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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	24
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword	4
Specimens for the “science of man”: Skulls, race, and instructions in James Prichard’s Enlightenment ethnology	4
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world	3
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	3
Gendering the memory of iron: Theft, lineage, and African metallurgists in the Atlantic world	2
Corrigendum to “Defending metropolitan identity through colonial politics: The role of Portuguese naturalists (1870–91)”	2
The instrumental Brahmin and the “half-caste” computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791–1835	2
Nature’s keepers: Working families and the economy of earthly objects	2
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	2
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	2
The crisis in American science	2
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	2
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	1
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	1
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	1
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	1
Shattering crystal with crystal: Galileo’s rhetoric, lenses, and the epistemology of metaphor	1
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	1
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	1
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932	1
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	1
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	1

(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	1
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)	0
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	0
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science	0
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War	0
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	0
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos	0
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science	0
Seeing and unseeing landscapes: Geographic knowledges, cartographic technologies, and the early Cold War in Latin America	0
Struggling with exactitude in a fragmented state: Intelligence testing in early twentieth-century China	0
Science and/as work: An introduction to this special issue	0
Scaling down the Earth’s history: Visual materials for popular education by Nérée Boubée (1806–1862)	0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake	0
Domesticating taxonomies: Classification and erasures in the shaping of the stingless bee of Yucatán	0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	0
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
Ottoman plants, nature studies, and the attentiveness of translational labor	0
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan	0
Heavenly spirit or material being? Science on electricity at the turn of the 19th century in Poland	0
“Rusticall chymistry”: Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture	0
“The lungs of a ship”: Ventilation, acclimatization, and labor in the maritime environment, 1740–1800	0
Introduction: Erasures in the history of science	0
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	0
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America	0
Mastering the uncontrollable: The Ottomans and the use of modern technologies	0
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	0
Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation: Towards a new history of transportation	0
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China	0
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)	0
The persona of the physician in the early German Enlightenment: An analysis of the mediation of epistemic strategies in medical textbooks and advice literature	0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	0
Affective geographies: Family and friendship in the production of scientific knowledge	0
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	0
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	0
A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
Fire management and community restraint: The rise of forestry science and the governance of commons	0
Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 1806	0
Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science	0
Guaraná’s forgotten history: The rise and fall of an Indigenous Brazilian phytotherapy in Anglo-American medicine	0
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)	0
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	0
Towards a history of scientific publishing	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities	0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield	0
A Note From the Editor	0
From the editor-in-chief	0
The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” and its role in forming national and international scientific awareness of Greater Romania, 1910–1933	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0