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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	10
Self-help for learned journals: Scientific societies and the commerce of publishing in the 1950s	7
Integrating the history of science into broader discussions of research integrity and fraud	6
The princess at the conference: Science, pacifism, and Habsburg society	6
Building UNESCO science from the “dark zone”: Joseph Needham, Empire, and the wartime reorganization of international science from China, 1942–6	4
“The lungs of a ship”: Ventilation, acclimatization, and labor in the maritime environment, 1740–1800	4
Studying “useful plants” from Maria Theresa to Napoleon: Continuity and invisibility in agricultural science, northern Italy, the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century	3
The spatial inscription of science in the twentieth century	3
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
A puzzling marriage? UNESCO and the Madrid Festival of Science (1955)	3
Nafia for the Tigris: The Privy Purse and the infrastructure of development in late Ottoman Iraq, 1882–1914	3
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	2
The shastri and the air-pump: Experimental fictions and fictions of experiment for Hindi readers in colonial north India	2
Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) and the early Leiden jar: A discussion of the neglected manuscripts	2
“Rusticall chymistry”: Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture	2
The spring of order: Robert Main’s management of astronomical labor at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich	2
Towards a history of scientific publishing	2
Science and/as work: An introduction to this special issue	2
The community of Black women physicians, 1864–1941: Trends in background, education, and training	2
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	2
Magnifying the first points of life: Harvey and Descartes on generation and scale	1
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	1
Whittaker, Einstein, and the History of the Aether: Alternative interpretation, blunder, or bigotry?	1
The emperor’s herbarium: The German physician Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?–96) and his botanical field studies in the Middle East	1

Risky migrations: Race, Latin eugenics, and Cold War development in the International Labor Organization’s Puno–Tambopata project in Peru, 1930–60	1
Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities	1
Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation: Towards a new history of transportation	1
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China	1
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	1
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	1
Aviation infrastructures in the Republic of China, 1920–37	1
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)	1
Nodes of knowledge, managing transfer: Shipbuilding and repair during the transformation from sail to steam	1
The instrumental Brahmin and the “half-caste” computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791–1835	1
Tangled compositions: Botany, agency, and authorship aboard HMS Endeavour	1
Exploration and mortification: Fragile infrastructures, imperial narratives, and the self-sufficiency of British naval “discovery” vessels, 1760–1815	1
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	1
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	1
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	1
Phases of physics: Building the discipline during the long nineteenth century	0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	0
Competition and coordination in Swedish botanical publication, 1820–79: Eleven editions of Hartman’s Handbook	0
A Note From the Editor	0
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	0
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science	0
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	0
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
Affective geographies: Family and friendship in the production of scientific knowledge	0
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	0
Ottoman plants, nature studies, and the attentiveness of translational labor	0
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos	0
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	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
Historicizing research integrity and fraud	0
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)	0
Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 1806	0
Iterative books: Posthumous publishing in eighteenth-century botany	0
The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” and its role in forming national and international scientific awareness of Greater Romania, 1910–1933	0
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)	0
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	0
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world	0
Heavenly spirit or material being? Science on electricity at the turn of the 19th century in Poland	0
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	0
A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
Shattering crystal with crystal: Galileo’s rhetoric, lenses, and the epistemology of metaphor	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America	0
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science	0
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	0
Corrigendum to “Defending metropolitan identity through colonial politics: The role of Portuguese naturalists (1870–91)”	0
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	0
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	0
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	0

Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science	0
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	0
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	0
Contributions to this special issue	0
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	0
Struggling with exactitude in a fragmented state: Intelligence testing in early twentieth-century China	0
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword	0
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932	0
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan	0
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield	0