OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Epistemology 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Reflexive Research Practice in Women’s Prison Research in Uganda	75
Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse	54
Mechanistic Explanation, Interdisciplinary Integration and Interpersonal Social Coordination	48
Hinge Epistemology: Why Choose?	34
Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism	30
Disinformation as Quasi-Object: A Case Study in the Construction of Expertise	29
The Philosophy of Epistemic Autonomy: Introduction to Special Issue	26
Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice	24
Generative AI, Quadruple Deception & Trust	22
ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding	21
The Epistemic Value of Democratic Meritocracy	21
Cringe	20
Epistemic Paternalism and Protective Authority in a Non-Ideal World	18
On the Inconsistency between Practice and Reporting in Science: The Genesis of Scientific Articles	17
Conceptual Engineering, Conceptual Domination, and the Case of Conspiracy Theories	16
Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge	16
Epistemic Hubris	15
How Has ‘Opening Up’ Science Changed Scientific Practices?	14
Epistemic Domination and ‘Gender Identity Fraud’ Prosecutions	13
Fake Authority Country: Epistemic Responsibility and the Normativity of Expertise	13
Challenging Prejudice as the Necessary Condition for Testimonial Injustice: Unveiling the Role of Epistemic Vice	13
Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts	13
“Do Your Own Research”	12
Credibility Trouble: When ‘I Believe You’ is an Epistemic Wrong	12
A Portrait of the Scientist as a User: Openness and Temporality of Scientific Software	12

Respectful Disposal: Spatial and Material Practices of Incinerating Necro-Waste	12
Resisting Reclamation: Intra-Community Hierarchies and the R-Slur	11
AI and Epistemic Agency: How AI Influences Belief Revision and Its Normative Implications	11
More Than a NASA Badge: MetaDocencia and Capacity Building for Open Science Communities in Latin America	11
Stability in Liberal Epistocracies	10
Meaning Dominance – When Polysemy Creates Hermeneutical Injustice	10
Two Conceptions of Testimonial Undervaluation	10
What Is Interesting About Conspiracy Theories?	10
Do Political Convictions Infect Every Fibre of Our Being?	10
Senses of Time: From the Future via the Present to the Past (and Back Again)	9
Beyond ‘Infodemic’: Complexity, Knowledge and Populism in COVID-19 Crisis Governance	9
The Transmission of Knowledge via Large-Scale Technology: A Shared Agency Account	9
The Wrong of Bullshit	9
Epistemic Caring: An Ethical Approach for the Co-Constitution of Knowledge in Participatory Research Practice	9
To Be Scientific Is To Be Communist	8
Softness: An Ecological Paradigm for Embodied Technological Intelligence	8
Normative Paradigms and Interdisciplinary Research	8
Human-Data Coupling: Informational Personhood & Artificial Intelligence Through Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology	8
Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare	8
Conspiracy Theories, Scepticism, and Non-Liberal Politics	8
Costly Displays in a Digital World: Signalling Trustworthiness on Social Media	8
The Insertion of Islamic Psychology as a Decolonial Epistemological Proposal in the Field of Psychology	8
The Influence of Disciplinary Origins on Peer Review Normativities in a New Discipline	7
What Groups Can Tell Us About Expertise	7
Smart Environments	7
The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People	7
Defining Wokeness	7
AI-Extended Moral Agency?	7
How to Fight Linguistic Injustice in Science: Equity Measures and Mitigating Agents	7
Flexible or Rigid? A Functionalist Approach to Epistemic Standards	7
‘Here’s Me Being Humble’: The Strangeness of Modeling Intellectual Humility	6
The Social Indicators of the Reputation of an Expert	6
Epistemic Distance and Antidemocratic Conspiracy Theories	6
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice	6
The Problem of Disinformation: A Critical Approach	6
How Expertise is Enabled: Why Epistemic Cycles Matter to us All	6
Language in the Godless Age of AI	6
Critically Engaged Pragmatism: Scientific Norm and Social, Pragmatist Epistemology for AI Science Evaluation Tools	6
Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Literary Texts as Boundary Objects	6
Conspiracy Theory and (or as) Folk Psychology	6
Friend or Foe? Rethinking Epistemic Trespassing	6
How Can Constitutivism Account for the Persistence of Deep Disagreements?	6
Making Sense of Epistemic Authority	6
Epistemic Smothering is Not a Form of Epistemic Paternalism	6
The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication	5
Taming Human Subjects: Researchers’ Strategies for Coping with Vagaries in Social Science Experiments	5
Doing Your Own Patient Activist Research	5
Epistemic Inclusion as the Key to Benefiting from Cognitive Diversity in Science	5
Overcoming Eurocentrism: Exploring Ethiopian Modernity Through Entangled Histories and Coloniality	5
“I’ll Show You Differences”: Skills, Creativity and Meaning	5

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Conspiracy Theory Theories	5
When Patient Voices Get Lost in Evidence Hierarchies: A Testimony of Rare Adverse Events and Participatory Epistemic Injustice in Drug Safety Monitoring	5
