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

Article	Citations
Psychoactive Drugs and Moral Qualms	15
Blurry Authorship	12
Drawing on the Difuentes	6
Four Paths through Climate History	6
Discoverer and Methodologist	5
The New Modern Synthesis	4
Making Belgian Big Science	4
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	4
Introduction	3
Hidden in Plain Sight	3
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Character Study	2
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	2
Wrenching Torque	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Stolen Masks	2
Armadillos under the Microscope	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	2
Across and within Networks	2
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1

No End in Sight	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
Special Section Introduction	1
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
War on Extinction	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
Museums and the History of Science	1
Haunted by Denial	1
Margrete Heiberg Bose, a Woman in Early Physical Chemistry	1
Listing Butterflies	1
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Making The Climate Chronicles	0
Strong Foundations	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
Japan, Scientific Drillships, and the Dynamics of International Leadership for Subseafloor Exploration	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
Moonwalks and Woodstocks	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
The Politics of a History of [Race] Science	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
The Sequences and the Sequencers	0
Becoming Visible	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
Oceans of Ooze	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
Bytes as Test Tubes	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
Archival Wounds	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
Practicing Public History through Exhibitions	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
Tracing Absence	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
A Grammar of Modern Exploration	0
Coded Objects	0
The Black Androids	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0

The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
Reading Teeth	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
The Cool Air	0
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
Addiction Beyond a Cure	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
Layers of Erasure	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Introduction	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Logistical Natures	0
Encounters in the Living Ocean	0
Moving Mountains	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Artisan Technical Manuals as Religious Laboring Histories	0
Book or Project?	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
Sticky Solutions	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
Introduction	0
Practicing Early Modern History through (Re)Making Things	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
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
Making a Road For Science	0
The Power and Performativity of Naming	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
André-Marie Ampère in 2025	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
In the Animal House	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
When Scientists Disagree	0