OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History 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
Risky migrations: Race, Latin eugenics, and Cold War development in the International Labor Organization’s Puno–Tambopata project in Peru, 1930–60	19
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	4
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	3
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword	3
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	2
Corrigendum to “Defending metropolitan identity through colonial politics: The role of Portuguese naturalists (1870–91)”	2
The instrumental Brahmin and the “half-caste” computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791–1835	2
Gendering the memory of iron: Theft, lineage, and African metallurgists in the Atlantic world	2
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	2
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world	2
The crisis in American science	2
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	2
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	1
Magnifying the first points of life: Harvey and Descartes on generation and scale	1
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	1
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	1
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	1
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	1
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	1
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	1
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932	1
The emperor’s herbarium: The German physician Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?–96) and his botanical field studies in the Middle East	1
Shattering crystal with crystal: Galileo’s rhetoric, lenses, and the epistemology of metaphor	1

A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities	0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield	0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0
Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science	0
The spring of order: Robert Main’s management of astronomical labor at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich	0
“Rusticall chymistry”: Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture	0
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)	0
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	0
Mastering the uncontrollable: The Ottomans and the use of modern technologies	0
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	0
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America	0
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	0
Struggling with exactitude in a fragmented state: Intelligence testing in early twentieth-century China	0
Science and/as work: An introduction to this special issue	0
Scaling down the Earth’s history: Visual materials for popular education by Nérée Boubée (1806–1862)	0
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)	0
The persona of the physician in the early German Enlightenment: An analysis of the mediation of epistemic strategies in medical textbooks and advice literature	0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	0
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos	0
Ottoman plants, nature studies, and the attentiveness of translational labor	0
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	0
Heavenly spirit or material being? Science on electricity at the turn of the 19th century in Poland	0
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan	0
“The lungs of a ship”: Ventilation, acclimatization, and labor in the maritime environment, 1740–1800	0
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science	0
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)	0
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science	0
Towards a history of scientific publishing	0
Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation: Towards a new history of transportation	0
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China	0
A Note From the Editor	0
From the editor-in-chief	0
Affective geographies: Family and friendship in the production of scientific knowledge	0
The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” and its role in forming national and international scientific awareness of Greater Romania, 1910–1933	0
Fire management and community restraint: The rise of forestry science and the governance of commons	0
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	0
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War	0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake	0
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	0
Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 1806	0
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	0
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	0