OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Centaurus 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How epidemics end	33
Global perspectives on science diplomacy: Exploring the diplomacy‐knowledge nexus in contemporary histories of science	18
Lost Green Chemistries: History of Forgotten Environmental Trajectories	8
Medical Anamnesis. Collecting and Recollecting the Past in Medicine	6
Inter‐African cooperation in the social sciences in the era of decolonization: A case of science diplomacy	6
Introduction—Up, down, round and round: Verticalities in the history of science	6
When Do Epidemics End? Scientific Insights from Mathematical Modelling Studies	5
Animal Feeding, Animal Experiments, and the Zoo as a Laboratory: Paris Ménagerie and London Zoo, ca. 1793–1939: The Zoo as a Laboratory	5
Productive marginalities: The history of science in/aboutPolandsince 1989	5
Paleosyndemics: A Bioarchaeological and Biosocial Approach to Study Infectious Diseases in the Past	4
Oil media: Changing portraits of petroleum in visual culture between theUS, Kuwait, and Switzerland	4
Technical assistance versus cultural export:George Cresseyand theU.S. Cultural Relations Programinwartime China, 1942–1946	4
Recent trends in the history of science inCroatia	4
History of science in Hungary: Stewardship and audience in periods of institutional and political change	4
Entangled Timelines. Crafting Types of Time Through Making Museum Specimens	4
Silvanus Phillips Thompson(1851–1916): An introduction to the spotlight section	4
The scientific object and material diplomacy: The shipment of radioisotopes from the United States to Japan in 1950	4
A nuclear monument the size of a football field: The diplomatic construction of soil nuclearity in the Palomares accident (Spain, 1966)	3
Thompson, Biographer	3
Materialized internationalism: How the IAEA made the Vinča Dosimetry Experiment , and how the experiment made the	3
Living in between: The commercial side of Silvanus P. Thompson 's engineering	3
Deciphering economic futures: Electricity, calculation, and the power economy, 1880–1930	3
No slaves to words:S. P. Thompson'stheory of history	3
A Matter of Dust, Powdery Fragments, and Insects. Object Temporalities Grounded in Social and Material Museum Life	3
The material culture and politics of artifacts in nuclear diplomacy	3

Scientists as political experts: Atomic scientists and their claims for expertise on international relations, 1945–1947	3
“Amany‐sidedcrystal”: Understanding the manifold legacy ofSilvanus Phillips Thompson(1851–1916)	3
Chikungunya in Brazil, an Endless Epidemic	3
Orphaned atoms: The firstMoroccan reactor and the frameworks of nuclear diplomacy	3
The seismograph as a diplomatic object: TheSoviet–American exchange of instruments,1958–1964	3
Making power visible: Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy	3
The End of Plague in Europe	3
Darwin's vertical thinking: Mountains, mobility, and the imagination in 19th‐century geology	3
Undoing Extinction: The Role of Zoos in Breeding Back the Tarpan Wild Horse, 1922–1945	2
Measuring progress in megawatt: Colonialism, development, and the “unseeing” electricity grid inEast Africa	2
“Going ‘the Last Mile’ to Eliminate Malaria” in Myanmar?	2
History of science inCentral and Eastern Europe: Studies fromPoland, Hungary, and Croatia	2
Negotiating Theology and Medicine in the Catholic Reformation The Early Debate on Thomas Fienus's Embryologyin the Spanish Netherlands (1620–1629)	2
“The Last Time that We Can Say the Plague Raged”: Historicizing Epidemics	2
How “Mexican Pathologies” Were Transformed into Objects of Exhibition: Museums of Pathological Anatomy in 19th-Century Mexico	2
How to Get into the Pouch: Solving the Riddle of the Kangaroo Birth (1826–1926)	2
Orientations and Disorientations in the History of Science How Measures Made a Difference at the Imperial Meridian	2
The Lab in the Museum. Or, Using New Scientific Instruments to Look at Old Scientific Instruments	2
From Existential Knowledge to Experimental Practice: The Mexican Axolotl, the Paris Ménagerie, and the Epistemic Benefits of Keeping Unknown Animals, 1850–1876	2
Ends and Means: Typhus in Naples, 1943–1944	2
Nation in Pieces: The Gathering of Francisco Plancarte's Archaeological Collection in Late 19th-Century Mexico	2
The Call of the Hoatzin: Ecology, Evolution, and Eugenics at the Bronx Zoo	2
Objects and Contradictions on the Move: From Private Collections to Provincial Brazilian Museums	2
On Tycho's Calculation of the Coordinates of Hamal, the Fundamental Star of Tycho's Catalog	2
Science on the edge of empire:E. A. Forsten(1811–1843) and theNatural History Committee(1820–1850) in theNetherlands Indies	2
Filling China’s Gaps. Viral Banks and Bird Collections as Museums for Pandemics	2
Centaurus : Past and Future	1
Locating the Health Hazard, Surveilling the Gecekondu: The Tuberculosis-Control Pilot Area of Zeytinburnu, Istanbul (1961–1963)	1
“The joint labours of ingenious men”:JohnSmeaton'sRoyalSociety network and theEddystoneLighthouse	1
Hoffenberg,Peter H. A Science of our own: Exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science	1
A Passport for the Metre The Diplomatic Recognition of the Metric System in a Changing International Order (1785–1799)	1
