Most cited papers in Biographical and Historical Analysis
What are the most cited papers in Biographical and Historical Analysis?
The most cited paper in Biographical and Historical Analysis is "Knowledge in Transit" (James Andrew Secord, 2004), with 765 citations. Next come "Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance" (202) and "HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ENLIGHTENMENT: A VIEW OF THEIR HISTORY" (156).
Showing 50 of 102 papers. Every paper with more than 19 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knowledge in Transit James Andrew Secord · Isis | Dec 2004 | 765 |
| 2 | Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance Sidonie Smith · a/b Auto/Biography Studies | 1995 | 202 |
| 3 | HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ENLIGHTENMENT: A VIEW OF THEIR HISTORY John G. A. Pocock · Modern Intellectual History | 12 Mar 2008 | 156 |
| 4 | Knowledge of shadows: the introduction of X‐ray images in medicine Bernike Pasveer · Sociology of Health & Illness | Dec 1989 | 125 |
| 5 | ‘Men of Science’: Language, Identity and Professionalization in the Mid-Victorian Scientific Community Ruth Haley Barton · History of Science | Mar 2003 | 123 |
| 6 | Medicine and science in the life of Luigi Galvani (1737–1798) Marco Bresadola · Brain Research Bulletin | Jul 1998 | 122 |
| 7 | The Paradox of the Preface David Makinson · Analysis | Jun 1965 | 115 |
| 8 | The Singularization of History: Social History and Microhistory within the Postmodern State of Knowledge S. G. Magnusson · Journal of Social History | Mar 2003 | 114 |
| 9 | Merely Telling Stories? Narrative and Knowledge in the Human Sciences Martin Kreiswirth · Poetics Today | Jun 2000 | 109 |
| 10 | Personal Communications Christopher Hollings · SpringerBriefs in history of science and technology | 12 Dec 2015 | 108 |
| 11 | Touching the void: Affective history and the impossible Emily Robinson · Rethinking History | 31 Oct 2010 | 102 |
| 12 | Reporting murder: Fiction in the archives in early modern England∗ Malcolm Gaskill · Social History | 1998 | 93 |
| 13 | Varieties of Popular Science and the Transformations of Public Knowledge: Some Historical Reflections Andreas W. Daum · Isis | Jun 2009 | 89 |
| 14 | Introduction Jonathan R. Topham · Isis | Jun 2009 | 86 |
| 15 | The archaeology of Overseas Chinese communities Barbara L. Voss · World Archaeology | Sep 2005 | 81 |
| 16 | The formation of small groups. Richard L. Moreland | 1987 | 80 |
| 17 | 'Like all that lives': biology, medicine and bacteria in the age of Pasteur and Koch * *In memory of Gerry Geison, great teacher, scholar, and friend. J. Andrew Mendelsohn · History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences | 2002 | 69 |
| 18 | Making Visible M. Norton Wise · Isis | Mar 2006 | 68 |
| 19 | Expanding the boundaries of criticism: The diary as female autobiography Judy Nolte Lensink · Women s Studies | Jul 1987 | 58 |
| 20 | Threads and Traces: True False Fictive Teresa Barnett · The Oral History Review | Jul 2013 | 56 |
| 21 | THE LIFE-HISTORY OF LYMPHOCYTES James Learmonth Gowans · British Medical Bulletin | 1959 | 55 |
| 22 | Writing Scientific Biography Mott T. Greene · Journal of the History of Biology | 13 Apr 2007 | 55 |
| 23 | Instituting the science of mind: intellectual economies and disciplinary exchange at Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies Jamie Cohen‐Cole · The British Journal for the History of Science | 11 Sep 2007 | 54 |
| 24 | A Slot Machine, a Broken Test Tube: An Autobiography Max Fink · American Journal of Psychiatry | Oct 1985 | 53 |
| 25 | A Concise Companion to History Louise Ellis-Barrett · Reference Reviews | 23 Mar 2012 | 53 |
| 26 | Alfred Werner’s Coordination Chemistry: New Insights from Old Samples Karl‐Heinz Ernst, Ferdinand R. W. P. Wild, Olivier Blacque et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 11 Oct 2011 | 52 |
| 27 | Autopathography: Women, Illness, and Lifewriting G. Thomas Couser · a/b Auto/Biography Studies | 1991 | 50 |
| 28 | The Inquisition and the censorship of science in early modern Europe: Introduction Francisco Malta Romeiras · Annals of Science | 2 Jan 2020 | 47 |
| 29 | Lists as Research Technologies Staffan Müller‐Wille, Isabelle Charmantier · Isis | Dec 2012 | 47 |
| 30 | Historical Methodology for Nursing Research Brigid Lusk · Journal of Nursing Scholarship | Dec 1997 | 45 |
| 31 | THE MISSING NARRATIVIST TURN IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen · History and Theory | Oct 2012 | 45 |
| 32 | Alfred Werner's research on optically active coordination compounds George B. Kauffman · Coordination Chemistry Reviews | Apr 1974 | 44 |
| 33 | Experiments in Life-Writing: Introduction Julia Novak · Palgrave studies in life writing | 2017 | 43 |
| 34 | From natural history to science: display and the transformation of American museums of science and nature Karen A. Rader, Victoria E. M. Cain · Museum and Society | 15 Apr 2008 | 42 |
| 35 | Diskurstheoretische Ansätze der Biographieforschung Inga Truschkat | 5 Dec 2017 | 40 |
| 36 | Reality, Identity and Empathy: The Changing Face of Social History Television T. HUNT · Journal of Social History | Mar 2006 | 40 |
| 37 | Documenting Collections: Cornerstones for More History of Science in Museums Marta Catarino Lourenço, Samuel Gessner · Science & Education | 27 Dec 2012 | 40 |
| 38 | Skirts in the lab: Madame Curie and the image of the woman scientist in the feature film Alberto Elena · Public Understanding of Science | Jul 1997 | 38 |
| 39 | Plus ça change…. Ancient Historians and their Sources Albert Brian Bosworth · Classical Antiquity | Oct 2003 | 38 |
| 40 | Research travel and disciplinary identities in the University of Cambridge, 1885–1955 Michael Heffernan, Heike Jöns · The British Journal for the History of Science | 5 Nov 2012 | 37 |
| 41 | Woman, Know Thyself: Producing and Using Phrenological Knowledge in 19th-Century America Carla Bittel · Centaurus | 19 Apr 2013 | 37 |
| 42 | Frail Frontiers?* Giovanni Levi · Past & Present | Oct 2019 | 36 |
| 43 | “The Swarming of Life”: Moving Images, Education, and Views through the Microscope Oliver Gaycken · Science in Context | 26 Jul 2011 | 35 |
| 44 | Feminist biography and feminist history Barbara Caine · Women s History Review | Jun 1994 | 35 |
| 45 | Almanacs, Annotators, and Life‐Writing in Early Modern England Adam Smyth · English Literary Renaissance | Mar 2008 | 35 |
| 46 | Science, Scientific Careers and Social Exchange in London: The Diary of Herbert McLeod, 1885–1900 Hannah Gay · History of Science | Dec 2008 | 33 |
| 47 | Cultural History of Science Peter Dear · Science Technology & Human Values | Apr 1995 | 33 |
| 48 | Setting up a discipline, II: British history of science and “the end of ideology”, 1931–1948 Anna-K. Mayer · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A | 28 Feb 2004 | 33 |
| 49 | Microstudies versus big picture accounts? Soraya de Chadarevian · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | 24 Feb 2009 | 32 |
| 50 | Testimony and Coherence Ernest Sosa | 1994 | 32 |
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