OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History of Science is 1. 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
“The lungs of a ship”: Ventilation, acclimatization, and labor in the maritime environment, 1740–1800	4
Building UNESCO science from the “dark zone”: Joseph Needham, Empire, and the wartime reorganization of international science from China, 1942–6	4
Nafia for the Tigris: The Privy Purse and the infrastructure of development in late Ottoman Iraq, 1882–1914	3
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
(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
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	1
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