OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Centaurus 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How epidemics end	33
Emerging diseases, re‐emerging histories	23
Rethinking the history of plague in the time ofCOVID‐19	15
Layers of epidemy: Present pasts during the first weeks of COVID‐19 in western Kenya	14
Global perspectives on science diplomacy: Exploring the diplomacy‐knowledge nexus in contemporary histories of science	14
Scientific imaginaries and science diplomacy: The case of ocean exploitation	13
The history of science and medicine in the context ofCOVID‐19	13
Deep horizons: Canada's underwater habitat program and vertical dimensions of marine sovereignty	11
Treating plants as laboratories: A chemical natural history of vegetation in 17th‐centuryEngland	10
How to have narrative‐flipping history in a pandemic: Views of/from Latin America	10
Authority, autonomy and the first London Bills of Mortality	9
COVID‐19, history, and humility	9
Science, demons, and gods in the battle against theCOVID‐19 epidemic	7
Crafting Europe fromCERNto Dubna: Physics as diplomacy in the foundation of the European Physical Society	7
Quarantine, cholera, and international health spaces: Reflections on 19th‐century European sanitary regulations in the time ofSARS‐CoV‐2	7
A historical and political epistemology of microbes	7
Inter‐ A frican cooperation in the social sciences in the era of decolonization: A case of science diplomacy	6
Lost Green Chemistries: History of Forgotten Environmental Trajectories	6
Asian tigers and the Chinese dragon: Competition and collaboration between sentinels of pandemics from SARS to COVID‐19	6
The invisible enemy: Fighting the plague in early modern Italy	6
Up‐and‐down journeys: The making ofLatinAmerica's uniqueness for the study of cosmic rays	6
“Bosom vipers”: Endemic versus epidemic disease	6
Editorial: Doing history in the time of COVID ‐19	5
Vertical glaciology: The second discovery of the third dimension in climate research	5
Friends in fission:US–Brazilrelations and the global stresses of atomic energy, 1945–1955	5

Productive marginalities: The history of science in/aboutPolandsince 1989	5
Chinese state and society in epidemic governance: A historical perspective	5
Animal Feeding, Animal Experiments, and the Zoo as a Laboratory: Paris Ménagerie and London Zoo, ca. 1793–1939: The Zoo as a Laboratory	5
Attempting neutrality: Disciplinary and national politics in a Cold War scientific controversy	5
It wasn't supposed to be a coronavirus: The quest for an influenza A( H5N1 )‐derived vaccine and the limits of pandemic preparedness	5
Introduction—Up, down, round and round: Verticalities in the history of science	5
National spaces and deepest places: Politics and practices of verticality in speleology	5
History of science in Hungary: Stewardship and audience in periods of institutional and political change	4
Giovan Battista Della Porta's construction of pneumatic phenomena and his use of recipes as heuristic tools	4
Entangled Timelines. Crafting Types of Time Through Making Museum Specimens	4
Recent trends in the history of science inCroatia	4
GiovanBattistaDellaPorta andFrancisBacon on the creative power of experimentation	4
The scientific object and material diplomacy: The shipment of radioisotopes from the United States to Japan in 1950	4
Using instruments in the study of animate beings: Della Porta's and Bacon's experiments with plants	4
Beyond recipes: The Baconian natural and experimental histories as an epistemic genre	4
Verticalities in oral histories of science	4
Technical assistance versus cultural export: George Cressey and the U.S. Cultural Relations Program in wartime Ch	4
Medical Anamnesis. Collecting and Recollecting the Past in Medicine	4
Paleosyndemics: A Bioarchaeological and Biosocial Approach to Study Infectious Diseases in the Past	4
Scientists as political experts: Atomic scientists and their claims for expertise on international relations, 1945–1947	3
“Amany‐sidedcrystal”: Understanding the manifold legacy ofSilvanus Phillips Thompson(1851–1916)	3
Darwin's vertical thinking: Mountains, mobility, and the imagination in 19th‐century geology	3
Oil media: Changing portraits of petroleum in visual culture between theUS, Kuwait, and Switzerland	3
No slaves to words:S. P. Thompson'stheory of history	3
The seismograph as a diplomatic object: The S oviet– A merican exchange of instruments, 1958–1964	3
The material culture and politics of artifacts in nuclear diplomacy	3
The Patterned Guidelines of Shazhou ( Shazhou tujing ) and geographical practices in Tang China	3
Elevation and emotion: Sven Hedin's mountain expedition to Transhimalaya, 1906–1908	3
Chikungunya in Brazil, an Endless Epidemic	3
Silvanus Phillips Thompson(1851–1916): An introduction to the spotlight section	3
A nuclear monument the size of a football field: The diplomatic construction of soil nuclearity in the Palomares accident (Spain, 1966)	3
Thompson, Biographer	3
The End of Plague in Europe	3
Materialized internationalism: How the IAEA made the Vinča Dosimetry Experiment , and how the experiment made the	3
