Foundations of Chemistry

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry57
Ogawa’s nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium9
Quantum mechanical atom models, legitimate explanations and mechanisms9
Editorial 698
Measuring ecologically sound practice in the chemical industry8
Interview with Olimpia Lombardi6
Interview with Eric Scerri6
Natural kinds, chemical practice, and interpretive communities6
Knowledge building in chemistry education5
Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration4
Special theory of relativity in chemistry4
A general definition of the concept of chemical speciation, chemical species transformation and chemical species evolution based on a semantics of meaning3
Electronegativity provides the relationship between formal charge, oxidation state, and actual charge3
An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water3
Celebrating the birth of De Donder’s chemical affinity (1922–2022): from the uncompensated heat to his Ave Maria3
On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means3
Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure2
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 3—rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries2
Brick by brick2
Chemical jargon: thinking out loud2
Functional realism suggested from the actualization of affordances2
Ethics of the future of chemical sciences2
An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry2
Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling2
A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding2
Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction?1
Guest Editorial for the Special Issue of the ISPC Annual Conference Held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20231
Editorial 731
Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency1
The value of laws in chemistry1
What is a mathematician doing…in a chemistry class?1
Disparities and conceptual connections regarding the concept of substance in general chemistry textbook glossaries1
Making sense of a pedagogic text1
The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements1
Improving chemistry teacher education with the philosophy of chemistry1
Editorial 721
A simple treatment of chemical equilibrium1
Usanovich and Nernst colliding: inconsistencies in the all-in-one acid–base concept?1
What is the electron density?1
Editorial 671
Chemistry: progress since 1860—reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt’s Chemistry1
From complexity to systems1
Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry1
Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity1
Density functional theory, chemical reactivity, and the Fukui functions1
On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry1
Theodore Richards and the discovery of isotopes1
Response to Geoffrey Neuss on how to teach the 4s and 3d orbital conundrum1
Plato on chemistry1
Conceptual polymorphism of entropy into the history: extensions of the second law of thermodynamics towards statistical physics and chemistry during nineteenth–twentieth centuries1
Book review of Paul Sen’s, “Einstein’s Fridge. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe” ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-61
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