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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Shattering crystal with crystal: Galileo’s rhetoric, lenses, and the epistemology of metaphor	15
Towards a history of scientific publishing	4
Race science in the Latin world: An afterword	3
Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies	2
Avian architects: Technology, domestication, and animal minds in urban America	2
Progressing into disaster: The railroad and the spread of cholera in a provincial Ottoman town	2
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan	2
Risky migrations: Race, Latin eugenics, and Cold War development in the International Labor Organization’s Puno–Tambopata project in Peru, 1930–60	2
Unnamed, not unskilled: Toward a new labor history of pharmacy	2
Animals for the mayor: Barcelona’s zoo in the making of local policies and national narratives (1957–73)	2
Herbaria as manuscripts: Philology, ethnobotany, and the textual–visual mesh of early modern botany	1
Chemical ‘canaries’: Munitions workers in the First World War	1
Gendering the memory of iron: Theft, lineage, and African metallurgists in the Atlantic world	1
The spring of order: Robert Main’s management of astronomical labor at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich	1
Objectivity, honesty, and integrity: How American scientists talked about their virtues, 1945–2000	1
The emperor’s herbarium: The German physician Leonhard Rauwolf (1535?–96) and his botanical field studies in the Middle East	1
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	1
Ottoman plants, nature studies, and the attentiveness of translational labor	1
Saving newborns, defining livebirth: The struggle to reduce infant mortality in East-Central Europe in comparative and transnational perspectives, 1945–1965	1
The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science	1
Introduction: Race science in the Latin world	1
Local problems, global solutions? Making it rain in Hong Kong c. 1890–1930	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
A Note From the Editor	0
The Revista Ştiinţifică “Vasile Adamachi” and its role in forming national and international scientific awareness of Greater Romania, 1910–1933	0

Corrigendum to “Defending metropolitan identity through colonial politics: The role of Portuguese naturalists (1870–91)”	0
Humboldtian Science and Humboldt’s science	0
Heavenly spirit or material being? Science on electricity at the turn of the 19th century in Poland	0
The hand of the connoisseur: Gems and hardness in Enlightenment mineralogy	0
“Put a mark on the errors”: Seventeenth-century medicine and science	0
Mastering the uncontrollable: The Ottomans and the use of modern technologies	0
The politics of electricity use and non-use in late Ottoman Istanbul	0
Chemistry, trade, and the economy: Exploring the history of customs laboratories in the United States (1870s–1930s)	0
Struggling with exactitude in a fragmented state: Intelligence testing in early twentieth-century China	0
Thunderstorms underground: Giuseppe Saverio Poli and the electric earthquake	0
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	0
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	0
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	0
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	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
“Rusticall chymistry”: Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture	0
Scaling down the Earth’s history: Visual materials for popular education by Nérée Boubée (1806–1862)	0
George Howard Darwin and the “public” interpretation of The Tides	0
Kepler’s labors: Figurations of scholarly work c. 1600	0
Hard science, soft science: A political history of a disciplinary array	0
Fire management and community restraint: The rise of forestry science and the governance of commons	0
Mining knowledge: Nineteenth-century Cornish electrical science and the controversies of clay	0
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	0
The instrumental Brahmin and the “half-caste” computer: Astronomy and colonial rule in Madras, 1791–1835	0
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	0
“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932	0
From laboratory to mountaintop: Creating an artificial aurora in the late nineteenth century	0
Performing the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos	0
Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 1806	0
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	0
Affective geographies: Family and friendship in the production of scientific knowledge	0
Introduction: Science and connoisseurship in the European Enlightenment	0
Beyond green chemistry: Radical environmental transformation through Sanfte Chemie (1985–1995)	0
Historiographies of science and labor: From past perspectives to future possibilities	0
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	0
Global circulation of low-end expertise: Knowledge, hierarchy, and labor migration in a Burmese oilfield	0
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	0
Magnifying the first points of life: Harvey and Descartes on generation and scale	0
National climate: Zhu Kezhen and the framing of the atmosphere in modern China	0
Science and/as work: An introduction to this special issue	0
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	0
Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation: Towards a new history of transportation	0
“The lungs of a ship”: Ventilation, acclimatization, and labor in the maritime environment, 1740–1800	0
A benefactor to mankind? Captain Warner’s secrets and the politics of invention in early Victorian Britain	0
Michael Hoskin (1930–2021)	0