OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ambix is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Alchemical Laboratory in Visual and Written Sources	6
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Award Scheme 2023	3
The Matter of Mimesis: Studies of Mimesis and Materials in Nature, Art and Science	3
The Chemical Histories of Soot and Buckminsterfullerene	3
The Meandering Life of a Research Trajectory: Rare Earths in the Aubervilliers Research Centre (1953–2020)	2
Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister	2
From University to Court: The Reversal of Stahl’s Positions on Gold-Making	2
Fragments of Alchemy from a Cairene Synagogue: Context, Codicology, and Contents of the Alchemical Corpus of the Cairo Genizah	2
Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture	2
A Chemical Satire on the 1809 Change of Government in Britain	2
The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500	2
Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance	1
Exploring the History of Chemistry in Japan	1
A Machine Reasoning Algorithm for the Digital Analysis of Alchemical Language and its Decknamen	1
Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School . By R	1
The Changing Visions of Chymistry at Seventeenth-Century Jena: The Two Brendels, Rolfinck, Wedel, and Others	1
A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day	1
Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object	1
Merchants of Medicines. The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century	1
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Award Scheme 2025	1
Making Physicians: Tradition, Teaching, and Trials at Leiden University, 1575–1639	1
Unwise Relationships and an Unsound Valence Theory: The Chemical Career of Robert Fergus Hunter (1904–1963)	1
Changing Colour: Yellow Dyes from Antiquity to Early Modernity	1
Carbon: A Biography	1
Ketens van Fossiele Grondstoffen: Procestechnologie en de transitie naar duurzaamheid	1

The Reign of Saturn Transformed into an Age of Gold	1
The Influence of Louvain Teaching on Jan Baptist Van Helmont’s Adoption of Paracelsianism and Alchemy	1
Deciphering the Hermeticae Philosophiae Medulla : Textual Cultures of Alchemical Secrecy	1
Research between Science, Society and Politics: The History and Scientific Development of Green Chemistry	1
Translating Forbidden Authors: New Evidence on the Alchemical Library of Don Antonio de’ Medici	1
The Byzantine Alchemist Christianos and His Procedures on Indian Lac	1
A Very “Distilled” Emblem in Baroque Rome: Natural Philosophy, Alchemy, and Atomism in the Academy of the Umoristi	1
The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town	1
Alchemical Practice: Looking Towards the Chemical Humanities	1
At the Origins of the De Perfecto Magisterio: A Translation from Arabic or a Latin Composition?	1
Ethics of Chemistry. From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering	1
SHAC Special ICHC13 Award Scheme – Grants to Support Attendance at ICHC13 in Vilnius, May 2023	1
The Atom in Seventeenth-Century Poetry	1
Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health and its Objects	1
Patriotic Women: Chemistry and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World	1
Gershom Bulkeley, “Saltbox Science,” and the Colonial New England Laboratory	1
In the Melting Pot: Cultural Mixture and the Presentation of Alchemical Knowledge in the Letter from Isis to Horus	1
Living Then and Now with Gold and Mercury	1
The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World	1
Learning the Chymical Compromise: Paracelsian and Galenic Medicine in Marburg Disputations on Chymiatria	1
Michael Maier und die Formen (al)chemischen Wissens um 1600	1
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery	1
Alchemy, Sources, and Digital Exploring at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel	1
How to Sell a Poison How to Sell a Poison . By E lena C onis . Pp. 388, index. Bold Type Books: New	1
Making Ammonia: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery Making Ammonia: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery .	1
“Men Don’t Like to Work Under a Woman”: Female Chemists in the Photographic Manufacturing Industry, ca. 1918–1950	1
Green Chemistry Avant La Lettre: The Pine Institute and Resin Chemistry in Aquitaine (1900–1970)	1
The Contamination of the Earth. A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age	1
Wilhelm Ostwald's Pedagogy: An Analysis of the Nobel Prize Nomination Letters	1
A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages (vol. 2) A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages (vol. 2) . Edited by Charles Burnett and Sébastien Moureau	1
Glutenophilia: Chemistry and Flour Quality in Nineteenth-century France and Great Britain	1
Biographical Histories of Chemistry	1
A Nobel Affair: The Correspondence Between Alfred Nobel and Sofie Hess	1
Medical Performance and the Alchemy of Plants in the Ventures of Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn	1
The Nature of Skincare: Categorising Cosmetics with Bioactive Ingredients in the Case of Quenty-Cosmetic	1
Constructing Naturalness in Industrial Settings: A Transdisciplinary Exploration	1
Senses and Utility in the New Chemistry	1
The Archaeology of Alchemy and Chemistry: Past, Present, and Ideas for the Future	1
Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention	1
Good Names but Better Symbols: The Establishment of Chemical Notation as a Nomenclatural Corrective at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century	1
Distilling the Art of Distillation in an Unstudied Manuscript of “Chymicall Notions”	1
Tóxicos: pasado y presente. Pensar históricamente un mundo tóxico	1
The Partington Prize 2023	1
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700	1
Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain	1
Hathor’s Alchemy: The Ancient Roots of the Hermetic Art	1
Fire, Vulcanus , Archeus , and Alchemy: A Hybrid Close-Distant Reading of Paracelsus’s Thought on Active Agents	1
Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola	1
Daniel Sennert, Chymistry, and Theological Debates	1