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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Clinical recommendations: The role of mechanisms in the GRADE framework	47
The value-ladenness of transparency in science: Lessons from Lyme disease	34
Book Review	32
Evidence of effectiveness	26
Editorial Board	24
Bringing thought experiments back into the philosophy of science	24
Obesity and the vitality of food in Finland, ca. 1950–1970	19
Variability and substantiality. Kurd Lasswitz, the Marburg school and the neo-Kantian historiography of science	18
The Pragmatist roots of scientific medicine: Reassessing Abraham Flexner's report on medical education	18
Genetics on the neurodiversity spectrum: Genetic, phenotypic and endophenotypic continua in autism and ADHD	17
Book Forum	16
Through the convex Looking Glass: A Helmholtzian lesson for the connection between dynamics and chronogeometry in spacetime theories	16
The principle of simplicity for Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī	15
Book Review	15
Book Forum	15
Understanding the role of wrongdoing in technological disasters: Utilizing ecofeminist philosophy to examine commemoration	14
Book Review	14
Editorial Board	13
Book Review	12
Hilbert-style axiomatic completion: On von Neumann and hidden variables in quantum mechanics	12
A science for gods, a science for humans: Kant on teleological speculations in natural history	12
Book Review	12
No one solution to the “new demarcation problem”?: A view from the trenches	11
Ship fever, confinement, and the racialization of disease	11
When do non-epistemic values play an epistemically illegitimate role in science? How to solve one half of the new demarcation problem	11

Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	11
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond	10
Feynman's space-time view in quantum electrodynamics	10
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	10
Can we trust Einstein’s accounts of the genesis of special relativity?	9
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	9
Adaptation and its analogues: Biological categories for biosemantics	9
The many faces of unification and pluralism in economics: The case of Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis	9
Editorial Board	9
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	9
Methodological reflections on the MOND/dark matter debate	9
Book Forum	9
Relational Quantum Mechanics, quantum relativism, and the iteration of relativity	8
Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies	8
Chomsky in the playground: Idealization in generative linguistics	8
Gauge invariance through gauge fixing	8
Book Forum	8
Book Forum	8
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	8
Improving philosophical dialogue interventions to better resolve problematic value pluralism in collaborative environmental science	8
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism	8
Book Forum	8
On the concept of systematization in the Kemeny-Oppenheim approach to intertheoretical reduction	8
Book Forum	8
Operational theories as structural realism	8
The Metaphysical Challenge of Loop Quantum Gravity	8
The delusive benefit of the doubt	7
The double nature of Maxwell's physical analogies	7
How incoherent measurement succeeds: Coordination and success in the measurement of the earth's polar flattening	7
Locating the ‘culture wars’ in laboratory animal research: national constitutions and global competition	7
Quantum reality: A pragmaticized neo-Kantian approach	7
Rewriting the Quantum “Revolution”	7
What is the environment in environmental health research? Perspectives from the ethics of science	7
Science, politics and regulation: The trust-based approach to the demarcation problem	7
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics	7
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project	7
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 ethical	7
Careful with those scissors, Eugene! Against the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes	6
Structuralism and the conformity of mathematics and nature	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
Beyond Mendelism and Biometry	6
Organization needs organization: Understanding integrated control in living organisms	6
Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview	6
Priority and privilege in scientific discovery	6
Multiple discoveries, inevitability, and scientific realism	6
English engineer John Smeaton's experimental method(s): Optimisation, hypothesis testing and exploratory experimentation	6
Clarifying some misconceptions in interpreting Ernst Mach's views on thought experiments	6
‘If it can't be coded, it doesn't exist’. A historical-philosophical analysis of the new ICD-11 classification of chronic pain	6
Bottoms up: The Standard Model Effective Field Theory from a model perspective	6

Regulative idealization: A Kantian approach to idealized models	6
Scale in the history of medicine	6
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint	6
Bolstering superficial measurement robustness with community-based data foundations	5
The Dual Dynamical Foundation of Orthodox Quantum Mechanics	5
Editorial Board	5
From Wald to Schnorr: von Mises’ definition of randomness in the aftermath of Ville’s Theorem	5
Does democracy require value-neutral science? Analyzing the legitimacy of scientific information in the political sphere	5
Ructions over fluxions: Maclaurin’s draft, The Analyst Controversy and Berkeley’s anti-mathematical philosophy	5
Book Forum	5
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics	5
Mixed mathematics and metaphysical physics: Descartes and the mechanics of the flow of water	5
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities	5
Why Reichenbach wasn't entirely wrong, and Poincaré was almost right, about geometric conventionalism	5
Joint representation: Modeling a phenomenon with multiple biological systems	5
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	5
Selection in molecular evolution	5
Epistemic interests and the objectivity of inquiry	5
Philosophical community from a historical perspective	5
Experimental high-energy physics without computer simulations	5
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories	5
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	5
On the ‘cognitive map debate’ in insect navigation	5
Scientific realism and empirical confirmation: A puzzle	5
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	5
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	4
Book Review	4
The curvature argument	4
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	4
Book Forum	4
Editorial Board	4
Anatomical identifications of stars: Textual descriptions in Ptolemy's star catalogue	4
Editorial Board	4
Publish without bias or perish without replications	4
Book Review	4
Is the Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics an ontic structural realist view?	4
How revealed preference theory can be explanatory	4
Experimentation in the cosmic laboratory	4
Editorial Board	4
The algorithmic turn in conservation biology: Characterizing progress in ethically-driven sciences	4
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy	4
The Relativity of Theory by Moti Mizrahi: Reply by the Author	4
Book Forum	4
Mach's principle and Mach's hypotheses	4
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	4
Editorial Board	4
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	4
Book Review	4
Editorial Board	4
Janina Hosiasson and the value of evidence	4
The morphological paradigm in robotics	4
Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage”	4
Can we “effectivize” spacetime?	4
Spinoza on the resistance of bodies	4
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	4
Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?	4
Book Forum	4
The birth of quantum mechanics from the spirit of radiation theory	4
The environment: An ambiguous concept in Waddington's biology	4
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	4
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	4
Introduction to values and pluralism in the environmental sciences: From inferences to institutions	4
Creativity, pursuit and epistemic tradition	4
Some reflections on Robert Batterman's a middle way	4
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	4