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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	119
The Demise of Brain Death	50
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	40
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	32
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	28
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	27
In Defence of Dimensions	26
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	25
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	24
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	21
Grasping in Understanding	21
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	17
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	17
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	17
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	16
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	15
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	15
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	15
Host Specificity in Biological Control	15
Rational Aversion to Information	15
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	15
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	14
On Biologizing Racism	14
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	13
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science	13

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

Are Synthetic Genomes Parts of a Genetic Lineage?	6
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	5
Front Matter	5
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	5
Introspection Is Signal Detection	5
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice	5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	5