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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
On the Heart of the Hippocratic Corpus: its meaning, context and purpose	8
Pioneers in pathology and female role models: the Jewish scientists Rahel Rodler, Ruth Silberberg, Lotte Strauss and Zelma Wessely	7
Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period	7
In defence of medical judgement: medicalisation strategies in the daily life of the Lima Asylum in the last third of the 19th century	6
Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots	6
Response to: Reflections on ‘Have we lost sleep?’	6
The treatment of alcoholism that should not exist: Addiction, East German doctors, and Western methods in the German Democratic Republic	5
The mental hygiene movement: the birth of global mental health in India	5
Climate, diseases and medicine: the welfare of soldiers during the East Asian War of 1592–1598	5
The lower cavity: the origins and history of an anatomical idea	5
Surgical innovation, statistical analysis, and professional culture: thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, 1936–2016	4
Imperial mission: Jesuits, French diplomacy, and medical education at l’Aurore University in Shanghai, 1912–1952	4
Nourishing food, clean air and exercise: medical debates over environment and polar hygiene on Robert Falcon Scott’s British National Antarctic expedition, 1901–1904	4
Marginalised within a minority: Jews with disabilities in the Jewish press of the Kingdom of Poland (1860s–1914)	4
When hospitals came to Sweden in the eighteenth century: a foreign import with practical difficulties	3
Networks of exchange: East German kidney transplantation in European context, 1965–1990	3
Introduction to the special issue: Global South histories of madness – new perspectives on mental troubles and psychiatry from Latin America and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries	2
Participating in eradication: how Guinea worm redefined eradication, and eradication redefined Guinea worm, 1985–2022	2
‘The poetry of psychiatry’: existential analysis and the politics of psychopathology in Franco’s Spain	2
Overcoming Childlessness: Narratives of Conception in Early Modern North India	2
Charmaine Robson, Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936-1986 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. VIII + 265, £79.50, eBook, ISBN: 978-3-031-05796-0	2
Age matters: health, older people and gerohygiene in the late Soviet Union	2
Habit, medicine, and society in 18th-century Britain	2
‘The god of criminals is their belly’: diet, prisoner health, and prison medical officers in mid-nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons	2
MDH volume 67 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	2

Spanish–French leech trade and its consequences: From the increase in medical demand to resource depletion and technical innovation	2
MDH volume 66 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez, The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), pp. vii + 262, [$55], hardback, ISBN: 9780822946854	2
MDH volume 67 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Little lives—reading between the lines: insights from the Northampton Infirmary Eighteenth Century Child Admission Database	1
Books Also Received	1
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al.	1
Workhouse or asylum? Accommodating pauper lunatics in nineteenth-century England	1
When filth became dangerous: the miasmatic and contagionistic origins of nineteenth-century cleanliness practices among Swedish provincial doctors	1
Christina Ramos, Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022), pp. xiv + 250, paperback, ISBN 978-146-9666-570.	1
Kristin D. Hussey, Imperial Bodies in London. Empire, Mobility and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1814 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), pp.256, £43.74, hardback, ISBN: 0822946	1
The ‘new era in medicine’: John Ryle and the promotion of social medicine	1
An appropriate technology of breastfeeding in China: 1949–1965	1
Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots – CORRIGENDUM	1
‘I cannot say that he is of unsound mind’: the case of Lunatic Richard Lea	1
Medical imagery in Maximus of Tyre’s Orations	1
‘This restriction of expression’: migration, social catastrophes, and psychiatry in Cold War Taiwan	1
Scandinavian entry points to social medicine and postcolonial health: Karl Evang and Halfdan Mahler in India	1
MDH volume 69 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1