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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Les femmes économistes: the place of women in the physiocratic community	5
Taylor White's ‘paper museum’	5
Frontispiece	3
From philanthropy to business: the economics of Royal Society journal publishing in the twentieth century	3
‘ Shout hurrah! ’ New thoughts on the origin and meaning of the bat species name Ia io , created in 1902 by Oldfield Thomas FRS	3
Defence by demolition? Preserving and relocating the cloister of Segovia cathedral	3
Émigré neurophysiologists' situated knowledge economies and their roles in forming international cultures of scientific excellence	3
New historical records about the construction of the Arch of Ctesiphon and their impact on the history of structural engineering	2
Materialism, Lebenskraft and the limits of science: metaphysical vitalism in post-Kantian scenarios	2
Frontispiece for Sepetember 2021	2
The science of money: Isaac Newton's mastering of the Mint	2
Plant alchemy, Paracelsianism and internal signature theory in the writings of Guy de La Brosse (1586–1641)	2
The 1919 eclipse results that verified general relativity and their later detractors: a story re-told	2
Introduction: theorizing and applying the meaningfully anecdotal patient in neurodiversity research	2
An appetite for experiment: putting early Royal Society tastes back on the table	1
The visualization of unknown animals. Aesthetics of natural history in Perrault's Description anatomique , Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium	1
Two Nobel laureates in conversation: Robert Robinson listens to Dorothy Hodgkin's account of her life scientific	1
Cornish science, mine experiments and Robert Were Fox's Penjerrick letters	1
Of stumps and stipes: comparisons between the cultures and identities of Yorkshire cricket and mycology at the turn of the twentieth century	1
David Gregory's manuscript ‘Isaaci Neutoni Methodus fluxionum’ (1694): A study on the early publication of Newton's discoveries on calculus	1
A geologist and an Egyptologist in conversation: Sir Charles Lyell and Sir John Gardner Wilkinson	1
Friendship archaeology: how Maude Abbott occupied overlapping spaces of excellence	1
Eclipsed by history: underrecognized contributions to early British solar eclipse expeditions	1
Insights from those who live with impairments of facial mobility	1
Making science for the Portuguese Empire: The Royal Maritime, Military and Geographic Society (1798–1809)	1

Alfred Russel Wallace's Unrealized Last Book: Insights from the Plan for Darwin and Wallace	1
Nehemiah Grew, the illustrator	1
Visual immersion: Daniele Barbaro's fish album and the wave of interest in aquatic creatures in mid sixteenth-century Europe	1
The practice of note-taking in Taylor White's natural history collection	1
Bones of contention: Johann Heinrich Merck's palaeontological encounters with academic scholars and professional printmakers	1
Introduction: Undescrib'd: Taylor White (1701–1772) and his collections	1
The ‘Stronsay Beast’: testimony, evidence and authority in early nineteenth-century natural history	1
Anthropological Glimpses of Japan in Nineteenth-Century Britain	1
Frontispiece	1
The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s	1
Enlightened female networks: gendered ways of producing knowledge (1720–1830)	1
The making of a naturalist in Manchuria: Arthur de Carle Sowerby, 1885–1922	1
Emigration or return? International mobility and Theodore von Kármán's Chinese students and associates	1
The ‘system of the world’ and the scientific culture of early modern France	1
How to read ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’	1
The laureate as public intellectual: Paul Crutzen and the politics of the environment	1
Classification, Observational Practice, and Henry Seebohm’s The Birds of the Japanese Empire in Late-Victorian Britain	1
‘A thankless enterprise’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's campaign to establish medical unorthodoxy amongst her female network	1
The making of early modern eye models	1
Again with feeling: modes of visual representation of popular astronomy in the mid-nineteenth century	1
Who are you?	1
Redhead, Paroissien, Parish & Co.: British Field Science in early Independent RÍo de la Plata	1
Frontispiece	1
‘The grand strategy of an observatory’: George Airy's vision for the division of astronomical labour among observatories during the nineteenth century	1
