OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Foundations of Chemistry 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A general definition of the concept of chemical speciation, chemical species transformation and chemical species evolution based on a semantics of meaning	90
Test case for perspectivism: incompatible models in quantum chemistry	13
Correction to: A process ontology approach in biochemistry: the case of GPCRs and biosignaling	11
Models, languages and representations: philosophical reflections driven from a research on teaching and learning about cellular respiration	11
Editorial 73	9
Understanding entropy	6
Chromatography in the chemical analysis of molecular substances: chemical substance predication and mereology	6
A commentary on Weisberg’s critique of the ‘structural conception’ of chemical bonding	6
In praise of triads	6
Editorial 79	6
Chemistry: progress since 1860—reflections on chemistry and chemistry education triggered by reading Muspratt’s Chemistry	5
Editorial 71	4
A defense of placeholder essentialism	4
Hydrogen over helium: A philosophical position	4
Editorial 70 (the platinum issue)	4
Interaction, interpretation and representation: the construction and dissemination of chemical knowledge from a Peircean semiotics perspective	4
Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics	4
EDITORIAL 78	3
Interview with Olimpia Lombardi	3
Chemical reactivity: cause-effect or interaction?	3
An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water	3
Correction: 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	3
Knowledge building in chemistry education	3
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	3
Editorial 69	3

What does chemical change tell us about the nature of reality? An exercise in scientific metaphysics	3
Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry	3
Epistemological obstacles in teaching and learning cellular respiration	3
The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements	2
Philosophical grounds for designing invisible molecules	2
Johann Rudolph Glauber: the royals’ alchemist and his secret recipes	2
Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards	2
Common empirical foundations, different theoretical choices: The Berthollet-Proust controversy and Dalton’s resolution	2
Editorial 75	2
Attempts to account for chemical periodicity in terms of the electronic structure of elements: Thomson, Bohr and Madelung	2
The problem of chemical laws	2
On the very idea of a social enantiomorphism	2