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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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	15
Reflections on Japan’s Universal Medical Insurance: A Historical Review	12
Editor’s Note	5
Keep Cooking, Keep Sharing	5
An Introduction to War, Medicine and Modernity in East Asian Conflicts	5
Military Medicine in East Asia: Histories of Instrumentalism, Resistance, and Agency	5
Correction	4
Efficacy vs. Ideology: The Use of Food Therapies in Preventing and Treating Beriberi in the Japanese Army in the Meiji Era	4
EUMENOL—Merck’s Patent Emmenagogue and its Chinese Connections (1896–1961)	4
Memes of Care: Good Morning Images and Digital Care among Older People in Taiwan	3
Implanting Wind Turbines: Cultural and Material Dimensions of Energy Transition in Jeju, South Korea	3
Reviewer's Reply to the Author's Response to the Book review of Susan Greenhalgh, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola . Chicago: University	3
A Tough Balancing Act – The Evolving AI Governance in Korea	3
A Tradition of Invention: The Paradox of Glorifying Past Technological Breakthroughs	3
Theorizing the Real in Social Robot Care Technologies in Japan	3
Editor’s Note	3
Ontology and Acupuncture: East Asian Analogism and an Emerging Acupuncture Method in South Korea	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
Creationism in a South Korean Culture: Science, Religion, and the Struggle against Evolution	2
Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917-1960	2
GMO China: How Global Debates Transformed China’s Agricultural Biotechnology Policies	2
Widening Access to Healthcare: Tuberculosis Control as a Lens for Understanding Health Reform in China	2
Editor’s Note	1
The Life and Death of Machines and Imaginaries: Conversations on Trains on EASTS Covers	1

Can Coding Education Go Completely Online? Time, Work, and Relationship in Online Courses	1
Editor’s Note	1
Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted ReproductionChia-Ling Wu, Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction New York: Bergha	1
A Note of Thanks and Farewell	1
The Sociology of ‘Structural Disaster’: Beyond Fukushima	1
Chinese Medicine as Boundary Object(s): Examining TCM’s Integration into International Science Through the Case of Australian--Chinese Research Collaboration	1
Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan	1
Correction	1
New Perspectives on Science, Medicine, and Language in Modern South Asia	1
Staging the Robot: Performing Techno-Politics of Innovation for Care Robotics in Japan	1
Who Is Mr. Science and Why Does He Matter?	1
When Curiosity Invites Itself to Doctors: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat and His Contemporaries, Between Sinology, Medicine and Acupuncture	1
Practices on Aarogya Setu: Mapping Citizen Interaction with the Contact-Tracing App in the Time of COVID-19	1
The Multispecies Empire of the Mughals	1
Public Engagement in Micro-hydro Technology in Central Java: A Call to Decentralize the Energy System	1
Summoning the Wind, Calling the Rain: Weather Modification During China’s Great Leap Forward	1
Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic	1
The International Campaign Against Leprosy, 1948–2005Jo Robertson, The International Campaign Against Leprosy, 1948–2005 London: Hurst & Company, 2021, 315 pp.	1
Animal Scientism: Making Biology Experimental in Republican China	1
Knowledge Production in Mao-era China: Learning from the Masses	1
Late Industrialism, Advocacy, and Law: Relays Toward Just Transition	1
Practical or Cultural: American Medical Perceptions of Acupuncture from the Boom of the 1820s to ‘Acupuncture Fever’ of the 1970s	1
Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea	1
Editor’s Note	1
Would Mr. Science Eat the Chinese Diet?	1
Saving Chinese Medicine for Modern Warfare in China: A Study Note	1
The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java	1
Editor’s Note	1
Collingwood’s Cat: Multispecies Histories in the Holocene and in the Anthropocene	1
An Introduction to Robots and Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare in Japan and South Korea	1
Acupuncture Education in the UK	1
Two Tales of Long-term Collaboration: Social Scientific Involvement in Artificial Intelligence in Japan and Synthetic Biology in the UK	1
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2022–24	1
Welcome to Our Editorial Board Members, 2022–24	1
Engineering Societies in China: Spaces of Professionalization and Participation, 1912–1949	1
Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology	1
Editor’s Note	1
Body, Society, and Nation, the Creation of Public Health and Urban Culture in Shanghai	1