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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection: Body typing schemes offer a new path to a utopian future	12
British criminology, undercover policing, and racist attacks: Notes on the ‘law and order’ information infrastructure	7
The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain	6
Criminal voices: The transfer of sound-based expertise in Cold War forensics	6
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	5
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	4
Sexology and development	4
Kinship acknowledged and denied: Collecting and publishing kinship materials in 19th-century settler-colonial states	4
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74	4
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain	4
Metapsychy's border: Henri Piéron's (1881–1964) role as the gatekeeper of French psychology	4
Modeling the epidemiologic individual	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	3
The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures	3
Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences	3
Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway	3
‘Freedom within parameters’: Liberalism, (in)determinism, and the politics of instinct in Sigmund Exner and Sigmund Freud	3
State socialist vs. (neo-)liberal governmentality? Weight loss TV shows and the fight against fatness in East and West Germany, 1970s–1980s	3
Tocqueville and the Ostroms	3
The Hoffman Report in historical context: A study in denial	2
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)	2
On the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice	2
Corrado Gini's economic anthropology	2
Cybernetics in the Republic	2

Care as untranslatable	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
Collaborative research in the medical humanities: The case for transdisciplinarity	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
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
Historia cum ira : Alexandre Herculano and the virtues of engaged objectivity	2
How does a mental health chatbot work? A ‘conversation design’ concept of mental health intervention	2
Film, observation and the mind	2
‘A treatise on all the bad habits of mankind’: Major Greenwood and the political economy of epidemiology in early 20th-century Britain	2
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	1
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928	1
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	1
Self-help in socialist contexts: Nervousness and responsibilization in 1960s Hungary	1
‘All the progressive forms of life are built up on the attraction of sex’: Development and the social function of the sexual instinct in late 19th- and early 20th-century Western European sexology	1
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives	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
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness	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
The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history	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
What Counts as Resilience? Childhood Adversity, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and the Coloniality of the ‘Invulnerable’	1
Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems	1
‘Subjects to be dealt with’: Disability, class, and carceral power in early 20th-century Britain	1
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)	1
Talcott Parsons and the totem–taboo problematic	1
Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s–60s	1
Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis	1
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics	1
Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide	1
From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate	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
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food	1
Dreaming in the Stalag: Dream analysis and observational cultures among Second World War British POWs	1
Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison	1
Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II	1
Entangled traditions: Philosophical and cultural foundations of the health humanities in France and the USA	1
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory	1
The general practitioner as epidemiologist in Britain, 1930–1960	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
The critique of social reason in the Popper–Adorno debate	1
Exploring state socialist governmentality: Eastern European examples from medicine and health care	1