OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Foundations of Chemistry is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A general definition of the concept of chemical speciation, chemical species transformation and chemical species evolution based on a semantics of meaning	13
Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry	12
A pictorial (and hopefully pedagogical) discussion on the Born–Oppenheimer approximation	11
Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	11
Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration	11
Editorial 73	7
Editorial 79	7
Editorial 82	6
In praise of triads	6
A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding	6
Chromatography in the chemical analysis of molecular substances: chemical substance predication and mereology	6
Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics	5
A defense of placeholder essentialism	5
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	4
What does chemical change tell us about the nature of reality? An exercise in scientific metaphysics	4
Interaction, interpretation and representation: the construction and dissemination of chemical knowledge from a Peircean semiotics perspective	4
EDITORIAL 78	4
The theoretical schism in foundational chemistry: Lewis vs. quantum	4
Editorial 71	4
Electric dipole moment in chemistry: historical account and its representation in chemistry textbooks	4
Hydrogen over helium: A philosophical position	4
Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction?	3
Epistemological obstacles in teaching and learning cellular respiration	3
The problem of chemical laws	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	3

Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry	3
Attempts to account for chemical periodicity in terms of the electronic structure of elements: Thomson, Bohr and Madelung	3
The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements	3
An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water	3
Interview with Olimpia Lombardi	3
Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards	3
Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution	2
On the very idea of a social enantiomorphism	2
The periodic spiral of elements	2
Bifurcations	2
Critical appraisal on “Chromatography in the chemical analysis of molecular substances: chemical substance predication and mereology”	2
Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals’ alchemist and his secret recipes	2
Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules	2
A case for the engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Jay A. Labinger’s: Connecting Literature and Science. New York: Routledge, 2022	2
Editorial 75	2
Revolutions in science, revolutions in chemistry	2
Editor's Note by Michele Friend	2
The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation and its role in the reduction of chemistry	1
Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity	1
Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures	1
Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn	1
On the nature of quantum-chemical entities: the case of electron density	1
Editor’s note for volume II of the proceedings of the 2022 conference of the international society for the philosophy of chemistry	1
On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means	1
Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure	1
Editorial 76	1
Guest Editorial for the Special Issue of the ISPC Annual Conference Held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023	1
Adaptive natural density partitioning (AdNDP): a not-so-mythical description of the chemical bond	1
Quantum algorithms for simulation of quantum chemistry problems by quantum computers: an appraisal	1
Exploring the metaphysical foundations for the ontological unity of biochemical complexes	1
From complexity to systems	1
What is in the atomic structure? A literature review in science	1
Introducing the energy–density and local Schrödinger equations	1
Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence	1
An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry	1
Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency	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
Phenomenological epistemology and nanotechnology: scanning tunneling microscopy as hermeneutic technics	1
What is the electron density?	1
Functional realism suggested from the actualization of affordances	1
Chemical jargon: thinking out loud	1