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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Specimens for the “science of man”: Skulls, race, and instructions in James Prichard’s Enlightenment ethnology	35
Re-sourcing fuels for ceramic kilns in socialist China (1950s–1980s)	6
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	4
Gendering the memory of iron: Theft, lineage, and African metallurgists in the Atlantic world	3
The crisis in American science	3
Transmutations of climate – Darwin’s Stendhal and the legacy of “local nature” aesthetics	3
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	3
Nature’s keepers: Working families and the economy of earthly objects	3
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	3
“To reduce this danger:” Rinderpest vaccines and African assistants in a Gold Coast laboratory, 1890–1964	3
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	2
Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers	2
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	2
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	1
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	1
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	1
Science, nationalism and tradition: A garden city for Republican China	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	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
Cruel works of many wheels: Prison treadmills and nineteenth-century sciences of productive labor	1
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	1
“Modest wise women”: Science in Porfirian women’s periodicals	1
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	1

The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	1
A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
Scaling down the Earth’s history: Visual materials for popular education by Nérée Boubée (1806–1862)	0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	0
From the editor-in-chief	0
Amazonian cosmologies, plant–human relations and the colonial entanglements of Indigenous artifacts	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
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)	0
Towards a history of scientific publishing	0
Across the Caucasian meridian: European empire, Islamic sciences, and concurrence in global history	0
Fire management and community restraint: The rise of forestry science and the governance of commons	0
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	0
Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science	0
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)	0
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	0
Struggling with exactitude in a fragmented state: Intelligence testing in early twentieth-century China	0
Roots of modern botany: The Basel professor Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624) and his botanical network	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake	0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield	0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	0
State, experts, and rural development in Colombia, 1930–50. A local genealogy of international community development	0
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	0
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War	0
Guaraná’s forgotten history: The rise and fall of an Indigenous Brazilian phytotherapy in Anglo-American medicine	0
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	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
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	0
Mastering the uncontrollable: The Ottomans and the use of modern technologies	0
History of a fragmented natural history collection: A case study of Merzifon Anatolia College Museum	0
Correcting art with science: Victorian painting in Nature	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
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
Bionomic historicism: Darwinian ichthyology and non-Needhamian histories of Indian science	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
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science	0
The Goiânia accident, orphan sources, trust, and risk perceptions in the wider nuclear industry	0
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	0
Introduction: Erasures in the history of science	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
Developing Indian pasts? The Archaeological Survey of India, ‘postcolonial’ archaeology, and technical assistance in Nepal	0
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	0

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