OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History of the Human Sciences 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
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)	26
Fort/Da/Freud	10
‘Flash houses’: Public houses and geographies of moral contagion in 19th-century London	8
Reply to my commentators – Thinking with Forrester: Dreams, true crimes, and histories of change	8
Fairbairn, Winnicott, and Guntrip on the social significance of schizoids	8
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case	7
Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease: Fifty years of tuberculosis reporting in the United Kingdom	6
Beyond torture: Knowledge and power at the nexus of social science and national security	6
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection: Body typing schemes offer a new path to a utopian future	4
Who reads Renan	4
Confronting the field: Tylor's Anahuac and Victorian thought on human diversity	4
Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry, colonialism, and biopower in China's south-western borderland in the 1930s and 1940s	4
Not merely the absence of disease: A genealogy of the WHO’s positive health definition	3
From In Two Minds to MIND: The circulation of ‘anti-psychiatry’ in British film and television during the long 1960s	3
The idea of an ethically committed social science	3
Finding modernity in England's past: Social anthropology and the remaking of social history in Britain, 1959–77	2
‘Subjects to be dealt with’: Disability, class, and carceral power in early 20th-century Britain	2
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress	2
A faith in science: Gardner Murphy and parapsychology	2
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2024	2
Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia: Crisis, consensus, and computers in post-war psychiatry	2
Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19	2
The Hoffman Report in historical context: A study in denial	2
Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II	2
Shaping epidemic dynamics: An historical epistemology study of the SIR model	2

British criminology, undercover policing, and racist attacks: Notes on the ‘law and order’ information infrastructure	2
Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty	1
Time shifts: Place, belonging, and future orientation in pandemic everyday life	1
Criticism as self-analysis	1
Film, observation and the mind	1
On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care	1
The pragmatic use of metaphor in empirical psychology	1
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics	1
Rahel Jaeggi’s theory of alienation	1
‘You never need an analyst with Bobby around’: The mid-20th-century human sciences in Sondheim and Furth's musical Company	1
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of aversion therapy in England	1
From class origins to individual psychopathology: Spousal murder according to state socialist Czechoslovak criminology	1
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness	1
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain	1
Corrado Gini's economic anthropology	1
Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide	1
The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social	1
Simulating Marx: Herbert A. Simon's cognitivist approach to dialectical materialism	1
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	1
Sexology and development	1
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	1
The discovery of synchrony: By means of the projector as a scientific instrument	1
The figures, profiles, border figures (figures-limites), and ‘pure schema’ of Foucault’s later lectures on cosmopolitanism	1
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)	1
Kinship acknowledged and denied: Collecting and publishing kinship materials in 19th-century settler-colonial states	1
Historia cum ira: Alexandre Herculano and the virtues of engaged objectivity	1
A military/intelligence operational perspective on the American Psychological Association’s weaponization of psychology post-9/11	1
Freud in Cambridge Review Symposium	1
Westermarck and Malinowski: Friendship and competition during an intellectual paradigm shift	1
In the shadow of the tree: The diagrammatics of relatedness in genealogy, anthropology, and genetics as epistemic, cultural, and political practice	1
‘All the progressive forms of life are built up on the attraction of sex’: Development and the social function of the sexual instinct in late 19th- and early 20th-century Western European sexology	1
Cultivating trust, producing knowledge: The management of archaeological labour and the making of a discipline	1
Demons of the mind: The ‘psy’ sciences and film in the long 1960s	1
The codependence of Orientalism and the social sciences: Durkheim on religion in India	1
Cybernetics in the Republic	1
Frederick Antal and the Marxist challenge to art history	1
The pincer movement of The Idea of a Social Science: Winch, Collingwood, and philosophy as a human science	1
Transformativity: The malleable foundations of social theory	1
Care as untranslatable	1
Psychometric origins of depression	1
Making contagion social: Epidemiology, calculus, and the theory of happenings	1
Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems	1
The visualization of autism: Filming children at the Maudsley Hospital, London, 1957–8	0
‘Wundt's work is merely an incident in one of the challenging scholarly careers on recent history’: The media and academic reception of Völkerpsychologie , 1900–1920	0
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928	0
An ‘ingenious system of practical contacts’: Historical origins and development of the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University's Teachers College (1922–36)	0
The critique of social reason in the Popper–Adorno debate	0
How does a mental health chatbot work? A ‘conversation design’ concept of mental health intervention	0
