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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	15
Psychoactive Drugs and Moral Qualms	12
Drawing on the Difuentes	6
Four Paths through Climate History	6
Discoverer and Methodologist	5
Making Belgian Big Science	4
The New Modern Synthesis	4
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	4
Introduction	3
Hidden in Plain Sight	3
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	2
Thinking Inside the Box	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
Character Study	2
Stolen Masks	2
Armadillos under the Microscope	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Wrenching Torque	2
Across and within Networks	2
New Directions in Global Health Histories of China and Taiwan	1
Special Section Introduction	1
Haunted by Denial	1

No End in Sight	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
Artificial Environments in Experimental Biology	1
Museums and the History of Science	1
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
War on Extinction	1
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	1
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	1
The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
Voices of Humpback Whales	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
Margrete Heiberg Bose, a Woman in Early Physical Chemistry	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1
Secret Clocks	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
Strong Foundations	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
Reading Teeth	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
Addiction Beyond a Cure	0
Practicing Early Modern History through (Re)Making Things	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
Bytes as Test Tubes	0
Making a Road For Science	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Introduction	0
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Introduction	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Practicing Public History through Exhibitions	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
Sticky Solutions	0
Encounters in the Living Ocean	0
Tracing Absence	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
A Grammar of Modern Exploration	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
The Black Androids	0
Tortoise Traffic	0

Empire-Laden Theory	0
Which Power of Movement in Plants?	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
Japan, Scientific Drillships, and the Dynamics of International Leadership for Subseafloor Exploration	0
Coded Objects	0
Layers of Erasure	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Archival Wounds	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
Making The Climate Chronicles	0
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
Logistical Natures	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
Moving Mountains	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
Accidents of Geography	0
The Politics of a History of [Race] Science	0
Book or Project?	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Oceans of Ooze	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
The Cool Air	0
André-Marie Ampère in 2025	0
Becoming Visible	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
Moonwalks and Woodstocks	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
A History of South Korean Creationism	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Artisan Technical Manuals as Religious Laboring Histories	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
In the Animal House	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0