OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Science 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 place and significance of comparative trials in German agricultural writings around 1800	6
Josiah Willard Gibbs and Pierre Maurice Duhem: two diverging personalities, and scientific styles	6
The M de Jussieu’s ‘mirror of the Incas’: an ecuadorian archaeological artefact in the mineralogical collection of René-Just Haüy (1743-1822)	5
The poison trials: wonder drugs, experiment, and the battle for authority in renaissance science	4
A cultural history of chemistry	3
Kindred fatalisms: debating science, Islam, and free will in the Darwinian era	3
A different kind of Nierenstein reaction. The Chemical Society’s mistreatment of Maximilian Nierenstein	3
Cambridge geneticists and the chromosome theory of inheritance: William Bateson, Leonard Doncaster and Reginald Punnett 1879–1940	3
Engraving accuracy in early modern England: visual communication and the Royal Society	3
Searching for precision: Lorenz Eichstadt’s Tabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler	2
Magic, Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe	2
Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories	2
Medicine in ancient Assur, a microhistorical study of the Neo-Assyrian healer Kiṣir-Assur. Ancient magic and divination 18	2
Analysing Hermann Graßmann’s works – retrospecting and re-assessing	2
The ruling engines and diffraction gratings of Henry Augustus Rowland	1
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	1
Framing global mathematics: the International Mathematical Union between theorems and politics	1
Of comets and cosmology in Antonino Saliba's Nuova Figura di tutte le cose of 1582	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
Conceptualizing paradigms: on reading Kuhn’s history of the quantum	1
Anatomizing the pulse: Edmund King’s analogy, observation and conception of the tubular body	1
‘Si te omnimoda delectat precisio’: early astronomical instruments with scales and the multiple meanings of precision in the sixteenth century	1
Establishing an experimental agenda at the Accademia del Cimento: Carlo Rinaldini’s book lists	1
Helmholtz and the conservation of energy: contexts of creation and reception	1
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	1

On pestilence: a Renaissance treatise on plague	1
The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria: Strategies of Reading from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period	1
Sound between water and light: images and analogies in early acoustics, 1660–1710	1
Julius Haast and the discovery of the origin of alpine lakes	1
Sailing the ocean of nature: Francesca Fontana Aldrovandi in early modern Bologna	1
A German physicist’s travels in Great Britain Julius Plücker’s visits from 1853 to 1866	1
Allegiance and Supremacy: Religion and the Royal Society’s 3rd Charter of 1669	1
The use of the conservation of living force before Helmholtz	1
Physico-mathematics and the life sciences: experiencing the mechanism of venous return, 1650s–1680s	1
The chymistry of rainbows, winds, lightning, heat and cold in Paracelsus	1
Nautical astrology: a forgotten early modern tradition	1
Darwin’s dark matter: utter extinction	1