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Most cited books in philosophy of science of the last century, according to Google Scholar (CORRECTED)

I list only those books with 3,000 or more citations. Please notify me of omissions or corrections.

  1. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 168,000
  2. Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 44,800
  3. Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, 27,800
  4. Paul Feyerabend, Against Method, 18,400
  5. Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge, 16,600
  6. Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour & Richard Scheines, Causation, Prediction, and Search, 13,000
  7. Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science, 11,000
  8. Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image, 10,800
  9. Carl Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation, 10,600
  10. Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening, 9,400
  11. Thomas Kuhn, The Essential Tension, 7,200
  12. Helen Longino, Science as Social Knowledge, 6,800
  13. Larry Laudan, Progress and its Problems, 6,700
  14. Nancy Cartwright, How the Laws of Physics Lie, 6,500
  15. James Woodward, Making Things Happen, 6,400
  16. David Hull, Science as Process, 4,100
  17. Nancy Cartwright, The Dappled World, 4,000
  18. Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science, 3,800
  19. Bas van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry, 3,800
  20. Hans Reichenbach, The Direction of Time, 3,500
  21. John Dupre, The Disorder of Things, 3,400
  22. Colin Howson & Peter Urbach, Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach, 3,400
  23. Elliott Sober, The Nature of Selection, 3,300
  24. Stathis Psillos, Scientific Realism, 3,000
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