OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Historical Records of Australian 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
Problems with Fenner and Marshall’s method of estimating myxoma virus virulence delayed a closer understanding of rabbit-virus coevolution	3
Table of Contents	2
A history of CSIRO’s Central Australian Laboratory 2, 1980–2018: interdisciplinary land research	2
Hans Charles Freeman 1929–2008	2
Oswald Bertram Lower (1864–1925): a South Australian pioneer in the discovery of Australia’s biodiversity	2
Table of Contents	2
John Staer (1850–1933): the patronym behind Eucalyptus staeri, the Albany Blackbutt	2
The Australian Coral Reef Society: the last 40 years of a century working with Australia’s coral reefs	2
The untold history of banana bunchy top disease	1
Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 45, 2023/24	1
Lord Robert May of Oxford 1936–2020	1
Mervyn Silas Paterson 1925–2020	1
A history of CSIRO’S Central Australian Laboratory, 1: 1953–80: pastoral land research	1
Reviews	1
Practising organometallic chemistry in nineteenth century Australia: David Orme Masson and diethyl magnesium	1
Editors’ page	1
Soil in the air	1
Robert Kirk: blood, genetics, race and rights in the twentieth century†	1
Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 42, 2020/21	1
‘From Snowy River, up by Kosciusko’s side’: a virus, a beetle, and a PhD	1
Dr W.R. (Bill) Blevin 1929–2022	1
Reviews	1
The mysterious Dr Ferdinand von Sommer (~1800–49): Western Australia’s first government geologist	1
Spreading across the continent: the Astronomical Society of Australia 1966–2023	1
Polar weighing—an Oertling balance in Antarctica	1

Common leaf spot of lucerne and the dawn of mycology and plant pathology in Australia	1
Rupert Horace Myers 1921–2019	1
Corrigendum to: William (Bill) Francis Budd 1938–2022	1
Stuart Ross Taylor 1925–2021	1
Table of Contents	1
Geoffrey Burnstock 1929–2020	0
Reviews	0
Gavin Brown: 1942–2010	0
Editors’ page	0
Guest editor’s page: the path to food security in Australia through better plant disease management	0
Scott William Sloan 1954–2019	0
From internment in Trial Bay to exile in Berkeley: the German physicist Peter Pringsheim and his connection with Australia	0
James Waldo Lance 1926–2019	0
The remarkable contributions of ten outstanding women to Australian coral reef science	0
Table of Contents	0
Corrigendum to: John Atherton Young 1936–2004	0
The discovery of gumming disease of sugarcane in Australia	0
Annual Author Index	0
Raymond Leslie Martin 1926–2020	0
Guy Kendall White 1925–2018	0
John Atherton Young 1936–2004	0
Robert Gerard (Gerry) Milton Wake (1933–2020)	0
Mary Proctor and the Cawthron observatory project: a lost history of the Mount Stromlo Observatory	0
Joseph Bancroft’s discovery of Fusarium Wilt of banana	0
Henry Tryon—the true discoverer of the potato brown rot pathogen, Ralstonia solanacearum	0
Sarah Elizabeth Smith 1941–2019	0
‘The border problems of science and philosophy’: Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider and post-World War 2 science in Australian academia and society	0
Anthony George Klein 1935–2021	0
Editors’ page	0
Table of Contents	0
Wattle gall—the quintessential Australian plant disease	0
Responses by Australian pharmacologists to respiratory depression caused by opiates and barbiturates	0
Annual Author Index	0
Table of Contents	0
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: John Dallachy (1804–71): from gardener to botanical collector	0
J. A. Leach’s	0
A matter of where and when—the appearance of Late Blight of potato in Australia	0
Stem rust of wheat in colonial Australia and the development of the plant pathology profession	0
Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 44, 2022/23	0
Realignment and change: CSIRO and industry 2000–10	0
False testimony: the surveying career of Robert Hamilton Mathews	0
David Albert Cooper 1949–2018	0
William (Bill) Francis Budd 1938–2022	0
Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy plant health surveys: over thirty years of a globally unique on- and off-shore solution to island nation biosecurity challenges	0
Book Reviews	0
‘The Menace of Acclimatization’: the advent of ‘anekeitaxonomy’ in Australia	0
Rumphius and	0
Ross Henry Day 1927–2018	0
The contributions of Rupert Best to the modern concept of the nature of viruses	0
Annual Author Index	0

Angus McEwan 1937–2018	0
Annual Author Index	0
Protecting Australia’s plant health: plant quarantine in an evolving biosecurity system†	0
Aspects of the historiography of Australian archaeology	0
Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 43, 2021/22	0
The discovery of tomato spotted wilt virus	0
Reviews	0
Robert Woodhouse Crompton 1926–2022	0
George Ernest Rogers 1927–2021	0
A prickly business—Edward Shelton, Henry Tryon and the mysterious pineapple disease	0
‘Where does a female plant pathologist work?’: Gretna Weste (née Parkin) AM DSc	0
Jeremy David Pickett-Heaps 1940–2021†	0
Ian McDougall 1935–2018	0
Table of Contents	0
Editors’ page	0
G. P. Darnell-Smith and the introduction of copper carbonate ‘dry pickling’ of wheat seed	0
Reviews	0
Roger Tory Peterson Down Under: an American’s influence on Australian birding field guides	0
Editors’ Page	0
Emeritus Professor Derek Ashworth Denton (1924–2022)	0
Amyand David Buckingham 1930–2021	0
Book Reviews	0
Corrigendum to: The discovery of tomato spotted wilt virus	0
Roy Woodall 1930–2021	0
Gender diversity in Australian astronomy: the Astronomical Society of Australia 1966–2023	0