Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Clinical recommendations: The role of mechanisms in the GRADE framework47
The value-ladenness of transparency in science: Lessons from Lyme disease34
Book Review32
Evidence of effectiveness26
Bringing thought experiments back into the philosophy of science24
Editorial Board24
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–197019
The Pragmatist roots of scientific medicine: Reassessing Abraham Flexner's report on medical education18
Variability and substantiality. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg school and the neo-Kantian historiography of science18
Genetics on the neurodiversity spectrum: Genetic, phenotypic and endophenotypic continua in autism and ADHD17
Through the convex Looking Glass: A Helmholtzian lesson for the connection between dynamics and chronogeometry in spacetime theories16
Book Forum16
Book Review15
Book Forum15
The principle of simplicity for Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī15
Understanding the role of wrongdoing in technological disasters: Utilizing ecofeminist philosophy to examine commemoration14
Book Review14
Editorial Board13
Book Review12
Book Review12
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics12
A science for gods, a science for humans: Kant on teleological speculations in natural history12
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’11
No one solution to the “new demarcation problem”?: A view from the trenches11
Ship fever, confinement, and the racialization of disease11
When do non-epistemic values play an epistemically illegitimate role in science? How to solve one half of the new demarcation problem11
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics10
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond10
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics10
The many faces of unification and pluralism in economics: The case of Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis9
Editorial Board9
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization9
Methodological reflections on the MOND/dark matter debate9
Book Forum9
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?9
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey9
Adaptation and its analogues: Biological categories for biosemantics9
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–19008
Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science8
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism8
Book Forum8
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction8
Book Forum8
Operational theories as structural realism8
The Metaphysical Challenge of Loop Quantum Gravity8
Relational Quantum Mechanics, quantum relativism, and the iteration of relativity8
Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies8
Chomsky in the playground: Idealization in generative linguistics8
Gauge invariance through gauge fixing8
Book Forum8
Book Forum8
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics7
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project7
Is the EHT black hole experiment a new experiment in the guise of an old experiment?7
How to make value-driven climate science for policy more ethical7
The delusive benefit of the doubt7
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies7
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening7
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition7
Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach7
Rewriting the Quantum “Revolution”7
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science7
Science, politics and regulation: The trust-based approach to the demarcation problem7
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview6
Priority and privilege in scientific discovery6
Multiple discoveries, inevitability, and scientific realism6
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation6
Clarifying some misconceptions in interpreting Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments6
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain6
Bottoms up: The Standard Model Effective Field Theory from a model perspective6
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models6
Scale in the history of medicine6
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint6
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes6
Structuralism and the conformity of mathematics and nature6
The policy of testing hypotheses in Chilean science. The role of a hypothesis-driven research funding programme in the installation of a hypothesis-driven experimental system in visual neuroscience6
Beyond Mendelism and Biometry6
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms6
Book Forum5
Epistemic interests and the objectivity of inquiry5
Philosophical community from a historical perspective5
Mixed mathematics and metaphysical physics: Descartes and the mechanics of the flow of water5
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories5
Why Reichenbach wasn't entirely wrong, and Poincaré was almost right, about geometric conventionalism5
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant5
On the ‘cognitive map debate’ in insect navigation5
Selection in molecular evolution5
Bolstering superficial measurement robustness with community-based data foundations5
Editorial Board5
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations5
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study5
Does democracy require value-neutral science? Analyzing the legitimacy of scientific information in the political sphere5
Scientific realism and empirical confirmation: A puzzle5
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories5
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics5
The Dual Dynamical Foundation of Orthodox Quantum Mechanics5
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities5
From Wald to Schnorr: von Mises’ definition of randomness in the aftermath of Ville’s Theorem5
Ructions over fluxions: Maclaurin’s draft, The Analyst Controversy and Berkeley’s anti-mathematical philosophy5
Joint representation: Modeling a phenomenon with multiple biological systems5
Publish without bias or perish without replications4
Book Review4
Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?4
How revealed preference theory can be explanatory4
Experimentation in the cosmic laboratory4
Editorial Board4
The algorithmic turn in conservation biology: Characterizing progress in ethically-driven sciences4
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy4
The Relativity of Theory by Moti Mizrahi: Reply by the Author4
Mach's principle and Mach's hypotheses4
Book Forum4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations4
Editorial Board4
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization4
Book Review4
Editorial Board4
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence4
The morphological paradigm in robotics4
Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”4
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?4
Spinoza on the resistance of bodies4
Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer4
