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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
British criminology, undercover policing, and racist attacks: Notes on the ‘law and order’ information infrastructure	13
Criminal voices: The transfer of sound-based expertise in Cold War forensics	7
The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain	7
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection: Body typing schemes offer a new path to a utopian future	7
Kinship acknowledged and denied: Collecting and publishing kinship materials in 19th-century settler-colonial states	6
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain	5
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	4
Modeling the epidemiologic individual	4
Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences	4
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74	4
Transformativity: The malleable foundations of social theory	4
Destiny is Visible on a Higher Plane of Abstraction: Frank Ramsey’s Psychoanalytic Interest Amid His Behaviorist Legacy	4
Sexology and development	4
Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway	3
State socialist vs. (neo-)liberal governmentality? Weight loss TV shows and the fight against fatness in East and West Germany, 1970s–1980s	3
The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures	3
Beyond empathy: Affect attunement in the care relationship	3
‘Freedom within parameters’: Liberalism, (in)determinism, and the politics of instinct in Sigmund Exner and Sigmund Freud	3
Metapsychy's border: Henri Piéron's (1881–1964) role as the gatekeeper of French psychology	3
Tocqueville and the Ostroms	3
Cybernetics in the Republic	2
How does a mental health chatbot work? A ‘conversation design’ concept of mental health intervention	2
Film, observation and the mind	2
Seeing like an epidemiologist? Mobilising people against COVID-19	2
The community test tube of American civilization: Burt and Ethel Aginsky’s Social Science Field Laboratory, 1939–47	2

Historia cum ira : Alexandre Herculano and the virtues of engaged objectivity	2
On the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice	2
Corrado Gini's economic anthropology	2
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food	2
Horizons of Passion: Hermeneutics as fusion or as fracture	2
Beyond torture: Knowledge and power at the nexus of social science and national security	2
Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19	2
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)	2
‘Intelligence’ before ‘intelligence tests’: Alfred Binet’s experiments on his daughters, 1890–1903	2
A military/intelligence operational perspective on the American Psychological Association’s weaponization of psychology post-9/11	2
Collaborative research in the medical humanities: The case for transdisciplinarity	2
‘A treatise on all the bad habits of mankind’: Major Greenwood and the political economy of epidemiology in early 20th-century Britain	2
The Hoffman Report in historical context: A study in denial	2
Care as untranslatable	2
Expertise in the Czechoslovak Prison System: Research Institute of Penology as a Bearer of Expert Knowledge and Change	1
Exploring state socialist governmentality: Eastern European examples from medicine and health care	1
‘Subjects to be dealt with’: Disability, class, and carceral power in early 20th-century Britain	1
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	1
Entangled traditions: Philosophical and cultural foundations of the health humanities in France and the USA	1
Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis	1
The duality of care: Finding the right balance	1
The visualization of autism: Filming children at the Maudsley Hospital, London, 1957–8	1
Spencer and Parsons on functional differentiation: Some illustrative parallels	1
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory	1
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness	1
That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains: Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis	1
The model multiple: Representing cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	1
The general practitioner as epidemiologist in Britain, 1930–1960	1
Self-help in socialist contexts: Nervousness and responsibilization in 1960s Hungary	1
Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II	1
Talcott Parsons and the totem–taboo problematic	1
Managing power and psychiatric training in the United States, 1945–1990	1
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83	1
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics	1
Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison	1
From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate	1
The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history	1
What Counts as Resilience? Childhood Adversity, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and the Coloniality of the ‘Invulnerable’	1
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928	1
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	1
Dreaming in the Stalag: Dream analysis and observational cultures among Second World War British POWs	1
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives	1
The critique of social reason in the Popper–Adorno debate	1
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)	1
Taxonomical lives: The making of social divisions in the Swedish press during the golden age of social democracy, 1945–76	1
Finding modernity in England's past: Social anthropology and the remaking of social history in Britain, 1959–77	1
Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide	1
Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s–60s	1
Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s	1
A faithless metaphysics: Spengler's influence on Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences	1