Lemurs before Lemur : depictions of captive lemurs prior to Linnaeus	0
Science popularization in nineteenth century France: Nérée Boubée (1806–1862) and the journal L'Écho du Monde Savant	0
Vegetal agency: the sap controversy in early eighteenth-century France treatises on plants and gardening	0
Taylor White's ‘paper museum’ (1725–1772): understanding the scientific work of an unpublished naturalist	0
Creating life in the laboratory: Francis Bacon's journey from living spirits to animate bodies	0
‘An exceedingly simple, little ecosystem’: Devils Hole, endangered species conservation, and scientific environments	0
The cells of Robert Hooke: pores, fibres, diaphragms and the cell theory that wasn't	0
Patrick Matthew's synthesis of catastrophism and transformism	0
The first ‘Soviet type’ research institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and its Stalin Prize-awarded director, Imre Szörényi	0
The ‘seductive scientist’: the emergence of a new persona centred on virility and joy in twentieth-century scientific memoirs	0
The instruments of expeditionary science and the reworking of nineteenth-century magnetic experiment	0
Graphical details: the secret life of Christopher Wren's drawing of the weather clock	0
Lady Gwillim and the birds of Madras	0
Frontispiece	0
Introduction: Sustainability and the history of scientific environments	0
The origins and development of free-electron lasers in the UK	0
Gender and botany in early nineteenth-century Portugal: the circle of the Marquise of Alorna	0
Did Christiaan Huygens need glasses? A study of Huygens' telescope equations and tables	0
Nineteenth-century Japanese and British science in context: an introduction to transnational-comparative studies	0
Performing excellence: Nobel Prize nomination networks in North America	0
Harvesting Underground: (re)generative theories and vegetal analogies in the early modern debate on mineral ores (I)	0
Cavendish on life	0
R. A. Fisher on J. A. Cobb's The problem of the sex-ratio	0
The anecdotal patient: brain injury and the magnitude of harm	0
The Boutelou Brothers: From Gardening to Agronomic Practices, Education, and Travels in Spain at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century	0
‘A man of intrigue’: Giles Rawlins, 1631?–1662	0

Mary Proctor: an astronomical popularizer in the shadows	0
Cemetery tower at Atena	0
Hysteria, head injuries and heredity: ‘shell-shocked’ soldiers of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Edinburgh (1914–24)	0
É Astrologia MA non É Astrologo: John Aubrey's Brief Lives and Astrology	0
Thomas Sackville's Hall of Fame: displaced, reinvented and preserved at Knole	0
Transferring Technical Knowledge to Turkey: American Engineers, Scientific Experts, and the Erzincan Earthquake of 1939	0
Florence Bell—the ‘Housewife’ with x-ray vision	0
‘Never so at home’: Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham	0
Publish and flourish, or the collective wisdom of peer review	0
‘Out of a greate laborinth of errors’: Lunar astronomy in London before Kepler	0
A Japanese Christian physicist defends evolution: Kimura Shunkichi's appropriation of British discourses in his philosophical scrutiny of science	0
Preserving nature: domestic thrift and techniques of conservation in early modern England	0
Ornithological insights from Taylor White's birds	0
‘The correct name for the breadfruit’: on interdisciplinarity and the artist Sydney Parkinson's contested contributions to the botanical sciences	0
‘Just put it online’: the Taylor White project as a digitization case study	0
Mendel's closet: genetics, eugenics and the exceptions of sex in Edwardian Britain	0
Maritime crossroads: the knowledge pursuits of María de Betancourt (Tenerife, 1758–1824) and Joana de Vigo (Menorca, 1779–1855)	0
Flat Places: ^{Lincolnshire and science}	0
Thomas Willis' iatrochemistry and the activity of matter	0
Mind the step: did Hooker's judgement clinch Darwin's disenchantment?	0
The disputed sound of the aurora borealis: sensing liminal noise during the First and Second International Polar Years, 1882–3 and 1932–3	0
‘Space Weather Sentinels’: Halley and the evolution of geospace science	0
The impact of British chemistry and physics upon Japanese science in the late nineteenth century: the Williamson–Sakurai connection at University College London	0
Foreign Membership of the Royal Society: Schrödinger and Heisenberg?	0
