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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The materiality of space heating: heat pumps and heating transitions in Twentieth-century Switzerland	22
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	6
The oil spillover: prospecting for oil in innovation studies and the history of technology	6
Computation, data and AI in Anthropocene history	5
Hegemony, co-production and the American Empire: essays in honor of John Krige	5
Swimming with the coelacanth: the UK and export controls of technology and knowledge in the Cold War	3
Disaster (continued): Sewol Ferry investigations, state violence, and political history in South Korea	3
Making history: technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia	3
Before localization: the story of the electric rice cooker in South Korea	3
Correction	3
Editorial	3
Tapping ressentiment : pharmakeus and the sublime poisons of white supremacy	2
Irreplicability in methodology: embracing the historical contingencies of educational technology research during the 2020–2021 United States school year	2
Making waste one’s own: transformations in production by resting paper, or hyuji, in Chosŏn Korea	2
Tracing viral trajectories. Epistemic and bodily reservoirs in interspecies health	2
“The sparrow loves millet, but labors not”: Energy use and infrastructure in the Senegal Valley, 1450-1760	2
Driving on wood: the Swedish transition to wood gas during World War Two	2
Reservoirs: thinking history in the present	2
Putting oceans to work: tidal energy in the USA and the USSR, 1930–1970	2
Correction	2
Correction	1
Reservoirs of history	1
About the Cover	1

Use and users of artificial insemination in Swedish dairy cattle breeding, 1935–1955	1
Manufacturing hands: robot fingers and human labour in post-war Japan	1
Labor, knowledge, and power: licensing technical innovations and enslaved labor in the colonial Andes	1
Reservoirs of endangerment	1
How to turn a mobile laboratory into a diplomatic bag: international relations, the IAEA and nuclear diplomacy	1
When religion meets history of technology: Secularism and the problem of the sacred	1
‘Sovereignty of the air’: The Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911–1933)	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
Striking the empire back: Dr. Strangelove and the global histories of technology	1
The oleaginous voice: Auto-Tune, linear predictive coding, and the security-petroleum complex	1
Reassembling colonial infrastructure in Cold War Korea: the Han River Basin Joint Survey Project (1966-71)	1
Electrical futures for a regenerated Spain: electricity, engineering and national reconstruction after the 1898 ‘Disaster’	1
‘The Goddess Technology is a polyglot’: a critical review of Eric Schatzberg,Technology: critical history of a concept	1
Processing mortality data otherwise: making history in a turbulent sea	1