OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History and Technology is 2. 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
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
Introduction	4
The ordinary lives of crisis: transformations in the realm of work in South Africa and Romania	4
‘We were shot down!’: Earth observing satellites, data surveillance, and NASA’s 1982 Global Habitability initiative	3
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
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
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