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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection: Body typing schemes offer a new path to a utopian future	10
‘Flash houses’: Public houses and geographies of moral contagion in 19th-century London	10
From In Two Minds to MIND: The circulation of ‘anti-psychiatry’ in British film and television during the long 1960s	8
British criminology, undercover policing, and racist attacks: Notes on the ‘law and order’ information infrastructure	8
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain	6
Kinship acknowledged and denied: Collecting and publishing kinship materials in 19th-century settler-colonial states	6
Sexology and development	4
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	4
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	4
Transformativity: The malleable foundations of social theory	4
The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social	4
Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway	3
On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity	3
Metapsychy's border: Henri Piéron's (1881–1964) role as the gatekeeper of French psychology	3
Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences	3
Fort/Da/Freud	2
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)	2
The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures	2
Horizons of Passion: Hermeneutics as fusion or as fracture	2
The Hoffman Report in historical context: A study in denial	2
Historia cum ira: Alexandre Herculano and the virtues of engaged objectivity	2
Seeing like an epidemiologist? Mobilising people against COVID-19	2
Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry, colonialism, and biopower in China's south-western borderland in the 1930s and 1940s	2
Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19	2
Beyond torture: Knowledge and power at the nexus of social science and national security	2

Tocqueville and the Ostroms	2
‘Freedom within parameters’: Liberalism, (in)determinism, and the politics of instinct in Sigmund Exner and Sigmund Freud	2
A military/intelligence operational perspective on the American Psychological Association’s weaponization of psychology post-9/11	1
Simulating Marx: Herbert A. Simon's cognitivist approach to dialectical materialism	1
The idea of an ethically committed social science	1
The critique of social reason in the Popper–Adorno debate	1
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history	1
Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide	1
Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems	1
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics	1
The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian	1
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of aversion therapy in England	1
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food	1
A code for care and control: The PIN as an operator of interoperability in the Nordic welfare state	1
How does a mental health chatbot work? A ‘conversation design’ concept of mental health intervention	1
Psychoanalysis and anti-racism in mid-20th-century America: An alternative angle of vision	1
Confronting the field: Tylor's Anahuac and Victorian thought on human diversity	1
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	1
Psychedelic psychodrama: Raising and expanding consciousness in Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath (1973)	1
A public inquiry into Freud’s influence upon Cambridge	1
Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison	1
Freud in Cambridge Review Symposium	1
The model multiple: Representing cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	1
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness	1
Modern European sexological and orientalist assimilations of medieval Islamicate ‘ilm al-bah to erotology	1
Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty	1
That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains: Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis	1
Care as untranslatable	1
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)	1
Cybernetics in the Republic	1
Film, observation and the mind	1
From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate	1
Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis	1
Finding modernity in England's past: Social anthropology and the remaking of social history in Britain, 1959–77	1
Taxonomical lives: The making of social divisions in the Swedish press during the golden age of social democracy, 1945–76	1
The visualization of autism: Filming children at the Maudsley Hospital, London, 1957–8	1
Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s	1
‘You never need an analyst with Bobby around’: The mid-20th-century human sciences in Sondheim and Furth's musical Company	1
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	1
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928	1
Corrado Gini's economic anthropology	1
Managing power and psychiatric training in the United States, 1945–1990	0
Making contagion social: Epidemiology, calculus, and the theory of happenings	0
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)	0
On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care	0
Ethnopsychology in the Bismarck Archipelago: Richard Thurnwald and the visual anthropology of German colonialism	0
Two left turns to science: Gramsci and Du Bois on the emancipatory potential of the social sciences	0
The codependence of Orientalism and the social sciences: Durkheim on religion in India	0
