OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 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
Is the problem of molecular structure just the quantum measurement problem?	8
Chemistry is pluralistic	8
Improving student success in chemistry through cognitive science	8
Hasok Chang on the nature of acids	7
The QSAR similarity principle in the deep learning era: Confirmation or revision?	7
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 3—rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	6
An integrated vision of the Green Chemistry evolution along 25 years	5
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
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2—turbulent nineteenth century	4
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
Mendeleyev revisited	3
In praise of triads	3
Hints for a formal language inspired by Lewis structures	3
From complexity to systems	3
On the early thermodynamic and kinetic deductions of the equilibrium constant equation	2
Prospective sustainable agriculture principles inspired by green chemistry	2
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
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
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