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Most cited papers in Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

What are the most cited papers in Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis?

The most cited paper in Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis is "Historical events as transformations of structures: Inventing revolution at the Bastille" (William H. Sewell, 1996), with 1,374 citations. Next come "making empire respectable: the politics of race and sexual morality in 20th‐century colonial cultures" (810) and "Knowledge in Transit" (765).

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Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 124 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Historical events as transformations of structures: Inventing revolution at the Bastille William H. Sewell · Theory and Society	Dec 1996	1,374
2	making empire respectable: the politics of race and sexual morality in 20th‐century colonial cultures Ann Laura Stoler · American Ethnologist Open access	Nov 1989	810
3	Knowledge in Transit James Andrew Secord · Isis	Dec 2004	765
4	An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States Victor Wallis · Socialism and Democracy	2 Jan 2015	622
5	Bacteremia at Boston City Hospital: Occurrence and Mortality during 12 Selected Years (1935-1972), with Special Reference to Hospital-Acquired Cases John E. McGowan, M. W. Barnes, Maxwell Finland · The Journal of Infectious Diseases	Sep 1975	507
6	THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PHARMACEUTICALS: A Biographical Approach Sjaak van der Geest, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Anita Petra Hardon · Annual Review of Anthropology Review	Oct 1996	497
7	Colonial Aphasia: Race and Disabled Histories in France Ann Laura Stoler · Public Culture	2011	480
8	The Moral Economy of Science Lorraine Daston · Osiris Open access	1995	474
9	:Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World Mark Harrison · The American Historical Review	Jun 2005	458
10	The Attempt to Understand Puerperal Fever in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: The Influence of Inflammation Theory Christine E. Hallett · Medical History Open access	2005	404
11	The Three Worlds, or the Division of Social Scientific Labor, circa 1950–1975 Carl Erich Pletsch · Comparative Studies in Society and History	Oct 1981	390
12	The Story of Puerperal Fever--1800 to 1950 Leonard Colebrook · BMJ Open access	4 Feb 1956	388
13	Essays on the History of Anaesthesia Douglas R. Bacon · Anesthesia & Analgesia	Jul 1997	377
14	On Ethnographic Surrealism James Lowry Clifford · Comparative Studies in Society and History	Oct 1981	366
15	As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock Sherry L. Smith · Journal of American History	8 Mar 2020	353
16	The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France Claire Eldridge · French History	3 Sep 2007	352
17	$bgr;-LACTAMASE-PRODUCING, PENICILLIN-RESISTANT GONOCOCCUS Ian Richard Phillips · The Lancet	Sep 1976	334
18	Hardship and Collective Violence in France, 1830 to 1960 David V. Snyder, Charles Tilly · American Sociological Review	Oct 1972	328
19	Early Feminist Theory and the "Querelle des Femmes", 1400-1789 Joan P. Kelly · Signs	Oct 1982	319
20	Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870–1914 Eric Hobsbawn · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	26 Mar 2012	317
21	Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation J. Edward Taylor, Karl Jacoby · Journal of American History	Mar 2002	306
22	Observations on the Nature and Culture of Environmental History John Robert McNeill · History and Theory	7 Nov 2003	291
23	Penser l'histoire croisée : entre empirie et réflexivité Michael Werner, Bénédicte Zimmermann · Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales	Feb 2003	288
24	Le Monde Comme Représentation Roger Chartier · Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales	Dec 1989	287
25	THE REASONS OF MISRULE: YOUTH GROUPS AND CHARIVARIS IN SIXTEENTH–CENTURY FRANCE Natalie Zemon Davis · Past & Present	1971	275
26	The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China Pradyumna Prasad Karan · History Reviews of New Books	2004	275
27	From Latour to late industrialism Kim Fortun · Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory	Jun 2014	262
28	POST/SOCIALIST AFFECT: Ruination and Reconstruction of the Nation in Urban Vietnam Christina Schwenkel · Cultural Anthropology Open access	May 2013	256
29	Reflections for the Revolution in France Emmanuelle de Champs · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	31 Mar 2015	246
30	Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism, and Scientific Intelligence John Krige · Osiris	2006	240
31	Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World's Fairs, 1851-1939 John Tomsich, Paul Greenhalgh · Journal of American History	Sep 1989	229
32	Introduction: Scientific Personae and Their Histories Lorraine Daston, H. Otto Sibum · Science in Context	Mar 2003	228
33	The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy Katharine Park · Renaissance Quarterly	Apr 1994	227
34	THE RITES OF VIOLENCE: RELIGIOUS RIOT IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE Natalie Zemon Davis · Past & Present	1973	222
35	Symbolic Networks: The Realignment of the French Working Class, 1887‐1894 Christopher Ansell · American Journal of Sociology	Sep 1997	220
36	The Financial Market and Government Debt Policy in France, 1746–1793 François R. Velde, David R. Weir · The Journal of Economic History	Mar 1992	218
37	UNNATURAL CONCEPTIONS: THE STUDY OF MONSTERS IN SIXTEENTH-AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE AND ENGLAND Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston · Past & Present	1981	217
38	The French Crime of 1873: An Essay on the Emergence of the International Gold Standard, 1870–1880 Marc Flandreau · The Journal of Economic History	Dec 1996	215
39	Wars, Blockade, and Economic Change in Europe, 1792–1815 François M. Crouzet · The Journal of Economic History	Dec 1964	214
40	The Spatial Turn: Geographical Approaches in the History of Science Diarmid A. Finnegan · Journal of the History of Biology	8 Aug 2007	213
41	The Choice of Ignorance: The Debate on Ethnic and Racial Statistics in France Patrick Simon · French Politics Culture & Society	2008	212
42	Tocquevillian Moments: Charitable Contributions by Chinese Private Entrepreneurs D. Ma, William L. Parish · Social Forces	Dec 2006	197
43	Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control Bernard Mergen · Journal of American History	Jun 2011	195
44	Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555–1563 Robert M. Kingdon · Church History	Mar 1957	193
45	Pour une histoire sociale et culturelle des sciences. Nouvelles définitions, nouveaux objets, nouvelles pratiques Dominique Pestré · Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales	Jun 1995	192
46	1. INTRODUCTION: MULTIPLE TIMES AND THE WORK OF SYNCHRONIZATION Helge Jordheim · History and Theory	Dec 2014	191
47	Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority Steven Shapin, Steve Fuller · Aestimatio Sources and Studies in the History of Science Open access	21 Dec 2015	188
48	The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Bruce Dick · Tropical Doctor	Jul 1992	185
49	An enslaved Enlightenment: rethinking the intellectual history of the French Atlantic * Laurent Dubois · Social History	23 Jan 2006	181
50	Mutations in the connexin 32 gene in X-linked dominant Charcot- Marie - Tooth disease (CMTX1) N. Fairweather, Christopher M. Bell, Susan M. Cochrane et al. · Human Molecular Genetics	1994	180

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