Living in between: The commercial side of Silvanus P. Thompson 's engineering	3
Deciphering economic futures: Electricity, calculation, and the power economy, 1880–1930	3
Orphaned atoms: The firstMoroccan reactor and the frameworks of nuclear diplomacy	3
Enacting recipes:GiovanBattistaDellaPorta andFrancisBacon on technologies, experiments, and processes of nature	3
Making power visible: Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy	3
When Do Epidemics End? Scientific Insights from Mathematical Modelling Studies	3
Negotiating Theology and Medicine in the Catholic Reformation The Early Debate on Thomas Fienus's Embryologyin the Spanish Netherlands (1620–1629)	2
A Matter of Dust, Powdery Fragments, and Insects. Object Temporalities Grounded in Social and Material Museum Life	2
The Call of the Hoatzin: Ecology, Evolution, and Eugenics at the Bronx Zoo	2
Publishing virtue: Medical entrepreneurship and reputation in the Republic of Letters	2
Mines, mountains, and the making of a vertical consciousness inGermanyca. 1800	2
The Lab in the Museum. Or, Using New Scientific Instruments to Look at Old Scientific Instruments	2
From Existential Knowledge to Experimental Practice: The Mexican Axolotl, the Paris Ménagerie, and the Epistemic Benefits of Keeping Unknown Animals, 1850–1876	2
Ends and Means: Typhus in Naples, 1943–1944	2
Undoing Extinction: The Role of Zoos in Breeding Back the Tarpan Wild Horse, 1922–1945	2
Measuring progress in megawatt: Colonialism, development, and the “unseeing” electricity grid in East Africa	2

On the road to S tockholm: A case study of the failure of Cold War international environmental initiatives ( Prag	2
Itinerarium Wittichi exCalendariumSculteti: New biographical evidence on the Breslau mathematician Paul Wittich (ca. 1546–ca. 1587)	2
Science on the edge of empire:E. A. Forsten(1811–1843) and theNatural History Committee(1820–1850) in theNetherlands Indies	2
Filling China’s Gaps. Viral Banks and Bird Collections as Museums for Pandemics	2
How to Get into the Pouch: Solving the Riddle of the Kangaroo Birth (1826–1926)	2
Orientations and Disorientations in the History of Science How Measures Made a Difference at the Imperial Meridian	2
“Going ‘the Last Mile’ to Eliminate Malaria” in Myanmar?	2
History of science inCentral and Eastern Europe: Studies fromPoland, Hungary, and Croatia	2
Redeeming the Past, Present, and Future	1
Edited by Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations	1
Science at the Zoo: An Introduction	1
Rendering Magnetism Visible: Diagrams and Experiments Between 1300 and 1700	1
The Age of Molecular Biology	1
Mythological Endings: John Snow (1813–1858) and the History of American Epidemiology	1
Johan P. Mackenbach, A History of Population Health: Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe	1
Ending Epidemics in Mao's China: Politics, Medical Technology, and Epidemiology	1
What was 'Newtonianism' in Enlightenment Europe?	1
Geoff Rayner‐Canham. The periodic table: Past, present, and future. Singapore: World Scientific, 2020, 312 pp. ISBN : 9789811218484	1
Edited by Lissa L. Roberts, Simon Werrett. Compound histories: Materials, governance and production, 1760–1840. Leiden, The Netherlands and Boston, MA: Brill, 2018, xiv–388 pp. ISBN: 9789004325494	1
Research, knowledge, and policy on goitre and iodine inNorway(1850–2016)	1
DezsőGurkaChanges in the image of man from the Enlightenment to the Age of Romanticism: Philosophical and scientific receptions of (physical) anthropology in the 18–19th centuries. Budapest, Hungary:	1
Edited by Matthias Berg, Jens Thiel. Europäische Wissenschaftsakademien im “Krieg der Geister”. Reden und Dokumente 1914 bis 1920 (Acta Historica Leopoldina, Vol. 72). Stuttgart, Germany: Wissenschaft	1
“Some Typically African Risks”: Safeguarding the Health of Italian Settlers During the Fascist Empire (1935–1941)	1
The Cosmos in Your Hand: A Note on Regiomontanus's Astrological Interests	1
Hayek at the Santa Fe Institute: Origins, Models, and Organization of the Cradle of Complexity Sciences	1
Locating the Health Hazard, Surveilling the Gecekondu: The Tuberculosis-Control Pilot Area of Zeytinburnu, Istanbul (1961–1963)	1
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, Ryan Szpiech. Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures	1
Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending	1
Visible winds: The production of new visibilities of wind energy inWest Germany, 1973–1991	1
Edited by Matthew James Crawford, Joseph M. Gabriel. Drugs on the page: Pharmacopoeias and healing knowledge in the early modern Atlantic world. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. i	1
Joan Steigerwald. Experimenting at the boundaries of life: Organic vitality in Germany around 1800. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, xii + 460 pp. ISBN: 9780822945536	1
Edited by Laurent Mazliak and Rossana Tazzioli, Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918-1928: Trajectories and Institutions	1
The Never-Ending Poxes of Syphilis, AIDS, and Measles	1
Lively Stasis. Care and Routine in Living Collections of Flies and Seeds	1
Centaurus : Past and Future	1
Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2nd ed.), Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2021.	1
“The joint labours of ingenious men”: J ohn S meaton's R oyal S	1
A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and London 1853	1
Historical Epidemiology and the Single Pathogen Model of Epidemic Disease	1
The Multiple Temporalities of Epidemic Endings	1
Ursula Klein, Technoscience in History: Prussia, 1750-1850	1
Harvey, Eleanor Jones, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture. Lawrenceville	1
The End of Smallpox for Indigenous Peoples in the United States, 1898–1903: An Unnoticed Finale	1
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Artificial apertures: The archaeology of Ramazzini'sDe fontiumin17th‐centuryEarth historiography	1
On Tycho's Calculation of the Coordinates of Hamal, the Fundamental Star of Tycho's Catalog	1
This is the End: Eradicating Tuberculosis in Modern Times	1
The Sisyphean Fate of History of Science Unmoved Scientists, Unresponsive Bureaucrats, Unimpressed Politicians	1
Hoffenberg,Peter H. A Science of our own: Exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science	1
Knowing Nature by Its Surface: Butchers, Barbers, Surgeons, Gardeners, and Physicians in Early Modern Italy	1
Ana Simões, Ana Matilde SousaThe global adventure of science: Einstein, Eddington and the eclipse. Lisbon, Portugal: Chili com Carne, 2019, 245 pp. ISBN: 9789898363411	1
Rita Felski & Stephen Muecke (2020).Latour and the Humanities	1
Edited by Mari‐Tere Álvarez, Charlene Villaseñor Black. Renaissance futurities: Science, art, invention. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019, 238 pp. ISBN: 9780520296985; 9780520969513	1
Edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo. Bernardino Telesio and the natural sciences in the Renaissance. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2019, xvi + 285 pp. ISBN: 9789004352636; 9789004352643	1
ÉdouardMehl. Descartes et la fabrique du monde. Le problème cosmologique, de Copernic à Descartes. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France. Épiméthée, 2019, 424 pp. ISBN: 9782130800651	1
End of a Pandemic? Contemporary Explanations for the End of Plague in 18th‑Century England	1
The Many Endings of Recent Epidemics: HIV/AIDS, Swine Flu 2009, and Policy	1
Edited by Lawrence M. Principe. The transmutations of chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie royale des sciences. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2020, 464 pp. ISBN: 9780226700786	1
Andrew L. Jenks, Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth, New York	1
Collections, Knowledge, and Time	1
Anna Kathryn Kendrick, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth- Century Spain. Oxford	1
Epidemics that End with a Bang	1
Information, Expertise, and Authority: The Many Ends of Epidemics	1
Edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. The body of evidence: Corpses and proofs in Early Modern European medicine. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2020, x + 355 pp. ISBN: 9789004284814	1
The dissemination of mesmerism in Germany (1784–1815): Some patterns of the circulation of knowledge	1
Andrea Strazzoni, Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science: From Regius to 's Gravesande	1
Víctor Navarro Brotons. Jerónimo Muñoz: Matemáticas, cosmología y humanismo en la época del Renacimiento. València, Spain: Universitat de València, 2019, 324 pp. ISBN: 9788491344391	1
A Passport for the Metre The Diplomatic Recognition of the Metric System in a Changing International Order (1785–1799)	1
EmilyHerring, Kevin MatthewJones, KonstantinKiprijanov, LauraSellers. The past, present, and future of integrated history and philosophy of science. London, England: Routledge, 2019, xiii+256 pp. ISBN	1
Margaret Cavendish. Edited by Anne M.Thell. Grounds of natural philosophy. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2020, 264 pp. ISBN: 9781554813872	1
Agustí Camós Cabeceran, La Huella de Lamarck en España en el Siglo XIX, Madrid	1
David P. D. Munns & Kärin Nickelsen. Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age. Pittsburgh	1
Transforming Big Science in Belgium: Management Consultants and the Reorganization of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), 1980–1990	1
Scientific interactions in colonial, multilinguistic, and interreligious contexts:VenetianCrete and the manuscriptMarcianus latinusVIII.31 (2614). A preliminary	1
Marco Storni, Maupertuis. Le philosophe, l'académicien, le polémiste, Paris	1
“The Last Time that We Can Say the Plague Raged”: Historicizing Epidemics	1
Edited by John KrigeHow knowledge moves. Writing the transnational history of science and technology. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2019, 408 pp., paperback. ISBN: 9780226605999	1
What do we talk about when we talk about language and science?	1
Making weather vertical: Meteorology and the temporalities of infrastructural atmospheres in New Zealand, ca. 1920–1950	1
“Here They Are in Flesh and Feather”: Walter Rothschild's “Private Zoo” and the Preparation and Taxonomic Study of Cassowaries	1