OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
An Introduction to War, Medicine and Modernity in East Asian Conflicts	10
Military Medicine in East Asia: Histories of Instrumentalism, Resistance, and Agency	8
Social Welfare as “Legitimation”: National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and the Politics of Health Reform in South Korea, from 1977 to the Time of COVID-19	6
Reflections on Japan’s Universal Medical Insurance: A Historical Review	5
Correction	4
EUMENOL—Merck’s Patent Emmenagogue and its Chinese Connections (1896–1961)	4
Editor’s Note	4
Implanting Wind Turbines: Cultural and Material Dimensions of Energy Transition in Jeju, South Korea	4
Efficacy vs. Ideology: The Use of Food Therapies in Preventing and Treating Beriberi in the Japanese Army in the Meiji Era	4
About the Cover	4
Memes of Care: Good Morning Images and Digital Care among Older People in Taiwan	3
A Tough Balancing Act – The Evolving AI Governance in Korea	3
A Tradition of Invention: The Paradox of Glorifying Past Technological Breakthroughs	3
From Hwangsa to COVID-19: The Rise of Mass Masking in South Korea	3
GMO China: How Global Debates Transformed China’s Agricultural Biotechnology Policies	2
Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960	2
Theorizing the Real in Social Robot Care Technologies in Japan	2
Ontology and Acupuncture: East Asian Analogism and an Emerging Acupuncture Method in South Korea	2
Editor’s Note	2
The Valuation of Contaminated Life: RCA in Taiwan and the Compensation of Toxic Exposure	2
“Where Treasures Arise:” Mining Knowledge, Mining Sites, and the Spatial Rationalities of Mineral Resources in Qing China	2
John Fryer and The Translator’s Vade-mecum: New Perspectives on the History of Modern Chinese Scientific and Technical Lexicon	2
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China .Peter B. Lavelle, The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and	1
Can Coding Education Go Completely Online? Time, Work, and Relationship in Online Courses	1
The Politics and Sub-Politics of Mad Cow Disease in South Korea	1

Editor’s Note	1
Summoning the Wind, Calling the Rain: Weather Modification During China’s Great Leap Forward	1
19.2 Editor’s Note	1
Social Systems Matter: Precision Medicine, Public Health, and the Medical Model	1
Body, Society, and Nation, the Creation of Public Health and Urban Culture in Shanghai	1
Who Is Mr. Science and Why Does He Matter?	1
Public Engagement in Micro-hydro Technology in Central Java: A Call to Decentralize the Energy System	1
Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea	1
“Hotbeds of Psychopathology”: Psy Sciences and the Critique of the Family in Republican China	1
Chinese Medicine as Boundary Object(s): Examining TCM’s Integration into International Science Through the Case of Australian--Chinese Research Collaboration	1
Sonja M. Kim, Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea	1
Editor’s Note	1
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2022–24	1
China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy	1
An Unchallengeable Value: Foreign Physicians, Chinese Medical Elites, and Normalizing Masks in Semi-Colonial China	1
The Sociology of ‘Structural Disaster’: Beyond Fukushima	1
Practices on Aarogya Setu: Mapping Citizen Interaction with the Contact-Tracing App in the Time of COVID-19	1
When Curiosity Invites Itself to Doctors: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat and His Contemporaries, Between Sinology, Medicine and Acupuncture	1
News and Events	1
Saving Chinese Medicine for Modern Warfare in China: A Study Note	1
An Introduction to Robots and Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare in Japan and South Korea	1
Data and Databases: Emerging Objects of Research	1
Some Elements of the Regime of Management of Irrelevance in Science	1
Charlotte-V Pollet, The Empty and the Full: Li Ye and the Way of Mathematics. Geometrical Procedures by Sections of Areas	1
Widening Access to Healthcare: Tuberculosis Control as a Lens for Understanding Health Reform in China	1
Commentary on Four Tapuya Papers on Environmentalism in Latin America:The EASTS Perspective	1
Knowledge Production in Mao-era China: Learning from the Masses	1
News and Events	1
Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan	1
An Introduction to Innovation and Circulation of Acupuncture (XIX and XXI Centuries): Between Governance and Personal Itinerary	1
Correction	1
India’s Biotech Emergence: A Critical Political Economy Analysis	1
Editor’s Note	1
The Life and Death of Machines and Imaginaries: Conversations on Trains on EASTS Covers	1
Editor’s Note	1
Late Industrialism, Advocacy, and Law: Relays Toward Just Transition	1
Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted ReproductionChia-Ling Wu, Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction New York: Bergha	1
New Perspectives on Science, Medicine, and Language in Modern South Asia	1
Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar OrnithologyAnnika A. Culver, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar OrnithologyLondon and New York: Blo	1
Staging the Robot: Performing Techno-Politics of Innovation for Care Robotics in Japan	1
Would Mr. Science Eat the Chinese Diet?	1
The International Campaign Against Leprosy, 1948–2005Jo Robertson, The International Campaign Against Leprosy, 1948–2005 London: Hurst & Company, 2021, 315 pp.	1
Welcome to Our Editorial Board Members, 2022–24	1
Red Star over Medicine: Redefining Doctor-Patient Relationship in Early CPC History (1930s–1960s)	1
The 2010 4S/JSSTS Joint Conference in Tokyo: Negotiation and Preparation	1
Acupuncture Education in the UK	1
The Dawn of Science as Cultural Authority in China:Tianyanlun(On Heavenly Evolution) in the Post-1895 Debate over the Engagement with Western Civilization	1
Animal Scientism: Making Biology Experimental in Republican China	1
A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern JapanTimothy M. Yang, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan Ithaca, NY: Cornell Uni	1
Dynamic Capabilities in a Learning Society—The Case of Taiwan in Controlling the Coronavirus Outbreak	1

Practical or Cultural: American Medical Perceptions of Acupuncture from the Boom of the 1820s to ‘Acupuncture Fever’ of the 1970s