OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The uses of useful knowledge and the languages of vernacular science: Perspectives from southwest India	7
Historicizing the crisis of scientific misconduct in Indian science	7
The failed institutionalization of “complexity science”: A focus on the Santa Fe Institute’s legitimization strategy	7
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	6
Integrating the history of science into broader discussions of research integrity and fraud	6
Impersonation and personification in mid-twentieth century mathematics	5
Self-help for learned journals: Scientific societies and the commerce of publishing in the 1950s	5
“The lungs of a ship”: Ventilation, acclimatization, and labor in the maritime environment, 1740–1800	4
The princess at the conference: Science, pacifism, and Habsburg society	4
Making matters of fraud: Sociomaterial technology in the case of Hwang and Schatten	4
Brokering science, blaming culture: The US–South Korea ecological survey in the Demilitarized Zone, 1963–8	3
Integrating research integrity into the history of science	3
Building UNESCO science from the “dark zone”: Joseph Needham, Empire, and the wartime reorganization of international science from China, 1942–6	3
Studying “useful plants” from Maria Theresa to Napoleon: Continuity and invisibility in agricultural science, northern Italy, the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century	3
Public science in the private garden: Noblewomen horticulturalists and the making of British botany c. 1785–1810	3
“Rusticall chymistry”: Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture	2
Nafia for the Tigris: The Privy Purse and the infrastructure of development in late Ottoman Iraq, 1882–1914	2
Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) and the early Leiden jar: A discussion of the neglected manuscripts	2
A puzzling marriage? UNESCO and the Madrid Festival of Science (1955)	2
Publicity, politics, and professoriate in fin-de-siècle Vienna: The misconduct of the embryologist Samuel Leopold Schenk	2
When is enough enough? Accurate measurement and the integrity of scientific research	2
Towards a history of scientific publishing	2
The community of Black women physicians, 1864–1941: Trends in background, education, and training	2
The age of biology: When plant physiology was in the center of American life science	2
The spatial inscription of science in the twentieth century	2

Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation: Towards a new history of transportation	1
Tangled compositions: Botany, agency, and authorship aboard HMS Endeavour	1
Whittaker, Einstein, and the History of the Aether: Alternative interpretation, blunder, or bigotry?	1
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	1
The emperor’s herbarium: The German physician Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?–96) and his botanical field studies in the Middle East	1
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	1
The instrumental Brahmin and the “half-caste” computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791–1835	1
Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 1806	1
The shastri and the air-pump: Experimental fictions and fictions of experiment for Hindi readers in colonial north India	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)	1
Science and/as work: An introduction to this special issue	1
Magnifying the first points of life: Harvey and Descartes on generation and scale	1
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	1
Clinical trials and the origins of pharmaceutical fraud: Parke, Davis & Company, virtue epistemology, and the history of the fundamental antagonism	1
The spring of order: Robert Main’s management of astronomical labor at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich	1
Risky migrations: Race, Latin eugenics, and Cold War development in the International Labor Organization’s Puno–Tambopata project in Peru, 1930–60	1
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932	0
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	0
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	0
Affective geographies: Family and friendship in the production of scientific knowledge	0
Ottoman plants, nature studies, and the attentiveness of translational labor	0
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	0
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	0
Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities	0
Scaling down the Earth’s history: Visual materials for popular education by Nérée Boubée (1806–1862)	0
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	0
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	0
Phases of physics: Building the discipline during the long nineteenth century	0
The scientist and the advertisement: Reklamegutachten in imperial Germany	0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	0
Struggling with exactitude in a fragmented state: Intelligence testing in early twentieth-century China	0
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	0
Competition and coordination in Swedish botanical publication, 1820–79: Eleven editions of Hartman’s Handbook	0
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	0
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science	0
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	0
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos	0
Contributions to this special issue	0
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America	0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake	0
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan	0
“For the services of shipwrights, coopers, and grumettas”: Freetown’s ship repair cluster in nineteenth-century Sierra Leone	0
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword	0
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	0
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science	0
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)	0
Corrigendum to “Defending metropolitan identity through colonial politics: The role of Portuguese naturalists (1870–91)”	0
Subjective practices of war: The Prussian army and the Zorndorf campaign, 1758	0
The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” and its role in forming national and international scientific awareness of Greater Romania, 1910–1933	0

A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
A Note From the Editor	0
Iterative books: Posthumous publishing in eighteenth-century botany	0
Exploration and mortification: Fragile infrastructures, imperial narratives, and the self-sufficiency of British naval “discovery” vessels, 1760–1815	0
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War	0
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	0
Aviation infrastructures in the Republic of China, 1920–37	0
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	0
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world	0
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield	0
Shattering crystal with crystal: Galileo’s rhetoric, lenses, and the epistemology of metaphor	0
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)	0
Medicine, connoisseurship, and the animal body	0
Heavenly spirit or material being? Science on electricity at the turn of the 19th century in Poland	0
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China	0
Nodes of knowledge, managing transfer: Shipbuilding and repair during the transformation from sail to steam	0
Historicizing research integrity and fraud	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	0
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	0
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	0
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	0