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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The co-production of nuclear science and diplomacy: towards a transnational understanding of nuclear things	14
On humble technologies: containers, care, and water infrastructure in northwest Madagascar, 1750s-1960s	11
Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution	10
The ways and means of ITER: reciprocity and compromise in fusion science diplomacy	7
From lobbyists to backstage diplomats: how insurers in the field of third party liability shaped nuclear diplomacy	7
Energy, history, and the humanities: against a new determinism	6
Mobilizing the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows. COVID-19 and the Politics of Research at the Borders	6
The socialist origins of the Green Revolution: Pandurang Khankhoje and domestic ‘technical assistance’	5
Atomic ambassadors: the IAEA’s first Preliminary Assistance Mission (1958)	5
Development interventions: science, technology and technical assistance	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
Historicizing renewables: issues and challenges	3
Technical assistance and socialist international health: Hungary, the WHO and the Korean War	3
Imperial models: technology and design in state-controlled porcelain manufacture in early modern China	3
Disaster (continued): Sewol Ferry investigations, state violence, and political history in South Korea	3
Introduction: the entanglement of technology and religion	3
Use and users of artificial insemination in Swedish dairy cattle breeding, 1935–1955	3
The revolt of the chemists: biofuels, agricultural overproduction, and the chemurgy movement in New Deal America	2
A sociotechnical order for theumma: connecting Islam and technology in Suharto’s Indonesia	2
Whose India? SITE and the origins of satellite television in India	2
Eliminating fossil fuels: Iceland’s transition from coal and oil to geothermal district heating, 1930–1980	2
The materiality of space heating: heat pumps and heating transitions in Twentieth-century Switzerland	2
From paper files to terabytes: the evolution of IAEA documentation in the nuclear age	2
Mutant rice and agricultural modernization in Asia	2
The ‘conceit of controllability’: nuclear diplomacy, Japan’s plutonium reprocessing ambitions and US proliferation fears, 1974-1978	2

Uranium exposed at Expo 58: the colonial agenda behind the peaceful atom	2
Driving on wood: the Swedish transition to wood gas during World War Two	1
The training in France of Spanish nuclear personnel, c. 1950s–1990s	1
Reverse engineering as history and method: The Portugueseespingardain Chosŏn Korea	1
Creating the need in Mexico: the IAEA’s technical assistance programs for less developed countries (1958-68)	1
Manufacturing hands: robot fingers and human labour in post-war Japan	1
Psychology as technology: industrial psychology for an industrializing China	1
Multiple makings at China’s first hydroelectric power station at Shilongba, 1908–1912	1
Turning DDT into ‘Didimac’: Making insecticide products and consumers in British farming after 1945	1
Wind power and rural modernization: wind-powered water supply systems in northern Germany and southern France, 1880–1950	1
The tools of tailoring as technologies-in-use in twentieth century Benin, West Africa	1
Making raw materials: innovation and imported technology in Meiji Japan	1
Aligning missions: nuclear technical assistance, the IAEA, and national ambitions in Pakistan	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
Presencing the divine: religion and technology in the Latin West	1
Making history: technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia	1
‘Sovereignty of the air’: The Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911–1933)	1
Reassembling colonial infrastructure in Cold War Korea: the Han River Basin Joint Survey Project (1966-71)	1
‘We were shot down!’: Earth observing satellites, data surveillance, and NASA’s 1982 Global Habitability initiative	1
Reconfiguring transport infrastructure in post-war Asia: mapping South Korean container ports, 1952–1978	1
‘The Goddess Technology is a polyglot’: a critical review of Eric Schatzberg,Technology: critical history of a concept	1
‘Remember the Sabbath’: a history of technological decisions and innovation in Orthodox Jewish communities	1
Front-line Fowl: Messenger Pigeons as Communications Technology in the U.S. Army	1
Electrical futures for a regenerated Spain: electricity, engineering and national reconstruction after the 1898 ‘Disaster’	1
Before localization: the story of the electric rice cooker in South Korea	1
Fatigue as a physiological problem: experiments in the observation and quantification of movement and industrial labor, 1873-1947	1
Putting oceans to work: tidal energy in the USA and the USSR, 1930–1970	1
Aircraft without wings: local design and serial production of utilitarian vehicles in Argentina (1952-1955)	1
Correction	1