OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Forum	75
Selection in molecular evolution	44
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories	36
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	32
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	31
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	27
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	24
Book Forum	24
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	21
Book Review	21
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	20
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint	20
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.	17
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	17
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	16
Historicizing gender	15
Book Forum	14
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	14
Book Review	14
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	14
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability	13
Gaining traction: Foothold concepts and exemplars in conceptual change	13
Book Review	13
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	13
Editorial Board	12

Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	12
The new demarcation problem	11
Constraints and divergent assessments of fertility in non-empirical physics in the history of the string theory controversy	11
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life	11
Editorial Board	11
The physics and metaphysics of Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics	10
Editorial Board	10
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy	10
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum	10
Meta-empirical support for eliminative reasoning	9
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	9
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany	8
Book Forum	8
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	8
How to trust a scientist	8
Editorial Board	8
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	8
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	8
Berkeley on true motion	7
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	7
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research	7
Book Forum	7
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality	7
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	6
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	6
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	6
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change	6
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation	6
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties	6
Book Review	5
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	5
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	5
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	5
Editorial Board	5
Book Forum	5
“Population” in biology and statistics	5
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	5
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW	5
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	5
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	5
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	5
Descartes on certainty in deduction	5
Ordinary language philosophy, explanation, and the historical turn in philosophy of science	5
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus	5
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	4
Idealisation, genetic explanations and political behaviours: Notes on the anti-reductionist critique of genopolitics	4
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	4
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	4
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	4
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	4

Contemporary Darwinism as a worldview	4
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	4
Book Review	4
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	4
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities	4
Evidence of effectiveness	4
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	3
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	3
Editorial Board	3
Book Review	3
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks	3
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project	3
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	3
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	3
Book Forum	3
Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond	3
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	3
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction	2
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	2
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	2
Book Review	2
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature	2
Modus Darwin redux	2
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	2
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	2
Book Forum	2
Animism and science in European perspective	2
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	2
Pursuit and inquisitive reasons	2
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model	2
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	2
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression	2
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century	2
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)	2
Editorial Board	2
Evidence of mechanisms in evidence-based policy	2
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	2
Book review	2
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	2