OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History of the Human Sciences is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection: Body typing schemes offer a new path to a utopian future	10
‘Flash houses’: Public houses and geographies of moral contagion in 19th-century London	9
From In Two Minds to MIND: The circulation of ‘anti-psychiatry’ in British film and television during the long 1960s	8
Kinship acknowledged and denied: Collecting and publishing kinship materials in 19th-century settler-colonial states	8
British criminology, undercover policing, and racist attacks: Notes on the ‘law and order’ information infrastructure	8
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain	6
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	6
Sexology and development	4
Transformativity: The malleable foundations of social theory	4
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	4
The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social	4
On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity	3
Metapsychy's border: Henri Piéron's (1881–1964) role as the gatekeeper of French psychology	3
Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences	3
Fort/Da/Freud	2
Tocqueville and the Ostroms	2
Beyond torture: Knowledge and power at the nexus of social science and national security	2
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)	2
Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry, colonialism, and biopower in China's south-western borderland in the 1930s and 1940s	2
The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures	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
Horizons of Passion: Hermeneutics as fusion or as fracture	2
Seeing like an epidemiologist? Mobilising people against COVID-19	2
The Hoffman Report in historical context: A study in denial	2

Finding modernity in England's past: Social anthropology and the remaking of social history in Britain, 1959–77	1
Psychometric origins of depression	1
Mind and knowledge in the early thought of Franz Boas, 1887–1904	1
Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis	1
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history	1
Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s	1
Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems	1
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928	1
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness	1
Confronting the field: Tylor's Anahuac and Victorian thought on human diversity	1
Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide	1
Psychoanalysis and anti-racism in mid-20th-century America: An alternative angle of vision	1
Film, observation and the mind	1
Care as untranslatable	1
The idea of an ethically committed social science	1
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics	1
Alfred Vierkandt’s notion of the social group	1
The critique of social reason in the Popper–Adorno debate	1
A public inquiry into Freud’s influence upon Cambridge	1
Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty	1
Modern European sexological and orientalist assimilations of medieval Islamicate ‘ilm al-bah to erotology	1
Freud in Cambridge Review Symposium	1
That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains: Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis	1
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	1
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	1
How does a mental health chatbot work? A ‘conversation design’ concept of mental health intervention	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
Cybernetics in the Republic	1
A code for care and control: The PIN as an operator of interoperability in the Nordic welfare state	1
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of aversion therapy in England	1
Managing power and psychiatric training in the United States, 1945–1990	1
Psychedelic psychodrama: Raising and expanding consciousness in Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath (1973)	1
Taxonomical lives: The making of social divisions in the Swedish press during the golden age of social democracy, 1945–76	1
Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison	1
The model multiple: Representing cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	1
The visualization of autism: Filming children at the Maudsley Hospital, London, 1957–8	1
The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian	1
‘You never need an analyst with Bobby around’: The mid-20th-century human sciences in Sondheim and Furth's musical Company	1
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food	1
Corrado Gini's economic anthropology	1
A military/intelligence operational perspective on the American Psychological Association’s weaponization of psychology post-9/11	1
Simulating Marx: Herbert A. Simon's cognitivist approach to dialectical materialism	1
I never promised you a rose garden.… When landscape architecture becomes a laboratory for the Anthropocene	0
Criticism as self-analysis	0
Behavior takes form: Tracing the film image in scientific research	0
Frederick Antal and the Marxist challenge to art history	0
Time shifts: Place, belonging, and future orientation in pandemic everyday life	0
In the shadow of the tree: The diagrammatics of relatedness in genealogy, anthropology, and genetics as epistemic, cultural, and political practice	0
Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease: Fifty years of tuberculosis reporting in the United Kingdom	0
Social science and Marxist humanism beyond collectivism in Socialist Romania	0

Race in post-war science: The Swiss case in a global context	0
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress	0
Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II	0
The pincer movement of The Idea of a Social Science: Winch, Collingwood, and philosophy as a human science	0
The codependence of Orientalism and the social sciences: Durkheim on religion in India	0
Cultivating trust, producing knowledge: The management of archaeological labour and the making of a discipline	0
Being captured by queer kinship: Margaret Lowenfeld and Margaret Mead	0
Ethnopsychology in the Bismarck Archipelago: Richard Thurnwald and the visual anthropology of German colonialism	0
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance?	0
Defeating the ‘social danger’ of homosexuality while ‘forging the fatherland’: Sexual science and biotypology in Mexico’s national development, 1927–57	0
‘It does not compare to the bright dialectical materialism propounded by Marx, Engels, and Lenin’: Revolutionary refractions and Marxist critique of Freudianism in pre-revolutionary Iran	0
Arguments with fictional philosophers: Spengler's Kant and the conceptual foundations of Spengler's early philosophy of history	0
A faith in science: Gardner Murphy and parapsychology	0
Two left turns to science: Gramsci and Du Bois on the emancipatory potential of the social sciences	0
Maps of desire: Edward Tolman's drive theory of wants	0
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case	0
Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context	0
A diagrammatics of race: Samuel George Morton's ‘American Golgotha’ and the contest for the definition of the young field of anthropology	0
From class origins to individual psychopathology: Spousal murder according to state socialist Czechoslovak criminology	0
‘Intelligible to the mind and pleasing to the eye’: Mapping out kinship in British family directories (1660–1830)	0
‘A troublesome girl is pushed through’: Morality, biological determinism, resistance, resilience, and the Canadian child migration schemes, 1883–1939	0
Rahel Jaeggi’s theory of alienation	0
‘Somewhere between science and superstition’: Religious outrage, horrific science, and The Exorcist (1973)	0
Reply to my commentators – Thinking with Forrester: Dreams, true crimes, and histories of change	0
The emergence of the idea of ‘the welfare state’ in British political discourse	0
Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology	0
On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care	0
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)	0
‘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	0
From the margins to the NICE guidelines: British clinical psychology and the development of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, 1982–2002	0
Contrary to reason: Documentary film-making and alternative psychotherapies	0
Religion and civilization in the sociology of Norbert Elias: Fantasy–reality balances in long-term perspective	0
Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’: Multiple discovery and the rhetoric of priority	0
The environmental counter-history of liberalism: A formidable challenge?	0
The politics of recovery: Women’s mental health activism in the UK, 1986–2002, with a focus on Bristol Crisis Service for Women	0
The discovery of synchrony: By means of the projector as a scientific instrument	0
Westermarck and Malinowski: Friendship and competition during an intellectual paradigm shift	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2024	0
Beyond following rules: Teaching research ethics in the age of the Hoffman Report	0
Reanimating experimental psychology: Media archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the ‘Testing the Mind’ film series	0
Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia: Crisis, consensus, and computers in post-war psychiatry	0
How family charts became Mendelian: The changing content of pedigrees and its impact on the consolidation of genetic theory	0
The material force of categories	0
Demons of the mind: The ‘psy’ sciences and film in the long 1960s	0
From cohort to community: The emotional work of birthday cards in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, 1946–2018	0
The sciences of love: Intimate ‘democracy’ and the eugenic development of the Marathi couple in colonial India	0
Who reads Renan	0
‘Wundt's work is merely an incident in one of the challenging scholarly careers on recent history’: The media and academic reception of Völkerpsychologie , 1900–1920	0
Shaping epidemic dynamics: An historical epistemology study of the SIR model	0
‘There is nothing less spectacular than a pestilence’: Picturing the pandemic in Mass Observation's COVID-19 collections	0
The crisis of modern society: Richard Titmuss and Emile Durkheim	0
‘Subjects to be dealt with’: Disability, class, and carceral power in early 20th-century Britain	0
Making contagion social: Epidemiology, calculus, and the theory of happenings	0
Thinking in systems: Problems of organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950–7	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	0
Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	0
Against well-being: A critique of positive psychology	0
The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences	0
The pragmatic use of metaphor in empirical psychology	0
The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism	0
The figures, profiles, border figures (figures-limites), and ‘pure schema’ of Foucault’s later lectures on cosmopolitanism	0
For or against the molecularization of brain science?: Cybernetics, interdisciplinarity, and the unprogrammed beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT	0
Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920–40	0
Introduction: The Hoffman Report in historical context	0