History of Science

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Risky migrations: Race, Latin eugenics, and Cold War development in the International Labor Organization’s Puno–Tambopata project in Peru, 1930–6022
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town4
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword3
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world3
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–19653
Gendering the memory of iron: Theft, lineage, and African metallurgists in the Atlantic world2
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, 1791–18352
The crisis in American science2
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies2
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories2
Nature’s keepers: Working families and the economy of earthly objects2
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge2
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)1
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era1
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–19421
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 16001
Shattering crystal with crystal: Galileo’s rhetoric, lenses, and the epistemology of metaphor1
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)1
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s1
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–19321
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology1
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies1
Magnifying the first points of life: Harvey and Descartes on generation and scale1
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus1
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)0
Heavenly spirit or material being? Science on electricity at the turn of the 19th century in Poland0
“The lungs of a ship”: Ventilation, acclimatization, and labor in the maritime environment, 1740–18000
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–19300
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–20000
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos0
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America0
Seeing and unseeing landscapes: Geographic knowledges, cartographic technologies, and the early Cold War in Latin America0
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science0
Science and/as work: An introduction to this special issue0
Scaling down the Earth’s history: Visual materials for popular education by Nérée Boubée (1806–1862)0
The persona of the physician in the early German Enlightenment: An analysis of the mediation of epistemic strategies in medical textbooks and advice literature0
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)0
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century0
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan0
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies0
“Rusticall chymistry”: Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture0
A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain0
Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 18060
Introduction: Erasures in the history of science0
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science0
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)0
Mastering the uncontrollable: The Ottomans and the use of modern technologies0
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy0
Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation: Towards a new history of transportation0
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China0
Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities0
Domesticating taxonomies: Classification and erasures in the shaping of the stingless bee of Yucatán0
A Note From the Editor0
Affective geographies: Family and friendship in the production of scientific knowledge0
The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” and its role in forming national and international scientific awareness of Greater Romania, 1910–19330
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War0
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)0
Struggling with exactitude in a fragmented state: Intelligence testing in early twentieth-century China0
Fire management and community restraint: The rise of forestry science and the governance of commons0
Guaraná’s forgotten history: The rise and fall of an Indigenous Brazilian phytotherapy in Anglo-American medicine0
Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science0
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany0
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array0
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy0
Towards a history of scientific publishing0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake0
From the editor-in-chief0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides0
Ottoman plants, nature studies, and the attentiveness of translational labor0
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