OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Epistemology is 1. 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
ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding	28
Hysteria, Hermeneutical Injustice and Conceptual Engineering	23
The Elusiveness of Hermeneutic Injustice in Psychiatric Categorizations	22
Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism	18
Three Decades of Social Construction of Technology: Dynamic Yet Fuzzy? The Methodological Conundrum	13
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice: Jewish Identity, Whiteness, and Zionism	13
Reflexive Research Practice in Women’s Prison Research in Uganda	13
On Aesth-ethic Activism as Epistemic Resistance in Conversation with José Medina	12
A Contemporary Marxist Critique of Neoliberal Capitalism: Beyond Revolution and Neo-Keynesianism	12
AI-Testimony, Conversational AIs and Our Anthropocentric Theory of Testimony	11
Towards a Capabilities-Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice	11
Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice	11
Mechanistic Explanation, Interdisciplinary Integration and Interpersonal Social Coordination	10
Why Post-Truth Cannot Be Our Epistemological Compass	9
The Emergence of Urban Studies as an Academic Field: Article and Journal Level Assessment of Its Development and Openness	9
The Normative Turn in Conspiracy Theory Theory?	8
Are ‘Conspiracy Theories’ So Unlikely to Be True? A Critique of Quassim Cassam’s Concept of ‘Conspiracy Theories’	8
Anticipatory Epistemic Injustice	8
Truth as Force: A Materialist Picture	8
Machine Advisors: Integrating Large Language Models Into Democratic Assemblies	8
Bots: Some Less-Considered Epistemic Problems	8
The Epistemic Value of Democratic Meritocracy	7
Why Human Prejudice is so Persistent: A Predictive Coding Analysis	7
Conceptualizing Scientific Progress Needs a New Humanism	7
We Have No Satisfactory Social Epistemology of AI-Based Science	7

Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Literary Texts as Boundary Objects	7
Becoming a Knower: Fabricating Knowing Through Coaction	7
Stereotyping as Discrimination: Why Thoughts Can Be Discriminatory	6
Scientific Misinformation and Fake News: A Blurred Boundary	6
The Philosophy of Epistemic Autonomy: Introduction to Special Issue	6
Life, Mind and Matter: Chemistry for an Ecological Era	6
The Contribution of Logic to Epistemic Injustice	6
Correction	5
Mind Design, AI Epistemology, and Outsourcing	5
Linguistic Hermeneutical Injustice	5
The Exclusion Problem in Preclinical Studies: A Case of Epistemic Injustice?	5
The Possibility of Epistemic Nudging	5
In Defense of Robust Moral Encroachment	5
Epistemic Paternalism and Protective Authority in a Non-Ideal World	5
Chameleonism Revisited: Imposters, Hypocrites, and Passing	5
Vices of Distrust	5
Judging Expert Trustworthiness: The Difference Between Believing and Following the Science	5
Cringe	5
Epistemic Smothering is Not a Form of Epistemic Paternalism	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: “Expertise, Semiotics and Interactivity”	5
How Can Constitutivism Account for the Persistence of Deep Disagreements?	4
Friend or Foe? Rethinking Epistemic Trespassing	4
The Social Indicators of the Reputation of an Expert	4
‘Blackness’, the Body and Epistemological and Epistemic Traps: A Phenomenological Analysis	4
Scientism and the Problem of Self-Referential Incoherence	4
Reclaiming Control: Extended Mindreading and the Tracking of Digital Footprints	4
Why Trust Raoult? How Social Indicators Inform the Reputations of Experts	4
Is Philosophy Exceptional? A Corpus-Based, Quantitative Study	4
Some Conspiracy Theories	4
Perceiving Environmental Science, Risk and Industry Regulation in the Mediatised Vicious Cycles of the Tasmanian Salmon Aquaculture Industry	4
Mapping the Dynamics of the Vertical Farm: A Biopolitical Epistemology of Valuation	3
On the Inconsistency between Practice and Reporting in Science: The Genesis of Scientific Articles	3
Lessons from Reckwitz and Rosa: Towards a Constructive Dialogue between Critical Analytics and Critical Theory	3
The Evolutionary Dimension of Scientific Progress	3
A Philosophical Explanation for the Islamization of Philosophy: How Can Mullā Ṣadrā’s Transcendent Philosophy Contribute to the Islamization of Philosophy in Iran?	3
Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust	3
‘Conspiracy Theory’ as a Tonkish Term: Some Runabout Inference-Tickets from Truth to Falsehood	3
Is It Conspiracy or ‘Truth’? Examining the Legitimation of the 5G Conspiracy Theory during the Covid-19 Pandemic	3
Alethic Rights: Preliminaries of an Inquiry into the Power of Truth	3
The University As Infrastructure of Becoming: Re-Activating Academic Freedom Through Humility in Times of Radical Uncertainty	3
Deferring to Experts and Thinking for Oneself	3
Artificial Epistemic Authorities	3
