OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Taylor White's ‘paper museum’	6
Émigré neurophysiologists' situated knowledge economies and their roles in forming international cultures of scientific excellence	4
Classification, Observational Practice, and Henry Seebohm’s The Birds of the Japanese Empire in Late-Victorian Britain	3
How to read ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’	3
The making of a naturalist in Manchuria: Arthur de Carle Sowerby, 1885–1922	3
Defence by demolition? Preserving and relocating the cloister of Segovia cathedral	3
Introduction: theorizing and applying the meaningfully anecdotal patient in neurodiversity research	3
Making science for the Portuguese Empire: The Royal Maritime, Military and Geographic Society (1798–1809)	2
‘Tarzan of the sciences’: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the communication jungle, CA 1970	2
The impact of British chemistry and physics upon Japanese science in the late nineteenth century: the Williamson–Sakurai connection at University College London	2
Gravity’s eastern voyage: the introduction, transmission, and impact of Newtonian mechanics in late imperial China (1727–1912)	2
Beyond the Nobel Prize: scientific recognition and awards in North America since 1900	2
Patrick Matthew's synthesis of catastrophism and transformism	2
Of stumps and stipes: comparisons between the cultures and identities of Yorkshire cricket and mycology at the turn of the twentieth century	2
Atoms and Subtle matter: Henry Power’s observations on plants in Experimental Philosophy	2
‘The correct name for the breadfruit’: on interdisciplinarity and the artist Sydney Parkinson's contested contributions to the botanical sciences	2
James Hutton and the measurement of atmospheric moisture	1
Humphry Davy's Notebooks	1
The life of matter: early modern vital matter theories	1
The ‘Stronsay Beast’: testimony, evidence and authority in early nineteenth-century natural history	1
Foreign Membership of the Royal Society: Schrödinger and Heisenberg?	1
Atmospheric footnotes: Ada Lovelace on climate	1
Insights from those who live with impairments of facial mobility	1
‘Experimentum Crucis’: Hauksbee the Younger’s ‘decisive experiment’ for comparing the ‘Safety and Efficacy’ of new medicines (1743)	1
É Astrologia MA non É Astrologo: John Aubrey's Brief Lives and Astrology	1

Science funding under an authoritarian regime: Portugal's National Education Board and the European ‘academic landscape’ in the interwar period	1
The campfire stories of Russell Marker, a pioneer of chemistry	1
Editorial	1
The disputed sound of the aurora borealis: sensing liminal noise during the First and Second International Polar Years, 1882–3 and 1932–3	1
The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s	1
Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton and the Royal Society: three unnoticed letters at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	1
The practice of note-taking in Taylor White's natural history collection	1
Anthropological Glimpses of Japan in Nineteenth-Century Britain	1
Redhead, Paroissien, Parish & Co.: British Field Science in early Independent RÍo de la Plata	1
Feminist networks beyond the science wars: the ‘female brain’ in the 1790s and the 1990s	1
Cavendish on life	1
Graphical details: the secret life of Christopher Wren's drawing of the weather clock	1
Thomas Willis' iatrochemistry and the activity of matter	1
Visual immersion: Daniele Barbaro's fish album and the wave of interest in aquatic creatures in mid sixteenth-century Europe	1
The 1919 eclipse results that verified general relativity and their later detractors: a story re-told	1
Creating life in the laboratory: Francis Bacon's journey from living spirits to animate bodies	1
Again with feeling: modes of visual representation of popular astronomy in the mid-nineteenth century	1
An appetite for experiment: putting early Royal Society tastes back on the table	1
Gassendi's second thought. From a materialistic picture of cognition to the defence of dualism: the lasting influence of the polemic with Descartes	1
Vegetal agency: the sap controversy in early eighteenth-century France treatises on plants and gardening	1
Alfred Russel Wallace's Unrealized Last Book: Insights from the Plan for Darwin and Wallace	0
The visualization of unknown animals. Aesthetics of natural history in Perrault's Description anatomique , Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium	0
