OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Historical Studies in the Natural 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	15
Drawing on the Difuentes	11
Discoverer and Methodologist	6
The New Modern Synthesis	6
Making Belgian Big Science	5
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	4
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
Armadillos under the Microscope	3
How to Train Your Analyst	3
Hidden in Plain Sight	3
Introduction	3
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
Wrenching Torque	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	2
Haunted by Denial	1
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
Addiction Beyond a Cure	1
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	1

Across and within Networks	1
Museums and the History of Science	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
Bytes as Test Tubes	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
Stolen Masks	1
War on Extinction	1
No End in Sight	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1
Oceans of Ooze	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
Making a Road For Science	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Layers of Erasure	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Coded Objects	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
Sticky Solutions	0
Becoming Visible	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Moonwalks and Woodstocks	0
Science, Interrupted	0
Introduction	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Did Hamilton Ever Use the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression? Reflections on the (Re-)Use of Oral Histories and Their Accessibility via the ComBio Website	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
Reading Teeth	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
Accidents of Geography	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0

Talking Story with the Archives	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
André-Marie Ampère in 2025	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Archival Wounds	0
Japan, Scientific Drillships, and the Dynamics of International Leadership for Subseafloor Exploration	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
Introduction	0
Introduction	0
Tracing Absence	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
Strong Foundations	0
How to Capture Movement	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
The Cool Air	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
The Power of Phosphate	0
Logistical Natures	0
In the Animal House	0
How to Call a Duck	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
The Black Androids	0