OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Many Endings of Recent Epidemics: HIV/AIDS, Swine Flu 2009, and Policy	11
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History of science inCentral and Eastern Europe: Studies fromPoland, Hungary, and Croatia	7
On Tycho's Calculation of the Coordinates of Hamal, the Fundamental Star of Tycho's Catalog	6
From Seed to Seed: Material Activities and Vegetable Life in Grew's Philosophy of Botany	5
Book review: Giovanni Ciccotti, Marcello Cini, Michelangelo De Maria, & Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, The Bee and the Architect, Venice, Italy: Verum Factum, 2024, 466 pp. ISBN: 9791221036633.	5
Book review: Francesca Antonelli, Scrivere e Sperimentare: Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier, Segretaria della “Nuova Chimica” (1771–1836), Roma, Italy: Viella, 2022, 281 pp., ISBN: 97912546	5
DominiqueRaynaudEye representation and ocular terminology from antiquity to Helmholtz. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Wayenborgh. Hirschberg History of Ophthalmology—The Monographs. Volume 16, 2020, xvi	4
Nehemiah Grew and the Anatomy of Plants: The Essential Tension	4
From Private to Public (and Vice Versa): Scientific Collections in Barcelona, 1830–1880	4
Mythological Endings: John Snow (1813–1858) and the History of American Epidemiology	4
The End of Smallpox for Indigenous Peoples in the United States, 1898–1903: An Unnoticed Finale	4
Rendering Magnetism Visible: Diagrams and Experiments Between 1300 and 1700	4
Historical Epidemiology and the Single Pathogen Model of Epidemic Disease	4
Science Policy, “Strategic” Research, and Journal Papers: Exploring Their Influence on the History of the Rowett Research Institute	4
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Book review: Julia Schubert, Engineering the Climate: Science, Politics, and Visions of Control, Manchester, UK: Mattering Press, 2021, 280 pp., ISBN: 9781912729265.	3
Hayek at the Santa Fe Institute: Origins, Models, and Organization of the Cradle of Complexity Sciences	3
Rita Felski & Stephen Muecke (2020).Latour and the Humanities	3
Apricots, Plums, and Garden Beans: Reassembling Nehemiah Grew's Collection of Plants	3
When Do Epidemics End? Scientific Insights from Mathematical Modelling Studies	3
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Mapping the ESHS community: A brief summary	3
Andrew L. Jenks, Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth, New York	3
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Harvey, Eleanor Jones, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture. Lawrenceville	3
The Sphere of A nthony A scham: Sources for the earliest‐known E nglish‐lang	3
Book review: Ştefan Dorondel & Stelu Şerban (Eds.), A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press,	2
From Existential Knowledge to Experimental Practice: The Mexican Axolotl, the Paris Ménagerie, and the Epistemic Benefits of Keeping Unknown Animals, 1850–1876	2
Book review: Gustavo E. Romero, Javier Pérez-Jara, & Lino Camprubí (Eds.),  Contemporary Materialism: Its Ontology and Epistemology, New York, NY: Springer, 2022, pp. XIX + 378, ISBN: 978	2
Agustí Camós Cabeceran, La Huella de Lamarck en España en el Siglo XIX, Madrid	2
Geoff Rayner‐Canham. The periodic table: Past, present, and future. Singapore: World Scientific, 2020, 312 pp. ISBN : 9789811218484	2
“The joint labours of ingenious men”:JohnSmeaton'sRoyalSociety network and theEddystoneLighthouse	2
Book review: Javier Bandrés (Ed.), Luis Simarro y sus contemporáneos, Madrid, Spain: Academia de Psicología de España, 2022, 159 pp., ISBN: 9788418316807	2
Pandemic Histories: Making Meaning or Embedding Bromides?	2
Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2nd ed.), Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2021.	2
Disputing the Animation of the Heavens in Rome Around 1616: Between Animism and Natural Exegesis	2
Massimo Mugnai, Han Van Ruler, Martin Wilson. Leibniz: Dissertation on combinatorial art, Translated with introduction and commentary. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020, 320 pp.	2
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Paleosyndemics: A Bioarchaeological and Biosocial Approach to Study Infectious Diseases in the Past	2
Seeing Plants as Animals: Analogical Reasoning in Nehemiah Grew's Anatomy of Plants (1682)	2
Recent trends in the history of science inCroatia	2
Historiographical reflections on sciences in Europe : Perspectives from Centaurus *	2
Wolfgang Lefèvre, Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature—1450–1750, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022.	2
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Invisible Problem-Solvers in the Record of the 1919 Total Eclipse in Sobral by the British Team	2
Living in between: The commercial side of Silvanus P. Thompson 's engineering	2
