A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

Process Epistemology in the COVID Era: Rethinking the Research Process to Avoid Dangerous Forms of Reification.

Author(s): John Dupre and Sabina Leonelli
Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Issue 12:20, 2022, ISSN 1879-4912
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-022-00450-4

How to Foster Responsible and Resilient Data: The Ethical Data Initiative

Author(s): Kim M. Hajek, Paul Trauttmansdorff, Sabina Leonelli, Stephan Guttinger, Silvia Milano
Published in: Computer, Issue 58, 2025, Page(s) 95-99, ISSN 0018-9162
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/mc.2024.3522696

Research in the multiplex: navigating tensions and opportunities in transdisciplinary environments

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli, Rose Trappes
Published in: European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 1879-4912
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13194-025-00684-y

Data-technology communities: collaboration and diversity in data- and technology-intensive multidisciplinary research

Author(s): Emma Cavazzoni
Published in: BioSocieties, 2026, ISSN 1745-8552
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1057/s41292-025-00379-w

Fostering trustworthy information: countering disinformation when there are no bare facts

Author(s): Marcel Boumans, Joras Ferwerda, Maya J. Goldenberg, Sabina Leonelli, Federica Russo, Vincent Traag, Arjan Wardekker
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.250654

Individual differences, uniqueness, and individuality in behavioural ecology

Author(s): Rose Trappes
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Issue 96, 2022, Page(s) 18-26, ISSN 1879-2510
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.08.007

Process-Sensitive Naming: Trait Descriptors and the Shifting Semantics of Plant (Data) Science.

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Philosophy, Theory and Practice in Biology, Issue 14, 2022, ISSN 2475-3025
Publisher: Michigan Publisher
DOI: 10.3998/ptpbio.3364

Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits?

Author(s): C Staunton, CA Barragan, S Canali, C Ho, M Mayernik, Sabina Leonelli, B Prainsack, A Wonkham
Published in: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Issue 43:115, 2021, ISSN 1742-6316
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s40656-021-00468-6

Investigating research practices: How qualitative methods enhance philosophical understandings of science.

Author(s): Rachel A. Ankeny, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Qualitative Psychology, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 247-262, ISSN 2326-3598
Publisher: ASA
DOI: 10.1037/qup0000289

Epistemic disadvantage and looping breaks: a reply to Gauld et al.

Author(s): Rena Alcalay
Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Issue 29, 2026, Page(s) 577-580, ISSN 1386-7423
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-026-10341-7

Reframing the Environment in Data-Intensive Health Sciences.

Author(s): Stefano Canali, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Issue 93, 2022, Page(s) 203-214, ISSN 0039-3681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.04.006

Model organism futures in precision toxicology: tracking the emergence of a research repertoire

Author(s): Rachel A. Ankeny, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Biology & Philosophy, Issue 41, 2026, ISSN 0169-3867
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-026-10009-9

Rejoinder: Let Us Rescue Intelligence from Anti-Human AI

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Harvard Data Science Review, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2644-2353
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.4a868f98

Accelerating Agriculture: Data-Intensive Plant Breeding and the Use of Genetic Gain as An Indicator for Agricultural Research and Development.

Author(s): Hugh Williamson and Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Issue 95, 2022, Page(s) 167-176, ISSN 1879-2510
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.08.006

Amid Advancement, Apprehension, and Ambivalence: AI in the Human Ecosystem

Author(s): Francine Berman, David Banks, Michael I. Jordan, Sabina Leonelli, Martha Minow
Published in: Harvard Data Science Review, Issue 6, 2024, ISSN 2644-2353
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.2be2c754

How tracking technology is transforming animal ecology: epistemic values, interdisciplinarity, and technology-driven scientific change

Author(s): Rose Trappes
Published in: Synthese, Issue 201: 128, 2023, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 1573-0964
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-023-04122-5

Understanding the ‘spaceflight treatment’ in plant space biology: Experimental practices, metadata workflows, and data re-analysis

Author(s): Paola Castaño, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Issue 114, 2026, Page(s) 102073, ISSN 0039-3681
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.102073

A Critical Framing of Data for Development: Historicizing Data Relations and AI

Author(s): Alexander Martin Mussgnug, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Development and Change, Issue 55, 2024, Page(s) 1109-1121, ISSN 0012-155X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12857

Reconciling data actionability and accountability in global health research: The case of SARS-CoV-2

Author(s): Nathanael Sheehan, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Global Public Health, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1744-1692
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2024.2436422

Environmental Intelligence: Redefining the Philosophical Premises of AI

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Harvard Data Science Review, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2644-2353
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.ac7c1504

Open Science and Epistemic Diversity: Friends or Foes?

