OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Eric S. Nelson: Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other	20
Desiring to Know: Curiosity as a Tendency toward Discovery	17
Gesa Lindemann: Approaches to the World. The Multiple Dimensions of the Social	17
Sache Selbst and its Ansicht in the Thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer	15
‘Phenomenology’ is Blue: The Synaesthetic Dynamics of Being-in-the-World	15
Managing Coherence in Conversational Storytelling	13
The World and Its Nightmare (Levinas on Sense and Nonsense)	12
Rejoinder to Michael Lynch’s “Promise and Silence: A Comment on Livingston’s ‘Ethnomethodology’s Broken Promise’ ”	11
An Exercise in “Primitive Natural Science” of Naturally Occurring Types of ‘Ownership’	11
Intercorporeal Construction of We-Ness in Classroom Interaction	10
Consistent Histories and Life Narratives. A Phenomenological Perspective on Virtual Operativity	9
Edmund Husserl on Position-Taking (Stellungnahme) as the Essence of Human Life	9
Sociology Guided by the Lived Body: A Program of General Sociology?	7
Reconceptualizing Testimony: Integrating Socio-Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Insights into Analytic Epistemology	7
Negotiating the Sharedness of Activities and Stances in Social Virtual Reality: Alignment and Affiliation in the Activity of Throwing Darts at a Co-Participant	7
Self-Interpretive Event or Responsive Failure? Reading Foucault’s Confessions via Bernhard Waldenfels	6
Reading What is Not There: Ethnomethodological Analysis of the Membership Category, Action, and Reason in Novels and Short Stories	6
Expression of Affect and Illocution	6
The Paradox of Social Scientific Knowledge: Schutz’s Conception of the Methodological Postulates for the Social Sciences	5
Levinas on Empathy, Desire, and the Caress	5
Human–Computer Interaction Research Needs a Theory of Social Structure: The Dark Side of Digital Technology Systems Hidden in User Experience	5
Editors’ Introduction –The Postulate of Adequacy: Meaning, Causality, Performativity	5
Existence and Perspectivity: Jan Patočka’s Three Movements of Human Life Reconsidered	5
Borderline Personality as a Disorder of Temporality–A Phenomenological Meta-Synthesis	5
Helmuth Plessner’s Schellingian Reconciliation of Idealism and Realism About the Psyche	4

A Critical Phenomenology of Vulnerability: Toward a Paradigm Shift? A Contribution to an Interdisciplinary Trialogue on Vulnerability	4
Adam Buben: Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality	4
Husserlian Phenomenology of Limit-Problems: a “‘Geometry’ of Lived Experience”?	4
On Husserl’s Theory of Alien Experience in the Logical Investigations	4
‘Teleological Mechanics of the Mind’: Herbart and Lipps on Tendency	4
Michael Lynch (Ed): Harold Garfinkel: Studies of Work in the Sciences	4
Erik Kuravsky: Transcendence in Heidegger’s Early Thought: Toward Being as Event	4
Exercising One’s Voice: Merleau-Ponty and the Grounds of Conversation	4
Postphenomenology Unchained: Rethinking Human-Technology-World Relations as Enroulement	4
Reverent Awe and the Field of Consciousness	4
Turning the Natural World into a Moral World: Michel Henry on the Vocation of Life	4
Interspecies Haptic Sociality: The Interactional Constitution of the Horse’s Esthesiologic Body in Equestrian Activities	3
Provincializing Nature: A Phenomenological Account of Descola’s Relative Universalism	3
For Real?—Epistemic Trust Within Online Environments and the Lures of Conspiracy Thinking	3
Socialism Order of Worth and Analytical Adequacy Axiom	3
Interactional Contingencies in Rehearsing a Theater Scene: The Consequentiality of Body Arrangements as Action Unfolds	3
From Tendencies and Drives to Affectivity and Ethics: Husserl and Scheler on the Mother–Child Relationship	3
Carl-Göran Heidegren and Henrik Lundberg: What is the Sociology of Philosophy? Studies of Swedish and Scandinavian Philosophy	3
The Horizons of Chronic Shame	3
Editorial: Social Interaction and the Theater Rehearsal	3
What Does a Phenomenological Theory of Social Objects Mean?	3
Fieldwork in Philosophy: Articulating a Theoretical Sensibility	3
Economic Consciousness	3
Architectonics of a Method: On the Relations Between Husserlian Phenomenology and Its Feminist and Critical Successors	3
Correction to: Eros In-between and All-around	3
Navigating Affiliation and Disaffiliation in the Work of Co-parenting	2
Revising Plessner’s Transformativism: Toward a Generic Conception of the Human Life-Form	2
Husserl’s Phenomenology of Wishing	2
Consciousness of Emotion and Emotive Consciousness in Geiger and Husserl	2
Destiny, Love and Rational Faith in Husserl’s Post World War I Ethics	2
Striving, Willing, and Acting in Pfänder and Husserl	2
Desiring the Good for the Other: Extending Levinas’ Platonica in Totality and Infinity towards an Ethics of Eros	2
Why Does Social Virtual Reality Feel So Real? A Phenomenological Study of Spatiality, Embodiment, and Continuity Between Digital and Physical Realities	2
Tuning-in as Practical Embodiment in Music and Everyday Life	2
Dark Horizons: Posttraumatic Anxiety in Husserl’s Freiburg Ethics	2
Affectivity in its Relation to Personal Identity	2
Taxonomy of Mediated Sociality: A Phenomenological Approach	2
Transcendental Phenomenology and the Foundation of Marxism: A Critical Analysis of Ian Angus’ Phenomenological Marxism	2
Husserlian Productive Phantasie: A Progression?	2
Limits of Empathy, Limits of Alterity ? The Challenges and Shortcomings of Empathy with respect to Children and in Child Abuse Situations	2
Correction to: The Causality of Freedom: Max Weber and the Practical Activation of Schutz’s Postulate of Adequacy	2
Secularization – Just a Myth or a Modern Myth of Origin? Thomas Luckmann’s Contribution to the Critique of Secularization	2
Lived-through Experience, Multi-perspective Methodology, Contentious Polysemy: Challenges in the Study of Vulnerability	2
Disorientation as an Emotional Experience: An Introduction from an Interactionist Perspective	2
“For Example” Formulations and the Interactional Work of Exemplification	2
Knowledge Accumulation in Theatre Rehearsals: The Emergence of a Gesture as a Solution for Embodying a Certain Aesthetic Concept	2