual polymorphism of entropy into the history: extensions of the second law of thermodynamics towards statistical physics and chemistry during nineteenth–twentieth centuries0
EDITORIAL 780
What is a mathematician doing…in a chemistry class?0
Entropy and sign conventions0
Editorial 760
Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules0
A defense of placeholder essentialism0
Correction: Book review of Paul Sen’s, “Einstein’s Fridge. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe” ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-60
Hasok Chang on the nature of acids0
The case of Zinjafr in the medical and mineralogical texts of medieval Persia: a puzzle created in the absence of the concept of chemical elements0
Editorial 770
Mendeleyev revisited0
The periodic spiral of elements0
Laws of nature according to some philosophers of science and according to chemists0
Prelog’s model as the first tool to predict stereoselectivity: identifying patterns in chemical data to construct models0
Clashing perspectives: Kantian epistemology and quantum chemistry theory0
Interaction, interpretation and representation: the construction and dissemination of chemical knowledge from a Peircean semiotics perspective0
What is an organic substance?0
Review of Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino, The chemical philosophy of Robert Boyle: mechanicism, chymical atoms and emergence. Pp. x + 196, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20200
Periodic tables for cations + 1, + 2, + 3 and anions − 1. Quantitative characteristics for manifestations of internal periodicity and kainosymmetry0
Orthogonality properties of states, configurations, and orbitals0
Editorial 680
What happened when chemists came to classify elements by their atomic number?0
The equilibrium box0
Quantum algorithms for simulation of quantum chemistry problems by quantum computers: an appraisal0
Predicting unknown binary compounds from the view of complex network0
Research status of the periodic table: a bibliometric analysis0
Introducing UV–visible spectroscopy at high school level following the historical evolution of spectroscopic instruments: a proposal for chemistry teachers0
Centenary Workshop on the Bifurcation of Acidity -Protonism vs. Electronism0
On the nature of quantum-chemical entities: the case of electron density0
Revolutions in science, revolutions in chemistry0
The problem of chemical laws0
What does chemical change tell us about the nature of reality? An exercise in scientific metaphysics0
Editorial 710
Response to the critique by Dr. K. Brad Wray, published in foundations of chemistry October 6, 20220
In praise of triads0
Connecting De Donder’s equation with the differential changes of thermodynamic potentials: understanding thermodynamic potentials0
Deciphering the physical meaning of Gibbs’s maximum work equation0
Eric Scerri and Elena Ghibaudi, eds: What is an element? A collection of essays by chemists, philosophers, historians, and educators0
Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals’ alchemist and his secret recipes0
Bond order and bond energies0
“Sharp of taste”: the concept of acidity in the Greek system of natural explanation0
Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn0
Editor's Note by Michele Friend0
A case for the engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Jay A. Labinger’s: Connecting Literature and Science. New York: Routledge, 20220
Are acids natural kinds?0
Hydrogen over helium: A philosophical position0
Improving student success in chemistry through cognitive science0
Editorial 70 (the platinum issue)0
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2—turbulent nineteenth century0
Disparities and conceptual connections regarding the concept of substance in general chemistry textbook glossaries0
Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a case study on the concept of quantum number, electronic configuration and review for teaching material0
Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards0
Are there distinct views of chemistry behind the old and the new definition of mole?0
Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution0
A brief comment on ‘Mendeleyev Revisited’ by Marks & Marks (foundations of chemistry https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-021–09,398-4)0
Correction to: The value of laws in chemistry0
A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling0
Understanding entropy0
Reactivity in chemistry: the propensity view0
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