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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Specimens for the “science of man”: Skulls, race, and instructions in James Prichard’s Enlightenment ethnology	30
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword	4
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world	4
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	4
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	3
Gendering the memory of iron: Theft, lineage, and African metallurgists in the Atlantic world	3
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	3
Nature’s keepers: Working families and the economy of earthly objects	2
The crisis in American science	2
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	2
Cruel works of many wheels: Prison treadmills and nineteenth-century sciences of productive labor	2
The instrumental Brahmin and the “half-caste” computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791–1835	2
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	2
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	1
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	1
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	1
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	1
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932	1
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	1
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	1
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	1
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	1
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)	0

Mastering the uncontrollable: The Ottomans and the use of modern technologies	0
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan	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
Roots of modern botany: The Basel professor Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624) and his botanical network	0
From the editor-in-chief	0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	0
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos	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
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	0
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science	0
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	0
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	0
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield	0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake	0
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	0
Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science	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
A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	0
Guaraná’s forgotten history: The rise and fall of an Indigenous Brazilian phytotherapy in Anglo-American medicine	0
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America	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
Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities	0
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China	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
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)	0
Domesticating taxonomies: Classification and erasures in the shaping of the stingless bee of Yucatán	0
A Note From the Editor	0
Introduction: Erasures in the history of science	0
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
Towards a history of scientific publishing	0
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	0