OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Centaurus is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How epidemics end	32
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
Scientific imaginaries and science diplomacy: The case of ocean exploitation	13
The history of science and medicine in the context ofCOVID‐19	13
Global perspectives on science diplomacy: Exploring the diplomacy‐knowledge nexus in contemporary histories of science	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
A historical and political epistemology of microbes	7
Science, demons, and gods in the battle against theCOVID‐19 epidemic	7
Quarantine, cholera, and international health spaces: Reflections on 19th‐century European sanitary regulations in the time ofSARS‐CoV‐2	7
Inter‐ A frican cooperation in the social sciences in the era of decolonization: A case of science diplomacy	6
Crafting Europe fromCERNto Dubna: Physics as diplomacy in the foundation of the European Physical Society	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
It wasn't supposed to be a coronavirus: The quest for an influenza A( H5N1 )‐derived vaccine and the limits of pandemic preparedness	5
“Bosom vipers”: Endemic versus epidemic disease	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

Editorial: Doing history in the time of COVID ‐19	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
Productive marginalities: The history of science in/aboutPolandsince 1989	5
Chinese state and society in epidemic governance: A historical perspective	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
History of science in Hungary: Stewardship and audience in periods of institutional and political change	4
The scientific object and material diplomacy: The shipment of radioisotopes from the United States to Japan in 1950	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
Technical assistance versus cultural export: George Cressey and the U.S. Cultural Relations Program in wartime Ch	4
Giovan Battista Della Porta's construction of pneumatic phenomena and his use of recipes as heuristic tools	4
Beyond recipes: The Baconian natural and experimental histories as an epistemic genre	4
Verticalities in oral histories of science	4
Medical Anamnesis. Collecting and Recollecting the Past in Medicine	4
Using instruments in the study of animate beings: Della Porta's and Bacon's experiments with plants	4
Paleosyndemics: A Bioarchaeological and Biosocial Approach to Study Infectious Diseases in the Past	4
Oil media: Changing portraits of petroleum in visual culture between theUS, Kuwait, and Switzerland	3
A nuclear monument the size of a football field: The diplomatic construction of soil nuclearity in the Palomares accident (Spain, 1966)	3
The seismograph as a diplomatic object: The S oviet– A merican exchange of instruments, 1958–1964	3
When Do Epidemics End? Scientific Insights from Mathematical Modelling Studies	3
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
Orphaned atoms: The firstMoroccan reactor and the frameworks of nuclear diplomacy	3
Enacting recipes:GiovanBattistaDellaPorta andFrancisBacon on technologies, experiments, and processes of nature	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
No slaves to words:S. P. Thompson'stheory of history	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
Science on the edge of empire:E. A. Forsten(1811–1843) and theNatural History Committee(1820–1850) in theNetherlands Indies	2
Making power visible: Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy	2
Undoing Extinction: The Role of Zoos in Breeding Back the Tarpan Wild Horse, 1922–1945	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
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
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
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
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
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