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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“Frank Antagonism to Patterned Organization”: Medical Technology, Professional Power, and the Development of US Medical Device Regulation, 1950-1976	12
A Disputed Hegemony: Negotiating Neurosurgical Patient Care in the Netherlands, 1930–1952	7
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT, Elena Conis	7
The Plague Doctor’s Parody: Ridiculing François Chicoyneau during the Great Plague of Marseille, 1720–1722	6
David Carey Jr., Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador	6
The Child Surgical Patient in the Early Twentieth Century	6
Which Stranger’s Disease? Immigration, Immunization, and the Whitening of Cuba in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions	6
“They Perished in the Cause of Science”: Justus von Liebig’s Food for Infants	4
Making Sense: Markets from Stories in New Breast Cancer Therapeutics, Sophie Mützel	4
A Rat’s Progress: Plague and the “Migratory Rat” in British India, 1896-1899	4
Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine Anne Kveim Lie, Jeremy A. Greene, and Warwick Anderson, ed	3
Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency Christian Warren	3
A Comparative History of Painless Childbirth in China: From Psychoprophylactic Method to the Lamaze Method	3
“Pandemics know no borders,” but Responses to Pandemics Do: Global Health, COVID-19, and Latin America	3
Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean	3
Out of Breath: Toward a New Origin Story of Public Health	3
“Conscientious Guardian” vs. “Commercialized Jungle”: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Design in the Postwar United States	3
Contagious Vibrations: Sympathetic Resonance as a Model for Disease Transmission in the Writings of Ficino, Fracastoro, and Cardano	2
The Great Inoculator: The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution, Gavin Weightman	2
Reimagining Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Global Frame: Toward a Social and Conceptual History Anne M. Lovell and Gerald M. Oppenheimer	2
Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization. Harry Yi-Jui Wu	2
Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic, Sarah E. Naramore	2
Furry, Feral, Foe: Temporalizing Heath and Invasion on an English Chalk Stream	2
Politics, Techno-Science, and the Environment: The Late Twentieth-Century Challenges of Locust Control in Post-Colonial Southern Africa	2
Anesthesia in Victorian Canada: surgical accidents, risk, and safety	2

Physiology, Vitalism, and the Contest for Body and Soul in the Antebellum United States	2
Spatial Relevance: Teaching History to Medical Students at a Medical Museum in Hong Kong	2
“The Shrinking Heart”: The Pathologies of Sadness in Medieval and Early Modern Culture	2
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab and Terence Keel	2
Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain, Christine Slobogin	1
The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteen-Century Britain. Agnes Arnold-Forster	1
Building Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician, Katherine L. Carroll	1
Looking Through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement, Judith A. Houck	1
Do I Know You? From Face Blindness to Super Recognition , Sharrona Pearl	1
To Discipline or to Cure? Medical Authority and the Ethics of Care in the German Democratic Republic, 1960s–1980s	1
Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital, César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero	1
These “Children Won’t Become Women”: Depo-Provera, Intellectual Disability, and the Indian Health Service	1
Re-Writing Pandemic Histories: Introduction	1
Christina Ramos, Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment	1
Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c. 1922-92, Laura Kelly	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
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, Andrew Scull	1
Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World Poonam Bala and Russel Viljoen, ed	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
Regendering Childbirth: Catholicism, Medical Activism, and Birth Preparation in Post-War Poland	1
Silences and Omissions in Reporting Epidemics in Russian and Soviet Prisons, 1890-2021	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
Fevered Cities: A History of Dengue Epidemics Randall M. Packard	1
The Religious Dimensions of Epidemic Disease: Cholera, the Ghost Rite, and Missionary Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Korea	1
Children, Sexual Abuse and the Emotions of the Community Health Practitioner in England and Wales, 1970-2000	1
“A microcosm of every other issue”: How Social Workers Recognized and Responded to the Needs of HIV-affected Families with Children in Britain, 1981-1997	1
History of Medicine in the Clerkships: A Novel Model for Integrating Medicine and History	1
Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets, Stefan Ecks	1