Hijacking the Postmodern Project: Post-Truth and the Need to De-politicize Epistemological Dispute	3
Towards Epistemic Translatability: On Epistemic Difference and Hermeneutical Injustice	3
Social Exclusion, Epistemic Injustice, and Intellectual Self-Trust	2
Epistemology and the Pandemic: Lessons from an Epistemic Crisis	2
How Expertise is Enabled: Why Epistemic Cycles Matter to us All	2
Testimonial Injustice and Prediction Markets	2
Regulating Social Media as a Public Good: Limiting Epistemic Segregation	2
Self-Trust and Critical Thinking Online: A Relational Account	2

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Conspiracy Theory Theories	2
Narrating Being through Phenomena: The Phenomenological and Sociological Insights of Harry Parker’sAnatomy of a Soldier	2
Credibility Trouble: When ‘I Believe You’ is an Epistemic Wrong	2
Two Kinds of Vaccine Hesitancy	2
Knowledge-Production, Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus-Knowledge	2
The Collective Construction of Technology: Re-Narrating Bicycle Development in an ANT Atmosphere	2
Deliberative Stakeholder Engagement in Person-centered Health Research	2
‘Here’s Me Being Humble’: The Strangeness of Modeling Intellectual Humility	2
An Epistemic Objection to Racial Profiling	2
When is it Rational to Distrust Scientists?	2
Phronetic Risk in Research Agenda Setting – the Case of Nutrition Science and Public Health	2
Collective Virtue Epistemology and the Value of Identity Diversity	2
Individual Vices and Institutional Failings as Drivers of Vulnerabilisation	2
The Pitfalls of Epistemic Autonomy without Intellectual Humility	2
Conceptual Engineering, Conceptual Domination, and the Case of Conspiracy Theories	2
The Problem of Disinformation: A Critical Approach	2
Knowledge, Expertise and Science Advice During COVID-19: In Search of Epistemic Justice for the ‘Wicked’ Problems of Post-Normal Times	2
Collaboration in Grant Proposals and Assessments in Ageing Research – Justification or a Quest for a Collaborology?	2
Woman: Concept, Prototype and Stereotype	2
Epistemic Hubris	2
Exempting Oneself from Knowing Better. Epistemic Laziness and Conspiracy Theories	2
Educators’ Subjectivities in Localising Global Citizenship Education: A Chinese Case	2
Epistemic Bunkers	2
Testimonial Authority and Knowledge Transmission	2
Mind the Guardrails: Epistemic Trespassing and Apt Deference	1
Social Indicators of Trust in the Age of Informational Chaos	1
Epistemic Domination and ‘Gender Identity Fraud’ Prosecutions	1
Blockchain Imaginaries and Their Metaphors: Organising Principles in Decentralised Digital Technologies	1
The Epistemological Compass and the (Post)Truth about Objectivity	1
Trust in a Social and Digital World	1
“Do Your Own Research”	1
Epistemic Injustice in Late-Stage Dementia: A Case for Non-Verbal Testimonial Injustice	1
Binarism Grammatical Lacuna as an Ensemble of Diverse Epistemic Injustices	1
On Testimonial and Hermeneutical (In)justices in the Use of Trans Narratives in Bedrock Gender	1
Obstetric Violence: An Epistemic Repair of the Construct	1
Fake News vs. Echo Chambers	1
”That’s Just a Conspiracy Theory!”: Relevant Alternatives, Dismissive Conversational Exercitives, and the Problem of Premature Conclusions	1
Climate Change and Culpable Ignorance: The Case of Pseudoscience	1
Hermeneutical Injustice and Child Victims of Abuse	1
Fake Authority Country: Epistemic Responsibility and the Normativity of Expertise	1
Epistemic Privilege, Phenomenology and Symptomatology in Functional/Dissociative Seizures	1
Lookism as Epistemic Injustice	1
The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication	1
Deontic Binding: Imposed, Voluntary, and Autogenic	1
Meanings of Basqueness: An Account from Brandomian Inferentialism on Basque Identity and Its Evolution	1
When Patient Voices Get Lost in Evidence Hierarchies: A Testimony of Rare Adverse Events and Participatory Epistemic Injustice in Drug Safety Monitoring	1
Epistemic Inclusion as the Key to Benefiting from Cognitive Diversity in Science	1
A Quasi-Fideist Approach to QAnon	1
What about Whataboutism?	1
What Does It Mean for a Conspiracy Theory to Be a ‘Theory’?	1
The Charisma of Reason during the Re-enchantment of the World	1
Challenging Prejudice as the Necessary Condition for Testimonial Injustice: Unveiling the Role of Epistemic Vice	1
‘Islamic Epistemology’ in a Modern Context: Anatomy of an Evolving Debate	1
The Institutional Preconditions of Epistemic Justice	1
AI and Epistemic Agency: How AI Influences Belief Revision and Its Normative Implications	1
Epistemological Fetishism of a Doctoral Student	1
Conspiracy Theory and (or as) Folk Psychology	1
What Composition of High-Energy Physics Collaborations is Epistemically Optimal?	1
Other-Oriented Hermeneutical Injustice, Affected Ignorance, or Human Ignorance?	1
AAC Technology, Autism, and the Empathic Turn	1