OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Science is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pasteur’s lifelong engagement with the fine arts: uncovering a scientist’s passion and personality	6
The place and significance of comparative trials in German agricultural writings around 1800	5
Isaac Newton’s ‘De gravitatione et aequipondio fluidorum’: its purpose in historical context	4
A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687)	4
Geo-heliocentric models and the Society of Jesus: from Clavius’s resistance to Dechales’s Mathesis Regia	3
History of ‘temperature’: maturation of a measurement concept	3
Cambridge geneticists and the chromosome theory of inheritance: William Bateson, Leonard Doncaster and Reginald Punnett 1879–1940	3
Guillaume des Moustiers’ treatise on the armillary instrument (1264) and the practice of astronomical observation in medieval Europe	2
Celebrating the Czechoslovak atom: from ‘Atoms for Peace’ to Expo 58	2
A German physicist’s travels in Great Britain Julius Plücker’s visits from 1853 to 1866	2
Chemistry and slavery in the Scottish Enlightenment	2
Failed utopias and practical chemistry: the Priestleys, the Du Ponts, and the transmission of transatlantic science, 1770–1820	2
Scientific computing in the Cavendish Laboratory and the pioneering women computors	2
‘Revolutions, philosophical as well as civil’: French chemistry and American science in Samuel Latham Mitchill’s Medical Repository	2
Science, industry, and the German Bildungsbürgertum	2
Aurora borealis systems in the German-Russian world in the first half of the eighteenth century: the cases of Friedrich Christoph Mayer and Leonhard Euler	2
Thomas Robert Malthus, naturalist of the mind	2
New insight into the origins of the calculus war	2
Allegiance and Supremacy: Religion and the Royal Society’s 3rd Charter of 1669	1
Francis Bacon, José de Acosta, and Traditions of Natural Histories of Winds	1
The ingredients of a successful atomic exhibition in Cold War Italy	1
The M de Jussieu’s ‘mirror of the Incas’: an ecuadorian archaeological artefact in the mineralogical collection of René-Just Haüy (1743-1822)	1
Linear Programming from Fibonacci to Farkas	1
Science diplomacy on display: mobile atomic exhibitions in the cold war: Introduction to Special Issue	1
‘Ghosts from other planets’: plurality of worlds, afterlife and satire in Emanuel Swedenborg’s De Telluribus in mundo nostro solari (1758)	1

John Hill (1714?–1775) on ‘Plant Sleep’: experimental physiology and the limits of comparative analysis	1
The sense of movement. An intellectual history.	1
Atoms in the campus: Van de Graaff accelerators and the making of two major Latin American universities in 1950s Brazil and Mexico	1
Charles Darwin did not mislead Joseph Hooker in their 1881 Correspondence about Leopold von Buch and Karl Ernst von Baer	1
The photographers’ gaze: the Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America (1960–1965)	1
Newton the alchemist: science, enigma, and the quest for nature’s ‘secret fire’	1
Physico-mathematics and the life sciences: experiencing the mechanism of venous return, 1650s–1680s	1
Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks	1
From the state of nature to the state of ruins: ‘American race’ and ‘savage knowledge’ according to Carl von Martius	1
‘Enquiries on Plaister of Paris’: a material history of early agrochemical knowledge in the United States of America, 1785–1812	1
The making of John Tyndall's Darwinian Revolution	1
Counting human chromosomes before 1960: preconceptions, perceptions and predilections	1
Alchemical and Paracelsian ideas in the Arte de los Metales	1
The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume II: The Opticks and Related Papers ca. 1688–1717	1
Observations on Niccolò Tornioli’s The Astronomers	1
On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on plague	1
From influence to inhabitation: the transformation of astrobiology in the early modern period	1
Medicine in ancient Assur, a microhistorical study of the Neo-Assyrian healer Kiṣir-Assur. Ancient magic and divination 18	1
Monteiro da Rocha and the international debate in the 1760s on astronomical methods to find the longitude at sea: his proposals and criticisms to Lacaille’s lunar-distance method	1
A new history of greek mathematics	1
The Harvest of Optics: Descartes, Mydorge, and their paths to a theory of refraction	1
A mestizo cosmographer in the New Kingdom of Granada: astronomy and chronology in Sánchez de Cozar Guanientá’s Tratado (c.1696)	1
Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and classification of complexions in 14th-century Italian medicine	1
Astrology in the crossfire: the stormy debate after the comet of 1577	1
Renaissance medicine: a short history of European medicine in the sixteenth century	1
Establishing an experimental agenda at the Accademia del Cimento: Carlo Rinaldini’s book lists	1