Global Citizen Science as a Source of Epistemic Diversity: The Case of eBird India	5
Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper Press	5
Interstitial Injustice	4
The Sequence and the Standard: An Account of Participatory Informational Format Exclusion (PIFE)	4
Status Distrust of Scientific Experts	4
Knowledge Brokers in Crisis: Public Communication of Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
The Triviality Worry About Gender Terms and Epistemic Injustice	4
Producing ME/CFS in Dutch Newspapers. A Social-Discursive Analysis About Non/credibility	4
Defending Autonomy as a Criterion for Epistemic Virtue	4
Openness and Inequity in Scientific Research	4
Epistemic Autonomy and the Shaping of Our Epistemic Lives	4
Propositional Versus Encyclopedic Epistemology and Unintentional Plagiarism	4
Existential Testimonial Injustice	4
Two Ways of Seeing Post-Truth as a Stance	4
Gatekeeping in Science: Lessons from the Case of Psychology and Neuro-Linguistic Programming	4
Understanding Doxastic Injustice: The Role of Intrapersonal Factors in Epistemic Disempowerment	4
Generative AI as a Knowledge Distribution System	4
Chatbot Epistemology	3
Social Indicators of Trust in the Age of Informational Chaos	3
Other-Oriented Hermeneutical Injustice, Affected Ignorance, or Human Ignorance?	3
Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust	3
The Normative Turn in Conspiracy Theory Theory?	3
Aesthetic Resistance: Reimagining Critical Epistemology and the Grammars of Silence	3
Critical Social Epistemology of Social Media and Epistemic Virtues	3
Why Post-Truth Cannot Be Our Epistemological Compass	3
Watching People Watching People: Culture, Prestige, and Epistemic Authority	3
The University, Epistemic Power, and Institutional Epistemic Responsibilities	3
Evidence Based Policing as Epistemic Self-Reference: A Systems-Theoretical Analysis	3
Counter-Closure Principles in the Age of Complex Software Systems: A Generalized Challenge from AI	3
Expert Authority and Its Assessment	3
Scientism and the Problem of Self-Referential Incoherence	3
Weapons of the Wise? Infrapolitical Theorising as a Traditional Strategy of Academic Resistance	3
Online Illusions of Understanding	3
Life, Mind and Matter: Chemistry for an Ecological Era	3
Taking Virtuous Acts, not Virtuous Traits, as Evaluatively and Conceptually Primary	3
Transcultural Identity of Twerking: A Cultural Evolution Study of Women’s Bodily Practices of the Slavic and East African Communities	3
Exempting Oneself from Knowing Better. Epistemic Laziness and Conspiracy Theories	3
Woman: Concept, Prototype and Stereotype	3
Artificiality for Balanced Integration: A Virtue-Epistemological Framework Bridging Scientific Objectivity and Social Values	3
The University As Infrastructure of Becoming: Re-Activating Academic Freedom Through Humility in Times of Radical Uncertainty	3
A Contemporary Marxist Critique of Neoliberal Capitalism: Beyond Revolution and Neo-Keynesianism	3
Bots: Some Less-Considered Epistemic Problems	3
Artificial Epistemic Authorities	3
Norm Violations in Online Discourse: Epistemic and Civil Foundations for Platform Design and Moderation	3
Science Advice in an Environment of Trust: Trusted, but Not Trustworthy?	3
Epistemic Bunkers	3
Becoming a Knower: Fabricating Knowing Through Coaction	2
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice: Jewish Identity, Whiteness, and Zionism	2
Shaping the Blue Mind: How Epistemic Culture Influences Epistemic Virtue and Democratic Attitudes in Police Education	2
It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice	2
Three People Make a Tiger: the Illusory Truth Effect is Detrimental to a Network’s Likelihood of Reaching True Beliefs	2
Conscious Perception as Augmented Reality	2
Epistemic Autonomy and Intellectual Humility: Mutually Supporting Virtues	2
Promoting Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration: A Systematic Review, a Critical Literature Review, and a Pathway Forward	2
Supplementing Remedies to the Replication Crisis	2
Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence, and Propaganda: How Conspiracy Theories Advance Political Causes	2
Against Intellectual Autonomy: Social Animals Need Social Virtues	2
Democracy as a Social Epistemology of Grounding: Document-Things, Little Tools of Democracy, and an Exploration into Their Modes of Grounding	2
Epistemic Injustice in the Medical Context: Introduction to Special Issue	2
Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge	2
Peer Review and Natural-Like Social Relations of Production in Academia	2
Correction	2
The Ethics of Developing Social Structural Explanations of Injustice	2
Judging Expert Trustworthiness: The Difference Between Believing and Following the Science	2
Mediated Testimony, or the Epistemology of Reporting the Words of Others	2
Epistemic Dispossession in Platform Capitalism: Insights from Iris Marion Young’s Five Faces of Oppression	2
Epistemology of Folk-Lore	2
Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice	2
Post-Enquiry and Disagreement. A Socio-Epistemological Model of the Normative Significance of Disagreement Between Scientists and Denialists	2
Populism and the New Radical Right: A Necessary Distinction	2
The Epistemic Import of Narratives	2