OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal for Philosophy of Science is 3. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Modeling interventions in multi-level causal systems: supervenience, exclusion and underdetermination	32
Averaged versus individualized: pragmatic N-of-1 design as a method to investigate individual treatment response	32
Reconstructions of quantum theory: methodology and the role of axiomatization	24
Overstating the effects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science	21
Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation	20
We should redefine scientific expertise: an extended virtue account	16
Quantum ontology and intuitions	14
Inflating the social aspects of cognitive structural realism	14
Infinity and continuum in the alternative set theory	14
Explaining AI through mechanistic interpretability	12
Diagnosing errors in climate model intercomparisons	12
Feynman diagrams: visualization of phenomena and diagrammatic representation	12
Equivalence, reduction, and sophistication in teleparallel gravity	11
On the consistency of relative facts	11
Contextualist model evaluation: models in financial economics and index funds	11
Purifying applied mathematics and applying pure mathematics: how a late Wittgensteinian perspective sheds light onto the dichotomy	10
On the mitigation of inductive risk	10
Misconstrued arguments about cultural theory	9
Unexpected quantum indeterminacy	9
Afactivism about understanding cognition	9
Irrational methods suggest indecomposability and emergence	9
Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science	9
Nested modalities in astrophysical modeling	9
Science and policy in extremis: the UK’s initial response to COVID-19	9
Masking, extrinsicness, and the nature of dispositions: the role of niche signals in muscle stem cells	8

Separability and fundamentality	8
Criteria of success for engineering accident investigations: a question-centered account	8
Overcoming Frege’s curse: heuristic reasoning as the basis for teaching philosophy of science to scientists	8
Nagelian reduction and approximation	8
Simpson’s paradox beyond confounding	8
Climate modelling and structural stability	8
Philosophy of sustainability experimentation _ experimental legacy, normativity and transfer of evidence	8
Ethnobiological kinds and material grounding: comments on Ludwig	7
The sky is blue, and other reasons quantum mechanics is not underdetermined by evidence	7
Perspectives and meta-perspectives: context versus hierarchy in the epistemology of complex systems	7
Coordination in social learning: expanding the narrative on the evolution of social norms	7
Emergent Realities: Diffracting Barad within a quantum-realist ontology of matter and politics	7
Self-reflexive cognitive bias	6
Grounded empiricism	6
How to Incorporate Non-Epistemic Values into a Theory of Classification	6
What are general models about?	6
Phenomena and signatures	6
Autonoesis and the Galilean science of memory: Explanation, idealization, and the role of crucial data	6
Radical artifactualism	6
The emergence of the postgenomic gene	6
Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and tipping points: interdisciplinarity and values in Earth system science	6
A fine-grained distinction of coarse graining	5
Inductive risk and epistemically detrimental dissent in policy-relevant science	5
Revisiting abstraction and idealization: how not to criticize mechanistic explanation in molecular biology	5
Philosophy without natural kinds: a reply to Reydon & Ereshefsky	5
Predictivism and model selection	5
Another philosophical look at twistor theory	5
Beyond the microscope: Rethinking microbial diversity measurement with the model-based account	5
Biodiversity vs. paleodiversity measurements: the incommensurability problem	5
Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discovery	5
Weintraub’s response to Williamson’s coin flip argument	5
On the status of quantum tunnelling time	4
The replication crisis is less of a “crisis” in Lakatos’ philosophy of science than it is in Popper’s	4
Operational equivalence and causal structure	4
Classicality and Bell’s theorem	4
Second philosophy and testimonial reliability: Philosophy of science for STEM students	4
New functionalism and the social and behavioral sciences	4
Lost horizon? – modeling black holes in string theory	4
Motivationalism vs. interpretationalism about symmetries: some options overlooked in the debate about the relationship between symmetries and physical equivalence	4
Extrapolating from experiments, confidently	4
Determinism beyond time evolution	4
Analogy and Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Chemistry The Case of Aluminium	4
Probing ‘operational coherence’ in Hasok Chang’s pragmatic realism	4
Quantum indeterminacy: a matter of degree?	3
Correction to: Nothing but coincidences: the point-coincidence and Einstein’s struggle with the meaning of coordinates in physics	3
Foregrounding and backgrounding: a new interpretation of “levels” in science	3
The epistemological significance of exploratory experimentation: A pragmatist model of how practices matter philosophically	3
Intervention and experiment	3
On quantum computing for artificial superintelligence	3
Taking model pursuit seriously	3

Elucidating and embedding: two functions of how-possibly explanations	3
Underdetermination in classic and modern tests of general relativity	3
Powers and the hard problem of consciousness: conceivability, possibility and powers	3
Guiding principles in physics	3
Reactivity in the human sciences	3
Bipedal Gait Costs: a new case study of mathematical explanation in science	3
Values in science: what are values, anyway?	3
Applied versus situated mathematics in ancient Egypt: bridging the gap between theory and practice	3
Research environments vis-à-vis biological environments: ontological parallels, epistemic parallax, and metaphilosophical parallelization	3
Should physical symmetries guide metaphysics? Two reasons why they should maybe not	3
The preservation of thickly detectable structure: a case study in gravity	3
Representation in measurement	3
Is HPS a valuable component of a STEM education? An empirical study of student interest in HPS courses within an undergraduate science curriculum	3
Values and inductive risk in machine learning modelling: the case of binary classification models	3
Respecting boundaries: theoretical equivalence and structure beyond dynamics	3
An Armstrongian defense of dispositional monist accounts of laws of nature	3
Semantic layering and the success of mathematical sciences	3
Model spread and progress in climate modelling	3
Correction to: Tales of twin cities: what are climate analogues good for?	3
Mechanisms and principles: two approaches to scientific generalization	3
From measurement to classificatory practice: improving psychiatric classification independently of the opposition between symptom-based and causal approaches	3