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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Blurry Authorship	13
Making Belgian Big Science	6
On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive	6
Drawing on the Difuentes	4
The New Modern Synthesis	4
Discoverer and Methodologist	4
Introduction	3
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975	3
How to Train Your Analyst	3
Hazy Spots on Photographic Plates	2
Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity	2
A Planetarium for the Nation’s Capital	2
Hidden in Plain Sight	2
Wrenching Torque	2
The Legacy of Wilson’s Sociobiology for the Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Fifty Years On	2
Armadillos under the Microscope	2
Entelechy and Energy	2
How to Cure a Horse, or, the Experience of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Experience	2
War on Extinction	1
Science and Really Existing Socialism in Maoist China	1
An Icy Feud in Planetary Science	1
Across and within Networks	1
Haunted by Denial	1
Contested Collaboration at Boundaries	1
The Sequences and the Sequencers	1

The Power and Performativity of Naming	1
The Politics of Early Programming Languages	1
Stolen Masks	1
The Experimental Multispecies Household	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
Parallel Publications and Selective Interactions	1
Museums and the History of Science	1
Thinking Inside the Box	1
The Coveted “Lung Shot”	1
No End in Sight	1
Listing Butterflies	1
John L. Heilbron (1934–2023)	1
Becoming Visible	0
The Eco-Political Future of Sociobiology	0
The Fall of Vannevar Bush	0
Introduction	0
Tracing Absence	0
Reconstructing Identities amid Cold War and Postcolonial Politics	0
Gaia’s Tissue	0
Science, Interrupted	0
How to “Be Expert” in Early Modern Europe	0
The Trouble with Space Auctions	0
History as a Tool for Natural Science	0
The Art of Listening	0
Pipeline, Pathway, Burrow	0
A Black Hole in Ink	0
Teaching the Global History of Science in a Prison Classroom	0
From the Model to the Glance	0
Global Routes and Hidden Labor in the American Mathematical Society’s Cold War Chinese Mathematics Translation Program	0
Strong Foundations	0
The Chinese Freshwater Jellyfish Unbound	0
Fighting the Cold War and the “Market War” through Critical Technologies, 1979–1992	0
Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science	0
Placing Computer Technology in Context	0
“A Delicate Equilibrium of the Most Complex Sort”	0
Reimagining Group Work through the Lens of Care Webs	0
Finding the Invisible Workers in Astronomy	0
Coded Objects	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
Blending Borders and Sparking Change	0
Bioarchaeology of the Self	0
The Cool Air	0
Intelligence Falsely So-Called	0
The Power of Phosphate	0
Social Scientists	0
The Airport and the Zoo	0
Re-Envisioning the History of Cellular and Molecular Biology	0

“Machinery Hurtful to [Scientific] Commonality”	0
Sticky Solutions	0
The Bricolage of Pig Genomics	0
Andean Man & the Astronaut	0
Our Pigs, Ourselves	0
Wilson, Sociobiology, and Feminism	0
AI, Science, and What We Can Learn from the Printing Press	0
Template Theories, the Rule of Parsimony, and Disregard for Irreproducibility—The Example of Linus Pauling’s Research on Antibody Formation	0
Redefining Efficiency	0
How to Capture Movement	0
The Puzzle of the Thinly Coated Pearl	0
Accidents of Geography	0
Tortoise Traffic	0
The Black Androids	0
Capturing the Northern Lights	0
Talking Story with the Archives	0
“Shovel-Ready”	0
Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	0
Making Animal Materials in Time	0
The Colonial Life of Sociobiology	0
Yeast Sequencing	0
Addiction Beyond a Cure	0
From Gas Hysteria to Nuclear Fear	0
Time/Travel	0
The Human Genome Project as a Singular Episode in the History of Genomics	0
Why Study the History of the Natural Sciences?	0
Of Snails and Salvation	0
Introduction	0
Logistical Natures	0
Layers of Erasure	0
How to Be an Epistemic Trespasser	0
When Scientists Disagree	0
Introduction	0
Citing the Unsaid	0
Border Crossings	0
Sociobiology Then and Now	0
Doing Fieldwork in Robotland	0
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process	0
How to Call a Duck	0
Decolonization and Self-Reflection	0
“Learning on Their Bellies”	0
How to Win Games and Influence Football Players	0
Shells, Gills, and Gonads	0
How Not to Be an Expert	0
Reading Teeth	0
TikTok Asian History of Science	0
The Case of the Killer She-Wolf	0
Empire-Laden Theory	0
How Ants Made Sociobiology	0
In the Animal House	0
A Kaleidoscopic Introduction to the History of Science	0
Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm	0
East Asia and Ethics in Technoscience	0
Archival Wounds	0