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory4
Book Forum4
The environment: An ambiguous concept in Waddington's biology4
Putting inference to the best explanation into context4
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure4
Introduction to values and pluralism in the environmental sciences: From inferences to institutions4
Creativity, pursuit and epistemic tradition4
Some reflections on Robert Batterman's a middle way4
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori4
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time4
Book Review4
The curvature argument4
Book Forum4
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science4
Editorial Board4
Anatomical identifications of stars: Textual descriptions in Ptolemy's star catalogue4
Editorial Board4
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change3
Consistent histories through pragmatist lenses3
Scientific realism, scientific practice, and science communication: An empirical investigation of academics and science communicators3
‘Species’ without species3
Book Forum3
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research3
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function3
Inference to the best neuroscientific explanation3
Selection, presentism, and pluralist history3
The politics of environments before the environment: Biopolitics in the longue durée3
The operational framework for quantum theories is both epistemologically and ontologically neutral3
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability3
Confirmation, or pursuit-worthiness? Lessons from J. J. Sakurai's 1960 theory of the strong force for the debate on non-empirical physics3
Individual differences, uniqueness, and individuality in behavioural ecology3
Accelerating agriculture: Data-intensive plant breeding and the use of genetic gain as an indicator for agricultural research and development3
Darwin and the French: The species question and ‘man’ in Oceania3
Idealizations and analogies: Explaining critical phenomena3
Mathematics and society reunited: The social aspects of Brouwer's intuitionism3
How many properties of spin does a particle have?3
The new demarcation problem3
Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–19803
Selection, growth and form. Turing’s two biological paths towards intelligent machinery3
Bodies of evidence: The ‘Excited Delirium Syndrome’ and the epistemology of cause-of-death inquiry3
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation3
Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958–1968)3
Book Review3
Existence of macroscopic spatial superpositions in collapse theories3
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle3
On the relativity of magnitudes3
Editorial Board2
Positivist or post-positivist philosophy of science? The left Vienna Circle and Thomas Kuhn2
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences2
The case of the vanishing wavefunction2
Three legs of the missing heritability problem2
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology2
Bias as an epistemic notion2
Redefining a discovery: Charles Bell, the respiratory nervous system and the birth of the emotions2
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term2
Theory vs. experiment: The rise of the dynamic view of proteins2
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail2
Values in early-stage climate engineering: The ethical implications of “doing the research”2
Kant, causation and laws of nature2
Book Review2
How physics flew the philosophers' nest2
Studies A, B, and C merger2
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy2
Book Review2
Newton's “law-first” epistemology and “matter-first” metaphysics2
ML interpretability: Simple isn't easy2
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context2
Getting from here to there: The contingency of historical evidence and the value of speculation2
Editorial Board2
Animal deception and the content of signals2
Measurement, decomposition and level-switching in historical science: Geochronology and the ontology of scientific methods2
Design principles as minimal models2
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics2
Book Review2
Francis Galton’s regression towards mediocrity and the stability of types2
A previously-unknown Iranian treatise on a terrestrial globe2
Structural losses, structural realism and the stability of Lie algebras2
Editorial Board2
Scaling procedures in climate science: Using temporal scaling to identify a paleoclimate analogue2
Emergence of a techno-legal specialty: Animal tests to assess chemical safety in the UK, 1945–19602
Editorial2
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics2
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?2
Development and transfer of automated methods in neuroscience: The DADTA2
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century2
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature2
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals2
A transformation of Bayesian statistics:Computation, prediction, and rationality2
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Idealisations and the aims of polygenic scores2
Babbage’s guidelines for the design of mathematical notations2
Book Review2
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies2
I ain’t afraid of no ghost2
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning2
Quantization: History and problems1
Constituting the ‘object’ of science in Newton's Principia: the many faces of Janus1
Is the classical limit “singular”?1
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage1
Book Forum1
Editorial Board1
From S-matrix theory to strings: Scattering data and the commitment to non-ar1
Editorial Board1
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under1
Towards noncommutative quantum reality1
Quantum modal indeterminacy1
Humboldt, Darwin, and romantic resonance in science1
Book Review1
Hempel on scientific understanding1
Lotteries, bookmaking and ancient randomizers: Local and global analyses of chance1
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes1
Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations1
Extrapolating animal consciousness1
Editorial Board1
Quantum metaphysical indeterminacy and the ontological foundations of orthodoxy1
Beyond descriptive accuracy: The central dogma of molecular biology in scientific practice1
Curie’s principle and causal graphs1
‘Thrown into the fossil gap’: Indigenous Australian ancestral bodily remains in the hands of early Darwinian anatomists, c. 1860–19161
Editorial Board1
Model-as-replica, model-as-instrument: Representational power and contextual versatility in animal models1
Edgeworth's mathematization of social well-being1
Book Forum1
Ontological pluralism and social values1
Book Review1
The twin origins of renormalization group concepts1
Book Review1
Red herrings about relative measures: A response to Hoefer and Krauss1
Calibrating statistical tools: Improving the measure of Humanity's influence on the climate1
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