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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
In Defence of Dimensions	102
A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time	70
The Demise of Brain Death	53
Contrastive Evidence and Inductive Risk	52
Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy	37
Varying Evidential Standards as a Matter of Justice	29
Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll	25
A Mechanistic Account of Biological Computation	25
Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness	25
Reductive Explanation and the Construction of Quantum Theories	22
Grasping in Understanding	21
Rational Aversion to Information	20
Correspondence Theory of Semantic Information	19
Truthlikeness for Quantitative Deterministic Laws	19
Mixtures and Psychological Inference with Resting State fMRI	17
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism	17
The Comparison of Inequality Measurements across Countries and Time	16
Host Specificity in Biological Control	16
Theoretical Virtues in Scientific Practice: An Empirical Study	16
Learning in Crawford–Sobel Signalling Games	16
Categorical Equivalence and the Kinematics-Dynamics Distinction	15
Classical Particle Indistinguishability, Precisely	14
Model Organisms as Scientific Representations	13
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core	13
On Biologizing Racism	13

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

Front Matter	5
Front Matter	5
A New Perspective on Time and Physical Laws	5
Concrete Scale Models, Essential Idealization, and Causal Explanation	5
Methodologies of Uncertainty: Philosophical Disagreement in the Economics of Climate Catastrophes	5
The One Magic Wave: Quantum Monism Meets Wavefunction Realism	5
Is Quantum Relativism Untameable? Revenge Wigner Arguments for Relative Facts	5
On the Structure and Function of Scientific Perspectivism in Categorical Quantum Mechanics	5
Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology	5
Putting Theory in Its Place: The Relationship between Universality Arguments and Empirical Constraints	4
Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing	4
Closing the Hole Argument	4
In Defence of the Agent and Patient Distinction: The Case from Molecular Biology and Chemistry	4
The Virtues of Pursuit-Worthy Speculation: The Promises of Cosmic Inflation	4
Evidence in Default: Rejecting Default Models of Animal Minds	4
A Falsificationist Account of Artificial Neural Networks	4
Understanding Structural Representations	4
Monothematic Delusions and the Limits of Rationality	4
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy: A Note on Werkhoven’s Dispositional Theory of Health	4
Contours of Vision: Towards a Compositional Semantics of Perception	4
Accurate Updating for the Risk-Sensitive	4
Machian Comparativism about Mass	4