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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Forum79
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories46
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories42
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization35
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey33
Book Forum27
Book Review24
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–190022
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint22
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant22
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.21
Selection in molecular evolution18
Historicizing gender17
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle17
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study17
Book Review16
Book Forum16
Book Review15
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability15
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context14
Editorial Board14
Putting inference to the best explanation into context14
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure13
The new demarcation problem13
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori13
Book Review13
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life12
Editorial Board12
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science12
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum11
Editorial Board11
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 190011
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy11
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail11
Convergence strategies for theory assessment10
Book Forum10
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer10
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties10
Book Forum10
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research10
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality10
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany10
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe10
How to trust a scientist10
Berkeley on true motion10
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change9
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation9
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries9
Book Review8
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy8
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research8
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm8
“Population” in biology and statistics8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect8
Book Forum8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms8
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis8
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion7
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology7
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement7
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal7
Editorial Board7
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project6
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities6
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics6
Evidence of effectiveness6
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus6
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW6
Tables turned on table talk6
Book Review6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’6
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence6
Descartes on certainty in deduction6
Book Review6
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
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts6
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization5
Book Review5
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation5
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations5
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction5
Book Forum5
Editorial Board5
Book Forum5
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time5
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression5
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)5
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation5
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks5
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer5
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term5
Animism and science in European perspective5
The case of the vanishing wavefunction5
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant4
Book Review4
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage4
Book Forum4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature4
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research4
Book review4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas4
Book Review4
Editorial Board4
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake4
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century4
Modus Darwin redux4
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model4
Book Forum4
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations3
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science3
Understanding the ‘spaceflight treatment’ in plant space biology: Experimental practices, metadata workflows, and data re-analysis3
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy3
Verisimilitude or Probability? The history and analysis of a recurring conflation3
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective3
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI3
Book Review3
Editorial Board3
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons3
The metaphysics of fibre bundles3
Book Forum3
From planning to entrepreneurship: On the political economy of scientific pursuit3
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–19703
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy3
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?3
Why did the clinic make gender?3
Whatever happened to reversion?3
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?3
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity3
Pursuitworthiness in urgent research: Lessons on well-ordered science from sustainability science2
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory2
Towards noncommutative quantum reality2
Extrapolating animal consciousness2
On the relativity of magnitudes2
Reframing the environment in data-intensive health sciences2
On the very idea of pursuitworthiness2
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics2
Editorial Board2
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain2
Phase transitions and the birth of early universe particle physics2
Metrological legitimacy and the human sciences2
Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research2
Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory2
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease2
Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations2
Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology2
Constituting the ‘object’ of science in Newton's Principia: the many faces of Janus2
Believing in organisms: Kant's non-mechanistic philosophy of nature2
History and philosophy of science takes form2
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?2
Book Review2
How revealed preference theory can be explanatory2
Book Review2
Structural losses, structural realism and the stability of Lie algebras2
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics2
The art of estimation and the mathematization of force in Leibniz2
Is interdisciplinarity a synonym for the search for alternative views of nature?2
Book Review2
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence2
On gender genealogies2
The philosophical coming of age of science. Euler’s role in Cassirer’s early philosophy of space and time2
A framework for the integration of development and evolution: The forgotten legacy of James Meadows Rendel2
Non-separability, locality and criteria of reality: a reply to Waegell and McQueen2
The morphological paradigm in robotics2
Editorial Board2
Editorial Board2
Nursing science as the study of how to reconcile behavioral messiness with clinical norms and ideals2
Editorial Board2
Meta-empirical confirmation: Addressing three points of criticism2
Kant's pragmatic use of reason from a sociological point of view: Third way or methodological impasse?2
The delusive benefit of the doubt2
Pursuitworthiness between daring conservatism and procrastination: Wheeler and the path towards black holes2
Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models2
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction2
Editorial Board2
Book Review2
The value-ladenness of ancestry2
Buffon's new concept of history2
Quantization: History and problems2
William Herschel's defense of speculative inquiry1
Environmentality in biomedicine: microbiome research and the perspectival body1
Beyond the divide between indigenous and academic knowledge: Causal and mechanistic explanations in a Brazilian fishing community1
Embedded Ecology: The Partnership Flywheel for integrating local expertise1
R. J. Boscovich on physical symmetries1
Where organisms meet the environment1
Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–19401
The Classical Stance: Dennett’s Criterion in Wallacian quantum mechanics1
What counts as relevant criticism? Longino's critical contextual empiricism and the feminist criticism of mainstream economics1
From dollars to Joules: Integrating energetics into economic theory1
A science for gods, a science for humans: Kant on teleological speculations in natural history1
The Pragmatist roots of scientific medicine: Reassessing Abraham Flexner's report on medical education1
Between myth and history: von Neumann on consciousness in quantum mechanics1
Bringing thought experiments back into the philosophy of science1
Paving the cowpath in research within pure mathematics: A medium level model based on text driven variations.1
Question pursuit as an epistemic stance1
Quantum gravity at low energies1
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part I: General framework and particle-mechanics examples1
Functionalising the wavefunction1
The bumpy road to sustainability: Reassessing the history of the twelve principles of green chemistry1
Tracing the evidence of design: Natural theology through an unpublished manuscript by William Stanley Jevons1
Methodological reflections on the MOND/dark matter debate1
Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies1
Book Forum1
On the ‘cognitive map debate’ in insect navigation1
Holography, application, and string theory's changing nature1
Variability and substantiality. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg school and the neo-Kantian historiography of science1
On the pursuitworthiness of qualitative methods in empirical philosophy of science1
On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective1
Integrating dark matter, modified gravity, and the humanities1
The causal axioms of algebraic quantum field theory: A diagnostic1
Book Forum1
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman1
Ructions over fluxions: Maclaurin’s draft, The Analyst Controversy and Berkeley’s anti-mathematical philosophy1
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms1
Book Forum1
A minimalist account of agency in physics1
Distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate roles for values in transdisciplinary research1
Through the convex Looking Glass: A Helmholtzian lesson for the connection between dynamics and chronogeometry in spacetime theories1
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