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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Anne Pollock, Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States	12
“Frank Antagonism to Patterned Organization”: Medical Technology, Professional Power, and the Development of US Medical Device Regulation, 1950-1976	6
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT, Elena Conis	5
Which Stranger’s Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions	4
The Child Surgical Patient in the Early Twentieth Century	4
The Plague Doctor’s Parody: Ridiculing François Chicoyneau during the Great Plague of Marseille, 1720–1722	4
A Disputed Hegemony: Negotiating Neurosurgical Patient Care in the Netherlands, 1930–1952	4
“They Perished in the Cause of Science”: Justus von Liebig’s Food for Infants	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
David Carey Jr., Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador	3
“Pandemics know no borders,” but Responses to Pandemics Do: Global Health, COVID-19, and Latin America	3
Michele Rotunda, A Drunkard’s Defense: Alcohol, Murder, and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America	3
A Comparative History of Painless Childbirth in China: From Psychoprophylactic Method to the Lamaze Method	2
Dolores Martín Moruno and Beatriz Pichel, ed., Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions	2
The Tyranny of Distance: The Treatment and Prevention of Diphtheria in Middle Canada, 1894-1920	2
A Rat’s Progress: Plague and the “Migratory Rat” in British India, 1896-1899	2
Dan Royles, To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS	2
Jacob Steere-Williams, The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England	2
David T. Courtwright, The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business	2
Out of Breath: Toward a New Origin Story of Public Health	2
“Conscientious Guardian” vs. “Commercialized Jungle”: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Design in the Postwar United States	2
History of Medicine in the Clerkships: A Novel Model for Integrating Medicine and History	1
Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s. Natalie Lira	1
The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteen-Century Britain. Agnes Arnold-Forster	1

Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922-92, Laura Kelly	1
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel	1
Judith Farquhar. A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine	1
Spatial Relevance: Teaching History to Medical Students at a Medical Museum in Hong Kong	1
Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic, Sarah E. Naramore	1
Zhou Xun, The People’s Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China, 1949-1983	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
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician, Katherine L. Carroll	1
Do I Know You? From Face Blindness to Super Recognition , Sharrona Pearl	1
Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939	1
Cyber Solace: Historicizing an Online Forum for Patients with Depression, 1990-1999	1
Silences and Omissions in Reporting Epidemics in Russian and Soviet Prisons, 1890-2021	1
Re-Writing Pandemic Histories: Introduction	1
Manuel Barcia, The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade	1
Politics, Techno-Science, and the Environment: The Late Twentieth-Century Challenges of Locust Control in Post-Colonial Southern Africa	1
Physiology, Vitalism, and the Contest for Body and Soul in the Antebellum United States	1
The Great Inoculator: The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution, Gavin Weightman	1
Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement, Judith A. Houck	1
The Religious Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Cholera, the Ghost Rite, and Missionary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Korea	1
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, Andrew Scull	1
Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity, Wei Yu and Wayne Tan	1
The Influential Influenza: The “Russian Catarrh” Pandemic of 1781-1782	1
“The Shrinking Heart”: The Pathologies of Sadness in Medieval and Early Modern Culture	1
Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization. Harry Yi-Jui Wu	1
Contagious Vibrations: Sympathetic Resonance as a Model for Disease Transmission in the Writings of Ficino, Fracastoro, and Cardano	1
Furry, Feral, Foe: Temporalizing Heath and Invasion on an English Chalk Stream	1
Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean	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