OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History and Technology 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.)

Article	Citations
The materiality of space heating: heat pumps and heating transitions in Twentieth-century Switzerland	24
From co-produced hegemony to coerced imperial governance	7
Contesting American hegemony: attacks to US scientific initiatives in Cold War Europe (and means to secretly defy these challenges)	6
The oil spillover: prospecting for oil in innovation studies and the history of technology	6
Hegemony, co-production and the American Empire: essays in honor of John Krige	5
Introduction	5
Swimming with the coelacanth: the UK and export controls of technology and knowledge in the Cold War	3
Before localization: the story of the electric rice cooker in South Korea	3
Disaster (continued): Sewol Ferry investigations, state violence, and political history in South Korea	3
Correction	3
Social control and disciplining discourses on mobility practices during Portuguese dictatorships (1930s–50s)	3
Making history: technologies of production and the estate of knowledge in East Asia	3
Computation, data and AI in Anthropocene history	3
Driving on wood: the Swedish transition to wood gas during World War Two	2
Tracing viral trajectories. Epistemic and bodily reservoirs in interspecies health	2
Tapping ressentiment : pharmakeus and the sublime poisons of white supremacy	2
About the cover	2
Reservoirs: thinking history in the present	2
Making waste one’s own: transformations in production by resting paper, or hyuji, in Chosŏn Korea	2
“The sparrow loves millet, but labors not”: Energy use and infrastructure in the Senegal Valley, 1450-1760	2
Editorial	2
Correction	2
Irreplicability in methodology: embracing the historical contingencies of educational technology research during the 2020–2021 United States school year	2
Putting oceans to work: tidal energy in the USA and the USSR, 1930–1970	2
Reservoirs of endangerment	1

The oleaginous voice: Auto-Tune, linear predictive coding, and the security-petroleum complex	1
Correction	1
Manufacturing hands: robot fingers and human labour in post-war Japan	1
Striking the empire back: Dr. Strangelove and the global histories of technology	1
Marginal mobilities: three-wheeled vehicles in Greece from the 1940s to the present	1
Processing mortality data otherwise: making history in a turbulent sea	1
When religion meets history of technology: Secularism and the problem of the sacred	1
About the Cover	1
Reservoirs of history	1
How to turn a mobile laboratory into a diplomatic bag: international relations, the IAEA and nuclear diplomacy	1
‘Sovereignty of the air’: The Indian princely states, the British Empire and carving out of air-space (1911–1933)	1
The ordinary lives of crisis: transformations in the realm of work in South Africa and Romania	0
Aircraft without wings: local design and serial production of utilitarian vehicles in Argentina (1952-1955)	0
Reverse engineering as history and method: The Portugueseespingardain Chosŏn Korea	0
What art can show STS about oil: Engaging spillover’s anthropocene landscapes	0
Fatigue as a physiological problem: experiments in the observation and quantification of movement and industrial labor, 1873-1947	0
Eliminating fossil fuels: Iceland’s transition from coal and oil to geothermal district heating, 1930–1980	0
Labor, knowledge, and power: licensing technical innovations and enslaved labor in the colonial Andes	0
Electrical futures for a regenerated Spain: electricity, engineering and national reconstruction after the 1898 ‘Disaster’	0
From petroleum to power sources: Big Oil and the technopolitics of energy conversion	0
Missing the mark: a response to Bray and Hahn	0
Historicizing renewables: issues and challenges	0
Sweetness and exile: Madeiran sugar connections in motion	0
The Oceans of Sui (髓海) inclusive extra-epistemic objects in biomedical vernacular	0
Making raw materials: innovation and imported technology in Meiji Japan	0
Botanical surveying, nation-building and American empire: the US quest for a Philippine flora, 1903–1925	0
CORONALAG: time, place, and power in Pandemic Year One	0
An open secret: Marine geosciences, offshore oil exploration and industrial secrecy in the Mediterranean seafloor	0
Technologies of a humble natural resource: The sand mining industry and marginal value in Bombay/Mumbai, 1920-2020	0
Wind power and rural modernization: wind-powered water supply systems in northern Germany and southern France, 1880–1950	0
Use and users of artificial insemination in Swedish dairy cattle breeding, 1935–1955	0
The dangers of sharing knowledge with friends: the FSX Controversy and the use of US export controls against Japan in the 1980s and 1990s	0
Multiple makings at China’s first hydroelectric power station at Shilongba, 1908–1912	0
About the Cover	0
Lessons from a forgotten fuel: assessing the long history of alcohol fuel advocacy and use in the United States	0
The balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet: energetic reservoirs and elemental containment	0
Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution	0
Psychology as technology: industrial psychology for an industrializing China	0
The training in France of Spanish nuclear personnel, c. 1950s–1990s	0
Canaries, camouflets, and carbon monoxide: making ‘Proto Man’ in Britain’s tunnelling war 1915–1918	0
How the United States learned to commodify the transnational atom	0
Financial contagion: financial epidemiology and moral reserve in a risk economy	0
The search for new models for organizing regional agricultural research in the post-colonial era: Rice in West Africa	0
‘The Goddess Technology is a polyglot’: a critical review of Eric Schatzberg,Technology: critical history of a concept	0
Transnational co-production of technology: Sino-Soviet cooperation in the construction of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, 1950–1957	0
Geoscience spillover: Gunnar Böðvarsson and the adoption of petroleum technologies in Iceland’s geothermal industry, 1940s–1970s	0
Imperial models: technology and design in state-controlled porcelain manufacture in early modern China	0
The revolt of the chemists: biofuels, agricultural overproduction, and the chemurgy movement in New Deal America	0
Turning DDT into ‘Didimac’: Making insecticide products and consumers in British farming after 1945	0