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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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
Armadillos under the Microscope	3
How to Train Your Analyst	3
Hidden in Plain Sight	3
Introduction	3
Entelechy and Energy	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
Wrenching Torque	2
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	2
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	1
Stolen Masks	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

Museums and the History of Science	1
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	1
Across and within Networks	1
Haunted by Denial	1
No End in Sight	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
Addiction Beyond a Cure	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	1
Thinking Inside the Box	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
Citing the Unsaid	0
Our Pigs, Ourselves	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
How to Call a Duck	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
The Power of Phosphate	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
Re-Envisioning the History of Cellular and Molecular Biology	0
The Black Androids	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
“Shovel-Ready”	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
Template Theories, the Rule of Parsimony, and Disregard for Irreproducibility—The Example of Linus Pauling’s Research on Antibody Formation	0
How to Capture Movement	0
Coded Objects	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
Layers of Erasure	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
Of Snails and Salvation	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
The Fall of Vannevar Bush	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
In the Animal House	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0

Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
Bytes as Test Tubes	0
Social Scientists	0
Introduction	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
Reading Teeth	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	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
When Scientists Disagree	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Logistical Natures	0
Sticky Solutions	0
The Cool Air	0
Science, Interrupted	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
Becoming Visible	0
The Art of Listening	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Introduction	0
Strong Foundations	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
Accidents of Geography	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
Archival Wounds	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
Tracing Absence	0
Introduction	0