OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History and Technology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The materiality of space heating: heat pumps and heating transitions in Twentieth-century Switzerland	21
From co-produced hegemony to coerced imperial governance	12
Contesting American hegemony: attacks to US scientific initiatives in Cold War Europe (and means to secretly defy these challenges)	7
Introduction	5
The oil spillover: prospecting for oil in innovation studies and the history of technology	5
Hegemony, co-production and the American Empire: essays in honor of John Krige	4
Swimming with the coelacanth: the UK and export controls of technology and knowledge in the Cold War	3
Making history: technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia	3
Disaster (continued): Sewol Ferry investigations, state violence, and political history in South Korea	3
Computation, data and AI in Anthropocene history	3
Editorial	3
Before localization: the story of the electric rice cooker in South Korea	3
Correction	2
“The sparrow loves millet, but labors not”: Energy use and infrastructure in the Senegal Valley, 1450-1760	2
Making waste one’s own: transformations in production by resting paper, or hyuji, in Chosŏn Korea	2
Driving on wood: the Swedish transition to wood gas during World War Two	2
Tracing viral trajectories. Epistemic and bodily reservoirs in interspecies health	2
Irreplicability in methodology: embracing the historical contingencies of educational technology research during the 2020–2021 United States school year	2
Tapping ressentiment : pharmakeus and the sublime poisons of white supremacy	2
Use and users of artificial insemination in Swedish dairy cattle breeding, 1935–1955	1
Reassembling colonial infrastructure in Cold War Korea: the Han River Basin Joint Survey Project (1966-71)	1
‘Sovereignty of the air’: The Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911–1933)	1
Reservoirs of history	1
When religion meets history of technology: Secularism and the problem of the sacred	1
Wind power and rural modernization: wind-powered water supply systems in northern Germany and southern France, 1880–1950	1

From petroleum to power sources: Big Oil and the technopolitics of energy conversion	1
‘We were shot down!’: Earth observing satellites, data surveillance, and NASA’s 1982 Global Habitability initiative	1
Putting oceans to work: tidal energy in the USA and the USSR, 1930–1970	1
The oleaginous voice: Auto-Tune, linear predictive coding, and the security-petroleum complex	1
Correction	1
Manufacturing hands: robot fingers and human labour in post-war Japan	1
‘The Goddess Technology is a polyglot’: a critical review of Eric Schatzberg,Technology: critical history of a concept	1
The search for new models for organizing regional agricultural research in the post-colonial era: Rice in West Africa	1
Striking the empire back: Dr. Strangelove and the global histories of technology	1
About the Cover	1
Processing mortality data otherwise: making history in a turbulent sea	1
Electrical futures for a regenerated Spain: electricity, engineering and national reconstruction after the 1898 ‘Disaster’	1