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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	5
Psychoactive Drugs and Moral Qualms	4
Drawing on the Difuentes	4
Four Paths through Climate History	4
Making Belgian Big Science	3
The New Modern Synthesis	3
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	3
Discoverer and Methodologist	3
Introduction	2
Armadillos under the Microscope	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Hidden in Plain Sight	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
Special Section Introduction	1
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
War on Extinction	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
Oceans of Ooze	1

Museums and the History of Science	1
Stolen Masks	1
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
No End in Sight	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
Haunted by Denial	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
Character Study	1
Addiction Beyond a Cure	1
Margrete Heiberg Bose, a Woman in Early Physical Chemistry	1
Listing Butterflies	1
Layers of Erasure	0
André-Marie Ampère in 2025	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Japan, Scientific Drillships, and the Dynamics of International Leadership for Subseafloor Exploration	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
Becoming Visible	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
Strong Foundations	0
Encounters in the Living Ocean	0
Book or Project?	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	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
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
Coded Objects	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
A History of South Korean Creationism	0

Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
Tracing Absence	0
Introduction	0
Archival Wounds	0
Moving Mountains	0
In the Animal House	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
A Grammar of Modern Exploration	0
Making The Climate Chronicles	0
The Black Androids	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
The Cool Air	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
Which Power of Movement in Plants?	0
The Politics of a History of [Race] Science	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Secret Clocks	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Practicing Early Modern History through (Re)Making Things	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
Sticky Solutions	0
Practicing Public History through Exhibitions	0
Bytes as Test Tubes	0
Logistical Natures	0
Moonwalks and Woodstocks	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
Introduction	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Artisan Technical Manuals as Religious Laboring Histories	0
Reading Teeth	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
Making a Road For Science	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0