Ana Simões, Ana Matilde SousaThe global adventure of science: Einstein, Eddington and the eclipse. Lisbon, Portugal: Chili com Carne, 2019, 245 pp. ISBN: 9789898363411	1
Mythological Endings: John Snow (1813–1858) and the History of American Epidemiology	1
Science at the Zoo: An Introduction	1
Edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. The body of evidence: Corpses and proofs in Early Modern European medicine. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020, x + 355 pp. ISBN: 9789004284814	1
Andrew L. Jenks, Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth, New York	1
Andrea Strazzoni, Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science: From Regius to 's Gravesande	1
The Age of Molecular Biology	1
“Some Typically African Risks”: Safeguarding the Health of Italian Settlers During the Fascist Empire (1935–1941)	1
The Multiple Temporalities of Epidemic Endings	1
Visible winds: The production of new visibilities of wind energy inWest Germany, 1973–1991	1
This is the End: Eradicating Tuberculosis in Modern Times	1
Transforming Big Science in Belgium: Management Consultants and the Reorganization of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), 1980–1990	1
Rita Felski & Stephen Muecke (2020).Latour and the Humanities	1
Edited by Lawrence M. Principe. The transmutations of chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie royale des sciences. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2020, 464 pp. ISBN: 9780226700786	1
“The Finest in Any Museum in the World”: Collecting Pre-Conquest Antiquities in the Southern Andes, ca. 1850–1911	1
How Do Objects Enter and Exit Collections?: Exchanging Material Culture Over the Atlantic, 1920–1940	1
David P. D. Munns & Kärin Nickelsen. Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age. Pittsburgh	1
The End of Smallpox for Indigenous Peoples in the United States, 1898–1903: An Unnoticed Finale	1
Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending	1

Research, knowledge, and policy on goitre and iodine inNorway(1850–2016)	1
Mediterranean Dolphins from Miami: Knowledge and Practices in Barcelona Zoo's Aquarama (1962–1970)	1
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Lively Stasis. Care and Routine in Living Collections of Flies and Seeds	1
Ending Epidemics in Mao's China: Politics, Medical Technology, and Epidemiology	1
Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2nd ed.), Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2021.	1
Geoff Rayner‐Canham. The periodic table: Past, present, and future. Singapore: World Scientific, 2020, 312 pp. ISBN : 9789811218484	1
Information, Expertise, and Authority: The Many Ends of Epidemics	1
The Sisyphean Fate of History of Science Unmoved Scientists, Unresponsive Bureaucrats, Unimpressed Politicians	1
Carving an Origin for Mexico's Ancient Cultures: Jade Artifacts and the Question of their Provenance in 19th-Century Science	1
What was 'Newtonianism' in Enlightenment Europe?	1
Edited by Laurent Mazliak and Rossana Tazzioli, Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918-1928: Trajectories and Institutions	1
“Here They Are in Flesh and Feather”: Walter Rothschild's “Private Zoo” and the Preparation and Taxonomic Study of Cassowaries	1
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan Szpiech. Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures	1
Marco Storni, Maupertuis. Le philosophe, l'académicien, le polémiste, Paris	1
Edited by Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations	1
Scientific interactions in colonial, multilinguistic, and interreligious contexts:VenetianCrete and the manuscriptMarcianus latinusVIII.31 (2614). A preliminary	1
From Livestock Farming to Amateur Botany in the Rio de la Plata: The Case of the Uruguayan Mariano B. Berro (1838–1919)	1
The Cosmos in Your Hand: A Note on Regiomontanus's Astrological Interests	1
Collections, Knowledge, and Time	1
End of a Pandemic? Contemporary Explanations for the End of Plague in 18th‑Century England	1
Epidemics that End with a Bang	1
A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and London 1853	1
Historical Epidemiology and the Single Pathogen Model of Epidemic Disease	1
Redeeming the Past, Present, and Future	1
Ursula Klein, Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750-1850	1
Anna Kathryn Kendrick, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth- Century Spain. Oxford	1
Rendering Magnetism Visible: Diagrams and Experiments Between 1300 and 1700	1
Johan P. Mackenbach, A History of Population Health: Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe	1
Agustí Camós Cabeceran, La Huella de Lamarck en España en el Siglo XIX, Madrid	1
The dissemination of mesmerism in Germany (1784–1815): Some patterns of the circulation of knowledge	1
Harvey, Eleanor Jones, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture. Lawrenceville	1
The Many Endings of Recent Epidemics: HIV/AIDS, Swine Flu 2009, and Policy	1
Hayek at the Santa Fe Institute: Origins, Models, and Organization of the Cradle of Complexity Sciences	1
Knowing Nature by Its Surface: Butchers, Barbers, Surgeons, Gardeners, and Physicians in Early Modern Italy	1
The Never-Ending Poxes of Syphilis, AIDS, and Measles	1