OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal for Philosophy of Science is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconstructions of quantum theory: methodology and the role of axiomatization	37
Modeling interventions in multi-level causal systems: supervenience, exclusion and underdetermination	21
Averaged versus individualized: pragmatic N-of-1 design as a method to investigate individual treatment response	19
Overstating the effects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science	16
Diagnosing errors in climate model intercomparisons	15
Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation	15
Quantum ontology and intuitions	14
The WHO and the ‘whose values?’ problem: on the partial democratisation of science	13
We should redefine scientific expertise: an extended virtue account	13
Feynman diagrams: visualization of phenomena and diagrammatic representation	13
Infinity and continuum in the alternative set theory	13
Equivalence, reduction, and sophistication in teleparallel gravity	12
Irrational methods suggest indecomposability and emergence	12
Contextualist model evaluation: models in financial economics and index funds	12
Explaining AI through mechanistic interpretability	12
Nested modalities in astrophysical modeling	11
Misconstrued arguments about cultural theory	11
Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science	11
Afactivism about understanding cognition	10
Separability and fundamentality	9
On the consistency of relative facts	9
Overcoming Frege’s curse: heuristic reasoning as the basis for teaching philosophy of science to scientists	9
Purifying applied mathematics and applying pure mathematics: how a late Wittgensteinian perspective sheds light onto the dichotomy	9
Criteria of success for engineering accident investigations: a question-centered account	9
Unexpected quantum indeterminacy	9

Multilevel innovativeness and cross-species comparisons	9
Simpson’s paradox beyond confounding	8
Masking, extrinsicness, and the nature of dispositions: the role of niche signals in muscle stem cells	8
Nagelian reduction and approximation	8
Coordination in social learning: expanding the narrative on the evolution of social norms	7
Ethnobiological kinds and material grounding: comments on Ludwig	7
Emergent Realities: Diffracting Barad within a quantum-realist ontology of matter and politics	7
Perspectives and meta-perspectives: context versus hierarchy in the epistemology of complex systems	7
The sky is blue, and other reasons quantum mechanics is not underdetermined by evidence	7
The epistemic strength of proxies in scientific practice	7
Radical artifactualism	6
Experiment and the pursuit of ugly models	6
Phenomena and signatures	6
What are general models about?	6
The emergence of the postgenomic gene	6
Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and tipping points: interdisciplinarity and values in Earth system science	6
Grounded empiricism	6
How to Incorporate Non-Epistemic Values into a Theory of Classification	6
Autonoesis and the Galilean science of memory: Explanation, idealization, and the role of crucial data	6
Beyond the microscope: Rethinking microbial diversity measurement with the model-based account	5
A fine-grained distinction of coarse graining	5
Classicality and Bell’s theorem	5
New functionalism and the social and behavioral sciences	5
Probing ‘operational coherence’ in Hasok Chang’s pragmatic realism	5
Predictivism and model selection	5
Inductive risk and epistemically detrimental dissent in policy-relevant science	5
Another philosophical look at twistor theory	5
On the status of quantum tunnelling time	5
Motivationalism vs. interpretationalism about symmetries: some options overlooked in the debate about the relationship between symmetries and physical equivalence	5
Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discovery	5
Biodiversity vs. paleodiversity measurements: the incommensurability problem	5
Philosophy without natural kinds: a reply to Reydon & Ereshefsky	5
Operational equivalence and causal structure	5
Determinism beyond time evolution	5
Revisiting abstraction and idealization: how not to criticize mechanistic explanation in molecular biology	4
The replication crisis is less of a “crisis” in Lakatos’ philosophy of science than it is in Popper’s	4
Foregrounding and backgrounding: a new interpretation of “levels” in science	4
Extrapolating from experiments, confidently	4
Is HPS a valuable component of a STEM education? An empirical study of student interest in HPS courses within an undergraduate science curriculum	4
Respecting boundaries: theoretical equivalence and structure beyond dynamics	4
An Armstrongian defense of dispositional monist accounts of laws of nature	4
Analogy and Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry The Case of Aluminium	4
Reactivity in the human sciences	4
The epistemological significance of exploratory experimentation: A pragmatist model of how practices matter philosophically	4