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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Changing Psychiatry or Changing Society? The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” in Greece, 1980-1990	25
A Disputed Hegemony: Negotiating Neurosurgical Patient Care in the Netherlands, 1930–1952	5
“Frank Antagonism to Patterned Organization”: Medical Technology, Professional Power, and the Development of US Medical Device Regulation, 1950-1976	4
Anne Pollock, Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States	4
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT, Elena Conis	3
Slavery, Health, and Healing Now: The State of the Field	3
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
David T. Courtwright, The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business	2
The Child Surgical Patient in the Early Twentieth Century	2
Michele Rotunda, A Drunkard’s Defense: Alcohol, Murder, and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America	2
A Rat’s Progress: Plague and the “Migratory Rat” in British India, 1896-1899	2
Jacob Steere-Williams, The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England	2
“Pandemics know no borders,” but Responses to Pandemics Do: Global Health, COVID-19, and Latin America	2
James F. Stark, The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain	2
Which Stranger’s Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions	2
“They Perished in the Cause of Science”: Justus von Liebig’s Food for Infants	2
Paulo Drinot. The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s	2
“Conscientious Guardian” vs. “Commercialized Jungle”: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Design in the Postwar United States	2
Making Sense: Markets from Stories in New Breast Cancer Therapeutics, Sophie Mützel	2
Out of Breath: Toward a New Origin Story of Public Health	2
Dan Royles, To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS	2
Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity, Wei Yu and Wayne Tan	1
Utopia of Safe Air: How Soviet Research Challenged Western Air Quality Norms, 1950s-1960s	1
Paula S. De Vos, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain	1

Cyber Solace: Historicizing an Online Forum for Patients with Depression, 1990-1999	1
Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets, Stefan Ecks	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
Regendering Childbirth: Catholicism, Medical Activism, and Birth Preparation in Post-War Poland	1
Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939	1
Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s. Natalie Lira	1
Spatial Relevance: Teaching History to Medical Students at a Medical Museum in Hong Kong	1
Re-Writing Pandemic Histories: Introduction	1
Furry, Feral, Foe: Temporalizing Heath and Invasion on an English Chalk Stream	1
Physiology, Vitalism, and the Contest for Body and Soul in the Antebellum United States	1
Christina Ramos, Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment	1
The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteen-Century Britain. Agnes Arnold-Forster	1
“So delightful a temporary home”: The Material Culture of Domesticity in Late Nineteenth-century English Convalescent Institutions	1
Frank M. Snowden. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present	1
Professional Jurisdictions and Intraprofessional Identity Dynamics: Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine and the Doctors of General Medicine	1
Children, Sexual Abuse and the Emotions of the Community Health Practitioner in England and Wales, 1970-2000	1
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, Andrew Scull	1
Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement, Judith A. Houck	1
History of Medicine in the Clerkships: A Novel Model for Integrating Medicine and History	1
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician, Katherine L. Carroll	1
Making Endemic Goiter an American Disease, 1800-1820	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
Politics, Techno-Science, and the Environment: The Late Twentieth-Century Challenges of Locust Control in Post-Colonial Southern Africa	1
Solveig Jülich and Sven Widmalm, ed, Communicating the History of Medicine: Perspectives on Audiences and Impact	1
Nadja Durbach. Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State	1
Remaking the Case for History in Medical Education	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
The Influential Influenza: The “Russian Catarrh” Pandemic of 1781-1782	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
Zhou Xun, The People’s Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China, 1949-1983	1
At the Limits of Cure. Bharat Jayram Venkat	1
The Religious Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Cholera, the Ghost Rite, and Missionary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Korea	1
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel	1
Tara Nummedal. Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany.	1
The Death of Sodium Pentothal: The Rise and Fall of an Anesthetic Turned Lethal	1
Silences and Omissions in Reporting Epidemics in Russian and Soviet Prisons, 1890-2021	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
Contagious Vibrations: Sympathetic Resonance as a Model for Disease Transmission in the Writings of Ficino, Fracastoro, and Cardano	1
Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization. Harry Yi-Jui Wu	1