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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	24
Specimens for the “science of man”: Skulls, race, and instructions in James Prichard’s Enlightenment ethnology	4
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword	3
The crisis in American science	2
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	2
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	2
Nature’s keepers: Working families and the economy of earthly objects	2
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world	2
The instrumental Brahmin and the “half-caste” computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791–1835	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
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
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	1
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	1
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	1
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	1
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
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