OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical History 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
Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)	14
Making the medical mask: surgery, bacteriology, and the control of infection (1870s–1920s)	4
Ca’ Granda, an avant-garde hospital between the Renaissance and Modern age: a unique scenario in European history	4
Medicine and the critique of war: military psychiatry, social classification and the malingering patient in colonial India	3
Disease in a Debt Crisis: Financing Global Health, Development and AIDS between WHO and World Bank, 1978–87	3
Reasonable Grounds? The Delayed Introduction of MMR Vaccine in Denmark and the Netherlands, 1977–87	3
In search of lost fleas: reconsidering Paul-Louis Simond’s contribution to the study of the propagation of plague	2
Medical Bacteriology and Medical Genetics, 1880–1940: A Call for Synthesis	2
Between colonial medicine and global health: protein malnutrition and UNICEF milk in the Belgian Congo	2
Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–1960	2
‘A transverse scar on the neck’ – psychosomatic approach in the differential diagnosis and surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism in post-war Finland	2
Radium traffic: radiation, science and spiritualism in early twentieth-century Japan	2
Tibetan medicine with respect to increased attention to the east in Russian society: The second half of the nineteenth century to early twentieth century	2
The Amphibious Nature of AIDS Activism: Medical Professionals and Gay and Lesbian Communities in Norway, 1975–87	2
Between trust and violence: medical encounters under Japanese military occupation during the War in China (1937–1945)	2
Warfare and the launch of medical reform in Britain, 1793–1811	2
The ‘new era in medicine’: John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine	1
Sex work, containment and the new discourse of public health in French colonial Levant	1
Progressive Entanglements? Activity Profiles, Responsibilities and Interactions of Dentists at Auschwitz. The Example of 2nd SS Dentist Willi Schatz	1
Assessing the conduct of juveniles: diagnosis and delinquency, 1900–2013	1
Negotiating South–South cooperation for mental health: the World Health Organization and the African Mental Health Action Group, 1970s–90s	1
The complexities of postcolonial international health: Karl Evang in India 1953	1
Logic, geometry and visualisation of the body in Acquapendente’s rediscovered Methodus anatomica (1579)	1
A great race of drinkers? Irish interpretations of alcoholism and drinking stereotypes, 1945–1975	1
Falling from horses: medical controversy in early eighteenth-century England	1

Lust for life: coping with tuberculosis in late nineteenth-century Europe	1
‘Pearls’ of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire	1
Total prevention: a history of schistosomiasis in Japan	1
The making of the ‘useless and pathological’ uterus in Taiwan, 1960s to 1990s	1
Franco-British responses to chemical warfare 1915–8, with special reference to the medical services, casualty statistics and the threat to civilians	1
Psychiatry, psychology and homosexual prisoners in New Zealand, 1910–1960	1
‘I have been obliged to Send Nassaw’: an enslaved healer’s medical labour and skill in eighteenth-century Virginia	1
The skeletal effects of congenital syphilis: the case of Parrot’s bones	1
Cholera, British seamen and maritime anxieties in Calcutta, c.1830s–1890s ‘The William Bynum Prize Essay’	1
Health care and the spread of medical knowledge in the Portuguese empire, particularly the Estado da Índia (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)	1
Doctors, families and the industry in the clinic: the management of ‘intersex’ children in Swiss paediatric medicine (1945–1970)	1
Negotiating medical services in the Madras Presidency: the subordinate perspectives (1882–1935)	1
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England	1
Work, marriage and premature birth: the socio-medicalisation of pregnancy in state socialist East-Central Europe	1
Attending the birth: competition for obstetrical training by medical students and midwives in nineteenth-century France	1
Fluid deafness: earwax and hardness of hearing in early modern Europe	1