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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Not merely the absence of disease: A genealogy of the WHO’s positive health definition	15
Cold War Pavlov: Homosexual aversion therapy in the 1960s	10
The influence of classical Stoicism on John Locke’s theory of self-ownership	8
Psychometric origins of depression	8
The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social	7
‘Ifp? Then What?’ Thinking within, with, and from cases	7
Neurobiological limits and the somatic significance of love: Caregivers’ engagements with neuroscience in Scottish parenting programmes	6
Thinking in, with, across, and beyond cases with John Forrester	6
Phrenology and the average person, 1840–1940	5
Freedom and addiction in four discursive registers: A comparative historical study of values in addiction science	5
Mothering in the frame: Cinematic microanalysis and the pathogenic mother, 1945–67	5
On Kuhn’s case, and Piaget’s: A critical two-sited hauntology (or, On impact without reference)	5
Histories of sexology today: Reimagining the boundaries of scientia sexualis	5
Conversion disorder and/or functional neurological disorder: How neurological explanations affect ideas of self, agency, and accountability	4
Boundaries of reasoning in cases: The visual psychoanalysis of René Spitz	4
A code for care and control: The PIN as an operator of interoperability in the Nordic welfare state	4
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress	4
Limitless? Imaginaries of cognitive enhancement and the labouring body	4
The past of predicting the future: A review of the multidisciplinary history of affective forecasting	4
The potency of the butterfly: The reception of Richard B. Goldschmidt’s animal experiments in German sexology around 1920	4
Periodical amnesia anddédoublementin case-reasoning: Writing psychological cases in late 19th-century France	4
Thinking in multitudes: Questionnaires and composite cases in early American psychology	4
Recomposing persons: Scavenging and storytelling in a birth cohort archive	4
Continuity through change: State social research and sociology in Portugal	3
Rahel Jaeggi’s theory of alienation	3

Organism and environment in Auguste Comte	3
Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19	3
An even-handed debate? The sexed/gendered controversy over laterality genes in British psychology, 1970s–1990s	3
The case as a travelling genre	3
The case history in the colonies	3
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of aversion therapy in England	3
Types, norms, and normalisation: Hormone research and treatments in Italy, Argentina, and Brazil, c. 1900–50	3
Ideology and science: The story of Polish psychology in the communist period	3
The synthesis of consciousness and the latent life of the mind: Philosophy, psychopathology, and ‘cryptopsychism’ in fin-de-siècle France	3
Introduction: Contested narratives of the mind and the brain: Neuro/psychological knowledge in popular debates and everyday life	3
‘The intelligent and the rest’: British Mensa and the contested status of high intelligence	3
Psychedelic psychodrama: Raising and expanding consciousness in Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath (1973)	2
The unexpected American origins of sexology and sexual science: Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard, Orson Squire Fowler, and the scientification of sex	2
Working in cases: British psychiatric social workers and a history of psychoanalysis from the middle, c.1930–60	2
Psychoanalysis and anti-racism in mid-20th-century America: An alternative angle of vision	2
More than a case of mistaken identity: Adult entertainment and the making of early sexology	2
The Hoffman Report in historical context: A study in denial	2
The idea of an ethically committed social science	2
I never promised you a rose garden.… When landscape architecture becomes a laboratory for the Anthropocene	2
Ifp⁰, then 1: The impossibility of thinkingoutcases	2
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history	2
Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty	2
Félida, doubled personality, and the ‘normal state’ in late 19th-century French psychology	2
Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease: Fifty years of tuberculosis reporting in the United Kingdom	2
‘A troublesome girl is pushed through’: Morality, biological determinism, resistance, resilience, and the Canadian child migration schemes, 1883–1939	2
Talking therapy: The allopathic nihilation of homoeopathy through conceptual translation and a new medical language	2
The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian	2
Social science and Marxist humanism beyond collectivism in Socialist Romania	2
Cultivating trust, producing knowledge: The management of archaeological labour and the making of a discipline	2
Confusing cases: Forrester, Stoller, Agnes, woman	2
From In Two Minds to MIND: The circulation of ‘anti-psychiatry’ in British film and television during the long 1960s	2
Renegades or liberals? Recent reflections on the Boasian legacies in American anthropology	1
Within a single lifetime: Recent writings on autism	1
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance?	1
For or against the molecularization of brain science?: Cybernetics, interdisciplinarity, and the unprogrammed beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT	1
‘This scene is itself living’: Buildings as landscapes in transatlantic human geography, 1870–1970	1
Introduction: The Hoffman Report in historical context	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 musicalCompany	1
Criticism as self-analysis	1
Kinsey and the psychoanalysts: Cross-disciplinary knowledge production in post-war US sex research	1
Beyond torture: Knowledge and power at the nexus of social science and national security	1
Race in post-war science: The Swiss case in a global context	1
Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry, colonialism, and biopower in China's south-western borderland in the 1930s and 1940s	1
‘Somewhere between science and superstition’: Religious outrage, horrific science, and The Exorcist (1973)	1
The emergence of the idea of ‘the welfare state’ in British political discourse	1
Proving nothing and illustrating much: The case of Michael Balint	1
A history of the data present	1
Maps of desire: Edward Tolman's drive theory of wants	1
A ‘commonsense’ psychoanalysis: Listening to the psychosocial dreamer in interwar Glasgow psychiatry	1

The pragmatic use of metaphor in empirical psychology	1
Simulating Marx: Herbert A. Simon's cognitivist approach to dialectical materialism	1
Hat sizes and craniometry: Professional know-how and scientific knowledge	1
Normal enough? Krafft-Ebing, Freud, and homosexuality	1
Confronting the field: Tylor's Anahuac and Victorian thought on human diversity	1
A diagrammatics of race: Samuel George Morton's ‘American Golgotha’ and the contest for the definition of the young field of anthropology	1
Consciousness reduced: The role of the ‘idiot’ in early evolutionary psychology	1
Beyond following rules: Teaching research ethics in the age of the Hoffman Report	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
Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context	1
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	1
Madness, virtue, and ecology: A classical Indian approach to psychiatric disturbance	1
Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown	1
Throwing the case open: The impossible subject of Luisa Passerini’s Autobiography of a Generation	1
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	1
Parallel structures: André Leroi-Gourhan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and the making of French structural anthropology	1
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case	1
On some antecedents of behavioural economics	1
After the normal	1