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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	56
Book Review	41
Book Forum	36
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	27
Is the EHT black hole experiment a new experiment in the guise of an old experiment?	26
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies	25
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation	24
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	20
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes	19
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	19
Book Forum	18
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics	18
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	17
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	17
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories	15
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint	15
Selection in molecular evolution	14
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	14
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change	13
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function	13
Book Review	13
Book Forum	12
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	12
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	12
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy	12

Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”	12
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	12
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	12
The Relativity of Theory by Moti Mizrahi: Reply by the Author	11
Book Review	11
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability	11
Editorial Board	10
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy	10
Studies A, B, and C merger	10
Animal deception and the content of signals	10
The new demarcation problem	10
Testing galaxy formation and dark matter with low surface brightness galaxies	10
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics	10
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	10
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum	10
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	10
Book Review	9
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	9
Book Forum	9
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	9
Angular momentum without rotation: Turbocharging relationalism	9
Editorial Board	9
Book Forum	9
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	9
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany	9
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning	9
Editorial Board	9
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	8
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation	8
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	8
Berkeley on true motion	8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	8
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research	8
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	8
How to trust a scientist	8
Book Review	8
“Population” in biology and statistics	8
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	8
Editorial Board	7
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	7
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science	7
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW	7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	7
Book Forum	7
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	7
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	7
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	7
Theory (In-)Equivalence and conventionalism in f(R) gravity	7
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties	7
Descartes on certainty in deduction	7

Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus	7
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	7
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	6
Evidence of effectiveness	6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project	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
Fetal and animal research in Sweden: The construction of viable lives in regulatory policy debates, 1970–1980	6
Cosmological realism	6
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	6
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	6
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science	6
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?	6
Book Review	6
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition	6
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	6
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics	6
Book Review	6
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview	6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	6
‘Species’ without species	6
Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?	5
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	5
Book Review	5
Narratives of Charles Darwin Down Under	5
Animism and science in European perspective	5
Book Forum	5
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	5
Book Review	5
Book Forum	5
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	5
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	5
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	5
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	5
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	5
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	5
Problems and promises: How to tell the story of a Genome Wide Association Study?	5
How physics flew the philosophers' nest	5
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	5
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century	5
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	5
Editorial Board	5
Is the mind in the brain in contemporary computational neuroscience?	4
Book Forum	4
Divergence of values and goals in participatory research	4
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	4
What could mathematics be for it to function in distinctively mathematical scientific explanations?	4
The elephant in the room: The biomimetic principle in bio-robotics and embodied AI	4
Unification and explanation from a causal perspective	4
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately	4
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy	4
Modus Darwin redux	4
Book Forum	4
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	4
ΛCDM and MOND: A debate about models or theory?	4
Book Review	4
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science	4
Multi-model approaches to phylogenetics: Implications for idealization	4
Book Review	4
Editorial Board	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
Book Review	4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature	4
From planning to entrepreneurship: On the political economy of scientific pursuit	4
Value management and model pluralism in climate science	4
Minimal logical teleology in artifacts and biology connects the two domains and frames mechanisms via epistemic circularity	4
Renormalization group methods: Which kind of explanation?	4
The methodological strategies of agroecological research and the values with which they are linked	4