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 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
The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian	1
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics	1
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food	1
Lesbian and bisexual women's experiences of aversion therapy in England	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
The model multiple: Representing cancer in sub-Saharan Africa	1
Freud in Cambridge Review Symposium	1
Modern European sexological and orientalist assimilations of medieval Islamicate ‘ilm al-bah to erotology	1
Nineteenth-century narratives of addiction: Relational harm and the child as witness	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
Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s	1
The visualization of autism: Filming children at the Maudsley Hospital, London, 1957–8	1
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	1
‘You never need an analyst with Bobby around’: The mid-20th-century human sciences in Sondheim and Furth's musical Company	1
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928	1
Corrado Gini's economic anthropology	1