OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History and Technology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Contesting American hegemony: attacks to US scientific initiatives in Cold War Europe (and means to secretly defy these challenges)	15
From co-produced hegemony to coerced imperial governance	13
The materiality of space heating: heat pumps and heating transitions in Twentieth-century Switzerland	12
The tools of tailoring as technologies-in-use in twentieth century Benin, West Africa	5
Introduction	4
The ordinary lives of crisis: transformations in the realm of work in South Africa and Romania	4
Irreplicability in methodology: embracing the historical contingencies of educational technology research during the 2020–2021 United States school year	4
Use and users of artificial insemination in Swedish dairy cattle breeding, 1935–1955	4
Wind power and rural modernization: wind-powered water supply systems in northern Germany and southern France, 1880–1950	3
The search for new models for organizing regional agricultural research in the post-colonial era: Rice in West Africa	3
Eliminating fossil fuels: Iceland’s transition from coal and oil to geothermal district heating, 1930–1980	3
When religion meets history of technology: Secularism and the problem of the sacred	3
‘We were shot down!’: Earth observing satellites, data surveillance, and NASA’s 1982 Global Habitability initiative	3
The oil spillover: prospecting for oil in innovation studies and the history of technology	2
Correction	2
Technologies of a humble natural resource: The sand mining industry and marginal value in Bombay/Mumbai, 1920-2020	2
Transnational co-production of technology: Sino-Soviet cooperation in the construction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, 1950–1957	2
Geoscience spillover: Gunnar Böðvarsson and the adoption of petroleum technologies in Iceland’s geothermal industry, 1940s–1970s	2
Tracing viral trajectories. Epistemic and bodily reservoirs in interspecies health	2
Hegemony, co-production and the American Empire: essays in honor of John Krige	2
Aircraft without wings: local design and serial production of utilitarian vehicles in Argentina (1952-1955)	2
Putting oceans to work: tidal energy in the USA and the USSR, 1930–1970	1
The dangers of sharing knowledge with friends: the FSX Controversy and the use of US export controls against Japan in the 1980s and 1990s	1
Canaries, camouflets, and carbon monoxide: making ‘Proto Man’ in Britain’s tunnelling war 1915–1918	1
Multiple makings at China’s first hydroelectric power station at Shilongba, 1908–1912	1

Before localization: the story of the electric rice cooker in South Korea	1
Lessons from a forgotten fuel: assessing the long history of alcohol fuel advocacy and use in the United States	1
‘Sovereignty of the air’: The Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911–1933)	1
Correction	1
Processing mortality data otherwise: making history in a turbulent sea	1
Turning DDT into ‘Didimac’: Making insecticide products and consumers in British farming after 1945	1
Reassembling colonial infrastructure in Cold War Korea: the Han River Basin Joint Survey Project (1966-71)	1
An open secret: Marine geosciences, offshore oil exploration and industrial secrecy in the Mediterranean seafloor	1
Fatigue as a physiological problem: experiments in the observation and quantification of movement and industrial labor, 1873-1947	1
Making history: technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia	1
“The sparrow loves millet, but labors not”: Energy use and infrastructure in the Senegal Valley, 1450-1760	1
What art can show STS about oil: Engaging spillover’s anthropocene landscapes	1
Psychology as technology: industrial psychology for an industrializing China	1
Financial contagion: financial epidemiology and moral reserve in a risk economy	1
Computation, data and AI in Anthropocene history	1