OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal for Philosophy of Science is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling interventions in multi-level causal systems: supervenience, exclusion and underdetermination	32
Averaged versus individualized: pragmatic N-of-1 design as a method to investigate individual treatment response	30
Reconstructions of quantum theory: methodology and the role of axiomatization	23
Overstating the effects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science	20
Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation	20
We should redefine scientific expertise: an extended virtue account	15
Quantum ontology and intuitions	14
Feynman diagrams: visualization of phenomena and diagrammatic representation	14
Infinity and continuum in the alternative set theory	13
Diagnosing errors in climate model intercomparisons	12
Inflating the social aspects of cognitive structural realism	12
Equivalence, reduction, and sophistication in teleparallel gravity	11
Contextualist model evaluation: models in financial economics and index funds	11
On the mitigation of inductive risk	10
On the consistency of relative facts	10
Explaining AI through mechanistic interpretability	10
Misconstrued arguments about cultural theory	9
Science and policy in extremis: the UK’s initial response to COVID-19	9
Irrational methods suggest indecomposability and emergence	9
Afactivism about understanding cognition	9
Nested modalities in astrophysical modeling	9
Criteria of success for engineering accident investigations: a question-centered account	8
Masking, extrinsicness, and the nature of dispositions: the role of niche signals in muscle stem cells	8
Separability and fundamentality	8
Climate modelling and structural stability	8

Purifying applied mathematics and applying pure mathematics: how a late Wittgensteinian perspective sheds light onto the dichotomy	8
Overcoming Frege’s curse: heuristic reasoning as the basis for teaching philosophy of science to scientists	8
Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science	8
Unexpected quantum indeterminacy	8
Simpson’s paradox beyond confounding	8
Philosophy of sustainability experimentation _ experimental legacy, normativity and transfer of evidence	8
Coordination in social learning: expanding the narrative on the evolution of social norms	7
Emergent Realities: Diffracting Barad within a quantum-realist ontology of matter and politics	7
Ethnobiological kinds and material grounding: comments on Ludwig	7
The sky is blue, and other reasons quantum mechanics is not underdetermined by evidence	7
Perspectives and meta-perspectives: context versus hierarchy in the epistemology of complex systems	7
Nagelian reduction and approximation	7
Grounded empiricism	6
Radical artifactualism	6
What are general models about?	6
Self-reflexive cognitive bias	6
The emergence of the postgenomic gene	6
A fine-grained distinction of coarse graining	5
Autonoesis and the Galilean science of memory: Explanation, idealization, and the role of crucial data	5
Biodiversity vs. paleodiversity measurements: the incommensurability problem	5
Inductive risk and epistemically detrimental dissent in policy-relevant science	5
How to Incorporate Non-Epistemic Values into a Theory of Classification	5
Phenomena and signatures	5
Predictivism and model selection	5
Beyond the microscope: Rethinking microbial diversity measurement with the model-based account	5
Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and tipping points: interdisciplinarity and values in Earth system science	5
Philosophy without natural kinds: a reply to Reydon & Ereshefsky	5
Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discovery	5
Another philosophical look at twistor theory	4
Classicality and Bell’s theorem	4
Second philosophy and testimonial reliability: Philosophy of science for STEM students	4
Operational equivalence and causal structure	4
Lost horizon? – modeling black holes in string theory	4
Extrapolating from experiments, confidently	4
Weintraub’s response to Williamson’s coin flip argument	4
Motivationalism vs. interpretationalism about symmetries: some options overlooked in the debate about the relationship between symmetries and physical equivalence	4
Determinism beyond time evolution	4
New functionalism and the social and behavioral sciences	4
Analogy and Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry The Case of Aluminium	4
Revisiting abstraction and idealization: how not to criticize mechanistic explanation in molecular biology	4
Probing ‘operational coherence’ in Hasok Chang’s pragmatic realism	4
On the status of quantum tunnelling time	4
The replication crisis is less of a “crisis” in Lakatos’ philosophy of science than it is in Popper’s	4
An Armstrongian defense of dispositional monist accounts of laws of nature	4
Taking model pursuit seriously	3
Semantic layering and the success of mathematical sciences	3
Values and inductive risk in machine learning modelling: the case of binary classification models	3
Quantum indeterminacy: a matter of degree?	3
Bipedal Gait Costs: a new case study of mathematical explanation in science	3
Is HPS a valuable component of a STEM education? An empirical study of student interest in HPS courses within an undergraduate science curriculum	3

Elucidating and embedding: two functions of how-possibly explanations	3
Respecting boundaries: theoretical equivalence and structure beyond dynamics	3
Correction to: Tales of twin cities: what are climate analogues good for?	3
From measurement to classificatory practice: improving psychiatric classification independently of the opposition between symptom-based and causal approaches	3
Model spread and progress in climate modelling	3
Reactivity in the human sciences	3
Explanatory hierarchy of causal structures in molecular biology	3
Powers and the hard problem of consciousness: conceivability, possibility and powers	3
Guiding principles in physics	3
Correction to: Nothing but coincidences: the point-coincidence and Einstein’s struggle with the meaning of coordinates in physics	3
Intervention and experiment	3
Underdetermination in classic and modern tests of general relativity	3
The preservation of thickly detectable structure: a case study in gravity	3
Mechanisms and principles: two approaches to scientific generalization	3
Foregrounding and backgrounding: a new interpretation of “levels” in science	3
Values in science: what are values, anyway?	3
Representation in measurement	3
Should physical symmetries guide metaphysics? Two reasons why they should maybe not	3
The epistemological significance of exploratory experimentation: A pragmatist model of how practices matter philosophically	3
Research environments vis-à-vis biological environments: ontological parallels, epistemic parallax, and metaphilosophical parallelization	3