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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
British criminology, undercover policing, and racist attacks: Notes on the ‘law and order’ information infrastructure	10
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection: Body typing schemes offer a new path to a utopian future	10
Kinship acknowledged and denied: Collecting and publishing kinship materials in 19th-century settler-colonial states	7
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain	7
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	5
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
Sexology and development	4
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74	3
Modeling the epidemiologic individual	3
On the assumption of self-reflective subjectivity	3
Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway	3
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	3
Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences	2
Seeing like an epidemiologist? Mobilising people against COVID-19	2
Beyond torture: Knowledge and power at the nexus of social science and national security	2
Metapsychy's border: Henri Piéron's (1881–1964) role as the gatekeeper of French psychology	2
‘Freedom within parameters’: Liberalism, (in)determinism, and the politics of instinct in Sigmund Exner and Sigmund Freud	2
Horizons of Passion: Hermeneutics as fusion or as fracture	2
The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures	2
Tocqueville and the Ostroms	2
Measuring non-Han bodies: Anthropometry, colonialism, and biopower in China's south-western borderland in the 1930s and 1940s	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 community test tube of American civilization: Burt and Ethel Aginsky’s Social Science Field Laboratory, 1939–47	1

Fort/Da/Freud	1
Modern European sexological and orientalist assimilations of medieval Islamicate ‘ilm al-bah to erotology	1
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928	1
Freud in Cambridge Review Symposium	1
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness	1
Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s–60s	1
Confronting the field: Tylor's Anahuac and Victorian thought on human diversity	1
The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian	1
Film, observation and the mind	1
From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate	1
Psychoanalysis and anti-racism in mid-20th-century America: An alternative angle of vision	1
Cybernetics in the Republic	1
The Hoffman Report in historical context: A study in denial	1
Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s	1
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	1
Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty	1
The visualization of autism: Filming children at the Maudsley Hospital, London, 1957–8	1
‘You never need an analyst with Bobby around’: The mid-20th-century human sciences in Sondheim and Furth's musical Company	1
Spencer and Parsons on functional differentiation: Some illustrative parallels	1
That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains: Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis	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
Care as untranslatable	1
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)	1
Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19	1
Historia cum ira: Alexandre Herculano and the virtues of engaged objectivity	1
The model multiple: Representing cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	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
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of aversion therapy in England	1
Finding modernity in England's past: Social anthropology and the remaking of social history in Britain, 1959–77	1
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	1
How does a mental health chatbot work? A ‘conversation design’ concept of mental health intervention	1
The crisis of modern society: Richard Titmuss and Emile Durkheim	0
The codependence of Orientalism and the social sciences: Durkheim on religion in India	0
Alfred Vierkandt’s notion of the social group	0
Who reads Renan	0
Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown	0
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)	0
Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context	0
The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences	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
From class origins to individual psychopathology: Spousal murder according to state socialist Czechoslovak criminology	0
From the margins to the NICE guidelines: British clinical psychology and the development of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, 1982–2002	0
Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case	0
Social science and Marxist humanism beyond collectivism in Socialist Romania	0
Defeating the ‘social danger’ of homosexuality while ‘forging the fatherland’: Sexual science and biotypology in Mexico’s national development, 1927–57	0
In the shadow of the tree: The diagrammatics of relatedness in genealogy, anthropology, and genetics as epistemic, cultural, and political practice	0
For or against the molecularization of brain science?: Cybernetics, interdisciplinarity, and the unprogrammed beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT	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

Socialist medicine and postcolonial governance: A Romanian hospital in Libya	0
