OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal for the History of Astronomy 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Six hundred calendar makers	8
Thirty years of the HST	7
Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology	6
Corrigendum to ‘The Heliocentric Path of the Moon’	5
A new edition and translation of Pico’s Disputationes	3
Gerard of Cremona’s Latin translation of the Almagest and the revision of tables	2
Prediction and politics in Beijing, 1668: A Jesuit astronomer and his technical resources in a time of crisis	2
East or Easter? Keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the Way of Saint James	2
Twentieth-century milestones in the history of the Russian ephemeris service: Marking 100 years of the Calculation Institute and astronomical yearbook	2
Indicating hours in ancient cultures	2
Abū Ma‛šar’s astrological classic in English	2
Obstacles encountered by four major European astronomical observatories belonging to academies in the 18th century	2
The coolest book cover ever	2
Astronomy in service of the nation	2
Actors, networks and scientific instruments at the Bureau des longitudes	2
A definitive survey of Iberian and Maghribī astronomy	2
Algol anomaly or careful observations of its brightness? The values recorded for the magnitude of Algol in the medieval astronomical corpus	2
Astronomical and astrological diagrams from cuneiform sources	2
The astronomy of Tawantinsuyu	2
Medieval Structures of Astrology	1
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging	1
The Greek portable sundial from Memphis rediscovered	1
The bizarre history of the astrological vault “El Cielo de Salamanca”	1
Late Babylonian astronomy and astrology	1
Maurolico, Rheticus, and the Birth of the Secant Function	1

Erratum to ‘A Reading Guide for Bruno’s On the Infinite’	1
Ad astra per aspera: From the Sewers of Kansas to Harvard College Observatory	1
From biblical chronology to criticism of astrology	1
The manuscript diagrams of Theodosios’ Spherics	1
Two biographies of Vera Rubin	1
The total eclipse of the sun of July 29, AD1478, in contemporary Spanish documents	1
Photographing Indian observatories	1
Time in Pre-Columbian America	1
Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri	1
Accuracy of eclipse records in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	1
‘Excellentissimo tubo Dollondiana’: The Stockholm Observatory’s 10-foot Dollond achromatic refractor	1
A survey of Arabic astrolabe makers	1
Celebrating the Centenary of the IAU	1
Gauging the Herschels’ star gauging programme	1
On the chronology of the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos: Analysis of the astronomical evidence	1
The Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini: Century-old Echoes of Kepler	1
Spectrographic observations of the ionized iron coronal emission lines at Pic du Midi Observatory (F) in the mid-60s	1
Rome and the total solar eclipse of BC188 July 17: Apology	1
The Tychonic Method for Calculating the Ratio between the Eccentricities of Mars	1
Landscape, orientation and celestial phenomena on the ‘Coast of Death’ of NW Iberia	1
Editor’s Note: Hipparchus’s Methods of Calculation	1
John L. Heilbron, 1934–2023	1
Investigating calendrical methods of calculating sunrise and sunset times in the Shixian calendar	1
Training early modern navigators	1
Peurbach’s influential textbook	1
The book everybody read	1
Aristotle on the celestial spheres	1
Two editions of an Italian translation of Ps.-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium	1
John of Lignères as a table compiler	1
The Long Legacy of Ptolemy	1
On the demotic-hieratic horoscopes from Athribis	1
Myth and meteorology	1
Time-keeping devices and astronomy	1
A much richer idea of modernity	1
INDEX TO VOLUME 52	1
Owen Gingerich, 1930–2023	1
An inside story of the NRAO	1
A new series on Alfonsine astronomy	1
Late Byzantine astronomy	1
John Harrison’s clockmaking science	1
Laplace in America	1
Madeira: 300 years of an astronomical site	1
An Introduction to English Calendars	1
BM 47886+47914, a Babylonian astral compendium with possible implications for the origin of the “year of the Sun”	1
Astronomical handbooks in 16th-century South Asia: Analysis of mean planetary motions in the 1520 Graha-lāghava of Gaṇeśa Daivajña	1
Machines for representing the cosmos	1
Kepler’s struggle with the problem of force obstruction	1
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	1
Paul Kunitzsch (1930–2020)	1