OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Density functional theory, chemical reactivity, and the Fukui functions	32
The location and composition of Group 3 of the periodic table	11
Chemistry is pluralistic	8
Knowledge building in chemistry education	8
Improving student success in chemistry through cognitive science	8
Is the problem of molecular structure just the quantum measurement problem?	7
The QSAR similarity principle in the deep learning era: Confirmation or revision?	7
A relational-constructionist account of protein macrostructure and function	6
Hasok Chang on the nature of acids	6
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 3—rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	5
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century	5
Early theoretical chemistry: Plato’s chemistry in Timaeus	4
An integrated vision of the Green Chemistry evolution along 25 years	4
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2—turbulent nineteenth century	4
Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures	3
On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry	3
Mendeleyev revisited	3
Watch the colors: or about qualitative thinking in chemistry	3
On the early thermodynamic and kinetic deductions of the equilibrium constant equation	3
Three related topics on the periodic tables of elements	3
Prospective sustainable agriculture principles inspired by green chemistry	2
Predicting unknown binary compounds from the view of complex network	2
Elements of chemistry	2
Electronegativity provides the relationship between formal charge, oxidation state, and actual charge	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
A nuclear periodic table	2
Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics	2
On vague chemistry	2
Periodic tables for cations + 1, + 2, + 3 and anions − 1. Quantitative characteristics for manifestations of internal periodicity and kainosymmetry	1
A new definition of reduction between two scientific theories: no reduction of chemistry to quantum mechanics	1
On the nature of quantum-chemical entities: the case of electron density	1
From complexity to systems	1
The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements	1
An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry	1
Ogawa’s nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium	1
Quantum algorithms for simulation of quantum chemistry problems by quantum computers: an appraisal	1
Eric Scerri and Elena Ghibaudi, eds: What is an element? A collection of essays by chemists, philosophers, historians, and educators	1
Revolutions in science, revolutions in chemistry	1
How to investigate the underpinnings of sciences? The case of the element chlorine	1
Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G.W. Leibniz II	1
Plato on chemistry	1
Theodore Richards and the discovery of isotopes	1
Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity	1
Interview with Eric Scerri	1
Philosophy, natural kinds, microstructuralism, and the (mis)use of chemical examples: intimacy versus integrity as orientations towards chemical practice	1
Orthogonality properties of states, configurations, and orbitals	1
Ontological status of time in chemistry	1
Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules	1
An analysis of the difficulties associated with determining that a reaction in chemical equilibrium is incomplete	1
Liquid crystal chemistry and poetry	1
In praise of triads	1
A comment about the meaning and significance of life in the light of generalized crystallography	1
Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency	1
Quantum mechanical atom models, legitimate explanations and mechanisms	1
Robert Boyle and the relational and dispositional nature of chemical properties	1
Centenary Workshop on the Bifurcation of Acidity -Protonism vs. Electronism	1
What is an organic substance?	1
Usanovich and Nernst colliding: inconsistencies in the all-in-one acid–base concept?	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
Editorial 73	0
Reactivity in chemistry: the propensity view	0
“Sharp of taste”: the concept of acidity in the Greek system of natural explanation	0
Guest-editorial	0
Geoff Rayner-Canham: The periodic table: past present, and future	0
Brick by brick	0
Introducing UV–visible spectroscopy at high school level following the historical evolution of spectroscopic instruments: a proposal for chemistry teachers	0
Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration	0
Chemistry: progress since 1860—reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt’s Chemistry	0
Natural kinds, chemical practice, and interpretive communities	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
A defense of placeholder essentialism	0

Special theory of relativity in chemistry	0
Editorial 65	0
Disparities and conceptual connections regarding the concept of substance in general chemistry textbook glossaries	0
Chemistry and dynamics in the thought of G.W. Leibniz I	0
Bifurcations	0
Relating screening to atomic properties and electronegativity in the Slater atom	0
Editorial 67	0
Prediction, accommodation and the periodic table: a reappraisal	0
Response to Geoffrey Neuss on how to teach the 4s and 3d orbital conundrum	0
A brief comment on ‘Mendeleyev Revisited’ by Marks & Marks (foundations of chemistry https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-021–09,398-4)	0
Editorial 72	0
The habit of the pipe: a layperson’s view of the periodic table	0
Response to the critique by Dr. K. Brad Wray, published in foundations of chemistry October 6, 2022	0
A simple treatment of chemical equilibrium	0
Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals’ alchemist and his secret recipes	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
Editorial 71	0
Measuring ecologically sound practice in the chemical industry	0
Understanding entropy	0
Celebrating the birth of De Donder’s chemical affinity (1922–2022): from the uncompensated heat to his Ave Maria	0
Misconception in chemistry textbooks: a case study on the concept of quantum number, electronic configuration and review for teaching material	0
Making sense of a pedagogic text	0
Interview with Olimpia Lombardi	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
Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence	0
A problem with explaining the electron configuration of scandium	0
Molecular models and scientific realism	0
Correction to: The location and composition of Group 3 of the periodic table	0
A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	0
Logics for algorithmic chemistries	0
Entropy and sign conventions	0
Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry	0
Editorial 66	0
Improving chemistry teacher education with the philosophy of chemistry	0
Book Review	0
Editorial 75	0
Organic chemistry as representation	0
Editorial 70 (the platinum issue)	0
A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding	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
Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry	0
Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards	0
On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means	0
Editor's Note by Michele Friend	0
Correction to: Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 1—from antiquity till the end of 18th century	0
Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	0
Are acids natural kinds?	0
Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution	0
Editorial 69	0
Electronegativity as a new case for emergence and a new problem for reductionism	0
Charles S. McCaw: Orbitals with applications in atomic spectra, 2nd edition	0
Why do prima facie intuitive theories work in organic chemistry?	0
What is a mathematician doing…in a chemistry class?	0
Editorial 68	0