OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annals of Science 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Kindred fatalisms: debating science, Islam, and free will in the Darwinian era	6
Cambridge geneticists and the chromosome theory of inheritance: William Bateson, Leonard Doncaster and Reginald Punnett 1879–1940	5
Framing global mathematics: the International Mathematical Union between theorems and politics	3
Developing to scale: technology and the making of global health Developing to scale: technology and the making of global health , by Heidi Morefield, Chicago, University	3
Ole Rømer’s Triduum vol. I–III Ole Rømer’s Triduum vol. I–III , edited by Claus Fabricius, Niels Therkel Jørgensen and Chr Gorm Tortzen, Copenhagen, Society for Danish L	3
Julius Haast and the discovery of the origin of alpine lakes	3
Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpreta	3
Darwin’s dark matter: utter extinction	3
A ‘Temple of Liberty’? Alexander von Humboldt and the French Revolution	2
From the state of nature to the state of ruins: ‘American race’ and ‘savage knowledge’ according to Carl von Martius	2
The Harvest of Optics: Descartes, Mydorge, and their paths to a theory of refraction	2
Physico-mathematics and the life sciences: experiencing the mechanism of venous return, 1650s–1680s	2
Salvador Luria: an immigrant biologist in Cold War America	2
The ‘tale’ of a termometro cinquantigrado kept at the Whipple Museum, Cambridge	2
How to ensure a chronometer’s accuracy. Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users	2
Celebrating the Czechoslovak atom: from ‘Atoms for Peace’ to Expo 58	2
The late origins of the timeline, or: three paradoxes explained	2
Science diplomacy on display: mobile atomic exhibitions in the cold war: Introduction to Special Issue	2
A mestizo cosmographer in the New Kingdom of Granada: astronomy and chronology in Sánchez de Cozar Guanientá’s Tratado (c.1696)	2
Making physicians. Tradition, teaching, and trials at Leiden University, 1575–1639, vol. 1.	1
The ingredients of a successful atomic exhibition in Cold War Italy	1
Searching for precision: Lorenz Eichstadt’s Tabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler	1
Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and succession of popular microscopy in Great Britain	1
Media and the mind: art, science, and notebooks as paper machines, 1700–1830 Media and the mind: art, science, and notebooks as paper machines, 1700–1830 , by Matthew Da	1
The social life of precision instruments: artisans’ trials in early-modern England, 1550–1700	1

A telescopic paradox: the artisans of the Accademia del Cimento, their instruments and their (in)visibility	1
The poison trials: wonder drugs, experiment, and the battle for authority in renaissance science	1
On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on plague	1
The first six propositions of Archimedes' on equilibrium of planes 1	1
Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment	1
The diagram as paradigm: cross-cultural approaches	1
Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy , by Catherine Wilson, Oxford, Oxford University	1
Tentzel and the elephant in the room. Inconsistencies in the history of nature and history of humans (not) being discussed when ‘fossils’ were found in Thuringia in 1695	1
Analytical essay on the faculties of the soul	1
The past and future promise of computerized medical-decision making	1
Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe	1
Confessionalization and comets. John Bainbridge on the comet of 1618	1
Galilean resonances: the role of experiment in Turing’s construction of machine intelligence	0
Knowledge flows in a global age: a transnational approach	0
First entities in the De renovatione et restauratione of Paracelsus: wonder drugs for metals and for people	0
Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450–1750	0
The book of Matthew ‘On naval timber and arboriculture’. Its structure and development	0
On being sufficiently exact: assessing navigational instruments in the eighteenth century	0
A German physicist’s travels in Great Britain Julius Plücker’s visits from 1853 to 1866	0
Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments	0
Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l’histoire de l’astronomie	0
The two lights of Paracelsus: natural philosophy meets theology	0
Monteiro da Rocha and the international debate in the 1760s on astronomical methods to find the longitude at sea: his proposals and criticisms to Lacaille’s lunar-distance method	0
La (Re)construction Francaise De L'analyse Infinitesimale De Leibniz: 1690-1706	0
Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophy Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophy , edited by Delphine Bellis	0
The two ‘strongest pillars of the empiricist wing’: the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916–1939)	0
A natural history of the satyr: a dialectical history of myth and scientific observation since 1550	0
A new history of greek mathematics	0
Normal and abnormal rhythms in the search for biological clocks: an epistemological gap between early twentieth-century biology and experimental psychology	0
David Brewster’s and William Herschel’s experiments on inflection that delivered the coup de grâce to Thomas Young’s ether distribution hypothesis	0
Gustave-Adolphe Hirn, the mechanical equivalent of heat, and the conservation of energy	0
On Simon Mayr’s alleged discovery of Jupiter’s satellites	0
Conceptualizing paradigms: on reading Kuhn’s history of the quantum	0
The social agency of instruments of surveying and exploration c.1830–1930	0
Managing precision: how to use chronometers accurately at sea	0
The interlopers: early Stuart projects and the undisciplining of knowledge The interlopers: early Stuart projects and the undisciplining of knowledge , by Vera Keller, B	0
Of comets and cosmology in Antonino Saliba's Nuova Figura di tutte le cose of 1582	0
Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe	0
Engraving accuracy in early modern England: visual communication and the Royal Society	0
A Chymist Among Beasts: Reading Paracelsus Literally (with a translation of De lunaticis , chapter two)	0
Renaissance medicine: a short history of European medicine in the sixteenth century	0
Francis Bacon and the practices of measurement	0
Sound authorities: scientific and musical knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain	0
A cultural history of chemistry	0
Newton's ‘De Aere et Aethere’ and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics	0
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier’s ‘Sur la nature de l’eau’: an annotated English translation	0