Beyond following rules: Teaching research ethics in the age of the Hoffman Report	0
Time shifts: Place, belonging, and future orientation in pandemic everyday life	0
The emergence of the idea of ‘the welfare state’ in British political discourse	0
Health care, esoteric practices, and socialist governmentality in Poland	0
‘A troublesome girl is pushed through’: Morality, biological determinism, resistance, resilience, and the Canadian child migration schemes, 1883–1939	0
The persistence of history: Racism, anti-Blackness, and the causes of mental ill health, c .1800–2020	0
Shaping epidemic dynamics: An historical epistemology study of the SIR model	0
Taxonomical lives: The making of social divisions in the Swedish press during the golden age of social democracy, 1945–76	0
Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis	0
‘Intelligible to the mind and pleasing to the eye’: Mapping out kinship in British family directories (1660–1830)	0
The figures, profiles, border figures (figures-limites), and ‘pure schema’ of Foucault’s later lectures on cosmopolitanism	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	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
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory	0
Well-being at the cost of welfare: Learned helplessness and responsibility in positive psychology and American policy	0
Ethnopsychology in the Bismarck Archipelago: Richard Thurnwald and the visual anthropology of German colonialism	0
‘Subjects to be dealt with’: Disability, class, and carceral power in early 20th-century Britain	0
Life, care, and the medical humanities: An interview with Frédéric Worms	0
‘There is nothing less spectacular than a pestilence’: Picturing the pandemic in Mass Observation's COVID-19 collections	0
An agenda for the medical humanities and ageing	0
On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care	0
Religion and civilization in the sociology of Norbert Elias: Fantasy–reality balances in long-term perspective	0
Talcott Parsons and the totem–taboo problematic	0
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance?	0
The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism	0
Westermarck and Malinowski: Friendship and competition during an intellectual paradigm shift	0
Maps of desire: Edward Tolman's drive theory of wants	0
The controversy over scientific sociology and compromiso during the Cultural Cold War in Latin America: The case of ILARI, 1966–72	0
Introduction: The Hoffman Report in historical context	0
Behavior takes form: Tracing the film image in scientific research	0
A diagrammatics of race: Samuel George Morton's ‘American Golgotha’ and the contest for the definition of the young field of anthropology	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2024	0
Arguments with fictional philosophers: Spengler's Kant and the conceptual foundations of Spengler's early philosophy of history	0
The sciences of love: Intimate ‘democracy’ and the eugenic development of the Marathi couple in colonial India	0
Tracing the career arc of Joost A. M. Meerloo: Prominence, fading, and premonitions of menticide	0
I never promised you a rose garden.… When landscape architecture becomes a laboratory for the Anthropocene	0
A public inquiry into Freud’s influence upon Cambridge	0
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83	0
Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology	0
Being captured by queer kinship: Margaret Lowenfeld and Margaret Mead	0
Mind and knowledge in the early thought of Franz Boas, 1887–1904	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
Contrary to reason: Documentary film-making and alternative psychotherapies	0
Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II	0
Making contagion social: Epidemiology, calculus, and the theory of happenings	0
Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’: Multiple discovery and the rhetoric of priority	0
The pincer movement of The Idea of a Social Science: Winch, Collingwood, and philosophy as a human science	0
Criticism as self-analysis	0
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2023	0
Managing power and psychiatric training in the United States, 1945–1990	0
The discovery of synchrony: By means of the projector as a scientific instrument	0
Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920–40	0
Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia: Crisis, consensus, and computers in post-war psychiatry	0
Two left turns to science: Gramsci and Du Bois on the emancipatory potential of the social sciences	0
Against well-being: A critique of positive psychology	0
The narrative-based medical humanities, 1980–95	0
How family charts became Mendelian: The changing content of pedigrees and its impact on the consolidation of genetic theory	0
Reanimating experimental psychology: Media archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the ‘Testing the Mind’ film series	0
A faith in science: Gardner Murphy and parapsychology	0
The pragmatic use of metaphor in empirical psychology	0
The material force of categories	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
Reply to my commentators – Thinking with Forrester: Dreams, true crimes, and histories of change	0
Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison	0
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress	0
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history	0
The environmental counter-history of liberalism: A formidable challenge?	0
The critique of social reason in the Popper–Adorno debate	0