OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History and Technology is 2. 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