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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The co-production of nuclear science and diplomacy: towards a transnational understanding of nuclear things	16
Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution	13
On humble technologies: containers, care, and water infrastructure in northwest Madagascar, 1750s-1960s	12
Energy, history, and the humanities: against a new determinism	10
From lobbyists to backstage diplomats: how insurers in the field of third party liability shaped nuclear diplomacy	7
The ways and means of ITER: reciprocity and compromise in fusion science diplomacy	7
Mobilizing the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows. COVID-19 and the Politics of Research at the Borders	6
Atomic ambassadors: the IAEA’s first Preliminary Assistance Mission (1958)	6
Imperial models: technology and design in state-controlled porcelain manufacture in early modern China	5
Historicizing renewables: issues and challenges	4
Three tons of uranium from the International Atomic Energy Agency: diplomacy over nuclear fuel for the Japan Research Reactor-3 at the Board of Governors’ meetings, 1958–1959	4
Uranium exposed at Expo 58: the colonial agenda behind the peaceful atom	3
‘Sovereignty of the air’: The Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911–1933)	3
The revolt of the chemists: biofuels, agricultural overproduction, and the chemurgy movement in New Deal America	3
Use and users of artificial insemination in Swedish dairy cattle breeding, 1935–1955	3
Driving on wood: the Swedish transition to wood gas during World War Two	3
Disaster (continued): Sewol Ferry investigations, state violence, and political history in South Korea	3
From paper files to terabytes: the evolution of IAEA documentation in the nuclear age	2
Psychology as technology: industrial psychology for an industrializing China	2
The ‘conceit of controllability’: nuclear diplomacy, Japan’s plutonium reprocessing ambitions and US proliferation fears, 1974-1978	2
Manufacturing hands: robot fingers and human labour in post-war Japan	2
Fatigue as a physiological problem: experiments in the observation and quantification of movement and industrial labor, 1873-1947	2
The materiality of space heating: heat pumps and heating transitions in Twentieth-century Switzerland	2
‘The Goddess Technology is a polyglot’: a critical review of Eric Schatzberg,Technology: critical history of a concept	2
Electrical futures for a regenerated Spain: electricity, engineering and national reconstruction after the 1898 ‘Disaster’	2

Eliminating fossil fuels: Iceland’s transition from coal and oil to geothermal district heating, 1930–1980	2
Before localization: the story of the electric rice cooker in South Korea	1
Reassembling colonial infrastructure in Cold War Korea: the Han River Basin Joint Survey Project (1966-71)	1
Wind power and rural modernization: wind-powered water supply systems in northern Germany and southern France, 1880–1950	1
Correction	1
The training in France of Spanish nuclear personnel, c. 1950s–1990s	1
Front-line Fowl: Messenger Pigeons as Communications Technology in the U.S. Army	1
Making history: technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia	1
Turning DDT into ‘Didimac’: Making insecticide products and consumers in British farming after 1945	1
‘We were shot down!’: Earth observing satellites, data surveillance, and NASA’s 1982 Global Habitability initiative	1
The tools of tailoring as technologies-in-use in twentieth century Benin, West Africa	1
Modernizing a nation through its radio and television industry: RCA Victor in Chile, 1928-1973	1
Lessons from a forgotten fuel: assessing the long history of alcohol fuel advocacy and use in the United States	1
Putting oceans to work: tidal energy in the USA and the USSR, 1930–1970	1
Multiple makings at China’s first hydroelectric power station at Shilongba, 1908–1912	1
Aircraft without wings: local design and serial production of utilitarian vehicles in Argentina (1952-1955)	1
Making raw materials: innovation and imported technology in Meiji Japan	1
Reverse engineering as history and method: The Portugueseespingardain Chosŏn Korea	1