OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Kant's pragmatic account of science: empirical conditions for securing the path of research	7
Darwin’s dark matter: utter extinction	5
Julius Haast and the discovery of the origin of alpine lakes	4
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	4
Cambridge geneticists and the chromosome theory of inheritance: William Bateson, Leonard Doncaster and Reginald Punnett 1879–1940	4
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	4
Kant on the age of the world	3
Developing to scale: technology and the making of global health	3
Celebrating the Czechoslovak atom: from ‘Atoms for Peace’ to Expo 58	3
Framing global mathematics: the International Mathematical Union between theorems and politics	3
The protean idea of useful knowledge, or the rise of the capitalist orders of knowledge	2
Salvador Luria: an immigrant biologist in Cold War America	2
Science diplomacy on display: mobile atomic exhibitions in the cold war: Introduction to Special Issue	2
Writing history into the economy of nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and Lars Montin (1723–1783) on the Reindeer Warble Fly ( Hypoderma tarandi L.)	2
The late origins of the timeline, or: three paradoxes explained	2
Truth but not science? George Berkeley and the politics of mathematical authority in the Analyst Controversy	2
A ‘Temple of Liberty’? Alexander von Humboldt and the French Revolution	2
The ‘tale’ of a termometro cinquantigrado kept at the Whipple Museum, Cambridge	1
Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy Kant & the Naturalistic Turn of 18th century philosophy , by Catherine Wilson, Oxford, Oxford University	1
50 years of Graßmann research: results, unresolved questions and misinterpretations	1
The first six propositions of Archimedes' on equilibrium of planes 1	1
Analytical essay on the faculties of the soul	1
Fertile substrate: the rise, fall, and succession of popular microscopy in Great Britain	1
Magnetic margins: insights into the digital descriptive census of William Gilbert’s De Magnete	1
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
A telescopic paradox: the artisans of the Accademia del Cimento, their instruments and their (in)visibility	1
Media and the mind: art, science, and notebooks as paper machines, 1700–1830	1
Star Noise: Discovering the Radio Universe	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
How to ensure a chronometer’s accuracy. Josiah Emery timekeepers and their users	1
A century of observations: the Ertel meridian circle at Stockholm Observatory	1
On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on plague	1
The drop and the metric system: how an unruly unit survived revolutions	1
The past and future promise of computerized medical-decision making	1
Queries and quaestiones : Edward Lhwyd between Natural History and Natural Philosophy	1
Paracelsus and the Tyrolean Plague Epidemic of 1534: context and analysis of Von der Pestilentz an die Statt Stertzingen	0
Engraving accuracy in early modern England: visual communication and the Royal Society	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
Nautical astrology: a forgotten early modern tradition	0
Henry Cort and the ‘Black metallurgists’: on the accuracy of Bulstrode’s historical account	0
Francis Bacon and the practices of measurement	0
Obstetrics during the French Revolution: political and medical controversies around the new obstetrical surgery	0
From Greek to Latin Europe and back: recovering and interpreting Theophrastus’ De odoribus in the early modern age	0
The use of the conservation of living force before Helmholtz	0
Kant on the metaphysical foundation of inertia	0
From ambition to restraint the WMO, atomic energy, and UN institutional rivalry in the early Cold War	0
First entities in the De renovatione et restauratione of Paracelsus: wonder drugs for metals and for people	0
Gustave-Adolphe Hirn, the mechanical equivalent of heat, and the conservation of energy	0
From botanics to physics: Henri Devaux (1862–1956) and the origins of surface science	0
‘Undeterred by Aristotle’s demonstrations’: parallax and cometary distance in a forgotten epistolary treatise of 1265	0
La (Re)construction Francaise De L'analyse Infinitesimale De Leibniz: 1690-1706	0
Lady Ranelagh: the incomparable life of Robert Boyle’s sister	0
The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume II: The Opticks and Related Papers ca. 1688–1717	0
Standardizing Sex: a history of trans medicine	0
Correction	0
Contingency, necessity, and the problem of organic form in Kant	0
The Cambridge history of philosophy of the scientific revolution	0
Directions of precision: George Graham’s instructions for his pendulum astronomical clocks	0
A Little History of Mathematics	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
The social agency of instruments of surveying and exploration c.1830–1930	0
Establishing an experimental agenda at the Accademia del Cimento: Carlo Rinaldini’s book lists	0
Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories	0
Heretical microcosmogony in Paracelsus’s Astronomia Magna (1537/8) and the anonymous Astrologia Theologizata (1617): Paracelsian anthropol	0
Introduction	0
The promises and pitfalls of precision: random and systematic error in physical geodesy, c. 1800–1910	0
Galilean resonances: the role of experiment in Turing’s construction of machine intelligence	0
De Tellescopiis Stellarum (1666). Was Galileo experimenting with four-lens terrestrial telescopes by 1630?	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 social life of precision instruments: artisans’ trials in early-modern England, 1550–1700	0
Thomas Garnett: science, medicine, mobility in eighteenth century Britain	0
The interlopers: early Stuart projects and the undisciplining of knowledge	0
Philosophy as Descartes found it: practice and theory	0

Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe	0
Managing precision: how to use chronometers accurately at sea	0
Quantification and precision: a brief look at some ancient accounts	0
‘Si te omnimoda delectat precisio’: early astronomical instruments with scales and the multiple meanings of precision in the sixteenth century	0
