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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Face Transplants: An International History	22
Underground and Over the Sea: More Community Prophylactics in Europe, 1100-1600	6
Michael Bennett, War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination	4
Historical Origins of the Personal Belief Exemption to Vaccination Mandates: The View from California	4
Raising Boys for the Navy: Health, Welfare, and the British Sea Services, 1870-1905	3
Editorial – News About the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences	3
Verification and Utility in the Arabic Commentaries on the Canon of Medicine: Examples from the Works of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210) and Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288)	3
The Comeback of the IUD in Twenty-First Century USA	3
The Death of Sodium Pentothal: The Rise and Fall of an Anesthetic Turned Lethal	3
A Note on Semmelweis’s Animal Experiments and Their Historical Significance	3
Clinical Applications of the History of Medicine in Muslim-Majority Nations	2
Diagnostic Uncertainty, Microbes, and the Isolation of People with Cystic Fibrosis	2
No Coming Back to Sick Society: The Emergence of New Drug User Segment in the Järvenpää Social Hospital in Finland, 1965–1975	2
Crimes of Passion and Psychiatry in Early Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
Fighting a Plague: Doctors' Stories of Challenge and Innovation Combatting the AIDS Epidemic in 1980s New York City	2
Changing Psychiatry or Changing Society? The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” in Greece, 1980-1990	2
Cyber Solace: Historicizing an Online Forum for Patients with Depression, 1990-1999	2
“Physician’s prescriptions accurately prepared” - The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prescription Books of Four Gloucester Chemists	2
Frank M. Snowden. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present	2
Medicine, Religion, and the Humanitarian Ethos: Walter B. Cannon, Unitarianism, and the Care of Spanish Republican Refugees in France	2
Rob Boddice, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914	1
Chris S. Duvall, The African Roots of Marijuana	1
Robin Wolfe Scheffler. A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine	1
Hidden Curriculum and Politicization of Medical Students in the Late Ottoman Empire	1
Aro Velmet. Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World	1

Wendy Gonaver. The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880	1
Jennifer L. Derr. The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt	1
Remaking the Case for History in Medical Education	1
Ross W. Halpin. Jewish Doctors and the Holocaust: The Anatomy of Survival in Auschwitz	1
Mary Augusta Brazelton, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China	1
The Medicalization of the Transsexual: Patient-Physician Narratives in the First Half of the Twentieth Century	1
Paula S. De Vos, Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain	1
Quantifying Sexual Constitution: Abraham Myerson's Endocrine Study of Male Homosexuality, 1938-1942	1
The “oldest and the newest of nurses”: Nursing and the Professionalization of Obstetrics and Gynecology	1
David Herzberg. White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America	1
Puer barbatus: Precocious Puberty in Early Modern Medicine	1
Claire E. Edington. Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam	1
Katherine A. Foss, Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory	1
Pricing Retrovir: Wellcome PLC and the Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in the Global AIDS Crisis, 1986 to 1991	1
Professional Jurisdictions and Intraprofessional Identity Dynamics: Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine and the Doctors of General Medicine	1
Jeffrey Womack, Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century	1
Lisa T. Sarasohn, Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin	1
Nicolás Fernández-Medina. Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity	1
Emily Baum. The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China	1
Deborah Blythe Doroshow. Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children	1
Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia, ed., Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550	1
Rene Almeling, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health	1
Marga Vicedo. Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother	1
Christopher Milnes. A History of Euphoria: The Perception and Misperception of Health and Well-Being	1
Esyllt Jones. Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Healthcare in Canada	1
MEDICINE AND COLONIAL PATENT LAW IN INDIA: A Study of Patent Medicines and the Indian Patents and Designs Act, 1911 in Early- Twentieth-Century India	1
Marcos Cueto, Theodore M. Brown, and Elizabeth Fee. The World Health Organization: A History	1
Solveig Jülich and Sven Widmalm, ed, Communicating the History of Medicine: Perspectives on Audiences and Impact	1
Jaipreet Virdi, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History	1
Kevin Siena, Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain	1
The Professors’ Professor: The American Students of August Krogh	1
Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909	1
Change Your Face, Change Your Life? Prison Plastic Surgery as a Way to Reduce Recidivism	1
A Scientific Method to the Madness of Unit 731’s Human Experimentation and Biological Warfare Program	1
Poonam Bala, ed., Medicine and Colonial Engagements in India and Sub Saharan Africa	1
Dolores Martín Moruno and Beatriz Pichel, ed., Emotional Bodies: The Historical Performativity of Emotions	1
María Jesús Santesmases. The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority	1
Jennifer L. Holland, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement	1
The Economic Rationality of Religious-Based Medical Abstinence in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of Philadelphia’s Faith Tabernacle Congregation	1
Making Endemic Goiter an American Disease, 1800-1820	1
Katie Kilroy-Marac. An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic	1
Maria Böhmer, The Man Who Crucified Himself: Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe	1
National Socialist Medical Literature and the Censorship Practices in the Soviet Occupation Zone and Early East German State	1
Kathleen Bachynski. No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis.	1
Nadja Durbach. Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State	1
Making and Unmaking a “Bactericidal” Organism: Sterile Surgical Maggots and Organic Antiseptics in Inter-War America	1
Anne Harrington, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness	1
Wheels of Injustice: How Medical Schools Retained the Power to Discriminate Against Applicants in Wheelchairs in the Era of Disability Rights	1
The Editors of Scientific Journals in Dentistry in Nazi Germany and after 1945: A Sociodemographic Study	1
Peter Ward. The Clean Body: A Modern History	1

Erika Dyck and Maureen K. Lux, Challenging Choices: Canada’s Population Control in the 1970s	1
Cassia Roth, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil	1
Courtney E. Thompson, An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America	1
Hannah Murphy. A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg.	1
Arbovirology and Cold War Collaborations: A Transnational History of the Tick-borne Encephalitis Vaccine, 1930-1980	1
The Case Against the Doctors: Gender, Authority, and Critical Science Writing in the 1960s	1
Newtonian medicine and its influence in José Celestino Mutis’s General Plan for Medical Studies	1
The Tyranny of Distance: The Treatment and Prevention of Diphtheria in Middle Canada, 1894-1920	1
Jacalyn Duffin. Stanley's Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island	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
“The Noblest Roman of them all?” Professional versus Popular Views of America’s Country Doctors	1
David Alan Johnson, Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania	1
The Human Factor: Psychotherapy and the Reign of Technology	1
Changing Expectation: Prenatal Care and the Creation of Healthy Pregnancy	1
Lee Vinsel. Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States	1
Visualizing BDSM and AIDS Activism: Archiving Pleasures, Sanitizing History	1