OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 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
The problematic legacy of victim specimens from the Nazi era: Identifying the persons behind the specimens at the Max Planck Institutes for Brain Research and of Psychiatry	8
Wilhelm Erb (1840–1921), an influential German founder of neurology in the nineteenth century	6
Western European influence on the development of Russian neurology and psychiatry, part 1: Western European tours of early Russian neurologists and psychiatrists	5
Lytico-bodigin Guam: Historical links between diet and illness during and after Spanish colonization	5
Neuroscience history interview with Professor Wolf Singer, emeritus director at the Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main	5
The perversion of language: Jules Baillarger on aphasia, the lateralization of speech, and the Baillarger-Jackson principle	5
Then there were 12: The illustrated cranial nerves from Vesalius to Soemmerring	4
Heinrich Müller (1820-1864) and the entoptic discovery of the site in the retina where vision is initiated	4
The vision of Helmholtz	4
Evolution of the myth of the human rete mirabile traced through text and illustrations in printed books: The case of Vesalius and his plagiarists	3
René Cruchet (1875–1959), beyond encephalitis lethargica	3
The first historical description of chronic subdural hematoma: A tale of inaccurate interpretation, inaccurate quoting and inaccurate requoting	3
Raymond D. Adams and Joseph M. Foley: Elaborating the neurologic manifestations of hepatic encephalopathy (1949–1953)	3
Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century—Part 1: Women with “hysteria” and “hystero-epilepsy”	3
On the history of neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society, 1948–2002—German, European, and transatlantic perspectives: Introduction	2
Lathyrism in Spain: Lessons from 68 publications following the 1936–39 Civil War	2
The early history of the knee-jerk reflex in neurology	2
Venae spermaticae post aures: The early modern angiology-neurology of virility	2
The electrified artist: Edvard Munch’s demons, treatments, and sketch of an electrotherapy session (1908–1909)	2
What caused Joan of Arc’s neuropsychiatric symptoms? Medical hypotheses from 1882 to 2016	2
Eugène-Louis Doyen and his Atlas d’Anatomie Topographique (1911): Sensationalism and gruesome theater	2
Ernst Brücke and Sigmund Freud: Physiological roots of psychoanalysis	2
Neuroscience history interview with Professor Bert Sakmann, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1991), Max Planck Society, Germany	2
“All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity”: A Bio-Bibliography of Dr Thomas Willis 1621–1675	2
The medieval cell doctrine: Foundations, development, evolution, and graphic representations in printed books from 1490 to 1630	2

Did King Yeongjo (1694–1776) of Joseon Dynasty Korea suffer dementia during the last decade of his reign?	2
Brain research on Nazi “euthanasia” victims: Legal conflicts surrounding Scientology’s instrumentalization of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society’s history against the Max Planck Society	2
Summarizing the medieval anatomy of the head and brain in a single image: Magnus Hundt (1501) and Johann Dryander (1537) as transitional pre-Vesalian anatomists	2
Between Moscow and Berlin: The Russian connections behind Flatau’s “Law of Eccentric Location of Long Pathways in Spinal Cord”	1
The historical and philosophical roots of emergentism in the neurosciences	1
Haloperidol’s introduction in the United States: A tale of a failed trial and its consequences	1
Encephalitis lethargica in Peru	1
Cranial surgery and the pericranium	1
Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century — Part 2: Ovarian-based treatments of “hysteria”	1
Neuroscience research in the Max Planck Society and a broken relationship to the past: Some legacies of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society after 1948	1
George Kenneth York III	1
Ada Potter and her microscopical neuroanatomy atlases	1
In memoriam: Henry Szczȩsny Schutta, MD (1928–2020)	1
On the English (1931) and Spanish (1932) translations of von Economo’s classic monograph on encephalitis lethargica	1
The memory for words: Armand Trousseau on aphasia	1
Brain Science Under the Swastika: Ethical Violations, Resistance and Victimization of Neuroscientists in Nazi Europe	1
The transnational move of interdisciplinarity: Ginseng and the beginning of neuroscience in South Korea, 1970–1990s	1
Historical forerunners of neuropsychiatry: The psychiatric works of Albert W. Adamkiewicz (1850–1921)	1
Rita Levi-Montalcini e il suo Maestro, Una grande avventura nelle Neuroscienze alla Scuola di Giuseppe Levi	1
Sympathetic Understanding	1
Neuropathological images in the great pathology atlases	1
Urinary paraplegia and William Withey Gull	1
Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul	1
E. H. Sieveking and his cephalalgia epileptica	1
An overview of headache treatments during the tenth century	1
Echoes of William Gowers’s concept of abiotrophy	1
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century brain maps relating to locations and constructions of brain functions	1
A brief history of the Australasian Neuroscience Society	1
Cross-sectional representations of the central nervous system in Pirogov’s “Ice Anatomy”	1
Le langage des crânes. Histoire de la phrénologie	1
Two faces of the teacher: Comparing editions of Charcot’sLeçons du mardi	1
The great family of cerebral ventricles: Some intruders in the portrait gallery	1
The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination	1
Ethical questions arising from Otfrid Foerster’s use of the Sherrington method to map human dermatomes	1
On old Olympus? Oliver Wendell Holmes and the origin and evolution of a mnemonic couplet for the cranial nerves	1
Phrenology’s frontal sinus problem: An insurmountable obstruction?	1
The advent of epilepsy directed neurosurgery: The early pioneers and who was first	1