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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Risky migrations: Race, Latin eugenics, and Cold War development in the International Labor Organization’s Puno–Tambopata project in Peru, 1930–60	18
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	4
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword	3
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	2
Gendering the memory of iron: Theft, lineage, and African metallurgists in the Atlantic world	2
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	2
The instrumental Brahmin and the “half-caste” computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791–1835	2
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	2
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	2
Corrigendum to “Defending metropolitan identity through colonial politics: The role of Portuguese naturalists (1870–91)”	2
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world	2
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
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	1
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	1
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	1
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	1
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	1
The emperor’s herbarium: The German physician Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?–96) and his botanical field studies in the Middle East	1
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	1
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	1
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	0
“Rusticall chymistry”: Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture	0

Mastering the uncontrollable: The Ottomans and the use of modern technologies	0
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	0
Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 1806	0
Towards a history of scientific publishing	0
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	0
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	0
“The lungs of a ship”: Ventilation, acclimatization, and labor in the maritime environment, 1740–1800	0
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China	0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	0
Affective geographies: Family and friendship in the production of scientific knowledge	0
The spring of order: Robert Main’s management of astronomical labor at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)	0
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	0
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)	0
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan	0
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science	0
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos	0
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America	0
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake	0
A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation: Towards a new history of transportation	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
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	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
Fire management and community restraint: The rise of forestry science and the governance of commons	0
Heavenly spirit or material being? Science on electricity at the turn of the 19th century in Poland	0
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War	0
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science	0
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	0
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	0
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)	0
Magnifying the first points of life: Harvey and Descartes on generation and scale	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
A Note From the Editor	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
The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” and its role in forming national and international scientific awareness of Greater Romania, 1910–1933	0
Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science	0