OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
India’s Biotech Emergence: A Critical Political Economy Analysis	8
Chuearok, Rangkai lae Rat Vetchakam: Prawatsat Kanphaet Samaimai nai Sangkhom Thai [Pathogen, the Body and Medical State: History of Modern Medicine in Thai Society]	7
Reflections on Japan’s Universal Medical Insurance: A Historical Review	5
Social Welfare as “Legitimation”: National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and the Politics of Health Reform in South Korea, from 1977 to the Time of COVID-19	5
Editor’s Note	5
Oozing Matters: Infracycles of “Waste Management” and Emergent Naturecultures in Phnom Penh	4
EASTS Participates in the Annual 4S Meeting	4
Commentary on Four Tapuya Papers on Environmentalism in Latin America:The EASTS Perspective	4
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia	4
An Unchallengeable Value: Foreign Physicians, Chinese Medical Elites, and Normalizing Masks in Semi-Colonial China	4
Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021. Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China	4
“Can Respectable People Also Be Infected with Gonorrhea?”:	3
Saving Chinese Medicine for Modern Warfare in China: A Study Note	3
Acupuncture Education in the UK	3
Military Medicine in East Asia: Histories of Instrumentalism, Resistance, and Agency	3
Is Techno-Nationalism in the Semiconductor Industry Viable?	3
Dynamic Capabilities in a Learning Society—The Case of Taiwan in Controlling the Coronavirus Outbreak	3
New Perspectives on Science, Medicine, and Language in Modern South Asia	3
The Politics of Mise-en-Scène Technologies	2
The Hybrid Metro: The Brown Line of the Taipei Metro and Technological Hybridity	2
An Introduction to War, Medicine and Modernity in East Asian Conflicts	2
News and Events	2
Editor’s Note	2
Editor’s Note	2
Situating Science in the Century since the May Fourth Movement	2

Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China	1
China’s Cold War Science Diplomacy	1
Vernacular Technical Practices Beyond the Imitative/Innovative Boundary: Apple II Cloning in Early-1980s South Korea	1
Sickly, Idle and Risky Minorities: Race and Diabetes under Singapore’s Emergent “Insurantial Imaginary”	1
Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940	1
COVID-19 Making “Idols”: The Birth of Celebrity Scientists in China	1
Rural–Urban Migration and Agro-Technical Change in Post-Reform China	1
Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang, eds., Can Science and Technology Save China?	1
In Memory of Adele E. Clarke (1945–2024), Ever a Loved and Respected Supporter of EASTS	1
Diverged Evolutionary Pathways of Two Public Research Institutes in Taiwan and Korea: Shared Missions and Varied Organizational Dynamics in ITRI and KIST	1
Animal Scientism: Making Biology Experimental in Republican China	1
GenomeAsia100K: Singapore Builds National Science with Asian DNA	1
Editor’s Note	1
A History of Japanese Follow-up Surveys of Children Conceived through Artificial Insemination by Donor: The Evidence of “Superior” Children and Positive Eugenics	1
Postscript: Material Itineraries in Southeast Asian Urban Transformations	1
Field Report: Taiwan’s RCA Litigation and Its Multiple Outreaches: The Experience of an STS Community, 2011–2023	1
Welcome to Our Newly Renovated Open Kitchen!	1
A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern JapanTimothy M. Yang, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan Ithaca, NY: Cornell Uni	1
Sheila Jasanoff, The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future	1
Innovation Beyond Technology: Science for Society and Interdisciplinary Approaches	1
Late Industrialism, Advocacy, and Law: Relays Toward Just Transition	1
Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan	1
Material Itineraries: Southeast Asian Urban Transformations	1
Commentary on “Sources of Disaster: A Roundtable Discussion on New Epistemic Perspectives in Post-3.11 Japan”	1
Visualization and Pandemic Governance in Covid-19 Hit Malaysia	1
The Birth of Digital Epidemiology in South Korea	1
COVID Mask Wearing: Identity and Materiality	1
Weaving the Net: Making a Smart City Through Data Workers in Shenzhen	1
Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in IndiaLaurent Pordié and Stephan Kloos, eds., Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India	1
Andō’s Ambiguities in Malaya: The Life of a Japanese Medical Doctor Between British and Japanese Empires	1
Toxic Remedies: On the Cultivation of Medicinal Plants and Urban Ecologies	1
Correction	1
“Invisible” Pollution? Knowledge Gridlock in Regulatory Science on Electronics Toxics	1
COVID-19 Exceptionalism: Explaining South Korean Responses	1
Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia	1
Josei kenkyūsha shienseisaku no kokusaihikaku: Nihon no genjou to kadai 女性研究者支援政策の国際比較―日本の現状と課題 [ International Comparison of Policies to Support Women Researchers	1
Yancong zhi dao: Women yu shihua gongcun de liangwan ge rizi 煙囪之島:我們與石化共存的兩萬個日子 [A Smoking Island: Petrochemical Industry, Our Dangerous Companion for more than Fifty Years]	1
Sonja M. Kim, Imperatives of Care: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea	1
A Study of Innovation Strategies for SMEs in the Government R&D Subsidy System: The Case of IT Firms in Korea’s Innovation Cluster	1
Efficacy vs. Ideology: The Use of Food Therapies in Preventing and Treating Beriberi in the Japanese Army in the Meiji Era	1
EUMENOL—Merck’s Patent Emmenagogue and its Chinese Connections (1896–1961)	1
Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory	1
Sarah Ferber, Nicola J. Marks, and Vera Mackie, IVF and Assisted Reproduction: A Global History	1
Bangkok Precipitated: Cloudbursts, Sentient Urbanity, and Emergent Atmospheres	1
News and Events	1
“Hotbeds of Psychopathology”: Psy Sciences and the Critique of the Family in Republican China	1
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2022–24	1
Biofinancing Citizenship: Gotong Royong and the Political Construction of National Health Insurance Ideology in Indonesia	1
Networking Universities and Hospitals: A Case Study of Research and Commercialization in the Taiwanese Herbal Medicine Sector	1
Correction	1

Correcting Life through the Marketplace? Genome Editing and the Commercialization of Academic Research in South Korea	1
Editor’s Note	1