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Philosophy of Science, Issue 89, 2022, Page(s) 991-1001, ISSN 0031-8248
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2022.45

What to Do About Data Distance? Responsible Alternatives to Data Sharing

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Harvard Data Science Review, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2644-2353
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.e95b5c26

Does this democracy work? Measuring reliability, Trojan horses and the fundamental problem of evaluation

Author(s): Richard Beadon Williams
Published in: Economics and Philosophy, 2025, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 0266-2671
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0266267125100503

Reorienting the Debate on Biological Individuality: Politics and Practices

Author(s): Rose Trappes
Published in: Acta Biotheoretica, Issue vol 72, art 4, 2024, ISSN 0001-5342
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-024-09479-9

Responsive research and scientific autonomy

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: NOvation - Critical Studies of Innovation, 2024, ISSN 2562-7147
Publisher: Universidade Federal do Parana
DOI: 10.5380/nocsi.v0i6

Is Data Science Transforming Biomedical Research? Evidence, Expertise and Experiments in COVID-19 Science

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Philosophy of Science, 2023, ISSN 0031-8248
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2023.122

How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance

Author(s): ROSE TRAPPES , BEHZAD NEMATIPOUR , MARIE I. KAISER , ULRICH KROHS , KOEN J. VAN BENTHEM , ULRICH R. ERNST , JÜRGEN GADAU , PETER KORSTEN , JOACHIM KURTZ , HOLGER SCHIELZETH , TIM SCHMOLL , ELINA TAKOLA
Published in: BioScience, Issue 72(6), 2022, Page(s) 538-548, ISSN 1525-3244
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biac023

Monitoring technology for pest-plant interactions

Author(s): Emma Cavazzoni, Sabina Leonelli, Daniele Giannetti, Niccolò Patelli, Giacomo Vaccari, Lara Maistrello, Maria Cristina Pinotti
Published in: EMBO Reports, Issue 26, 2025, Page(s) 3236-3240, ISSN 1469-3178
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44319-025-00489-3

Data Synthesis for Big Questions: From Animal Tracks to Ecological Models

Author(s): Rose Trappes
Published in: Philosophy, Theory and Practice in Biology, Issue 9, 2024, ISSN 2475-3025
Publisher: Michigan Publishing

Unrestricted versus Regulated Open Data Governance: A Bibliometric Comparison of SARS-COV-2 Nucleotide Sequence Databases

Author(s): Nathanael Sheehan, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Data Science Journal, Issue 23, 2024, ISSN 2731-6955
Publisher: Springer Nature

Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development.

Author(s): WIlliamson, H and Leonelli, S.
Published in: 2022, Page(s) 1-317, ISBN 978-3-031-13278-0
Publisher: Springer Open Access
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13276-6

Philosophy of Open Science

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Elements in the Philosophy of Science, 2023, ISBN 9781009416368
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781009416368

The easy difference: Sex in behavioural ecology

Author(s): Rose Trappes
Published in: Purple Brains, Working on the limits of feminist philosophy, 2024
Publisher: Radboud University Press

Comment: Multi-Species History of Science

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science, 2024, ISBN 9781350326231
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Introduction: Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage. In: Williamson

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli and Hugh Williamson
Published in: Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage, 2023, Page(s) 1-25, ISBN 978-3-031-13278-0
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

How Data Cross Borders: Globalizing Plant Knowledge through Transnational Data Management and Its Epistemic Economy

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Knowledge Flows in a Global Age A Transnational Approach, 2022, Page(s) 305-343, ISBN 9780226820378
Publisher: Chicago University Press

