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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Face Transplants: An International History	25
Underground and Over the Sea: More Community Prophylactics in Europe, 1100-1600	6
Historical Origins of the Personal Belief Exemption to Vaccination Mandates: The View from California	5
Arbovirology and Cold War Collaborations: A Transnational History of the Tick-borne Encephalitis Vaccine, 1930-1980	4
Raising Boys for the Navy: Health, Welfare, and the British Sea Services, 1870-1905	4
Michael Bennett, War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination	4
Puer barbatus: Precocious Puberty in Early Modern Medicine	3
Diagnostic Uncertainty, Microbes, and the Isolation of People with Cystic Fibrosis	3
The Death of Sodium Pentothal: The Rise and Fall of an Anesthetic Turned Lethal	3
The Comeback of the IUD in Twenty-First Century USA	3
Clinical Applications of the History of Medicine in Muslim-Majority Nations	2
No Coming Back to Sick Society: The Emergence of New Drug User Segment in the Järvenpää Social Hospital in Finland, 1965–1975	2
Visualizing BDSM and AIDS Activism: Archiving Pleasures, Sanitizing History	2
Screening as Governmental Technology: The Nationwide Collection of Mental Health Data on Students in South Korea	2
A Scientific Method to the Madness of Unit 731’s Human Experimentation and Biological Warfare Program	2
Medicine, Religion, and the Humanitarian Ethos: Walter B. Cannon, Unitarianism, and the Care of Spanish Republican Refugees in France	2
Changing Psychiatry or Changing Society? The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” in Greece, 1980-1990	2
Wheels of Injustice: How Medical Schools Retained the Power to Discriminate Against Applicants in Wheelchairs in the Era of Disability Rights	2
Crimes of Passion and Psychiatry in Early Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
Frank M. Snowden. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present	2
Cyber Solace: Historicizing an Online Forum for Patients with Depression, 1990-1999	2
Remaking the Case for History in Medical Education	2
Fighting a Plague: Doctors' Stories of Challenge and Innovation Combatting the AIDS Epidemic in 1980s New York City	2
Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia, ed., Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550	1
Marga Vicedo. Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother	1

The “oldest and the newest of nurses”: Nursing and the Professionalization of Obstetrics and Gynecology	1
Clio in the Operating Theatre: Historical Research, Emotional Health, and Surgical Training in Contemporary Britain	1
Kathleen Bachynski. No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis.	1
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil	1
Christopher Milnes. A History of Euphoria: The Perception and Misperception of Health and Well-Being	1
Hannah Murphy. A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg.	1
Erika Dyck and Maureen K. Lux, Challenging Choices: Canada’s Population Control in the 1970s	1
Poonam Bala, ed., Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub Saharan Africa	1
Courtney E. Thompson, An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America	1
Lisa T. Sarasohn, Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin	1
David Herzberg. White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America	1
“The Noblest Roman of them all?” Professional versus Popular Views of America’s Country Doctors	1
Dolores Martín Moruno and Beatriz Pichel, ed., Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions	1
Jennifer L. Holland, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement	1
Making Endemic Goiter an American Disease, 1800-1820	1
Nadja Durbach. Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State	1
Anne Harrington, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness	1
Rene Almeling, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health	1
Silences and Omissions in Reporting Epidemics in Russian and Soviet Prisons, 1890-2021	1
Aro Velmet. Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World	1
The Medicalization of the Transsexual: Patient-Physician Narratives in the First Half of the Twentieth Century	1
Robin Wolfe Scheffler. A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine	1
Quantifying Sexual Constitution: Abraham Myerson's Endocrine Study of Male Homosexuality, 1938-1942	1
Mary Augusta Brazelton, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China	1
Katherine A. Foss, Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory	1
Paula S. De Vos, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain	1
Professional Jurisdictions and Intraprofessional Identity Dynamics: Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine and the Doctors of General Medicine	1
Operative Innovation and Surgical Conservatism in Twentieth-Century Ulcer Surgery	1
The Human Factor: Psychotherapy and the Reign of Technology	1
From the Ancient Myth of the Caesars to the Medieval and Renaissance Tradition: The Practice of Caesarean Section in De universa mulierum medicina by Rodrigo de Castro	1
David Alan Johnson, Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania	1
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914	1
Hidden Curriculum and Politicization of Medical Students in the Late Ottoman Empire	1
The Professors’ Professor: The American Students of August Krogh	1
Esyllt Jones. Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Healthcare in Canada	1
Making and Unmaking a “Bactericidal” Organism: Sterile Surgical Maggots and Organic Antiseptics in Inter-War America	1
Solveig Jülich and Sven Widmalm, ed, Communicating the History of Medicine: Perspectives on Audiences and Impact	1
The Editors of Scientific Journals in Dentistry in Nazi Germany and after 1945: A Sociodemographic Study	1
Kevin Siena, Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain	1
Jennifer L. Derr. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt	1
Change Your Face, Change Your Life? Prison Plastic Surgery as a Way to Reduce Recidivism	1
Jaipreet Virdi, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History	1
The Economic Rationality of Religious-Based Medical Abstinence in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of Philadelphia’s Faith Tabernacle Congregation	1
Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909	1
María Jesús Santesmases. The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority	1
The Tyranny of Distance: The Treatment and Prevention of Diphtheria in Middle Canada, 1894-1920	1
Chris S. Duvall, The African Roots of Marijuana	1
Pricing Retrovir: Wellcome PLC and the Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in the Global AIDS Crisis, 1986 to 1991	1
Jeffrey Womack, Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century	1