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Wray, K. B. (2018). The Relevance of Evidence from the History of Science in the Contemporary Realism/Anti-realism Debate. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 9(1), 143-145. https://doi.org/10.4245/sponge.v9i1.26986

Wray, K. B. (2018). Review of Menachem Fisch’s Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/creatively-undecided-toward-a-history-and-philosophy-of-scientific-agency/

Wray, K. B. (2018). A new twist to the No Miracles Argument for the success of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 69, 86-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2018.02.002

Wray, K. B. (2019). What to make of Mendeleev’s predictions? Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry, 21(2), 139-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-018-9313-z

Wray, K. B. (2018). How Far Can Extended Knowledge Be Extended? The Asymmetry Between Research Teams and Artifacts. In A. Carter, A. Clark, J. Kallestrup, S. O. Palermos & D. Pritchard (Eds.), Socially Extended Epistemology (pp. 11-23). Oxford University Press.

Wray, K. B. (2018). Resisting Scientific Realism. Cambridge University Press.

Wray, K. B. (2018, May 27). Thomas Kuhn and the T. S. Kuhn Archives at MIT. Oxford University Press Blog. https://blog.oup.com/2018/05/thomas-kuhn-archives-mit/

Wray, K. B. (2018). A note on measuring normal science. Scientometrics, 117(1), 647-650. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2870-z

Wray, K. B. (2019). Kuhn, the History of Chemistry, and the Philosophy of Science. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 9(1), 75-92. https://doi.org/10.1086/700174

Wray, K. B. & Boschiero, L. (2018). Four years, and 12 issues later. Metascience, 27(3), 355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0363-6

Wray, K. B. & Andersen, L. E. (2018). Retractions in Science. Scientometrics, 117(3), 2009-2019. Article https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2922-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2922-4

Wray, K. B. (2019). Another great 19th century creation: The scientific journal: Review of The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century, Alex Csiszar, University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2018), xi + 376, Price US$ 45 hardback, ISBN 978-0-226-55323-8. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 75, 62-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2018.10.002

Wray, K. B. & Andersen, L. E. (2018). Study on Retractions in Science, the Journal: Letter to the Editors of Science. Science.

Wray, K. B. (2019). Kuhn and the history of science. In M. Fricker, P. J. Graham, D. Henderson & N. J. L. L. Pedersen (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of social epistemology (pp. 40-48). Routledge.

Wray, K. B. & Boschiero, L. (2019). What happens when an anti-realist and a realist read each other’s book? Metascience, 28(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00402-4

Wray, K. B. (2019). Social epistemology. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2. ed.). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos1357

Wray, K. B. (2019). Review of Rowbottom's The Instrument of Science: Scientific Anti-Realism Revitalized. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2019. https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-instrument-of-science-scientific-anti-realism-revitalized/

Wray, K. B. & Andersen, L. E. (2020). Reporting the discovery of new chemical elements: Working in different worlds, only 25 years apart. Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry, 22(2), 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-019-09348-1

Wray, K. B. (2020). Still Resisting: replies to my critics: K. Brad Wray: Resisting scientific realism, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 224 pp., $105 HB. Metascience, 29, 33-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00490-7

Wray, K. B. (2020). How is a revolutionary scientific paper cited? the case of Hess’ “History of Ocean Basins”. Scientometrics, 124(2), 1677-1683. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03524-3

Wray, K. B. (2021). Kuhn and the Contemporary Realism/Anti-realism Debates. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 11(1), 72-92. https://doi.org/10.1086/712945

Wray, K. B. (2020). Five Years ... and Still Going. Metascience, 29(2), 175-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00531-1

Wray, K. B. (2021). Feyerabend’s Theoretical Pluralism: An Investigation of the Epistemic Value of False Theories. In K. Bschir & J. Shaw (Eds.), Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays (pp. 72-88). Cambridge University Press.

