OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History of Science is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Specimens for the “science of man”: Skulls, race, and instructions in James Prichard’s Enlightenment ethnology	35
Re-sourcing fuels for ceramic kilns in socialist China (1950s–1980s)	6
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
“To reduce this danger:” Rinderpest vaccines and African assistants in a Gold Coast laboratory, 1890–1964	3
Gendering the memory of iron: Theft, lineage, and African metallurgists in the Atlantic world	3
The crisis in American science	3
Transmutations of climate – Darwin’s Stendhal and the legacy of “local nature” aesthetics	3
Timing the stars: Clocks and complexities of precision in eighteenth-century observatories	3
Nature’s keepers: Working families and the economy of earthly objects	3
Afterword: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	2
Eclipse on paper: The 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazilian newspapers	2
Silver refining in the New World: A singularity in the history of useful knowledge	2
Cruel works of many wheels: Prison treadmills and nineteenth-century sciences of productive labor	1
Maszyny Matematyczne, women, and computing: The birth of computers in the Polish communist era	1
“Modest wise women”: Science in Porfirian women’s periodicals	1
Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942	1
The borderline of science: Western exploration and study of Chinese insect white wax from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century	1
Struggling for survival: The popularization of Darwinism and the elite’s fight for power in Franco’s Spain (1939–1967)	1
Introduction: Science popularization, dictatorships, and democracies	1
(Un)making labor invisible: A syllabus	1
Science, nationalism and tradition: A garden city for Republican China	1
Biotechnics and politics: A genealogy of nonhuman technology	1
Contested “automobility”: Peasants, townsfolks, and infrastructures of road transport in interwar central and western India (c. 1919–39)	1
Preparatory labor for chemical fertilizer: Rural modernity and the practices of South Korean farmers in the 1960s	1

“On the trail of the mercy bullet”: Pain, scientific showmanship, and the early history of animal tranquilizing, c. 1912–1932