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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconstructions of quantum theory: methodology and the role of axiomatization	39
Modeling interventions in multi-level causal systems: supervenience, exclusion and underdetermination	22
Averaged versus individualized: pragmatic N-of-1 design as a method to investigate individual treatment response	21
Overstating the effects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science	17
Reflections on interdisciplinary research in practice: Epistemological conflicts	16
Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation	15
Many retrocausal worlds: A foundation for quantum probability	15
Diagnosing errors in climate model intercomparisons	14
Quantum ontology and intuitions	14
We should redefine scientific expertise: an extended virtue account	13
Infinity and continuum in the alternative set theory	13
Feynman diagrams: visualization of phenomena and diagrammatic representation	13
The WHO and the ‘whose values?’ problem: on the partial democratisation of science	13
Contextualist model evaluation: models in financial economics and index funds	12
Explaining AI through mechanistic interpretability	12
Equivalence, reduction, and sophistication in teleparallel gravity	12
Irrational methods suggest indecomposability and emergence	11
Misconstrued arguments about cultural theory	11
Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science	11
Nested modalities in astrophysical modeling	10
Afactivism about understanding cognition	10
Multilevel innovativeness and cross-species comparisons	10
Criteria of success for engineering accident investigations: a question-centered account	9
Unexpected quantum indeterminacy	9
Separability and fundamentality	9

Purifying applied mathematics and applying pure mathematics: how a late Wittgensteinian perspective sheds light onto the dichotomy	9
Overcoming Frege’s curse: heuristic reasoning as the basis for teaching philosophy of science to scientists	9
On the consistency of relative facts	9
Nagelian reduction and approximation	8
Simpson’s paradox beyond confounding	8
Masking, extrinsicness, and the nature of dispositions: the role of niche signals in muscle stem cells	8
Ethnobiological kinds and material grounding: comments on Ludwig	7
The sky is blue, and other reasons quantum mechanics is not underdetermined by evidence	7
Coordination in social learning: expanding the narrative on the evolution of social norms	7
The pursuitworthiness of experiments in neurolinguistics	7
Perspectives and meta-perspectives: context versus hierarchy in the epistemology of complex systems	7
Emergent Realities: Diffracting Barad within a quantum-realist ontology of matter and politics	7
The epistemic strength of proxies in scientific practice	6
The emergence of the postgenomic gene	6
How to Incorporate Non-Epistemic Values into a Theory of Classification	6
Grounded empiricism	6
Radical artifactualism	6
Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and tipping points: interdisciplinarity and values in Earth system science	6
What are general models about?	6
Phenomena and signatures	6
Experiment and the pursuit of ugly models	6
Extrapolating from experiments, confidently	5
Predictivism and model selection	5
Biodiversity vs. paleodiversity measurements: the incommensurability problem	5
Another philosophical look at twistor theory	5
Operational equivalence and causal structure	5
Beyond the microscope: Rethinking microbial diversity measurement with the model-based account	5
Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discovery	5
Classicality and Bell’s theorem	5
A fine-grained distinction of coarse graining	5
Autonoesis and the Galilean science of memory: Explanation, idealization, and the role of crucial data	5
Philosophy without natural kinds: a reply to Reydon & Ereshefsky	5
Inductive risk and epistemically detrimental dissent in policy-relevant science	5
On the status of quantum tunnelling time	4
An Armstrongian defense of dispositional monist accounts of laws of nature	4
Respecting boundaries: theoretical equivalence and structure beyond dynamics	4
The epistemological significance of exploratory experimentation: A pragmatist model of how practices matter philosophically	4
Revisiting abstraction and idealization: how not to criticize mechanistic explanation in molecular biology	4
Foregrounding and backgrounding: a new interpretation of “levels” in science	4
The replication crisis is less of a “crisis” in Lakatos’ philosophy of science than it is in Popper’s	4
Reactivity in the human sciences	4
Determinism beyond time evolution	4
Motivationalism vs. interpretationalism about symmetries: some options overlooked in the debate about the relationship between symmetries and physical equivalence	4
Analogy and Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry The Case of Aluminium	4
Guiding principles in physics	3
The preservation of thickly detectable structure: a case study in gravity	3
Underdetermination in classic and modern tests of general relativity	3
Elucidating and embedding: two functions of how-possibly explanations	3
Powers and the hard problem of consciousness: conceivability, possibility and powers	3
Intervention and experiment	3

Correction to: Nothing but coincidences: the point-coincidence and Einstein’s struggle with the meaning of coordinates in physics	3
Should physical symmetries guide metaphysics? Two reasons why they should maybe not	3
Mechanisms and principles: two approaches to scientific generalization	3
On the value of pseudoscience and its philosophical study	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
Quantum indeterminacy: a matter of degree?	3
Research in the multiplex: navigating tensions and opportunities in transdisciplinary environments	3
Correction to: Tales of twin cities: what are climate analogues good for?	3
Taking model pursuit seriously	3
Values in science: what are values, anyway?	3