Social science and Marxist humanism beyond collectivism in Socialist Romania	0
Cultivating trust, producing knowledge: The management of archaeological labour and the making of a discipline	0

A diagrammatics of race: Samuel George Morton's ‘American Golgotha’ and the contest for the definition of the young field of anthropology	0
‘There is nothing less spectacular than a pestilence’: Picturing the pandemic in Mass Observation's COVID-19 collections	0
Religion and civilization in the sociology of Norbert Elias: Fantasy–reality balances in long-term perspective	0
Demons of the mind: The ‘psy’ sciences and film in the long 1960s	0
The sciences of love: Intimate ‘democracy’ and the eugenic development of the Marathi couple in colonial India	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
The pragmatic use of metaphor in empirical psychology	0
Shaping epidemic dynamics: An historical epistemology study of the SIR model	0
A faith in science: Gardner Murphy and parapsychology	0
Beyond following rules: Teaching research ethics in the age of the Hoffman Report	0
Who reads Renan	0
How family charts became Mendelian: The changing content of pedigrees and its impact on the consolidation of genetic theory	0
Against well-being: A critique of positive psychology	0
The environmental counter-history of liberalism: A formidable challenge?	0
Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown	0
Time shifts: Place, belonging, and future orientation in pandemic everyday life	0
The crisis of modern society: Richard Titmuss and Emile Durkheim	0
Alfred Vierkandt’s notion of the social group	0
Behavior takes form: Tracing the film image in scientific research	0
‘Subjects to be dealt with’: Disability, class, and carceral power in early 20th-century Britain	0
The discovery of synchrony: By means of the projector as a scientific instrument	0
The pincer movement of The Idea of a Social Science: Winch, Collingwood, and philosophy as a human science	0
For or against the molecularization of brain science?: Cybernetics, interdisciplinarity, and the unprogrammed beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	0
I never promised you a rose garden.… When landscape architecture becomes a laboratory for the Anthropocene	0
Contrary to reason: Documentary film-making and alternative psychotherapies	0
The material force of categories	0
From the margins to the NICE guidelines: British clinical psychology and the development of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, 1982–2002	0
Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920–40	0
Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II	0
Discourses on im/migrants, ethnic minorities, and infectious disease: Fifty years of tuberculosis reporting in the United Kingdom	0
The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences	0
In the shadow of the tree: The diagrammatics of relatedness in genealogy, anthropology, and genetics as epistemic, cultural, and political practice	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2024	0
Introduction: The Hoffman Report in historical context	0
Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia: Crisis, consensus, and computers in post-war psychiatry	0
Westermarck and Malinowski: Friendship and competition during an intellectual paradigm shift	0
From class origins to individual psychopathology: Spousal murder according to state socialist Czechoslovak criminology	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
Mind and knowledge in the early thought of Franz Boas, 1887–1904	0
Arguments with fictional philosophers: Spengler's Kant and the conceptual foundations of Spengler's early philosophy of history	0
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory	0
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress	0
The figures, profiles, border figures (figures-limites), and ‘pure schema’ of Foucault’s later lectures on cosmopolitanism	0
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance?	0
Thinking in systems: Problems of organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950–7	0
Maps of desire: Edward Tolman's drive theory of wants	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
Reanimating experimental psychology: Media archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the ‘Testing the Mind’ film series	0
Being captured by queer kinship: Margaret Lowenfeld and Margaret Mead	0
The emergence of the idea of ‘the welfare state’ in British political discourse	0
‘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	0
‘A troublesome girl is pushed through’: Morality, biological determinism, resistance, resilience, and the Canadian child migration schemes, 1883–1939	0
Defeating the ‘social danger’ of homosexuality while ‘forging the fatherland’: Sexual science and biotypology in Mexico’s national development, 1927–57	0
Rahel Jaeggi’s theory of alienation	0
Reply to my commentators – Thinking with Forrester: Dreams, true crimes, and histories of change	0
The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism	0
The narrative-based medical humanities, 1980–95	0
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case	0
Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context	0
Criticism as self-analysis	0
‘Intelligible to the mind and pleasing to the eye’: Mapping out kinship in British family directories (1660–1830)	0
Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’: Multiple discovery and the rhetoric of priority	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	0
Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology	0