From Livestock Farming to Amateur Botany in the Rio de la Plata: The Case of the Uruguayan Mariano B. Berro (1838–1919)	2
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
Book review: Sonja Brentjes (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries, London, UK: Routledge, 2023, 876 pp., ISBN	1
Centaurus: Continuing as an Open Access Journal	1
“The Last Time that We Can Say the Plague Raged”: Historicizing Epidemics	1
Book review: Pamela Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 346 pp., ISBN: 9780226817231	1
The Cosmos in Your Hand: A Note on Regiomontanus's Astrological Interests	1
Book review: Roger Smith, Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023, 56 pp., ISBN: 9781000888355	1
Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending	1
Editorial	1
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A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and London 1853	1
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Medical Anamnesis. Collecting and Recollecting the Past in Medicine	1
Measuring progress in megawatt: Colonialism, development, and the “unseeing” electricity grid inEast Africa	1
Ends and Means: Typhus in Naples, 1943–1944	1
Ursula Klein, Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750-1850	1
Nation in Pieces: The Gathering of Francisco Plancarte's Archaeological Collection in Late 19th-Century Mexico	1
“Here They Are in Flesh and Feather”: Walter Rothschild's “Private Zoo” and the Preparation and Taxonomic Study of Cassowaries	1
Book review: Patricia Fara, Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021, 288 pp., ISBN: 9780198841029.	1
Paula S. De Vos. Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain	1
The American Society for the Control of Cancer in the Portuguese Institute of Oncology'sBulletin: Rethinking nationalism	1
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Book review: Efram Sera-Shriar, Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 202	1
Promoting Meteorology in Rural Areas: Efforts to Develop Meteorology for Salt-Related Industries in the Republic of China	1
The Lab in the Museum. Or, Using New Scientific Instruments to Look at Old Scientific Instruments	1
Negotiating Theology and Medicine in the Catholic Reformation The Early Debate on Thomas Fienus's Embryologyin the Spanish Netherlands (1620–1629)	1
The Multiple Temporalities of Epidemic Endings	1

Aetiologies of Blame: Fevers, Environment, and Accountability in a War Context (France and Italy, ca. 1800)	1
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Editorial: The Present and Future of Centaurus	1
Andrea Strazzoni, Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science: From Regius to 's Gravesande	1
The material culture and politics of artifacts in nuclear diplomacy	1
Collections, Knowledge, and Time	1
History of science in Hungary: Stewardship and audience in periods of institutional and political change	1
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From Mausoleum to Living Room. Practicing Metabolic Carpentry in the Museum	1
Book review: Gilles Barroux, L'Éclectisme dans la pensée philosophique et médicales des xviii^eet xix^e siècles, Paris, France: Classiques	1
Animal Feeding, Animal Experiments, and the Zoo as a Laboratory: Paris Ménagerie and London Zoo, ca. 1793–1939: The Zoo as a Laboratory	1
A Student Notebook from 16th-Century Padua: On How Method Mediated Between Medical Theory and Practice	1
“Going ‘the Last Mile’ to Eliminate Malaria” in Myanmar?	1
Hoffenberg,Peter H. A Science of our own: Exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science	1
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Book review: Alexander S. Blum, Roberto Lalli, & Jürgen Renn (Eds.), The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context, Cham, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, 2020, x + 406 pp., ISBN: 97830305075	1
Anna Kathryn Kendrick, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth- Century Spain. Oxford	1
Mediterranean Dolphins from Miami: Knowledge and Practices in Barcelona Zoo's Aquarama (1962–1970)	1
The End of Plague in Europe	1
Book review: Gunnar Broberg (& Anna Paterson, Trans.), The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023, 484 pp., ISBN: 9780691213422.	1
Christine Proust & John Steele. Scholars and scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter 2, 2019, x + 274 pp. IS	1
Science at the Zoo: An Introduction	1
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Book review: Katherine Brading & Marius Stan, Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023, 448 pp., ISBN: 9780197678954.	1
Entangled Timelines. Crafting Types of Time Through Making Museum Specimens	1
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan Szpiech. Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures	1
Book review: Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023, 300 pp., ISBN: 9780226823287.	1