Oxford mathematics at a low ebb? An 1855 dispute over examination results	0
Analysing Hermann Graßmann’s works – retrospecting and re-assessing*	0
Animal relations: an introduction to histories of humans and histories of nature*	0
On Simon Mayr’s alleged discovery of Jupiter’s satellites	0
Ether and derivative forces in Kant’s natural philosophy	0
A lab for all seasons: the laboratory revolution in modern botany and the rise of physiological plant ecology	0
Isaac Newton's physics of interparticulate forces and the aether queries	0
Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history	0
Alexander N. Aksakov and the domestication of ‘scientific spiritualism’ in Imperial Russia, 1865–1875	0
A natural history of the satyr: a dialectical history of myth and scientific observation since 1550*	0
Stereotypical thinking in the historiography of science and religion: creation and reception history of Reijer Hooykaas’s Religion and the Rise of Modern Science	0
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier’s ‘Sur la nature de l’eau’: an annotated English translation	0
Knowledge flows in a global age: a transnational approach	0
Vector: a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation	0
A light on Ibn al-Haytham’s optics, Books IV and V	0
The Enlightenment’s most dangerous woman: Emilie Du Châtelet and the making of modern philosophy	0
The chymistry of rainbows, winds, lightning, heat and cold in Paracelsus	0
Debating vision and refraction in Galileo’s time: Marcantonio De Dominis and Cesare Cremonini	0
Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments	0
Inventing the language of Things : the emergence of scientific reporting in seventeenth-century England	0
Method and Melancholy: Aristotle and the defence against Cartesian estrangement	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
Of comets and cosmology in Antonino Saliba's Nuova Figura di tutte le cose of 1582	0
From orbits to orbitals. Early pictorializations of electron probability densities	0
Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russell’s canal experiments of 1834–1835	0
Sound authorities: scientific and musical knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain	0
Scientific computing in the Cavendish Laboratory and the pioneering women computors	0
Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment	0
Wild horses: Tartar warfare and the history of civilization	0
Building schools, making doctors: architecture and the modern American physician	0
A ‘heavy hammer to crack a small nut'? The creation of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), 1963–1970	0
Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel Lynceorum historia: le ‘schede lincee’ di Martin Fogel	0
The many histories of the conflict thesis: the science vs. religion narrative in nineteenth-century Germany	0
Between politics and academics: Xu Guansan’s translation of Evolution in Action in the Cold War Hong Kong	0
A Chymist Among Beasts: Reading Paracelsus Literally (with a translation of De lunaticis , chapter two)	0
Hamitic race theory and African cattle classification, 1868–1971	0
Sound between water and light: images and analogies in early acoustics, 1660–1710	0
The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria: Strategies of Reading from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period	0
‘Prudence, Foresight, Courage, Oeconomy’: glass beehives and English society, 1650–1680	0
Vesalius, the book, and the fabric of the body	0
Medicine for a long life?: hygiene and distilled liquors in early seventeenth-century England	0
Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Maurice Duhem: two diverging personalities, and scientific styles	0
Kant and Forster on the unity of mankind	0
Galileo and His ‘six long meetings’ with Urban VIII in 1624	0
Restoration Oxford science: Robert Plot, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Oxford Philosophical Society	0
The handy pig: anatomy, agronomy and animal pain in early modern Italy	0
Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450–1750	0
Normal and abnormal rhythms in the search for biological clocks: an epistemological gap between early twentieth-century biology and experimental psychology	0
Helmholtz and the conservation of energy: contexts of creation and reception	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
The book of Matthew ‘On naval timber and arboriculture’. Its structure and development	0
The development of Kant’s precritical cosmology and some ‘critical’ consequences	0
Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern Bologna	0
The two lights of Paracelsus: natural philosophy meets theology	0
Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and classification of complexions in 14th-century Italian medicine	0
Quod caelum stet, terra moveatur by Celio Calcagnini: scientific context and translation	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
A new history of greek mathematics	0
The photographers’ gaze: the Mobile Radioisotope Exhibition in Latin America (1960–1965)	0
Colonial rodent control in Tanganyika and the application of ecological frameworks	0
A cultural history of chemistry	0
Renaissance medicine: a short history of European medicine in the sixteenth century	0
Kant on regulative principles in science	0
A German physicist’s travels in Great Britain Julius Plücker’s visits from 1853 to 1866	0
Heroic resuscitation? An attempt to revive Descartes’ method	0
Popularizing precision: cultures of exactness at the Paris observatory, 1667–1742	0
Newton's ‘De Aere et Aethere’ and the introduction of interparticulate forces into his physics	0
Learning to cut: surgical training and practice, 1450–1800	0
Correction	0
The Correspondence of William Cole of Bristol with Sir Robert Southwell and Edward Southwell: 1683–1701	0
On being sufficiently exact: assessing navigational instruments in the eighteenth century	0
Understanding sovereignty through meteorology: China, Japan, and the dispute over the Qingdao Observatory, 1918–1931	0
The diagram as paradigm: cross-cultural approaches	0
Francisco de Melo’s theory of vision	0