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 2021-08-01 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
Child psychology from Vienna to London: Charlotte Bühler, concepts of childhood, and parenting advice in interwar Britain	7
Kinship acknowledged and denied: Collecting and publishing kinship materials in 19th-century settler-colonial states	7
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s	5
The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social	4
Sexology and development	4
Transformativity: The malleable foundations of social theory	4
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
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74	3
Modeling the epidemiologic individual	3
‘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
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
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
Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food	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
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
How does a mental health chatbot work? A ‘conversation design’ concept of mental health intervention	1
Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker?	1
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
The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian	1
Confronting the field: Tylor's Anahuac and Victorian thought on human diversity	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