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

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	15
Drawing on the Difuentes	11
The New Modern Synthesis	6
Discoverer and Methodologist	6
Making Belgian Big Science	5
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	4
Hidden in Plain Sight	3
Introduction	3
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
Armadillos under the Microscope	3
How to Train Your Analyst	3
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	2
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
Wrenching Torque	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
Haunted by Denial	1
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1

Addiction Beyond a Cure	1
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	1
Across and within Networks	1
Museums and the History of Science	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
Bytes as Test Tubes	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
Stolen Masks	1
War on Extinction	1
No End in Sight	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1
Oceans of Ooze	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Logistical Natures	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
How to Call a Duck	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
The Black Androids	0
How to Capture Movement	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
Making a Road For Science	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Layers of Erasure	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
Sticky Solutions	0
The Power of Phosphate	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
In the Animal House	0
Science, Interrupted	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0

Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
Reading Teeth	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
André-Marie Ampère in 2025	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Archival Wounds	0
Coded Objects	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
Becoming Visible	0
Introduction	0
Moonwalks and Woodstocks	0
Tracing Absence	0
Introduction	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	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
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Strong Foundations	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
The Cool Air	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
Japan, Scientific Drillships, and the Dynamics of International Leadership for Subseafloor Exploration	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Introduction	0