OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in History and 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	64
Book Review	44
Book Forum	39
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories	30
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	28
Is the EHT black hole experiment a new experiment in the guise of an old experiment?	25
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies	21
Selection in molecular evolution	20
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation	20
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	20
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes	19
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	18
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	17
Book Forum	17
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics	17
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	17
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	15
Book Review	15
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint	15
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change	15
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy	14
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	14
Editorial Board	13
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	13
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	13

Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability	12
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	12
Historicizing gender	12
Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”	12
Book Review	12
Book Forum	12
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	12
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics	11
The new demarcation problem	11
Editorial Board	11
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum	11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	11
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy	11
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	10
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies	10
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	10
Book Forum	10
Book Forum	10
How to trust a scientist	10
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	10
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning	10
Editorial Board	10
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	10
Angular momentum without rotation: Turbocharging relationalism	9
Book Review	9
“Population” in biology and statistics	9
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	9
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany	9
Berkeley on true motion	9
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	9
Book Forum	9
Book Review	9
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research	9
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation	9
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	9
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	8
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	8
Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity	8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	8
Descartes on certainty in deduction	8
Editorial Board	8
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties	8
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	8
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science	8
Book Review	7
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus	7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	7
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	7
Evidence of effectiveness	7
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics	7

Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW	7
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	7
Cosmological realism	7
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	7
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	7
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	7
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	7
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition	6
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?	6
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview	6
Book Review	6
Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–1980	6
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science	6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project	6
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	6
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	6
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 neuroscience	6
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond	6
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities	6
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	6
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	6
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression	5
Divergence of values and goals in participatory research	5
Book review	5
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	5
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	5
Book Forum	5
Book Forum	5
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction	5
Book Review	5
Animism and science in European perspective	5
Editorial Board	5
Eddington teacher of general relativity another tale of two textbooks	5
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	5
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	5
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?	5
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under	5
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century	5
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	5
How physics flew the philosophers' nest	5
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	5
Book Forum	4
Modus Darwin redux	4
Book Review	4
Value management and model pluralism in climate science	4
Whatever happened to reversion?	4
When “replicability” is more than just “reliability”: The Hubble constant controversy	4
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective	4
The methodological strategies of agroecological research and the values with which they are linked	4
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model	4
Book Review	4
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	4
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	4
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?	4
Why did the clinic make gender?	4
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately	4
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization	4
Book Review	4
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?	4
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy	4
Editorial Board	4
Book Forum	4
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?	4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature	4
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science	4
Book Forum	4
From planning to entrepreneurship: On the political economy of scientific pursuit	4
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity	4
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	4
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	4