Eloge to James (Jim) Arthur Bennett 2 April 1947 — 28 October 2023	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
The campfire stories of Russell Marker, a pioneer of chemistry	0
Bittersweet	0
Time's teeth: narratives of preservation in the eighteenth-century Cotton Library	0
Unity in bronze: German universities and the 250th anniversary of the Royal Society	0
Drawing muscles with diagrams: how a novel dissection cut inspired Nicolaus Steno's mathematical myology (1667)	0
‘Obliging and curious’: Taylor White (1701–1772) and his remarkable collections	0
Gassendi's second thought. From a materialistic picture of cognition to the defence of dualism: the lasting influence of the polemic with Descartes	0
Editorial	0
Originality conundrum: British education of engineers in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)	0
2022 Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar Lecture Remaking Ourselves: Technologies of Flesh and the Futures of Selfhood	0
Green Laboratories: Plant studies in the early modern period.Introduction	0
New light on the role of instruments in exploration during the 1830s	0
Theodolites at 20 000 feet: justifying precision measurement during the trigonometrical survey of Kashmir, 1855–1865	0
‘Tarzan of the sciences’: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the communication jungle, CA 1970	0
The life of matter: early modern vital matter theories	0
Minakata Kumagusu in London: Challenging Eurocentrism in the pages of Nature	0
Margaret Bryan: Newly Discovered Biographical Information about the Author of A Compendious System of Astronomy (1797)	0
The itinerary of Alfred Russel Wallace's Amazonian journey (1848–1852): A source for researchers and readers	0
Thomas Henshaw's strange séance in Venice, circa 1648: a coda to Robert Boyle by himself and his friends	0
The historical power of the natural science collection of Dominik Bilimek at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)	0
Fruitful collaborations: the Taylor White project in the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection	0
Beyond the Nobel Prize: scientific recognition and awards in North America since 1900	0
Pleistocene Park, and other designs on deep time in the Interwar United States	0
European academies and the Great War: an inter-academy initiative, 2014–2021	0
Introduction: Cabinet, elaboratory, gallery 1500–1800. The preservation of art and material culture in Europe	0
‘Is there a Reader who can Handle it with any Comfort?’: A Brief Publication History of the Works of Francis Bacon	0
The intertwined history of non-human primate health and human medicine at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute	0
The cells of Robert Hooke: wombs, brains and ammonites	0
Sympathetic Organizations: body, mind, and society in Robert Whytt and David Hume	0
Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton and the Royal Society: three unnoticed letters at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	0
Queen Charlotte's scientific collections and natural history networks	0
Plants and laboratories: the ascent of sap between physics and vegetal physiology	0
Madame Lavoisier and the others: women in Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier's network (1771–1836)	0
Frontispiece	0
A Scientific Visit to the USSR in 1963	0
Frontispiece	0
Editorial	0
Frontispiece for December 2022	0
Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian	0
The problem of ‘Extinguished letters’ and the use of chemical reagents on manuscripts (1551–1553)	0
Scientific ideologies on the move: Sino-British exchanges, scientific freedoms and the governance of science in Britain, 1961–1966	0
Localizing Western expertise: İhsan Doğramaci, Ş. Raşit Hatipoğlu, and the quest for scientific development in modern Turkey	0
Feminist networks beyond the science wars: the ‘female brain’ in the 1790s and the 1990s	0
Losing foreignness: Johann Sigismund Elsholtz on the meaning of plants in the pleasure gardens of Berlin	0
‘Your very obliging correspondence’: the Royal Society and the provincial Republic of Letters in Georgian Lincolnshire	0
Wilder Penfield dreams of the Nobel Prize	0
Large as life: Francis Bacon on the animate matter of plants	0
Science funding under an authoritarian regime: Portugal's National Education Board and the European ‘academic landscape’ in the interwar period	0
The Wild Garden: landscaping southern California in the early twentieth century	0
Supposed to know	0