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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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Density functional theory, chemical reactivity, and the Fukui functions	43
The location and composition of Group 3 of the periodic table	11
Knowledge building in chemistry education	9
Chemistry is pluralistic	8
Improving student success in chemistry through cognitive science	8
Is the problem of molecular structure just the quantum measurement problem?	8
The QSAR similarity principle in the deep learning era: Confirmation or revision?	7
Hasok Chang on the nature of acids	7
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 3—rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	6
On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry	5
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century	5
An integrated vision of the Green Chemistry evolution along 25 years	5
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2—turbulent nineteenth century	4
Mendeleyev revisited	3
In praise of triads	3
Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures	3
From complexity to systems	3
Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics	3
Three related topics on the periodic tables of elements	3
Predicting unknown binary compounds from the view of complex network	2
On vague chemistry	2
What happened when chemists came to classify elements by their atomic number?	2
Revolutionary poetry and liquid crystal chemistry: Herman Gorter, Ada Prins and the interface between literature and science	2
Conceptual polymorphism of entropy into the history: extensions of the second law of thermodynamics towards statistical physics and chemistry during nineteenth–twentieth centuries	2
Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction?	2

Bond order and bond energies	2
What is a mathematician doing…in a chemistry class?	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
Electronegativity provides the relationship between formal charge, oxidation state, and actual charge	2
On the early thermodynamic and kinetic deductions of the equilibrium constant equation	2
Prospective sustainable agriculture principles inspired by green chemistry	2
Robert Boyle and the relational and dispositional nature of chemical properties	1
Quantum algorithms for simulation of quantum chemistry problems by quantum computers: an appraisal	1
What is an organic substance?	1
Periodic tables for cations + 1, + 2, + 3 and anions − 1. Quantitative characteristics for manifestations of internal periodicity and kainosymmetry	1
Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G.W. Leibniz II	1
On the nature of quantum-chemical entities: the case of electron density	1
Theodore Richards and the discovery of isotopes	1
Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration	1
Quantum mechanical atom models, legitimate explanations and mechanisms	1
Are acids natural kinds?	1
Centenary Workshop on the Bifurcation of Acidity -Protonism vs. Electronism	1
Revolutions in science, revolutions in chemistry	1
An analysis of the difficulties associated with determining that a reaction in chemical equilibrium is incomplete	1
Liquid crystal chemistry and poetry	1
Plato on chemistry	1
Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity	1
Interview with Eric Scerri	1
Ogawa’s nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium	1
Orthogonality properties of states, configurations, and orbitals	1
Eric Scerri and Elena Ghibaudi, eds: What is an element? A collection of essays by chemists, philosophers, historians, and educators	1
Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules	1
A new definition of reduction between two scientific theories: no reduction of chemistry to quantum mechanics	1
Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution	1
Understanding entropy	1
Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency	1
An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry	1
Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals’ alchemist and his secret recipes	0
Chemistry: progress since 1860—reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt’s Chemistry	0
Interaction, interpretation and representation: the construction and dissemination of chemical knowledge from a Peircean semiotics perspective	0
Response to Geoffrey Neuss on how to teach the 4s and 3d orbital conundrum	0
Editorial 75	0
Editorial 72	0
Editorial 70 (the platinum issue)	0
A simple treatment of chemical equilibrium	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
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	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, 2020	0
Relating screening to atomic properties and electronegativity in the Slater atom	0
Brick by brick	0
Research status of the periodic table: a bibliometric analysis	0
Correction to: The location and composition of Group 3 of the periodic table	0
On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means	0
Electronegativity as a new case for emergence and a new problem for reductionism	0
Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	0

Why do prima facie intuitive theories work in organic chemistry?	0
A brief comment on ‘Mendeleyev Revisited’ by Marks & Marks (foundations of chemistry https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-021–09,398-4)	0
An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water	0
Editorial 69	0
The habit of the pipe: a layperson’s view of the periodic table	0
Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence	0
Editorial 76	0
Disparities and conceptual connections regarding the concept of substance in general chemistry textbook glossaries	0
Reactivity in chemistry: the propensity view	0
Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry	0
Connecting De Donder’s equation with the differential changes of thermodynamic potentials: understanding thermodynamic potentials	0
Improving chemistry teacher education with the philosophy of chemistry	0
Geoff Rayner-Canham: The periodic table: past present, and future	0
Organic chemistry as representation	0
Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a case study on the concept of quantum number, electronic configuration and review for teaching material	0
Introducing UV–visible spectroscopy at high school level following the historical evolution of spectroscopic instruments: a proposal for chemistry teachers	0
A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding	0
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	0
Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards	0
Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure	0
Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn	0
Charles S. McCaw: Orbitals with applications in atomic spectra, 2nd edition	0
Natural kinds, chemical practice, and interpretive communities	0
Clashing perspectives: Kantian epistemology and quantum chemistry theory	0
Special theory of relativity in chemistry	0
Entropy and sign conventions	0
Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry	0
Editorial 66	0
Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G.W. Leibniz I	0
Book Review	0
Correction to: Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century	0
Hydrogen over helium: A philosophical position	0
Editorial 67	0
Response to the critique by Dr. K. Brad Wray, published in foundations of chemistry October 6, 2022	0
Usanovich and Nernst colliding: inconsistencies in the all-in-one acid–base concept?	0
“Sharp of taste”: the concept of acidity in the Greek system of natural explanation	0
Editorial 73	0
Editorial 71	0
Guest-editorial	0
Editor's Note by Michele Friend	0
Logics for algorithmic chemistries	0
Ethics of the future of chemical sciences	0
Deciphering the physical meaning of Gibbs’s maximum work equation	0
Making sense of a pedagogic text	0
Celebrating the birth of De Donder’s chemical affinity (1922–2022): from the uncompensated heat to his Ave Maria	0
Bifurcations	0
A defense of placeholder essentialism	0
Interview with Olimpia Lombardi	0
A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	0
A problem with explaining the electron configuration of scandium	0
Editorial 68	0
Measuring ecologically sound practice in the chemical industry	0
A case for the engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Jay A. Labinger’s: Connecting Literature and Science. New York: Routledge, 2022	0