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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling interventions in multi-level causal systems: supervenience, exclusion and underdetermination	32
Overstating the effects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science	25
Averaged versus individualized: pragmatic N-of-1 design as a method to investigate individual treatment response	23
Reconstructions of quantum theory: methodology and the role of axiomatization	19
Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation	17
We should redefine scientific expertise: an extended virtue account	16
Feynman diagrams: visualization of phenomena and diagrammatic representation	14
Quantum ontology and intuitions	13
Infinity and continuum in the alternative set theory	13
Contextualist model evaluation: models in financial economics and index funds	13
Inflating the social aspects of cognitive structural realism	12
Diagnosing errors in climate model intercomparisons	11
On the mitigation of inductive risk	10
On the consistency of relative facts	10
Science and policy in extremis: the UK’s initial response to COVID-19	10
Explaining AI through mechanistic interpretability	10
Nested modalities in astrophysical modeling	9
Emergent Realities: Diffracting Barad within a quantum-realist ontology of matter and politics	9
Purifying applied mathematics and applying pure mathematics: how a late Wittgensteinian perspective sheds light onto the dichotomy	9
Afactivism about understanding cognition	9
Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science	9
Misconstrued arguments about cultural theory	9
Irrational methods suggest indecomposability and emergence	9
Masking, extrinsicness, and the nature of dispositions: the role of niche signals in muscle stem cells	8
Climate modelling and structural stability	8

On the principal principle and imprecise subjective Bayesianism	8
Overcoming Frege’s curse: heuristic reasoning as the basis for teaching philosophy of science to scientists	8
Unexpected quantum indeterminacy	8
Simpson’s paradox beyond confounding	7
Criteria of success for engineering accident investigations: a question-centered account	7
The sky is blue, and other reasons quantum mechanics is not underdetermined by evidence	7
Philosophy of sustainability experimentation _ experimental legacy, normativity and transfer of evidence	7
Perspectives and meta-perspectives: context versus hierarchy in the epistemology of complex systems	7
Separability and fundamentality	7
Nagelian reduction and approximation	7
Ethnobiological kinds and material grounding: comments on Ludwig	7
Self-reflexive cognitive bias	6
How to Incorporate Non-Epistemic Values into a Theory of Classification	6
Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and tipping points: interdisciplinarity and values in Earth system science	6
Coordination in social learning: expanding the narrative on the evolution of social norms	6
Grounded empiricism	6
The epistemic consequences of pragmatic value-laden scientific inference	6
The emergence of the postgenomic gene	6
Radical artifactualism	6
What are general models about?	6
Autonoesis and the Galilean science of memory: Explanation, idealization, and the role of crucial data	6
Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discovery	5
New functionalism and the social and behavioral sciences	5
Weintraub’s response to Williamson’s coin flip argument	5
A fine-grained distinction of coarse graining	5
Inductive risk and epistemically detrimental dissent in policy-relevant science	5
Revisiting abstraction and idealization: how not to criticize mechanistic explanation in molecular biology	5
Philosophy without natural kinds: a reply to Reydon & Ereshefsky	5
Predictivism and model selection	5
Another philosophical look at twistor theory	5
Classicality and Bell’s theorem	5
Biodiversity vs. paleodiversity measurements: the incommensurability problem	5
Motivationalism vs. interpretationalism about symmetries: some options overlooked in the debate about the relationship between symmetries and physical equivalence	4
On the status of quantum tunnelling time	4
Extrapolating from experiments, confidently	4
An Armstrongian defense of dispositional monist accounts of laws of nature	4
Lost horizon? – modeling black holes in string theory	4
Probing ‘operational coherence’ in Hasok Chang’s pragmatic realism	4
Determinism beyond time evolution	4
Numerical instability and dynamical systems	4
Respecting boundaries: theoretical equivalence and structure beyond dynamics	4
Operational equivalence and causal structure	4
Second philosophy and testimonial reliability: Philosophy of science for STEM students	4
The replication crisis is less of a “crisis” in Lakatos’ philosophy of science than it is in Popper’s	4
Analogy and Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry The Case of Aluminium	4
The epistemological significance of exploratory experimentation: A pragmatist model of how practices matter philosophically	4
Powers and the hard problem of consciousness: conceivability, possibility and powers	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
Correction to: Nothing but coincidences: the point-coincidence and Einstein’s struggle with the meaning of coordinates in physics	3
Elucidating and embedding: two functions of how-possibly explanations	3

Correction to: Tales of twin cities: what are climate analogues good for?	3
Values and inductive risk in machine learning modelling: the case of binary classification models	3
The preservation of thickly detectable structure: a case study in gravity	3
Model spread and progress in climate modelling	3
Quantum indeterminacy: a matter of degree?	3
Guiding principles in physics	3
Representation in measurement	3
Should physical symmetries guide metaphysics? Two reasons why they should maybe not	3
Foregrounding and backgrounding: a new interpretation of “levels” in science	3
Taking model pursuit seriously	3
Mechanisms and principles: two approaches to scientific generalization	3
Biological functions and natural selection: a reappraisal	3
Semantic layering and the success of mathematical sciences	3
Underdetermination in classic and modern tests of general relativity	3
Three facets of time-reversal symmetry	3
Bipedal Gait Costs: a new case study of mathematical explanation in science	3
The inchworm episode: Reconstituting the phenomenon of kinesin motility	3
Intervention and experiment	3
Research environments vis-à-vis biological environments: ontological parallels, epistemic parallax, and metaphilosophical parallelization	3
Values in science: what are values, anyway?	3
On quantum computing for artificial superintelligence	3
Reactivity in the human sciences	3
From measurement to classificatory practice: improving psychiatric classification independently of the opposition between symptom-based and causal approaches	3
Explanatory hierarchy of causal structures in molecular biology	3