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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	13
Special Issue Introduction	6
The Politics of Early Programming Languages	6
The Vaccine	4
Nature and Modernity in an East Asian Key	4
Social Scientists	4
Addiction Beyond a Cure	3
Museums and the History of Science	3
The Cool Air	3
Bioarchaeology of the Self	3
Designing the Virus	2
Becoming Visible	2
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	2
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	2
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	2
Yeast Sequencing	2
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	2
Blurry Authorship	2
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	2
The Power of Phosphate	1
From the Model to the Glance	1
When Scientists Disagree	1
Discoverer and Methodologist	1
Gaia’s Tissue	1
Our Pigs, Ourselves	1

Tortoise Traffic	1
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	1
Funny Origins of the Big Bang Theory	1
Tracing Absence	1
Logistical Natures	1
Re-Envisioning the History of Cellular and Molecular Biology	1
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	1
Science, Interrupted	1
Making Belgian Big Science	1
Black Public Health	1
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	1
Introduction	1
A Black Hole in Ink	1
How to Capture Movement	1
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	1
Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise	1
Secrecy and the Genesis of the 1951 Dutch-Norwegian Nuclear Reactor	1
Drawing on the Difuentes	1
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	1
Archival Wounds	1
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	1
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	1
The Ventilator	1
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
How to Call a Duck	0
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Andean Man & the Astronaut	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Time/Travel	0
“The Door to the Promised Land of Atomic Peace and Plenty”	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
Strong Foundations	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
Listing Butterflies	0
Stolen Masks	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
“Shovel-Ready”	0
The Curve	0
Entelechy and Energy	0
Across and within Networks	0
Aging	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Introduction	0
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0

How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	0
Introduction	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
Sticky Solutions	0
Border Crossings	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	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
Hidden in Plain Sight	0
In the Animal House	0
Wrenching Torque	0
Armadillos under the Microscope	0
The Art of Listening	0
War on Extinction	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
The Fall of Vannevar Bush	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
The Mask	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
Thinking Inside the Box	0
Of Snails and Salvation	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Wilsonian Renormalization in the 1970s	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
The Experimental Multispecies Household	0
Teaching in a Swimming Pool	0
Haunted by Denial	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Reading Teeth	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
The Sequences and the Sequencers	0
The Essential Worker	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
Essays & Reviews	0
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Template Theories, the Rule of Parsimony, and Disregard for Irreproducibility—The Example of Linus Pauling’s Research on Antibody Formation	0
Introduction	0
The Black Androids	0
Oceans of Ooze	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Coded Objects	0
Fechner on a Walk	0
How to Train Your Analyst	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
The Power and Performativity of Naming	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0