OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	46
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	36
In Defence of Dimensions	33
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	31
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	29
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	28
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	27
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	26
The Demise of Brain Death	22
Grasping in Understanding	19
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	19
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	18
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	18
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	17
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	17
Rational Aversion to Information	17
Looking for Work in Quantum Thermodynamics	16
Host Specificity in Biological Control	16
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	15
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	15
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	15
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	15
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	14
Proper Functions are Proximal Functions	13
On Biologizing Racism	13

Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	13
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms	13
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws	12
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	12
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations	11
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science	11
Biochemical Functions	11
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes	10
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes	10
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	10
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem	10
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	10
Laws of Nature and Their Supporting Casts	10
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	10
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?	10
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space	10
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale	9
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	9
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations	9
Front Matter	9
Front Matter	9
The Costs of HARKing	9
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?	9
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'	9
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains	9
On the very idea of biological individuality	9
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	9
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	9
Front Matter	8
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	8
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument	8
Actual Causation and Minimality	8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions	8
The Evolution of Denial	8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	8
Realism about Newtonian Gravity	8
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice	7
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	7
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	7
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation	7
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	7
The mirage of big-data phrenology	7
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	7
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis	7
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	7
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	6
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice	6

Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models	6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide	6
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime	6
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	6
Front Matter	6
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	6
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	6
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	6
Introspection Is Signal Detection	6
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5
Front Matter	5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	5
Presentist Velocities	5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	5
Closing the Hole Argument	5