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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	15
Drawing on the Difuentes	6
Making Belgian Big Science	6
Discoverer and Methodologist	5
The New Modern Synthesis	4
Armadillos under the Microscope	3
How to Train Your Analyst	3
Hidden in Plain Sight	3
Introduction	3
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	3
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
Wrenching Torque	2
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Museums and the History of Science	1
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	1
Across and within Networks	1
Haunted by Denial	1
No End in Sight	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1

Addiction Beyond a Cure	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
War on Extinction	1
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	1
Stolen Masks	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
Wilsonian Renormalization in the 1970s	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1
Oceans of Ooze	1
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
Introduction	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
Social Scientists	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Reading Teeth	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Logistical Natures	0
Sticky Solutions	0
The Power of Phosphate	0
Science, Interrupted	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
Re-Envisioning the History of Cellular and Molecular Biology	0

The Art of Listening	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
How to Capture Movement	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
Coded Objects	0
Strong Foundations	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Archival Wounds	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
In the Animal House	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Bytes as Test Tubes	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Tracing Absence	0
Introduction	0
Introduction	0
Our Pigs, Ourselves	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
How to Call a Duck	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	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
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
The Black Androids	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
“Shovel-Ready”	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
Template Theories, the Rule of Parsimony, and Disregard for Irreproducibility—The Example of Linus Pauling’s Research on Antibody Formation	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
The Cool Air	0
Layers of Erasure	0
Becoming Visible	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Of Snails and Salvation	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
The Fall of Vannevar Bush	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0