OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History of the Human Sciences 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
Not merely the absence of disease: A genealogy of the WHO’s positive health definition	20
The past of predicting the future: A review of the multidisciplinary history of affective forecasting	10
Psychometric origins of depression	10
The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social	8
Rahel Jaeggi’s theory of alienation	7
Recomposing persons: Scavenging and storytelling in a birth cohort archive	6
A code for care and control: The PIN as an operator of interoperability in the Nordic welfare state	6
Conversion disorder and/or functional neurological disorder: How neurological explanations affect ideas of self, agency, and accountability	5
Phrenology and the average person, 1840–1940	5
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of aversion therapy in England	4
‘The intelligent and the rest’: British Mensa and the contested status of high intelligence	4
Social science and Marxist humanism beyond collectivism in Socialist Romania	4
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress	4
Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context	3
Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19	3
Ideology and science: The story of Polish psychology in the communist period	3
Introduction: Contested narratives of the mind and the brain: Neuro/psychological knowledge in popular debates and everyday life	3
From In Two Minds to MIND: The circulation of ‘anti-psychiatry’ in British film and television during the long 1960s	3
Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown	3
Cultivating trust, producing knowledge: The management of archaeological labour and the making of a discipline	3
‘A troublesome girl is pushed through’: Morality, biological determinism, resistance, resilience, and the Canadian child migration schemes, 1883–1939	2
A diagrammatics of race: Samuel George Morton's ‘American Golgotha’ and the contest for the definition of the young field of anthropology	2
The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian	2
Félida, doubled personality, and the ‘normal state’ in late 19th-century French psychology	2
The idea of an ethically committed social science	2

Psychedelic psychodrama: Raising and expanding consciousness in Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath (1973)	2
I never promised you a rose garden.… When landscape architecture becomes a laboratory for the Anthropocene	2
Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty	2
The Hoffman Report in historical context: A study in denial	2
On some antecedents of behavioural economics	2
Talking therapy: The allopathic nihilation of homoeopathy through conceptual translation and a new medical language	2
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history	2
Psychoanalysis and anti-racism in mid-20th-century America: An alternative angle of vision	2
Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease: Fifty years of tuberculosis reporting in the United Kingdom	2
‘Somewhere between science and superstition’: Religious outrage, horrific science, and The Exorcist (1973)	1
Beyond following rules: Teaching research ethics in the age of the Hoffman Report	1
Madness, virtue, and ecology: A classical Indian approach to psychiatric disturbance	1
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food	1
The pragmatic use of metaphor in empirical psychology	1
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)	1
Simulating Marx: Herbert A. Simon's cognitivist approach to dialectical materialism	1
Demons of the mind: The ‘psy’ sciences and film in the long 1960s	1
After the normal	1
Confronting the field: Tylor's Anahuac and Victorian thought on human diversity	1
Against well-being: A critique of positive psychology	1
Normal enough? Krafft-Ebing, Freud, and homosexuality	1
The emergence of the idea of ‘the welfare state’ in British political discourse	1
How family charts became Mendelian: The changing content of pedigrees and its impact on the consolidation of genetic theory	1
Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’: Multiple discovery and the rhetoric of priority	1
For or against the molecularization of brain science?: Cybernetics, interdisciplinarity, and the unprogrammed beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT	1
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	1
An ‘ingenious system of practical contacts’: Historical origins and development of the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University's Teachers College (1922–36)	1
‘You never need an analyst with Bobby around’: The mid-20th-century human sciences in Sondheim and Furth's musical Company	1
Criticism as self-analysis	1
Cybernetics in the Republic	1
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case	1
Race in post-war science: The Swiss case in a global context	1
Beyond torture: Knowledge and power at the nexus of social science and national security	1
From the margins to the NICE guidelines: British clinical psychology and the development of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, 1982–2002	1
From cohort to community: The emotional work of birthday cards in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, 1946–2018	1
Introduction: The Hoffman Report in historical context	1
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance?	1
Maps of desire: Edward Tolman's drive theory of wants	1
A military/intelligence operational perspective on the American Psychological Association’s weaponization of psychology post-9/11	1
In the shadow of the tree: The diagrammatics of relatedness in genealogy, anthropology, and genetics as epistemic, cultural, and political practice	1
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	1
Hat sizes and craniometry: Professional know-how and scientific knowledge	1
Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry, colonialism, and biopower in China's south-western borderland in the 1930s and 1940s	1
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)	1
The crisis of modern society: Richard Titmuss and Emile Durkheim	1
Fairbairn, Winnicott, and Guntrip on the social significance of schizoids	1
Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences	1