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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	15
Making Belgian Big Science	6
Drawing on the Difuentes	6
Discoverer and Methodologist	5
The New Modern Synthesis	4
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	3
How to Train Your Analyst	3
Hidden in Plain Sight	3
Introduction	3
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Wrenching Torque	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
Armadillos under the Microscope	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	1
Stolen Masks	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
War on Extinction	1

Museums and the History of Science	1
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	1
Across and within Networks	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
Wilsonian Renormalization in the 1970s	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1
Oceans of Ooze	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	1
Haunted by Denial	1
No End in Sight	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
Addiction Beyond a Cure	1
Our Pigs, Ourselves	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
How to Call a Duck	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	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 Black Androids	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
“Shovel-Ready”	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
Template Theories, the Rule of Parsimony, and Disregard for Irreproducibility—The Example of Linus Pauling’s Research on Antibody Formation	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
The Cool Air	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Of Snails and Salvation	0
Becoming Visible	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
The Fall of Vannevar Bush	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
Introduction	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0

Gaia’s Tissue	0
Social Scientists	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
Reading Teeth	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
Science, Interrupted	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
Archival Wounds	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Bytes as Test Tubes	0
Logistical Natures	0
Sticky Solutions	0
The Power of Phosphate	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
Re-Envisioning the History of Cellular and Molecular Biology	0
The Art of Listening	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
How to Capture Movement	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
Strong Foundations	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
Coded Objects	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Layers of Erasure	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
In the Animal House	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
Tracing Absence	0
Introduction	0
Introduction	0