OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History of the Human Sciences is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain	12
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection: Body typing schemes offer a new path to a utopian future	6
British criminology, undercover policing, and racist attacks: Notes on the ‘law and order’ information infrastructure	6
Criminal voices: The transfer of sound-based expertise in Cold War forensics	5
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	4
Kinship acknowledged and denied: Collecting and publishing kinship materials in 19th-century settler-colonial states	4
Transformativity: The malleable foundations of social theory	4
Tocqueville and the Ostroms	3
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain	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
Vico and the conspiracy of the sciences	3
Sexology and development	3
Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway	3
Metapsychy's border: Henri Piéron's (1881–1964) role as the gatekeeper of French psychology	3
Modeling the epidemiologic individual	3
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain	3
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
Cybernetics in the Republic	2
Historia cum ira : Alexandre Herculano and the virtues of engaged objectivity	2
Horizons of Passion: Hermeneutics as fusion or as fracture	2
‘A treatise on all the bad habits of mankind’: Major Greenwood and the political economy of epidemiology in early 20th-century Britain	2
The community test tube of American civilization: Burt and Ethel Aginsky’s Social Science Field Laboratory, 1939–47	2
A genealogy of the scalable subject: Measuring health in the Cornell Study of Occupational Retirement (1950–60)	2

On the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice	2
‘Freedom within parameters’: Liberalism, (in)determinism, and the politics of instinct in Sigmund Exner and Sigmund Freud	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
Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19	2
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83	1
Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison	1
The visualization of autism: Filming children at the Maudsley Hospital, London, 1957–8	1
From reason to madness and back: Critiquing reason through the Derrida–Foucault debate	1
Taxonomical lives: The making of social divisions in the Swedish press during the golden age of social democracy, 1945–76	1
That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains: Reconsidering the origins of model psychosis	1
Corrado Gini's economic anthropology	1
‘Intelligence’ before ‘intelligence tests’: Alfred Binet’s experiments on his daughters, 1890–1903	1
A military/intelligence operational perspective on the American Psychological Association’s weaponization of psychology post-9/11	1
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2022	1
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)	1
The general practitioner as epidemiologist in Britain, 1930–1960	1
Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis	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
Dreaming in the Stalag: Dream analysis and observational cultures among Second World War British POWs	1
The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history	1
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	1
Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s	1
Film, observation and the mind	1
Spencer and Parsons on functional differentiation: Some illustrative parallels	1
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness	1
Early state socialism and eugenics: Premarital medical certificates in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland in the aftermath of World War II	1
The critique of social reason in the Popper–Adorno debate	1
Managing power and psychiatric training in the United States, 1945–1990	1
Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems	1
Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s–60s	1
Exploring state socialist governmentality: Eastern European examples from medicine and health care	1
Finding modernity in England's past: Social anthropology and the remaking of social history in Britain, 1959–77	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
How does a mental health chatbot work? A ‘conversation design’ concept of mental health intervention	1
A faithless metaphysics: Spengler's influence on Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences	1
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics	1
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory	1