Wray, K. B. (2021). Kuhn, Thomas and Scientific Paradigms. In G. Ritzer & C. Rojek (Eds.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2 ed.). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosk016.pub2, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518

Wray, K. B. (2020). Paradigms in Structure: finally, a count. Scientometrics, 125(1), 823-828. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03669-1

Wray, K. B. (2021). Interpreting Kuhn: Critical Essays. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108653206

Wray, K. B. (2021). Introduction: The Road Ahead in Kuhn Scholarship. In Interpreting Kuhn: Critical Essays (pp. 1-6). Cambridge University Press.

Wray, K. B. (2021). Reassessing Kuhn’s Theoretical Monism: Addressing the Pluralists’ Challenge. In Interpreting Kuhn: Critical Essays (pp. 222-237). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108653206.013

Wray, K. B. (2021). Meditations on ... Metascience, 30(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00626-3

Wray, K. B. (2021). Kuhn's Intellectual Path: Charting The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cambridge University Press.

Wray, K. B., Nash, L. & Simon, J. (2021). The geopolitics of book publishing and book reviews. Metascience, 30(3), 339-340. Article https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00694-5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00694-5

Wray, K. B. (2022). Small Bohr: A review of John L. Heilbron's Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction. Metascience, 31(1), 27-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00705-5

Wray, K. B. (2022). What Happened When Chemists Came to Classify Elements by their Atomic Number? Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry, 24(2), 161-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-022-09423-0

Wray, K. B. (2023). Thomas Kuhn, Hyperbole, and the Ashtray: Evidence of Morris' Faulty Memory. Philosophy of Science, 90(1), 196-199. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2022.20

Wray, K. B. (2023). Theodore Richards and the Discovery of Isotopes. Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry, 25(1), 57-66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-022-09449-4

Wray, K. B. (2022). Developments in book reading, a 25-year personal history. Metascience, 31(2), 141-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00763-3

Wray, K. B. (2021). Induction, Rationality, and the Realism/Anti-realism Debate: A Reply to Shech. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 34(4). https://doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2022.2113627

Wray, K. B. (2023). A Defense of Structure in Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In L. Giri, P. Melogno & H. Miguel (Eds.), Perspectives on Kuhn: Contemporary Approaches to the Philosophy of Thomas Kuhn (pp. 25-40). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16371-5_3

Wray, K. B., Nash, L. & Simon, J. (2022). What we publish in Metascience. Metascience, 31(3), 293-296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00819-4

Wray, K. B. (2023). A foundational text in scientometrics: Review of Derek J. de Solla Price's Little science, big science. Metascience, 32(2), 235-239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-023-00851-y

Wray, K. B. & Nash, L. (2023). Metascience builds connections. Metascience, 32(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-023-00845-w

Wray, K. B. (Ed.) (2024). Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122696

Wray, K. B. (2024). Introduction: The Impact of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . In K. B. Wray (Ed.), Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60 (pp. 1-18). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122696.002

Wray, K. B. (2024). The Orwellian Dimension of Scientific Progress: from Part III - Incommensurability, Progress, and Revolutions . In K. B. Wray (Ed.), Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60 (pp. 182-196). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122696.015

Wray, K. B. (2024). Co-authorship in Chemistry at the Turn of the 20th Century: The Case of Theodore W. Richards. Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry, 26(1), 75-88. Article https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-023-09491-w. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-023-09491-w

Wray, K. B. (2023). What I did on my summer vacation. Metascience, 32(3), 299-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-023-00931-z

Wray, K. B. (2024). Scientific and philosophical publication: The current state of affairs. Metascience, 33(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-024-00968-8

Wray, K. B., Paludan, S. R., Bornmann, L. & Haunschild, R. (2024). Using Reference Publication Year Spectroscopy (RPYS) to analyze the research and publication culture in immunology. Scientometrics, 129(6), 3271-3283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05001-7

Wray, K. B. (2024). A hobbit’s guide to technology ethics: A review of S. Umbrello's Technology Ethics. Metascience, 33(3), 467-469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-024-01011-6

Wray, K. B. (2024). Ten Years and Farewell. Metascience, 33(3), 307-309. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-024-01027-y

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