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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	15
Discoverer and Methodologist	6
Drawing on the Difuentes	6
Making Belgian Big Science	5
How to Train Your Analyst	3
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	3
Introduction	3
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
The New Modern Synthesis	3
Armadillos under the Microscope	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Wrenching Torque	2
Hidden in Plain Sight	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Becoming Visible	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	1
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	1
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
Wilsonian Renormalization in the 1970s	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1
Oceans of Ooze	1

War on Extinction	1
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	1
Across and within Networks	1
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	1
Haunted by Denial	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	1
Museums and the History of Science	1
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
Stolen Masks	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
Addiction Beyond a Cure	1
No End in Sight	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
Introduction	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
Social Scientists	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Tracing Absence	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
How to Call a Duck	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
The Power of Phosphate	0
The Black Androids	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
The Cool Air	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
Logistical Natures	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
Of Snails and Salvation	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Coded Objects	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0

Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
Science, Interrupted	0
In the Animal House	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Reading Teeth	0
Introduction	0
Accidents of Geography	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
Layers of Erasure	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Sticky Solutions	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
Bytes as Test Tubes	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Introduction	0
Strong Foundations	0
Re-Envisioning the History of Cellular and Molecular Biology	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	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
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
How to Capture Movement	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
Archival Wounds	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0