OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Demise of Brain Death	105
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	72
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	58
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	51
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	38
Grasping in Understanding	29
In Defence of Dimensions	26
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	26
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	25
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	22
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	21
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	20
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	19
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	19
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	19
Host Specificity in Biological Control	17
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	17
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	17
Rational Aversion to Information	16
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	16
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	16
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	15
On Biologizing Racism	14
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	13
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations	13

Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	13
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	13
Biochemical functions	13
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms	13
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions	13
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	12
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	12
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes	12
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?	11
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes	11
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts	11
Against Prohibition (Or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	11
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	10
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem	10
The Costs of HARKing	10
On the very idea of biological individuality	10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space	10
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	10
Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy	10
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains	9
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument	9
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'	9
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale	9
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	8
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?	8
Two Forms of Inconsistency in Quantum Foundations	8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	7
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions	7
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	7
Quantum Mechanics in a Time-Asymmetric Universe: On the Nature of the Initial Quantum State	7
Actual Causation and Minimality	7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations	7
The Evolution of Denial	7
Front Matter	7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice	7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models	6
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	6
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis	6
Introspection Is Signal Detection	6
The mirage of big-data phrenology	6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	6
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	6
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	6
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	5

Closing the Hole Argument	5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	5
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	5
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide	5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5
Presentist Velocities	5
Front Matter	5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	4
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	4
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health	4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry	4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	4
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	4
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	4
Understanding Structural Representations	4
On the Ostrogradski Instability; or, Why Physics Really Uses Second Derivatives	4
Machian Comparativism about Mass	4
Front Matter	4
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	4
Front Matter	4
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints	4
A Causal Bayes Net Analysis of Glennan’s Mechanistic Account of Higher-Level Causation (and Some Consequences)	4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality	4