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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Transmutations of climate – Darwin’s Stendhal and the legacy of “local nature” aesthetics	36
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	7
Specimens for the “science of man”: Skulls, race, and instructions in James Prichard’s Enlightenment ethnology	4
Re-sourcing fuels for ceramic kilns in socialist China (1950s–1980s)	4
The crisis in American science	3
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	3
Gendering the memory of iron: Theft, lineage, and African metallurgists in the Atlantic world	3
Re-pairing Bucheon fab and Silicon Valley: The establishment of the Hanguk Semiconductor Plant in the 1970s	3
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	3
“To reduce this danger:” Rinderpest vaccines and African assistants in a Gold Coast laboratory, 1890–1964	2
Nature’s keepers: Working families and the economy of earthly objects	2
Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers	2
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	1
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	1
Kiji, kichi, jizhi : Resourceful creativity as vernacular universals of technoscience	1
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	1
“Modest wise women”: Science in Porfirian women’s periodicals	1
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	1
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	1
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	1
Cruel works of many wheels: Prison treadmills and nineteenth-century sciences of productive labor	1
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	1
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932	1
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	1
Science, nationalism and tradition: A garden city for Republican China	1

Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Mastering the uncontrollable: The Ottomans and the use of modern technologies	0
Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities	0
Roots of modern botany: The Basel professor Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624) and his botanical network	0
Correcting art with science: Victorian painting in Nature	0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake	0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield	0
Bionomic historicism: Darwinian ichthyology and non-Needhamian histories of Indian science	0
Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science	0
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	0
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
Developing Indian pasts? The Archaeological Survey of India, ‘postcolonial’ archaeology, and technical assistance in Nepal	0
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	0
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	0
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War	0
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	0
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	0
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
Interactional craft: Taiwanese artisans and the production of plows in colonial Taiwan	0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	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
Amazonian cosmologies, plant–human relations and the colonial entanglements of Indigenous artifacts	0
State, experts, and rural development in Colombia, 1930–50. A local genealogy of international community development	0
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)	0
History of a fragmented natural history collection: A case study of Merzifon Anatolia College Museum	0
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science	0
The Goiânia accident, orphan sources, trust, and risk perceptions in the wider nuclear industry	0
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science	0
Introduction: Erasures in the history of science	0
A tale of two genera; or, how plant specimens from Japan contributed to the greatest legend in American botany	0
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos	0
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	0
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	0
Sense and the science of nineteenth-century environmental determinism	0
Science and/as work: An introduction to this special issue	0
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)	0
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China	0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	0
From the editor-in-chief	0
Ottoman plants, nature studies, and the attentiveness of translational labor	0
Domesticating taxonomies: Classification and erasures in the shaping of the stingless bee of Yucatán	0
Struggling with exactitude in a fragmented state: Intelligence testing in early twentieth-century China	0
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan	0
Guaraná’s forgotten history: The rise and fall of an Indigenous Brazilian phytotherapy in Anglo-American medicine	0
Fire management and community restraint: The rise of forestry science and the governance of commons	0

Across the Caucasian meridian: European empire, Islamic sciences, and concurrence in global history	0
“No discarded things”: Material resourcefulness and nephrite jade management in Early Modern China	0
Epilogue: Some concluding thoughts on “resourceful creativity”	0
Seeing and unseeing landscapes: Geographic knowledges, cartographic technologies, and the early Cold War in Latin America	0