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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	94
Breaking the language barrier: conceptual representation without a language-like format	66
In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Reduce the Second Law of Thermodynamics	50
Combining Causal Bayes Nets and Cellular Automata: A Hybrid Modelling Approach to Mechanisms	49
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties	41
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	34
Wavefunction Mereology	27
Some Proper Functions are Distal	24
The PC Algorithm and the Inference to Constitution	23
The Typical Principle	20
Time reversal invariance and ontology	20
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	20
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	19
Front Matter	18
Conserving Functions across Generations: Heredity in Light of Biological Organization	17
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	16
The mirage of big-data phrenology	16
Front Matter	16
Protective Measurements and the Reality of the Wave Function	15
Grasping in Understanding	15
Dimensions of predictive success	15
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	15
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	14
The Ambiguity Dilemma for Imprecise Bayesians	13
Effective and Selective Realisms	13

Realism after Theory T Thinking	12
Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry	12
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	12
Analogue Computation and Representation	11
Democratic Values: A Better Foundation for Public Trust in Science	11
A Complementary Account of Scientific Modelling: Modelling Mechanisms in Cancer Immunology	11
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	11
Gauge and Ghosts	10
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	10
The Demise of Brain Death	10
The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism	9
A Categorical Solution to the Grue Paradox	9
Why Confirm Laws?	9
Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems	8
Invention and Evolution of Correlated Conventions	8
In Defence of Dimensions	8
Mathematical Explanation: A Pythagorean Proposal	8
Against Self-Location	8
On Valence: Imperative or Representation of Value?	8
The Black Hole Idealization Paradox	8
Micro-foundations and Methodology: A Complexity-Based Reconceptualization of the Debate	8
Research Problems	7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	7
Explaining Scientific Collaboration: A General Functional Account	7
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	7
Epistemic and Objective Possibility in Science	7
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	7
Front Matter	7
Is Peer Review a Good Idea?	7
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	7
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	7
Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection	6
When Is Similarity-Biased Social Learning Adaptively Advantageous?	6
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	6
Host Specificity in Biological Control	6
Distal Content in Informational Teleosemantics: Challenges from Colour Constancy and Colour Chemistry	6
Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	6
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation	6
Rational Aversion to Information	6
In defence of science: Two ways to rehabilitate Reichenbach’s vindication of induction	6
The Accuracy–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	5
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	5
Experimental Artefacts	5
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	5
Memory Systems and the Mnemic Character of Procedural Memory	5
Introspection Is Signal Detection	5
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	5
The comparison of inequality measurements across countries and time	5
Counterparts, Determinism, and the Hole Argument	5

What, If Anything, Is Biological Altruism?	5
Three Concepts of Actual Causation	5
Grounded Shadows, Groundless Ghosts	5
Can Pragmatic Humeanism Account for the Counterfactual Invariance of Natural Laws?	5
Inductive Reasoning with Multi-dimensional Concepts	4
Front Matter	4
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	4
What Does the World Look Like according to Superdeterminism?	4
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice	4
Evidentialism, Inertia, and Imprecise Probability	4
Proofs, Reliable Processes, and Justification in Mathematics	4
Explanatory Depth in Primordial Cosmology: A Comparative Study of Inflationary and Bouncing Paradigms	4
Bayesian merging of opinions and algorithmic randomness	4
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide	4
Incomplete Preference and Indeterminate Comparative Probabilities	4
Statistical Autonomous Explanations and the Patterns of Nature: A Modified Account	4
How to Teach General Relativity	4