OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Anne Pollock, Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States	11
A Disputed Hegemony: Negotiating Neurosurgical Patient Care in the Netherlands, 1930–1952	5
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT, Elena Conis	4
“Frank Antagonism to Patterned Organization”: Medical Technology, Professional Power, and the Development of US Medical Device Regulation, 1950-1976	4
The Child Surgical Patient in the Early Twentieth Century	4
Michele Rotunda, A Drunkard’s Defense: Alcohol, Murder, and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America	3
Out of Breath: Toward a New Origin Story of Public Health	3
Slavery, Health, and Healing Now: The State of the Field	3
Making Sense: Markets from Stories in New Breast Cancer Therapeutics, Sophie Mützel	3
James F. Stark, The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain	3
Which Stranger’s Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions	3
David T. Courtwright, The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business	3
“Pandemics know no borders,” but Responses to Pandemics Do: Global Health, COVID-19, and Latin America	2
“Conscientious Guardian” vs. “Commercialized Jungle”: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Design in the Postwar United States	2
The Tyranny of Distance: The Treatment and Prevention of Diphtheria in Middle Canada, 1894-1920	2
Dolores Martín Moruno and Beatriz Pichel, ed., Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions	2
Jacob Steere-Williams, The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England	2
A Rat’s Progress: Plague and the “Migratory Rat” in British India, 1896-1899	2
Contagious Vibrations: Sympathetic Resonance as a Model for Disease Transmission in the Writings of Ficino, Fracastoro, and Cardano	2
Physiology, Vitalism, and the Contest for Body and Soul in the Antebellum United States	2
“They Perished in the Cause of Science”: Justus von Liebig’s Food for Infants	2
A Comparative History of Painless Childbirth in China: From Psychoprophylactic Method to the Lamaze Method	2
Dan Royles, To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS	2
Politics, Techno-Science, and the Environment: The Late Twentieth-Century Challenges of Locust Control in Post-Colonial Southern Africa	2
Spatial Relevance: Teaching History to Medical Students at a Medical Museum in Hong Kong	1

Making Medical History Relevant to Medical Students: The First Fifty Years of the Calgary History of Medicine Program and History of Medicine Days Conferences	1
The Great Inoculator: The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution, Gavin Weightman	1
Judith Farquhar. A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine	1
Christina Ramos, Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment	1
Regendering Childbirth: Catholicism, Medical Activism, and Birth Preparation in Post-War Poland	1
Christopher Milnes. A History of Euphoria: The Perception and Misperception of Health and Well-Being	1
Prescribing Information: Elizabeth B. Connell, the Pill, and the (Woman) Patient’s Peace of Mind	1
At the Limits of Cure. Bharat Jayram Venkat	1
Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets, Stefan Ecks	1
Zhou Xun, The People’s Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China, 1949-1983	1
The Religious Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Cholera, the Ghost Rite, and Missionary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Korea	1
Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement, Judith A. Houck	1
Tara Nummedal. Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany.	1
Solveig Jülich and Sven Widmalm, ed, Communicating the History of Medicine: Perspectives on Audiences and Impact	1
“The Shrinking Heart”: The Pathologies of Sadness in Medieval and Early Modern Culture	1
Manuel Barcia, The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade	1
Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic, Sarah E. Naramore	1
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel	1
Silences and Omissions in Reporting Epidemics in Russian and Soviet Prisons, 1890-2021	1
In COVID Times: Scholars of Health and Medicine Meet Disaster Studies	1
Utopia of Safe Air: How Soviet Research Challenged Western Air Quality Norms, 1950s-1960s	1
Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital, César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero	1
Children, Sexual Abuse and the Emotions of the Community Health Practitioner in England and Wales, 1970-2000	1
The Influential Influenza: The “Russian Catarrh” Pandemic of 1781-1782	1
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, Andrew Scull	1
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician, Katherine L. Carroll	1
Cyber Solace: Historicizing an Online Forum for Patients with Depression, 1990-1999	1
Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s. Natalie Lira	1
Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization. Harry Yi-Jui Wu	1
Re-Writing Pandemic Histories: Introduction	1
Furry, Feral, Foe: Temporalizing Heath and Invasion on an English Chalk Stream	1
The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteen-Century Britain. Agnes Arnold-Forster	1
Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity, Wei Yu and Wayne Tan	1
Paula S. De Vos, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain	1
Safe Sex and the Debate over Condoms on Campus in the 1980s: Sperm Busters at Harvard and Protection Connection at the University of Texas at Austin	1
Remaking the Case for History in Medical Education	1
Professional Jurisdictions and Intraprofessional Identity Dynamics: Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine and the Doctors of General Medicine	1
Jennifer L. Holland, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement	1
Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922-92, Laura Kelly	1
History of Medicine in the Clerkships: A Novel Model for Integrating Medicine and History	1
Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939	1