‘Undeterred by Aristotle’s demonstrations’: parallax and cometary distance in a forgotten epistolary treatise of 1265	0
Hamitic race theory and African cattle classification, 1868–1971	0
Mechanism. A visual, lexical and conceptual history	0
Thomas Garnett: science, medicine, mobility in eighteenth century Britain	0

Observations on Niccolò Tornioli’s The Astronomers	0
Quantification and precision: a brief look at some ancient accounts	0
Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial	0
Building schools, making doctors: architecture and the modern American physician	0
Cold War social science: transnational entanglements	0
‘Prudence, Foresight, Courage, Oeconomy’: glass beehives and English society, 1650–1680	0
The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth , by Jeremy	0
Inventing the language of Things : the emergence of scientific reporting in seventeenth-century England	0
Correction	0
Paracelsus and the Tyrolean Plague Epidemic of 1534: context and analysis of Von der Pestilentz an die Statt Stertzingen	0
The Enlightenment’s most dangerous woman: Emilie Du Châtelet and the making of modern philosophy	0
Obstetrics during the French Revolution: political and medical controversies around the new obstetrical surgery	0
Directions of precision: George Graham’s instructions for his pendulum astronomical clocks	0
A lab for all seasons: the laboratory revolution in modern botany and the rise of physiological plant ecology	0
Alexander N. Aksakov and the domestication of ‘scientific spiritualism’ in Imperial Russia, 1865–1875	0
Popularizing precision: cultures of exactness at the Paris observatory, 1667–1742	0
The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria: Strategies of Reading from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period	0
Quod caelum stet, terra moveatur by Celio Calcagnini: scientific context and translation	0
Astrology in the crossfire: the stormy debate after the comet of 1577	0
The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume II: The Opticks and Related Papers ca. 1688–1717	0
Correction	0
Vector: a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation Vector: a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation , by Robyn Arianrho	0
A ‘heavy hammer to crack a small nut'? The creation of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), 1963–1970	0
Sound between water and light: images and analogies in early acoustics, 1660–1710	0
The photographers’ gaze: the Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America (1960–1965)	0
The place and significance of comparative trials in German agricultural writings around 1800	0
Wild horses: Tartar warfare and the history of civilization	0
Analysing Hermann Graßmann’s works – retrospecting and re-assessing	0
Heretical microcosmogony in Paracelsus’s Astronomia Magna (1537/8) and the anonymous Astrologia Theologizata (1617): Paracelsian anthropol	0
Animal relations: an introduction to histories of humans and histories of nature	0
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome	0
Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Maurice Duhem: two diverging personalities, and scientific styles	0
Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel	0
The sense of movement. An intellectual history.	0
The ruling engines and diffraction gratings of Henry Augustus Rowland	0
Atoms in the campus: Van de Graaff accelerators and the making of two major Latin American universities in 1950s Brazil and Mexico	0
The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700	0
The Correspondence of William Cole of Bristol with Sir Robert Southwell and Edward Southwell: 1683–1701	0
Science on a mission: how military funding shaped what we do and don’t know about the ocean	0
Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern Bologna	0
Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France	0
Francisco de Melo’s theory of vision	0
A light on Ibn al-Haytham’s optics, Books IV and V	0
Anatomizing the pulse: Edmund King’s analogy, observation and conception of the tubular body	0
Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and classification of complexions in 14th-century Italian medicine	0
Lady Ranelagh: the incomparable life of Robert Boyle’s sister	0
Purkyně’s Opistophone: the hearing ‘Deaf’, auditory attention and organic subjectivity in Prague psychophysical experiments, ca 1850s	0
Allegiance and Supremacy: Religion and the Royal Society’s 3rd Charter of 1669	0
Introduction	0
Oxford mathematics at a low ebb? An 1855 dispute over examination results	0
Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks	0
The elements: a visual history of their discovery	0
Offering themselves by chance: Newcomen’s starting materials	0
Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history	0
The chymistry of rainbows, winds, lightning, heat and cold in Paracelsus	0
Establishing an experimental agenda at the Accademia del Cimento: Carlo Rinaldini’s book lists	0
Understanding sovereignty through meteorology: China, Japan, and the dispute over the Qingdao Observatory, 1918–1931	0
Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories	0
The promises and pitfalls of precision: random and systematic error in physical geodesy, c. 1800–1910	0
The many histories of the conflict thesis: the science vs. religion narrative in nineteenth-century Germany	0
‘Si te omnimoda delectat precisio’: early astronomical instruments with scales and the multiple meanings of precision in the sixteenth century	0
Mapping the evolution of early modern natural philosophy: corpus collection and authority acknowledgement	0
Stahl in France: an unknown Latin translation of the Zufällige Gedancken und nützliche Bedencken über den Streit, von dem so genannten Sulfure (1718) owned by Étienne-Fr	0
The M de Jussieu’s ‘mirror of the Incas’: an ecuadorian archaeological artefact in the mineralogical collection of René-Just Haüy (1743-1822)	0
‘Made in the Galleries of His Most Serene Highness, Florence’ . Conflicts in instrument invention at the Medici court: the pendulum clock, and the Accademia del Cimento	0
Nautical astrology: a forgotten early modern tradition	0
Scientific computing in the Cavendish Laboratory and the pioneering women computors	0
Heroic resuscitation? An attempt to revive Descartes’ method	0
Helmholtz and the conservation of energy: contexts of creation and reception	0
Guillaume des Moustiers’ treatise on the armillary instrument (1264) and the practice of astronomical observation in medieval Europe	0
The use of the conservation of living force before Helmholtz	0