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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection: Body typing schemes offer a new path to a utopian future	11
The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain	10
British criminology, undercover policing, and racist attacks: Notes on the ‘law and order’ information infrastructure	8
Kinship acknowledged and denied: Collecting and publishing kinship materials in 19th-century settler-colonial states	7
Sexology and development	5
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain	5
Transformativity: The malleable foundations of social theory	5
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	5
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	4
Modeling the epidemiologic individual	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
Tocqueville and the Ostroms	3
Metapsychy's border: Henri Piéron's (1881–1964) role as the gatekeeper of French psychology	3
Horizons of Passion: Hermeneutics as fusion or as fracture	3
Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences	3
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74	3
State socialist vs. (neo-)liberal governmentality? Weight loss TV shows and the fight against fatness in East and West Germany, 1970s–1980s	3
‘Freedom within parameters’: Liberalism, (in)determinism, and the politics of instinct in Sigmund Exner and Sigmund Freud	2
Beyond torture: Knowledge and power at the nexus of social science and national security	2
Cybernetics in the Republic	2
Historia cum ira : Alexandre Herculano and the virtues of engaged objectivity	2
Seeing like an epidemiologist? Mobilising people against COVID-19	2
Fort/Da/Freud	2
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)	2

Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19	2
The community test tube of American civilization: Burt and Ethel Aginsky’s Social Science Field Laboratory, 1939–47	2
The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures	2
The Hoffman Report in historical context: A study in denial	2
Care as untranslatable	2
‘Intelligence’ before ‘intelligence tests’: Alfred Binet’s experiments on his daughters, 1890–1903	1
How does a mental health chatbot work? A ‘conversation design’ concept of mental health intervention	1
A military/intelligence operational perspective on the American Psychological Association’s weaponization of psychology post-9/11	1
Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s	1
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness	1
Managing power and psychiatric training in the United States, 1945–1990	1
Taxonomical lives: The making of social divisions in the Swedish press during the golden age of social democracy, 1945–76	1
Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis	1
Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems	1
From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate	1
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of aversion therapy in England	1
Confronting the field: Tylor's Anahuac and Victorian thought on human diversity	1
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics	1
Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s–60s	1
The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian	1
Film, observation and the mind	1
On the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice	1
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	1
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory	1
The critique of social reason in the Popper–Adorno debate	1
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history	1
Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison	1
Freud in Cambridge Review Symposium	1
Spencer and Parsons on functional differentiation: Some illustrative parallels	1
The general practitioner as epidemiologist in Britain, 1930–1960	1
That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains: Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis	1
The model multiple: Representing cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	1
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food	1
Corrado Gini's economic anthropology	1
The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history	1
Exploring state socialist governmentality: Eastern European examples from medicine and health care	1
Mind and knowledge in the early thought of Franz Boas, 1887–1904	1
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83	1
A public inquiry into Freud’s influence upon Cambridge	1
Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide	1
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928	1
The visualization of autism: Filming children at the Maudsley Hospital, London, 1957–8	1
Finding modernity in England's past: Social anthropology and the remaking of social history in Britain, 1959–77	1
Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty	1
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	1
Capitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism	0
Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology	0
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)	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
The pincer movement of The Idea of a Social Science: Winch, Collingwood, and philosophy as a human science	0

Socialist medicine and postcolonial governance: A Romanian hospital in Libya	0
In the shadow of the tree: The diagrammatics of relatedness in genealogy, anthropology, and genetics as epistemic, cultural, and political practice	0
Ethnopsychology in the Bismarck Archipelago: Richard Thurnwald and the visual anthropology of German colonialism	0
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance?	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	0
I never promised you a rose garden.… When landscape architecture becomes a laboratory for the Anthropocene	0
Reanimating experimental psychology: Media archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the ‘Testing the Mind’ film series	0
The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences	0
Making space for ‘THOSE OTHERS’: The Q Camps Committee's cross-disciplinary exploration of disturbance and rehabilitation in 1930s Britain	0
Defeating the ‘social danger’ of homosexuality while ‘forging the fatherland’: Sexual science and biotypology in Mexico’s national development, 1927–57	0
Time shifts: Place, belonging, and future orientation in pandemic everyday life	0
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress	0
Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown	0
The narrative-based medical humanities, 1980–95	0
On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2024	0
Beyond following rules: Teaching research ethics in the age of the Hoffman Report	0
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case	0
Health care, esoteric practices, and socialist governmentality in Poland	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
‘Intelligible to the mind and pleasing to the eye’: Mapping out kinship in British family directories (1660–1830)	0
Contrary to reason: Documentary film-making and alternative psychotherapies	0
The crisis of modern society: Richard Titmuss and Emile Durkheim	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
‘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
Westermarck and Malinowski: Friendship and competition during an intellectual paradigm shift	0
The figures, profiles, border figures ( figures-limites ), and ‘pure schema’ of Foucault’s later lectures on cosmopolitanism	0
For or against the molecularization of brain science?: Cybernetics, interdisciplinarity, and the unprogrammed beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT	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 material force of categories	0
Being captured by queer kinship: Margaret Lowenfeld and Margaret Mead	0
The sciences of love: Intimate ‘democracy’ and the eugenic development of the Marathi couple in colonial India	0
Religion and civilization in the sociology of Norbert Elias: Fantasy–reality balances in long-term perspective	0
How free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990	0
The controversy over scientific sociology and compromiso during the Cultural Cold War in Latin America: The case of ILARI, 1966–72	0
Talcott Parsons and the totem–taboo problematic	0
Shaping epidemic dynamics: An historical epistemology study of the SIR model	0
Against well-being: A critique of positive psychology	0
Introduction: The Hoffman Report in historical context	0
Making contagion social: Epidemiology, calculus, and the theory of happenings	0
A faith in science: Gardner Murphy and parapsychology	0
Well-being at the cost of welfare: Learned helplessness and responsibility in positive psychology and American policy	0
Liberalism ends halfway? Reproductive behaviour, health institutions and legislative framework in socialist Yugoslavia	0
The Zika case : Defining, counting, modelling and making a health emergency visible	0
Of modern mediums and susceptible psychologists, and of things we do not know	0
The health of Soviet female workers: Experts' debates and state interests in 1923–1933	0
Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	0
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives	0
The environmental counter-history of liberalism: A formidable challenge?	0
Arguments with fictional philosophers: Spengler's Kant and the conceptual foundations of Spengler's early philosophy of history	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
Two left turns to science: Gramsci and Du Bois on the emancipatory potential of the social sciences	0
The persistence of history: Racism, anti-Blackness, and the causes of mental ill health, c .1800–2020	0
Maps of desire: Edward Tolman's drive theory of wants	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
The codependence of Orientalism and the social sciences: Durkheim on religion in India	0
Reply to my commentators – Thinking with Forrester: Dreams, true crimes, and histories of change	0
Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920–40	0
An agenda for the medical humanities and ageing	0
The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism	0
Social science and Marxist humanism beyond collectivism in Socialist Romania	0
Life, care, and the medical humanities: An interview with Frédéric Worms	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
Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia: Crisis, consensus, and computers in post-war psychiatry	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
Behavior takes form: Tracing the film image in scientific research	0