OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Foundations of Chemistry 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
Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry	65
Editorial 69	11
The rivers in our tears: chemistry, literature and philosophy in the short story “Best Is Water” by Primo Levi	10
Natural kinds, chemical practice, and interpretive communities	10
Interview with Olimpia Lombardi	9
Special theory of relativity in chemistry	7
An unlikely bifurcation: history of sustainable (but not Green) chemistry	6
On how some fundamental chemical concepts are correlated by arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means	6
A general definition of the concept of chemical speciation, chemical species transformation and chemical species evolution based on a semantics of meaning	6
Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration	5
Chemical jargon: thinking out loud	4
An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water	4
Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	4
Interview with Eric Scerri	4
Celebrating the birth of De Donder’s chemical affinity (1922–2022): from the uncompensated heat to his Ave Maria	4
Ogawa’s nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium	3
Knowledge building in chemistry education	3
Electronegativity provides the relationship between formal charge, oxidation state, and actual charge	3
Functional realism suggested from the actualization of affordances	3
Measuring ecologically sound practice in the chemical industry	3
Quantum mechanical atom models, legitimate explanations and mechanisms	3
Relational quantum mechanics, causal composition, and molecular structure	3
Usanovich and Nernst colliding: inconsistencies in the all-in-one acid–base concept?	2
Epistemological obstacles in teaching and learning cellular respiration	2
Improving chemistry teacher education with the philosophy of chemistry	2

On a unified theory of acids and bases: Hasok Chang, Eric R. Scerri, modern theoretical chemistry, and the philosophy of chemistry	2
Brick by brick	2
A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding	2
Non-periodic table of periodicities and periodic table with additional periodicities: tetrad periodicity	2
Laws of nature, metaphysics, and science education: a reply to Scerri	2
Density functional theory, chemical reactivity, and the Fukui functions	1
Editorial 72	1
Editorial 73	1
Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements—part 3—rivalry of scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	1
From complexity to systems	1
Making sense of a pedagogic text	1
The problem of chemical laws	1
Understanding entropy	1
Correction to: The value of laws in chemistry	1
The value of laws in chemistry	1
S.P.L. Sørensen, the pH concept and its early history	1
Book review of Paul Sen’s, “Einstein’s Fridge. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe” ISBN: 978-1-5011-8130-6	1
A simple treatment of chemical equilibrium	1
Guest Editorial for the Special Issue of the ISPC Annual Conference Held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023	1
Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry	1
Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution	1
Plato on chemistry	1
Chemistry: progress since 1860—reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt’s Chemistry	1
The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements	1
What is the electron density?	1
Editor’s note for volume II of the proceedings of the 2022 conference of the international society for the philosophy of chemistry	1
Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction?	1
Attempts to account for chemical periodicity in terms of the electronic structure of elements: Thomson, Bohr and Madelung	1
Ethics of the future of chemical sciences	1
On the nature of quantum-chemical entities: the case of electron density	1
The irreducibility of chemistry to Everettian quantum mechanics	1
In praise of triads	1
Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency	1