Crop Descriptors and the Forging of “System-wide” Research in CGIAR

Author(s): Helen Anne Curry, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Agricultural Science as International Development: Historical Perspectives on the CGIAR Era, 2024, ISBN 9781009434669
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Opacity and Reproducibility in Data Processing: Reflections on the Dependence of AI on the Data Ecosystem

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Beyond Quantity: Research with Subsymbolic AI, 2023, ISBN 9783839467664
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
DOI: 10.14361/9783839467664

Plant Biologists and the International Space Station: Institutionalising a Scientific Community

Author(s): Paola Castaño
Published in: Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space, 2023, ISBN 9781003280507
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003280507

Cultivating Responsible Plant Breeding Strategies: Conceptual and Normative Commitments in Data-Intensive Agriculture

Author(s): Hugh Williamson and Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development, 2023, Page(s) 301-317, ISBN 978-3-031-13278-0
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

Research Design for Philosophy of Science in Practice

Author(s): Rachel A Ankeny, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Philosophy of Science – A User’s Guide, 2025
Publisher: MIT Press

Artificial Intelligence in Plant and Agricultural Research

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli, Hugh Williamson
Published in: Artificial Intelligence for Science: A Deep Learning Revolution, 2023, ISBN 978-981-12-6566-2
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
DOI: 10.1142/9789811265679_0018

Introduction: Scaffolds for the Study of Science

Author(s): Rachel A. Ankeny, Michael R. Dietrich, Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Scaffolding: Selected Contributions of James R. Griesemer to History, Philosophy, and Biology, 2025, Page(s) 1-10
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-84609-0_1

Studies of Open Science Community Page

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli, Nathanael Sheehan, Paola Castaño, Joyce Koranteng-Acquah, Fotis Tsiroukis, Emma Cavazzoni, Rose Trappes.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo

Scaling Up: The Radical Challenge of Democratic Data Governance

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli
Published in: Frontiers Policy Labs, 2022
Publisher: Frontiers

The Research Game: Tabletop game about inequity in global research practices.

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli, Nathanael Sheehan, Paola Castaño, Emma Cavazzoni, Fotis Tsiroukis, Joyce Koranteng-Acquah
Published in: Boardgame, 2025
Publisher: Phil_OS Project

From Data to Score: Prospects for AI in African Fintech (Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria).

Author(s): Leonelli S, Erdem KK, Gleber A, Glitza O, Hajek K, Laukes M, Milosh NM, Rehman FU, Sindel L, Trauttmansdorff P, Uribe N.
Published in: An Ethical Data Initiative Report, 2026
Publisher: Technical University of Munich
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18443358

Plant Database Map

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli, Hugh Williamson
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Data Studies research group

Science Lens: Future of research

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams
Published in: 2025
Publisher: GESDA

Ethical Data Initiative Community Page

Author(s): Ethical Data Initiative
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo

GESDA 2026 Science Breakthrough Radar: Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator’s Annual Report on Science Trends at 5, 10, and 25 Years

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams
Published in: 2026
Publisher: GESDA

Data Shadows

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli, Jacob van der Beugel, Oliver Page
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Open Science Studies (PHIL_OS project)

Circulating Bodies: Human-Animal Movements in Science and Medicine

Author(s): Dmitriy Myelnikov, Robert G. W. Kirk, and Sabina Leonelli
Published in: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences., 2023, ISSN 1742-6316
Publisher: Springer Nature

Complexities of reuse and synthesis in the open data landscape

Author(s): Rose Trappes
Published in: SORTEE blog, 2023
Publisher: SORTEE.org

Mechanisms for transdisciplinary co-production

Author(s): Sabina Leonelli, Stefano Rimini
Published in: Septentrio Conference Series, 2025, ISSN 2387-3086
Publisher: UiT The Arctic University of Norway
DOI: 10.7557/5.7842

In Shadow: Stereotyping and Normative Frameworks

Author(s): Rena Alcalay
Published in: FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY: LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS, Issue 46th International Wittgenstein Symposium, 2025
Publisher: Austrian Ludwig Wiigenstein Society

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