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

Article	Citations
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan	14
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	7
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword	5
Risky migrations: Race, Latin eugenics, and Cold War development in the International Labor Organization’s Puno–Tambopata project in Peru, 1930–60	4
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	3
The spatial inscription of science in the twentieth century	3
Self-help for learned journals: Scientific societies and the commerce of publishing in the 1950s	3
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	3
Nafia for the Tigris: The Privy Purse and the infrastructure of development in late Ottoman Iraq, 1882–1914	3
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America	3
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	2
Shattering crystal with crystal: Galileo’s rhetoric, lenses, and the epistemology of metaphor	2
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	2
Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) and the early Leiden jar: A discussion of the neglected manuscripts	2
Towards a history of scientific publishing	2
The emperor’s herbarium: The German physician Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?–96) and his botanical field studies in the Middle East	2
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)	2
Ottoman plants, nature studies, and the attentiveness of translational labor	2
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	1
Building UNESCO science from the “dark zone”: Joseph Needham, Empire, and the wartime reorganization of international science from China, 1942–6	1
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War	1
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	1
Aviation infrastructures in the Republic of China, 1920–37	1

The persona of the physician in the early German Enlightenment: An analysis of the mediation of epistemic strategies in medical textbooks and advice literature	1
Affective geographies: Family and friendship in the production of scientific knowledge	1
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world	1
The spring of order: Robert Main’s management of astronomical labor at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich	1
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	1
Mastering the uncontrollable: The Ottomans and the use of modern technologies	0
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932	0
Phases of physics: Building the discipline during the long nineteenth century	0
Science and/as work: An introduction to this special issue	0
Studying “useful plants” from Maria Theresa to Napoleon: Continuity and invisibility in agricultural science, northern Italy, the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	0
Magnifying the first points of life: Harvey and Descartes on generation and scale	0
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake	0
A Note From the Editor	0
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	0
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China	0
Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities	0
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	0
Fire management and community restraint: The rise of forestry science and the governance of commons	0
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	0
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0
“Rusticall chymistry”: Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture	0
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	0
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	0
A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	0
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	0
Competition and coordination in Swedish botanical publication, 1820–79: Eleven editions of Hartman’s Handbook	0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	0
Scaling down the Earth’s history: Visual materials for popular education by Nérée Boubée (1806–1862)	0
Corrigendum to “Defending metropolitan identity through colonial politics: The role of Portuguese naturalists (1870–91)”	0
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)	0
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	0
Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science	0
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	0
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	0
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)	0
Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation: Towards a new history of transportation	0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield	0
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos	0
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	0
The instrumental Brahmin and the “half-caste” computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791–1835	0
Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 1806	0
Struggling with exactitude in a fragmented state: Intelligence testing in early twentieth-century China	0
“The lungs of a ship”: Ventilation, acclimatization, and labor in the maritime environment, 1740–1800	0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	0

The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” and its role in forming national and international scientific awareness of Greater Romania, 1910–1933	0
Heavenly spirit or material being? Science on electricity at the turn of the 19th century in Poland	0
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	0
The community of Black women physicians, 1864–1941: Trends in background, education, and training	0
A puzzling marriage? UNESCO and the Madrid Festival of Science (1955)	0