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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Forum	79
Isolated systems and their symmetries, part II: Local and global symmetries of field theories	46
Renormalization group methods and the epistemology of effective field theories	42
Practical pursuit in stem cell biology: Innovation, translation, and incomplete theorization	35
Anthropology and history in the early Dilthey	33
Book Forum	27
Book Review	24
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars: Science, religion, politics and race, 1835–1900	22
Holistic idealization: An artifactual standpoint	22
Empty space and the (positive) cosmological constant	22
Standing out or looking for cover? Strategies for defending public funding for the social sciences in the U.S.	21
Selection in molecular evolution	18
Historicizing gender	17
Euclidean rigor and the curious case of the (missing) reflex angle	17
Predictivism and avoidance of ad hoc-ness: An empirical study	17
Book Review	16
Book Forum	16
Book Review	15
Half a century later and we're back where we started: How the problem of locality turned in to the problem of portability	15
Logical empiricist anti-exceptionalism in its Austro-German context	14
Editorial Board	14
Putting inference to the best explanation into context	14
Taking hobbyists seriously: The reef tank hobby and knowledge production in serious leisure	13
The new demarcation problem	13
Motivational Kantianism: Cassirer's late shift towards a regulative conception of the a priori	13

Book Review	13
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life	12
Editorial Board	12
Changing articulations of relevance in soil science	12
The earth vibrates with analogies: The Dirac sea and the geology of the vacuum	11
Editorial Board	11
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900	11
Kant's use of travel reports in theorizing about race — A case study of how testimony features in natural philosophy	11
A tale of a threshing machine: Images of the Voigt-Leibniz mathematical-agricultural machine at the beginning of the 18th century	11
Of stirps and chromosomes: Generality through detail	11
Convergence strategies for theory assessment	10
Book Forum	10
On representation and similarity: The case of mouse models of cancer	10
Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties	10
Book Forum	10
Still no pill for men? Double standards & demarcating values in biomedical research	10
Measurement requires compromises: the case of economic inequality	10
Kristine Bonnevie's theories on the genetics of fingerprints, and their application in Germany	10
Experimentation in cosmology: Intervening on the whole universe	10
How to trust a scientist	10
Berkeley on true motion	10
The individualized niche: A case study in scientific conceptual change	9
Quantisation as a method of generation: The nature and prospects of theory changes through quantisation	9
Reinventing the wheel: A critical look at one-world and circular chemistries	9
Book Review	8
Variety of evidence in multimessenger astronomy	8
On “minor” adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research	8
An Unpublished Article by David Bohm	8
“Population” in biology and statistics	8
From fringe to mainstream: The Garcia effect	8
Book Forum	8
A reinterpretation of Heisenberg’s Umdeutung in prescriptive-dynamical terms	8
Tracing the world through grasp and synthesis	8
Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three examples and a suggestion	7
Not wasted on the young: Childhood, trait complexes & human behavioral ecology	7
Imitation in automata and robots: A philosophical case study on Kempelen	7
Heterodox underdetermination: Metaphysical options for discernibility and (non-)entanglement	7
On compatibility between realism and fictionalism: A response to Suárez' proposal	7
Editorial Board	7
Peter Bergmann on observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A historical-critical investigation	6
Critiquing imaginaries of ‘the public’ in UK dialogue around animal research: Insights from the Mass Observation Project	6
On gauge symmetries, indiscernibilities, and groupoid-theoretical equalities	6
‘History will be kind to me’: An introduction to new directions in the historiography of genetics	6
Evidence of effectiveness	6
Applying unrigorous mathematics: Heaviside's operational calculus	6
Non-accessible mass and the ontology of GRW	6
Tables turned on table talk	6
Book Review	6
Comment on Eisenthal's ‘mechanics without mechanisms’	6
Protocol statements, physicalism, and metadata: Otto Neurath on scientific evidence	6

Descartes on certainty in deduction	6
Book Review	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
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts	6
Empirical techniques and the accuracy of scientific representations	5
Absorbing the arrow of electromagnetic radiation	5
Communal philosophy? A possible framework for academia-community interaction	5
Book Forum	5
Editorial Board	5
Book Forum	5
Golden spikes, scientific types, and the ma(r)king of deep time	5
The descent of blushing: On the connection between Darwin's anti-slavery positions and his explanation of the origin of emotional expression	5
Quantum phenomenology: Measurement, reflection, correlation	5
Response to Wehner et al. (2023)	5
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity: Another Tale of Two Textbooks	5
Going big by going small: Trade-offs in microbiome explanations of cancer	5
Temperature changes: The conceptual realignment of a quantity term	5
Animism and science in European perspective	5
Leveraging participatory sense-making and public engagement with science for AI democratization	5
The case of the vanishing wavefunction	5
Book Review	5
Resisting epistemic exploitation: From institutional remedies to community-based research	4
Book review	4
Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: Navigating dilemmas	4
Book Review	4
Editorial Board	4
The cognitive map debate in insects: A historical perspective on what is at stake	4
How blood met plastics, plant and animal extracts: Material encounters between medicine and industry in the twentieth century	4
Modus Darwin redux	4
The problem of context revisited: Moving beyond the resources model	4
Book Forum	4
Risk, Islam, and counter-experts: Analyzing the fatwa against the Muria nuclear power plant	4
Book Review	4
Ptolemy’s Optics, double-vision, and the technological afterimage	4
Book Forum	4
Automata, reason, and free will: Leibniz's critique of Descartes on animal and human nature	4