OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Historical Studies in the Natural 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	13
Making Belgian Big Science	6
Drawing on the Difuentes	6
Discoverer and Methodologist	4
The New Modern Synthesis	4
Introduction	3
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	3
How to Train Your Analyst	3
Armadillos under the Microscope	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Hidden in Plain Sight	2
Wrenching Torque	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	1
Across and within Networks	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
Wilsonian Renormalization in the 1970s	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
Oceans of Ooze	1
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	1

Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	1
Stolen Masks	1
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
No End in Sight	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
Haunted by Denial	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
Museums and the History of Science	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
War on Extinction	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1
The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Addiction Beyond a Cure	0
Strong Foundations	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
The Power of Phosphate	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
Introduction	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
Did Hamilton Ever Use the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression? Reflections on the (Re-)Use of Oral Histories and Their Accessibility via the ComBio Website	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
The Cool Air	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
Social Scientists	0
Sticky Solutions	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
Our Pigs, Ourselves	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Template Theories, the Rule of Parsimony, and Disregard for Irreproducibility—The Example of Linus Pauling’s Research on Antibody Formation	0
In the Animal House	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	0
The Black Androids	0

The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
Introduction	0
“Shovel-Ready”	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Layers of Erasure	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
Of Snails and Salvation	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
Logistical Natures	0
Introduction	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
How to Call a Duck	0
Coded Objects	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Becoming Visible	0
Reading Teeth	0
Bytes as Test Tubes	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
Archival Wounds	0
How to Capture Movement	0
Re-Envisioning the History of Cellular and Molecular Biology	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
The Fall of Vannevar Bush	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
Tracing Absence	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
Science, Interrupted	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
The Art of Listening	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0