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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reconstructions of quantum theory: methodology and the role of axiomatization	32
Between theory and experiment: model use in dark matter detection	24
Looking beyond values: The legitimacy of social perspectives, opinions and interests in science	20
Reflexivity and fragility	17
A pragmatic approach to scientific change: transfer, alignment, influence	16
Modeling interventions in multi-level causal systems: supervenience, exclusion and underdetermination	15
The problem with appealing to history in defining neural representations	13
Modelling the psychological structure of reasoning	13
Predictivism and model selection	12
Overstating the effects of anthropogenic climate change? A critical assessment of attribution methods in climate science	12
Epistemological scientism and the scientific meta-method	12
Averaged versus individualized: pragmatic N-of-1 design as a method to investigate individual treatment response	11
Feyerabend, funding, and the freedom of science: the case of traditional Chinese medicine	10
Adding causality to the information-theoretic perspective on individuality	10
A functionalist mixed approach to the ontology of quantum field theories	10
Potentiality realism: a realistic and indeterministic physics based on propensities	10
Local ontology: reconciling processualism and new mechanism	10
W.F.R. Weldon changes his mind	9
Adapting practice-based philosophy of science to teaching of science students	9
A dialogue on the ethics of science: Henri Poincaré and Pope Francis	9
Exploratory modeling and indeterminacy in the search for life	9
Correction to: Philosophy of sustainability experimentation _ experimental legacy, normativity and transfer of evidence	9
Must hidden variables theories be contextual? Kochen & Specker meet von Neumann and Gleason	8
Inductive risk and epistemically detrimental dissent in policy-relevant science	8
Philosophy without natural kinds: a reply to Reydon & Ereshefsky	8

Biodiversity vs. paleodiversity measurements: the incommensurability problem	8
Epistemic possibilities in climate science: lessons from some recent research in the context of discovery	8
Miracles persist: a reply to Sus	8
(In)effective realism?	7
GPS observables in Newtonian spacetime or why we do not need ‘physical’ coordinate systems	7
On entanglement as a relation	7
The information-theoretic view of quantum mechanics and the measurement problem(s)	7
A fine-grained distinction of coarse graining	7
Patchworks and operations	7
Applying mechanical philosophy to web science: The case of social machines	7
Applying Evidential Pluralism to the social sciences	7
The predictive reframing of machine learning applications: good predictions and bad measurements	7
Temporal becoming in a relativistic universe: causal diamonds and Gödel’s philosophy of time	7
Econophysics: making sense of a chimera	6
Diagnosing errors in climate model intercomparisons	6
Physicists’ views on scientific realism	6
The freedom we mean: A causal independence account of creativity and academic freedom	6
How interdisciplinary researchers see themselves: plurality of understandings of interdisciplinarity within a field and why it matters	6
Probing ‘operational coherence’ in Hasok Chang’s pragmatic realism	6
On the condition of Setting Independence	6
Reactivity in measuring depression	6
Proxy measurement in paleoclimatology	6
Second philosophy and testimonial reliability: Philosophy of science for STEM students	6
Inflating the social aspects of cognitive structural realism	5
Understanding physics: ‘What?’, ‘Why?’, and ‘How?’	5
Toward a more natural historical attitude	5
Niches and Niche Construction in Biology and Scientific Practice	5
Countability and self-identity	5
Contextualist model evaluation: models in financial economics and index funds	5
Correction to: Incommensurability and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: taking Kuhn seriously	5
The Complex Nexus of Evolutionary Fitness	5
Holism as the empirical significance of symmetries	5
Testability and viability: is inflationary cosmology “Scientific”?	5
Classicality and Bell’s theorem	4
The quantum gravity seeds for laws of nature	4
Efficiency and fairness trade-offs in two player bargaining games	4
Quantum ontology and intuitions	4
Quantum fictivism	4
Motivationalism vs. interpretationalism about symmetries: some options overlooked in the debate about the relationship between symmetries and physical equivalence	4
Critique of pure Bayesian cognitive science: A view from the philosophy of science	4
Pursuitworthiness in the scheme of futures	4
Group field theories: decoupling spacetime emergence from the ontology of non-spatiotemporal entities	4
Broken brakes and dreaming drivers: the heuristic value of causal models in the law	4
Metaphysical indeterminacy in Everettian quantum mechanics	4
Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation	4
Scientific experimental articles are modernist stories	4
Feynman diagrams: visualization of phenomena and diagrammatic representation	4
Another philosophical look at twistor theory	3
Explaining AI through mechanistic interpretability	3
Determinism beyond time evolution	3

The Hows and whys of philosophy of science teaching: a comparative analysis	3
Reactivity as a tool in emancipatory activist research	3
Infinity and continuum in the alternative set theory	3
Down to Earth: History and philosophy of geoscience in practice for undergraduate education	3
Tacking by conjunction, genuine confirmation and convergence to certainty	3
Process epistemology in the COVID-19 era: rethinking the research process to avoid dangerous forms of reification	3
Extrapolating from experiments, confidently	3
Formal consistency of the Principal Principle revisited	3
Aligning the free-energy principle with Peirce’s logic of science and economy of research	3
Genetically caused trait is an interactive kind	3
We should redefine scientific expertise: an extended virtue account	3
Varieties of dispositional essentialism about natural laws	3
Knowledge transfer, templates, and the spillovers	3
Progressive and degenerative journals: on the growth and appraisal of knowledge in scholarly publishing	3
New functionalism and the social and behavioral sciences	3
Weintraub’s response to Williamson’s coin flip argument	3
The extraterrestrial hypothesis: an epistemological case for removing the taboo	3
On the status of quantum tunnelling time	3
Questioning origins: the role of ethical and metaethical claims in the debate about the evolution of morality	3
Should social pragmatic communication disorder be included in DSM-5? On uncertainties, pragmatic considerations, and the psychiatric kind debate	3
What is it like to be unitarily reversed?	3
From epistemology to policy: reorienting philosophy courses for science students	3
Revisiting abstraction and idealization: how not to criticize mechanistic explanation in molecular biology	3
Moralisation of medicines: The case of hydroxychloroquine	3