OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Foundations of Physics is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the Quantum Membrane Paradigm: A Philosophical Analysis of the Structure of Black Holes in Full QG	30
Is Time the Real Line?	26
Position as an Independent Variable and the Emergence of the 1/2-Time Fractional Derivative in Quantum Mechanics	26
Complex-Valued Classical Behavior from the Correspondence Limit of Quantum Mechanics with Two Boundary Conditions	19
Modeling the Past Hypothesis: A Mechanical Cosmology	19
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Interpretation of de Broglie Matter Waves	16
Weak Ratios	15
Einstein Completeness as Categoricity	15
An Abstract Theory of Physical Measurements	13
Anti-foundationalist Coherentism as an Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics	12
Spontaneous Collapse Theories and Temporal Primitivism about Time’s Direction	12
Perspectives in and on Quantum Theory	11
The Point of Primitive Ontology	10
Contextuality and Dichotomizations of Random Variables	10
Can the Ontology of Bohmian Mechanics Consists Only in Particles? The PBR Theorem Says No	10
A Pilot-Wave Approach to the Many-Body Problem: Beyond the Small Entanglement Approximation	10
Quantum Physics, Digital Computers, and Life from a Holistic Perspective	10
Affine Geometry and Relativity	10
Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Fractional Space Time Dimensions	10
New Insights on the Quantum-Classical Division in Light of Collapse Models	9
Schrödinger Cats and Quantum Complementarity	9
Universal Constants as Manifestations of Relativity	9
Quantum Probability Geometrically Realized in Projective Space	8
On the Emergent Origin of the Inertial Mass	8
The Radiation Field, at the Origin of the Quantum Canonical Operators	8

Has the Problem of the Motion of a Heavy Symmetric Top been Solved in Quadratures?	8
Do(es the Influence of) Empty Waves Survive in Configuration Space?	8
Is the Universe in a Mixed State?	8
Are Hilbert Spaces Unphysical? Hardly, My Dear!	7
Mathematical Models of Photons	7
Learning from Paradoxes	7
The Paradox of Classical Reasoning	7
Relativistic Corrections to the Quantization of a Classical Spinning Particle with Constant Electric and Magnetic Fields	7
Towards an Information Description of Space-Time	7
Observing a Quantum Measurement	7
From Hamilton-Jacobi to Bohm: Why the Wave Function Isn’t Just Another Action	6
The Identification of Mean Quantum Potential with Fisher Information Leads to a Strong Uncertainty Relation	6
Objective Collapse Induced by a Macroscopic Object	6
Aspects of Superdeterminism Made Intuitive	6
Relational Properties and Relational Quantum Mechanics	6
Trying an Alternative Ansatz to Quantum Physics	6
The Non-vanishing Imprint of Gravitational Waves as the Result of Its Nonlinear Evolution in Space	6
How Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics can Enrich Each Other: The Case of the Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation	6
Coarse-grained Entropy Balance of the Szilard Engine	5
Eliminating the ‘Impossible’: Recent Progress on Local Measurement Theory for Quantum Field Theory	5
Causal Set Theory is (Strongly) Causal	5
Energy in Newtonian Gravity	5
A proof that no-signalling implies microcausality in quantum field theory	5
Prediction and Inference: From Models and Data to Artificial Intelligence	5
Non-Relativistic Regime and Topology: Topological Term in the Einstein Equation	5
The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics	5
From Global Time to Local Physics	5
Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time	5
Relativistic QFT from a Bohmian Perspective: A Proof of Concept	5
Conservation Laws in Quantum Database Search	4
Potential Consequences of Wormhole-Mediated Entanglement	4
The Equiareal Archimedean Synchronization Method of the Quantum Symplectic Phase Space: II. Circle-Valued Moment Map, Integrality, and Symplectic Abelian Shadows	4
The Bell Experiment and the Limitations of Actors	4
Unitary Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics is a Stronger Physical Postulate than Linear Time Evolution	4
On the Alternatives to the Ideal Mathematical Points-Like Separatedness	4
Achronotopic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	4
On the Growing Universe of Causal Set Theory—An Order-Type Approach	4
What is It Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years	4
Understanding Time Reversal in Quantum Mechanics: A New Derivation	4
What Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics?	4
A Decoherence-Based Approach to the Classical Limit in Bohm’s Theory	4
Building Spacetime from Effective Interactions Between Quantum Fluctuations	4
Swampland Revisited	4
Emergent Phenomena in Nature: A Paradox with Theory?	4
Spacetime Path Integrals for Entangled States	4
Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?	4
Becoming Large, Becoming Infinite: The Anatomy of Thermal Physics and Phase Transitions in Finite Systems	4
Convergence to Bohmian Mechanics in a de Broglie-Like Pilot-Wave System	4
Revisiting the Charged Harmonic Oscillator in a Uniform Electric Field	4
Hodology	4

The Weirdness Theorem and the Origin of Quantum Paradoxes	3
A Stochastic Model of Mathematics and Science	3
Infrared Acceleration Radiation	3
On Efforts to Decouple Early Universe Cosmology and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology	3
The estimation of the mean value of copies of uncertain positions and its relation to the basic structure of quantum mechanics	3
Relational Quantum Mechanics and Contextuality	3
A Diagrammatic Formulation of Local Realism	3
The Position-Momentum Commutator as a Generalized Function: Resolution of the Apparent Discrepancy Between Continuous and Discrete Bases	3
Is Retrocausal Quantum Mechanics Consistent with Special Relativity?	3
A Viable Varying Speed of Light Model in the RW Metric	3
A Note on Penrose’s Spin-Geometry Theorem and the Geometry of ‘Empirical Quantum Angles’	3
Wigner’s friend and Relational Quantum Mechanics: A Reply to Laudisa	3
Does Locality Imply Reality of the Wave Function? Hardy’s Theorem Revisited	3
Weak Particle Presence	3
Quantum Mereology and Subsystems from the Spectrum	3
Proposed Experiments to Clarify the Real Nature of the Quantum Waves	3
The physicist inside the ambiguous room: an argument against the need of consciousness in the quantum mechanical measurement process	3
Phenomenology, Perspectivalism and (Quantum) Physics	3
The Decoherent Arrow of Time and the Entanglement Past Hypothesis	3
An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical Principles	3
Evading Quantum Mechanics à la Sudarshan: Quantum-Mechanics-Free Subsystem as a Realization of Koopman-von Neumann Mechanics	3
Curved Spacetimes from Quantum Mechanics	3
A Model of Spontaneous Collapse with Energy Conservation	3
The Determinacy Problem in Quantum Mechanics	3
Plane Wave Solutions to a Proposed “Equation of Everything”	3
Eliminativism and the QCD $$\theta _{\text {YM}}$$-Term: What Gauge Transformations Cannot Do	3
The Heuristic Power of Theory Classification, the Case of General Relativity	3
Life, the Multiverse, and Fine-Tuning	3
Generalized Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger Arguments from Quantum Logical Analysis	3
Black Hole Entropy from Non-dirichlet Sectors, and a Bounce Solution	3
Beyond the Born Rule in Quantum Gravity	3
Epistemic Uncertainty from an Averaged Hamilton–Jacobi Formalism	3
The Common Logic of Quantum Universe—Part I: The Case of Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics	3
Gravity Expands Space	3
A Quintet of Quandaries: Five No-Go Theorems for Relational Quantum Mechanics	3
A Case Study for Leibnizian Ideas in Wolfram Model	3