Frontispiece for Sepetember 2021	0
The making of early modern eye models	0
Les femmes économistes: the place of women in the physiocratic community	0
Plant alchemy, Paracelsianism and internal signature theory in the writings of Guy de La Brosse (1586–1641)	0
Eclipsed by history: underrecognized contributions to early British solar eclipse expeditions	0
Introduction: Undescrib'd: Taylor White (1701–1772) and his collections	0
Did Christiaan Huygens need glasses? A study of Huygens' telescope equations and tables	0
Frontispiece	0
From the life school to the gallery wall, via the portfolio: the collection, treatment, and display of oil sketches on paper produced in the contexts of the Carracci school	0
Nehemiah Grew, the illustrator	0
‘ Shout hurrah! ’ New thoughts on the origin and meaning of the bat species name Ia io , created in 1902 by Oldfield Thomas FRS	0
Mendel's closet: genetics, eugenics and the exceptions of sex in Edwardian Britain	0
New historical records about the construction of the Arch of Ctesiphon and their impact on the history of structural engineering	0
Frontispiece	0
Minakata Kumagusu in London: Challenging Eurocentrism in the pages of Nature	0
The origins and development of free-electron lasers in the UK	0
Wilder Penfield dreams of the Nobel Prize	0
Maritime crossroads: the knowledge pursuits of María de Betancourt (Tenerife, 1758–1824) and Joana de Vigo (Menorca, 1779–1855)	0
The instruments of expeditionary science and the reworking of nineteenth-century magnetic experiment	0
Pleistocene Park, and other designs on deep time in the Interwar United States	0
Introduction: Sustainability and the history of scientific environments	0
Green Laboratories: Plant studies in the early modern period.Introduction	0
Scientific ideologies on the move: Sino-British exchanges, scientific freedoms and the governance of science in Britain, 1961–1966	0
Navigating historiographical boundaries in the early Turkish Republican period: astrology, nationalism and Aydın Sayılı’s scholarship	0
‘A man of intrigue’: Giles Rawlins, 1631?–1662	0
Queen Charlotte's scientific collections and natural history networks	0
R. A. Fisher on J. A. Cobb's The problem of the sex-ratio	0
Margaret Bryan: Newly Discovered Biographical Information about the Author of A Compendious System of Astronomy (1797)	0

Frontispiece	0
Correction to: the itinerary of Alfred Russel Wallace’s Amazonian journey (1848–1852): a source for researchers and readers	0
New light on the role of instruments in exploration during the 1830s	0
Materialism, Lebenskraft and the limits of science: metaphysical vitalism in post-Kantian scenarios	0
2022 Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar Lecture Remaking Ourselves: Technologies of Flesh and the Futures of Selfhood	0
Alfredo Magalhães Ramalho’s scientific correspondence: historical connections between oceanography and marine biology from Portugal (1919–1949)	0
‘A thankless enterprise’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's campaign to establish medical unorthodoxy amongst her female network	0
Originality conundrum: British education of engineers in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)	0
‘The grand strategy of an observatory’: George Airy's vision for the division of astronomical labour among observatories during the nineteenth century	0
Bones of contention: Johann Heinrich Merck's palaeontological encounters with academic scholars and professional printmakers	0
Correction to: the cells of Robert Hooke: wombs, brains and ammonites	0
Plants and laboratories: the ascent of sap between physics and vegetal physiology	0
The cells of Robert Hooke: wombs, brains and ammonites	0
The medical life of William Anderson Soga in late nineteenth-century Britain and South Africa	0
Dr Richard Davies (1708–1761): Reform, Contagion, Blood and Inflammation	0
The anecdotal patient: brain injury and the magnitude of harm	0
Gender and botany in early nineteenth-century Portugal: the circle of the Marquise of Alorna	0
The ‘system of the world’ and the scientific culture of early modern France	0
Enlightened female networks: gendered ways of producing knowledge (1720–1830)	0
Eloge to James (Jim) Arthur Bennett 2 April 1947 — 28 October 2023	0
Who are you?	0
The historical power of the natural science collection of Dominik Bilimek at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)	0
Thomas Sackville's Hall of Fame: displaced, reinvented and preserved at Knole	0
