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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry	13
A general definition of the concept of chemical speciation, chemical species transformation and chemical species evolution based on a semantics of meaning	13
A pictorial (and hopefully pedagogical) discussion on the Born–Oppenheimer approximation	12
Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration	11
Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	8
Editorial 73	7
Editorial 79	7
Editorial 82	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
In praise of triads	5
Metaphysics of protein dynamics: dispositional teleology and dynamic identity	5
Electric dipole moment in chemistry: historical account and its representation in chemistry textbooks	4
Hydrogen over helium: A philosophical position	4
Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics	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
A defense of placeholder essentialism	4
The theoretical schism in foundational chemistry: Lewis vs. quantum	4
Editorial 71	4
EDITORIAL 78	3
An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water	3
Epistemological obstacles in teaching and learning cellular respiration	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
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	3
Interview with Olimpia Lombardi	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
Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards	2
Editorial 75	2
Bifurcations	2
Critical appraisal on “Chromatography in the chemical analysis of molecular substances: chemical substance predication and mereology”	2
The problem of chemical laws	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
The periodic spiral of elements	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
Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution	2
Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals’ alchemist and his secret recipes	2
On the very idea of a social enantiomorphism	2
Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn	1
Editor’s note for volume II of the proceedings of the 2022 conference of the international society for the philosophy of chemistry	1
Chemical jargon: thinking out loud	1
Editor's Note by Michele Friend	1
From complexity to systems	1
An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry	1
Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity	1
Clashing perspectives: Kantian epistemology and quantum chemistry theory	1
Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures	1
What is the electron density?	1
Introducing the energy–density and local Schrödinger equations	1
Revolutions in science, revolutions in chemistry	1
Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure	1
Chemical reduction and quantum interpretation: A case for thomistic emergence	1
Adaptive natural density partitioning (AdNDP): a not-so-mythical description of the chemical bond	1
Exploring the metaphysical foundations for the ontological unity of biochemical complexes	1
Editorial 76	1
Functional realism suggested from the actualization of affordances	1
On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means	1
Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules	1
What is in the atomic structure? A literature review in science	1
Phenomenological epistemology and nanotechnology: scanning tunneling microscopy as hermeneutic technics	1
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2—turbulent nineteenth century	1
The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation and its role in the reduction of chemistry	1