Madness, virtue, and ecology: A classical Indian approach to psychiatric disturbance	0
Introduction: The Hoffman Report in historical context	0

The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	0
Behavior takes form: Tracing the film image in scientific research	0
The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences	0
Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context	0
Seeing like an epidemiologist? Mobilising people against COVID-19	0
Contrary to reason: Documentary film-making and alternative psychotherapies	0
Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s	0
The model multiple: Representing cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	0
A code for care and control: The PIN as an operator of interoperability in the Nordic welfare state	0
Defeating the ‘social danger’ of homosexuality while ‘forging the fatherland’: Sexual science and biotypology in Mexico’s national development, 1927–57	0
Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences	0
Against well-being: A critique of positive psychology	0
A diagrammatics of race: Samuel George Morton's ‘American Golgotha’ and the contest for the definition of the young field of anthropology	0
From the margins to the NICE guidelines: British clinical psychology and the development of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, 1982–2002	0
The crisis of modern society: Richard Titmuss and Emile Durkheim	0
Reanimating experimental psychology: Media archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the ‘Testing the Mind’ film series	0
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance?	0
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	0
Arguments with fictional philosophers: Spengler's Kant and the conceptual foundations of Spengler's early philosophy of history	0
Social science and Marxist humanism beyond collectivism in Socialist Romania	0
That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains: Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis	0
Psychoanalysis and anti-racism in mid-20th-century America: An alternative angle of vision	0
The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian	0
Maps of desire: Edward Tolman's drive theory of wants	0
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history	0
Beyond following rules: Teaching research ethics in the age of the Hoffman Report	0
‘Somewhere between science and superstition’: Religious outrage, horrific science, and The Exorcist (1973)	0
Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology	0
Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’: Multiple discovery and the rhetoric of priority	0
Tocqueville and the Ostroms	0
For or against the molecularization of brain science?: Cybernetics, interdisciplinarity, and the unprogrammed beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT	0
‘A troublesome girl is pushed through’: Morality, biological determinism, resistance, resilience, and the Canadian child migration schemes, 1883–1939	0
Religion and civilization in the sociology of Norbert Elias: Fantasy–reality balances in long-term perspective	0
The material force of categories	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	0
Modern European sexological and orientalist assimilations of medieval Islamicate ‘ilm al-bah to erotology	0
Race in post-war science: The Swiss case in a global context	0
Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis	0
A public inquiry into Freud’s influence upon Cambridge	0
Mind and knowledge in the early thought of Franz Boas, 1887–1904	0
‘There is nothing less spectacular than a pestilence’: Picturing the pandemic in Mass Observation's COVID-19 collections	0
On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity	0
Horizons of Passion: Hermeneutics as fusion or as fracture	0
Metapsychy's border: Henri Piéron's (1881–1964) role as the gatekeeper of French psychology	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	0
On some antecedents of behavioural economics	0
Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison	0
Ethnopsychology in the Bismarck Archipelago: Richard Thurnwald and the visual anthropology of German colonialism	0
Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown	0
Alfred Vierkandt’s notion of the social group	0
Two left turns to science: Gramsci and Du Bois on the emancipatory potential of the social sciences	0
How family charts became Mendelian: The changing content of pedigrees and its impact on the consolidation of genetic theory	0
‘It does not compare to the bright dialectical materialism propounded by Marx, Engels, and Lenin’: Revolutionary refractions and Marxist critique of Freudianism in pre-revolutionary Iran	0
The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures	0
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food	0
The politics of recovery: Women’s mental health activism in the UK, 1986–2002, with a focus on Bristol Crisis Service for Women	0
Taxonomical lives: The making of social divisions in the Swedish press during the golden age of social democracy, 1945–76	0
Psychedelic psychodrama: Raising and expanding consciousness in Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath (1973)	0
I never promised you a rose garden.… When landscape architecture becomes a laboratory for the Anthropocene	0
The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism	0
From cohort to community: The emotional work of birthday cards in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, 1946–2018	0
The emergence of the idea of ‘the welfare state’ in British political discourse	0
The sciences of love: Intimate ‘democracy’ and the eugenic development of the Marathi couple in colonial India	0
Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920–40	0
‘Intelligible to the mind and pleasing to the eye’: Mapping out kinship in British family directories (1660–1830)	0
Managing power and psychiatric training in the United States, 1945–1990	0
The environmental counter-history of liberalism: A formidable challenge?	0