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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	13
Making Belgian Big Science	6
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	6
The New Modern Synthesis	4
Discoverer and Methodologist	4
Drawing on the Difuentes	4
How to Train Your Analyst	3
Introduction	3
Hidden in Plain Sight	3
Armadillos under the Microscope	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	2
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	2
Wrenching Torque	2
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	2
The Politics of Early Programming Languages	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	1
Wilsonian Renormalization in the 1970s	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
Oceans of Ooze	1
Haunted by Denial	1

Museums and the History of Science	1
Stolen Masks	1
War on Extinction	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
No End in Sight	1
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	1
Across and within Networks	1
The Experimental Multispecies Household	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1
The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
Science, Interrupted	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
The Art of Listening	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
Strong Foundations	0
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
Becoming Visible	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
Introduction	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
The Cool Air	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
Social Scientists	0
Introduction	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
Our Pigs, Ourselves	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
Template Theories, the Rule of Parsimony, and Disregard for Irreproducibility—The Example of Linus Pauling’s Research on Antibody Formation	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
Accidents of Geography	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0

The Black Androids	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
“Shovel-Ready”	0
The Power of Phosphate	0
Reading Teeth	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
Coded Objects	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
Time/Travel	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Andean Man & the Astronaut	0
Of Snails and Salvation	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
Logistical Natures	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
How to Call a Duck	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
Addiction Beyond a Cure	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Introduction	0
Border Crossings	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
Re-Envisioning the History of Cellular and Molecular Biology	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Archival Wounds	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
The Fall of Vannevar Bush	0
How to Capture Movement	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
Sticky Solutions	0
In the Animal House	0
Tracing Absence	0