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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	139
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	42
Grasping in Understanding	33
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	29
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	28
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	26
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	25
In Defence of Dimensions	23
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	22
The Demise of Brain Death	20
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	18
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	16
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	16
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	16
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	15
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	15
Host Specificity in Biological Control	15
Rational Aversion to Information	15
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	15
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	14
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	14
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	13
No Function without Service: Selected Effects Functions, the Liberality Problem, and Whole Organisms	13
On Biologizing Racism	13
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	13

Proper Functions are Proximal Functions	12
Algorithmic Randomness and Probabilistic Laws	12
Explanatory Understanding in the Metaphysics of Science	12
Abandoning Galileo’s Ship: The Quest for Non-relational Empirical Significance	12
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	12
Hidden Costs of Epistemic Conformity: Lessons from Information Cascade Simulations	11
Biochemical Functions	11
Distinctively Mathematical Explanations of Game Outcomes	10
Laws of Nature and their Supporting Casts	10
SUSY, Spin-Statistics, and all that... On the contrast between Spin-Statistics and Wigner’s Theorem	10
How can we assess whether to trust collectives of scientists?	10
Jury Theorems for Peer Review	9
Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: An Overlap Strategy	9
Against Prohibition (or, When Using Ordinal Scales to Compare Groups Is OK)	9
Quantum Mechanics: Keeping It Real?	9
On the Objectivity of Measurement Outcomes	9
Between a Stone and a Hausdorff Space	9
On the very idea of biological individuality	8
Actual Causation and Minimality	8
Approaching Truth by Resolving Questions	8
Interpretative Models and the Biological Significance of Fisher’s 'Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection'	8
Epistemic Dependence and Understanding: Reformulating through Symmetry	8
The Costs of HARKing	8
Natural Kinds and Machine Learning: The Case of Male and Female Brains	8
Track Records: A Cautionary Tale	8
Front Matter	8
A Bayesian Account of Establishing	8
Front Matter	8
Black Boxes or Unflattering Mirrors? Comparative Bias in the Science of Machine Behaviour	8
On the Mathematics and Metaphysics of the Hole Argument	7
Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation	7
Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?	7
The Bohmian Approach to the Problems of Cosmological Quantum Fluctuations	7
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in Mathematics	7
The Evolution of Denial	7
Sex Traits and Individual Differences: Stabilising and Destabilising Binary Categories in Biological Practice	7
Digital Literature Analysis for Empirical Philosophy of Science	6
Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity	6
Charting the Territories of Epistemic Concepts in the Practice of Science: A Text-Mining Approach	6
What Gibbsian Statistical Mechanics Says: In Defence of Bare Probabilism	6
The mirage of big-data phrenology	6
Best Laid Plans: Idealization and the Rationality–Accuracy Bridge	6
In Search of Cosmic Time: Complete Observables and the Clock Hypothesis	6
The Contents and Causes of Curiosity	6
Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models	6
Front Matter	6
Why Do We Need a Theory of Implementation?	6
Death-feigning, animal concepts, and the use of empirical case studies in animal cognition	6
The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation	6
Geometric Pooling: A User's Guide	6

A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	6
Presentist Velocities	5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	5
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	5
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	5
Closing the Hole Argument	5
Localizing the Singular Structure of Spacetime	5
Climate Sensitivity through the Lens of Measurement Practice	5
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	5
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	5
Front Matter	5
Shakin’ All Over: Proving Landauer’s Principle without Neglect of Fluctuations	5
Introspection Is Signal Detection	5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	5