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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	13
Special Issue Introduction	6
Nature and Modernity in an East Asian Key	6
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	4
Museums and the History of Science	4
Social Scientists	4
Bioarchaeology of the Self	3
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	3
The Politics of Early Programming Languages	3
Becoming Visible	2
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	2
Yeast Sequencing	2
Addiction Beyond a Cure	2
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	2
How to Capture Movement	2
The Cool Air	2
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	2
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	2
Blurry Authorship	2
Tracing Absence	1
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	1
Our Pigs, Ourselves	1
Making Belgian Big Science	1
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	1
From the Model to the Glance	1

Blending Borders and Sparking Change	1
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	1
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	1
The Power of Phosphate	1
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	1
Archival Wounds	1
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	1
Logistical Natures	1
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	1
A Black Hole in Ink	1
When Scientists Disagree	1
Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise	1
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	1
Drawing on the Difuentes	1
Tortoise Traffic	1
“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	1
Introduction	1
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
“The Door to the Promised Land of Atomic Peace and Plenty”	0
Reading Teeth	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	0
Introduction	0
The New Modern Synthesis	0
In the Animal House	0
The Art of Listening	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
What Place for Emotions in the History of Science and Medicine Classroom?	0
Science, Interrupted	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Of Snails and Salvation	0
Teaching in a Swimming Pool	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
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Thinking Inside the Box	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
The Experimental Multispecies Household	0
Hidden in Plain Sight	0
Time/Travel	0
War on Extinction	0
Sticky Solutions	0

The Fall of Vannevar Bush	0
The Sequences and the Sequencers	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
Wrenching Torque	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
Andean Man & the Astronaut	0
Oceans of Ooze	0
Coded Objects	0
Re-Envisioning the History of Cellular and Molecular Biology	0
The Black Androids	0
Discoverer and Methodologist	0
Template Theories, the Rule of Parsimony, and Disregard for Irreproducibility—The Example of Linus Pauling’s Research on Antibody Formation	0
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	0
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	0
Border Crossings	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
Listing Butterflies	0
No End in Sight	0
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
Haunted by Denial	0
The Power and Performativity of Naming	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
Wilsonian Renormalization in the 1970s	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Armadillos under the Microscope	0
On the Disappearance of the Animal Body	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
Aging	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
Introduction	0
Stolen Masks	0
Strong Foundations	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
Entelechy and Energy	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
“Shovel-Ready”	0
How to Call a Duck	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
Across and within Networks	0
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
Introduction	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	0
How to Train Your Analyst	0