The first ‘Soviet type’ research institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and its Stalin Prize-awarded director, Imre Szörényi	0
Lady Gwillim and the birds of Madras	0
A Japanese Christian physicist defends evolution: Kimura Shunkichi's appropriation of British discourses in his philosophical scrutiny of science	0
The science of money: Isaac Newton's mastering of the Mint	0
Edmund T. Whittaker, physics and Catholicism. Thoughts of a convert	0
Publish and flourish, or the collective wisdom of peer review	0
Nineteenth-century Japanese and British science in context: an introduction to transnational-comparative studies	0
The ‘seductive scientist’: the emergence of a new persona centred on virility and joy in twentieth-century scientific memoirs	0
Time's teeth: narratives of preservation in the eighteenth-century Cotton Library	0
Depopulating the sky: changing patterns of stellar identification in the Philosophical Transactions	0
‘Space Weather Sentinels’: Halley and the evolution of geospace science	0
Flat Places: ^{Lincolnshire and science}	0
The cells of Robert Hooke: pores, fibres, diaphragms and the cell theory that wasn't	0
Introduction: Cabinet, elaboratory, gallery 1500–1800. The preservation of art and material culture in Europe	0
Losing foreignness: Johann Sigismund Elsholtz on the meaning of plants in the pleasure gardens of Berlin	0
Localizing Western expertise: İhsan Doğramaci, Ş. Raşit Hatipoğlu, and the quest for scientific development in modern Turkey	0
Moving scientific knowledge from the laboratory to the theatre: Humphry Davy's Lecture practice at the Royal Institution, 1801–1812	0
Bittersweet	0
The laureate as public intellectual: Paul Crutzen and the politics of the environment	0
Frontispiece	0
‘Your very obliging correspondence’: the Royal Society and the provincial Republic of Letters in Georgian Lincolnshire	0
‘Just put it online’: the Taylor White project as a digitization case study	0
David Gregory's manuscript ‘Isaaci Neutoni Methodus fluxionum’ (1694): A study on the early publication of Newton's discoveries on calculus	0
Thomas Henshaw's strange séance in Venice, circa 1648: a coda to Robert Boyle by himself and his friends	0
The problem of ‘Extinguished letters’ and the use of chemical reagents on manuscripts (1551–1553)	0
Lemurs before Lemur : depictions of captive lemurs prior to Linnaeus	0
Fruitful collaborations: the Taylor White project in the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection	0
Large as life: Francis Bacon on the animate matter of plants	0
Performing excellence: Nobel Prize nomination networks in North America	0
European academies and the Great War: an inter-academy initiative, 2014–2021	0
From philanthropy to business: the economics of Royal Society journal publishing in the twentieth century	0
Friendship archaeology: how Maude Abbott occupied overlapping spaces of excellence	0
Karl Pearson’s (1857–1936) patterns of publishing	0
Science popularization in nineteenth century France: Nérée Boubée (1806–1862) and the journal L'Écho du Monde Savant	0
A geologist and an Egyptologist in conversation: Sir Charles Lyell and Sir John Gardner Wilkinson	0
A Scientific Visit to the USSR in 1963	0
‘Obliging and curious’: Taylor White (1701–1772) and his remarkable collections	0
Harvesting Underground: (re)generative theories and vegetal analogies in the early modern debate on mineral ores (I)	0
Frontispiece	0
The intertwined history of non-human primate health and human medicine at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute	0
Drawing muscles with diagrams: how a novel dissection cut inspired Nicolaus Steno's mathematical myology (1667)	0
Cemetery tower at Atena	0
Madame Lavoisier and the others: women in Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier's network (1771–1836)	0
Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian	0
Hysteria, head injuries and heredity: ‘shell-shocked’ soldiers of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Edinburgh (1914–24)	0
Sympathetic Organizations: body, mind, and society in Robert Whytt and David Hume	0
Preserving nature: domestic thrift and techniques of conservation in early modern England	0
Frontispiece for December 2022	0
Two Nobel laureates in conversation: Robert Robinson listens to Dorothy Hodgkin's account of her life scientific	0
Supposed to know	0
Mary Proctor: an astronomical popularizer in the shadows	0