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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	15
Psychoactive Drugs and Moral Qualms	12
Drawing on the Difuentes	6
Four Paths through Climate History	6
Discoverer and Methodologist	5
Making Belgian Big Science	4
The New Modern Synthesis	4
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	4
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
Introduction	3
Hidden in Plain Sight	3
Across and within Networks	2
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	2
Thinking Inside the Box	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
Character Study	2
Stolen Masks	2
Armadillos under the Microscope	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Wrenching Torque	2
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
Special Section Introduction	1
Haunted by Denial	1

No End in Sight	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
Museums and the History of Science	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
War on Extinction	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
Margrete Heiberg Bose, a Woman in Early Physical Chemistry	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1
Redefining Efficiency	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
Encounters in the Living Ocean	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
Strong Foundations	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
Reading Teeth	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
Practicing Early Modern History through (Re)Making Things	0
Which Power of Movement in Plants?	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
Making a Road For Science	0
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Coded Objects	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Practicing Public History through Exhibitions	0
Sticky Solutions	0
Making The Climate Chronicles	0
Tracing Absence	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0

How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
A Grammar of Modern Exploration	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
The Black Androids	0
The Politics of a History of [Race] Science	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
Oceans of Ooze	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
Japan, Scientific Drillships, and the Dynamics of International Leadership for Subseafloor Exploration	0
Layers of Erasure	0
Becoming Visible	0
Archival Wounds	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
Moonwalks and Woodstocks	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
Artisan Technical Manuals as Religious Laboring Histories	0
Logistical Natures	0
In the Animal House	0
Moving Mountains	0
Secret Clocks	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
Book or Project?	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
The Cool Air	0
Addiction Beyond a Cure	0
André-Marie Ampère in 2025	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
Bytes as Test Tubes	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
Introduction	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Introduction	0
A History of South Korean Creationism	0