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

Article	Citations
How to read ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’	11
The making of a naturalist in Manchuria: Arthur de Carle Sowerby, 1885–1922	6
Making science for the Portuguese Empire: The Royal Maritime, Military and Geographic Society (1798–1809)	6
Classification, Observational Practice, and Henry Seebohm’s The Birds of the Japanese Empire in Late-Victorian Britain	6
‘Tarzan of the sciences’: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the communication jungle, CA 1970	5
‘The correct name for the breadfruit’: on interdisciplinarity and the artist Sydney Parkinson's contested contributions to the botanical sciences	4
Thomas Willis' iatrochemistry and the activity of matter	3
Beyond the Nobel Prize: scientific recognition and awards in North America since 1900	3
Humphry Davy's Notebooks	3
Patrick Matthew's synthesis of catastrophism and transformism	3
Editorial	2
Gassendi's second thought. From a materialistic picture of cognition to the defence of dualism: the lasting influence of the polemic with Descartes	2
Cavendish on life	2
The campfire stories of Russell Marker, a pioneer of chemistry	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
Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton and the Royal Society: three unnoticed letters at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	1
Creating life in the laboratory: Francis Bacon's journey from living spirits to animate bodies	1
The life of matter: early modern vital matter theories	1
Vegetal agency: the sap controversy in early eighteenth-century France treatises on plants and gardening	1
Redhead, Paroissien, Parish & Co.: British Field Science in early Independent RÍo de la Plata	1
Did Christiaan Huygens need glasses? A study of Huygens' telescope equations and tables	1
Visual immersion: Daniele Barbaro's fish album and the wave of interest in aquatic creatures in mid sixteenth-century Europe	1
The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s	1
Anthropological Glimpses of Japan in Nineteenth-Century Britain	1
An appetite for experiment: putting early Royal Society tastes back on the table	1

Feminist networks beyond the science wars: the ‘female brain’ in the 1790s and the 1990s	1
É Astrologia MA non É Astrologo: John Aubrey's Brief Lives and Astrology	1
Localizing Western expertise: İhsan Doğramaci, Ş. Raşit Hatipoğlu, and the quest for scientific development in modern Turkey	0
The laureate as public intellectual: Paul Crutzen and the politics of the environment	0
Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian	0
Flat Places: ^{Lincolnshire and science}	0
Harvesting Underground: (re)generative theories and vegetal analogies in the early modern debate on mineral ores (I)	0
Minakata Kumagusu in London: Challenging Eurocentrism in the pages of Nature	0
From philanthropy to business: the economics of Royal Society journal publishing in the twentieth century	0
The making of early modern eye models	0
The ‘system of the world’ and the scientific culture of early modern France	0
Plants and laboratories: the ascent of sap between physics and vegetal physiology	0
The origins and development of free-electron lasers in the UK	0
Madame Lavoisier and the others: women in Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier's network (1771–1836)	0
The cells of Robert Hooke: pores, fibres, diaphragms and the cell theory that wasn't	0
Maritime crossroads: the knowledge pursuits of María de Betancourt (Tenerife, 1758–1824) and Joana de Vigo (Menorca, 1779–1855)	0
Alfred Russel Wallace's Unrealized Last Book: Insights from the Plan for Darwin and Wallace	0
Frontispiece	0
Frontispiece	0
The historical power of the natural science collection of Dominik Bilimek at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)	0
Losing foreignness: Johann Sigismund Elsholtz on the meaning of plants in the pleasure gardens of Berlin	0
Supposed to know	0
The ‘seductive scientist’: the emergence of a new persona centred on virility and joy in twentieth-century scientific memoirs	0
Cemetery tower at Atena	0
Eclipsed by history: underrecognized contributions to early British solar eclipse expeditions	0
Nehemiah Grew, the illustrator	0
Large as life: Francis Bacon on the animate matter of plants	0
The cells of Robert Hooke: wombs, brains and ammonites	0
Frontispiece for December 2022	0
Mendel's closet: genetics, eugenics and the exceptions of sex in Edwardian Britain	0
Nineteenth-century Japanese and British science in context: an introduction to transnational-comparative studies	0
Isaac Newton’s pint flagon: beer, veneration, and the history of science	0
A Japanese Christian physicist defends evolution: Kimura Shunkichi's appropriation of British discourses in his philosophical scrutiny of science	0
Margaret Bryan: Newly Discovered Biographical Information about the Author of A Compendious System of Astronomy (1797)	0
Enlightened female networks: gendered ways of producing knowledge (1720–1830)	0
Green Laboratories: Plant studies in the early modern period	0
Plant alchemy, Paracelsianism and internal signature theory in the writings of Guy de La Brosse (1586–1641)	0
R. A. Fisher on J. A. Cobb's The problem of the sex-ratio	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
Bittersweet	0
Who are you?	0
A Scientific Visit to the USSR in 1963	0
Materialism, Lebenskraft and the limits of science: metaphysical vitalism in post-Kantian scenarios	0
Publish and flourish, or the collective wisdom of peer review	0
Eloge to James (Jim) Arthur Bennett 2 April 1947 — 28 October 2023	0
Sympathetic Organizations: body, mind, and society in Robert Whytt and David Hume	0
Drawing muscles with diagrams: how a novel dissection cut inspired Nicolaus Steno's mathematical myology (1667)	0
Queen Charlotte's scientific collections and natural history networks	0
Les femmes économistes: the place of women in the physiocratic community	0

A geologist and an Egyptologist in conversation: Sir Charles Lyell and Sir John Gardner Wilkinson	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