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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Autopoiesis and Cognition	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1980	3,958
2	The Matthew Effect in Science, II: Cumulative Advantage and the Symbolism of Intellectual Property	Isis	1988	962
3	Knowledge in Transit	Isis	2004	633
4	CO2, the greenhouse effect and global warming: from the pioneering work of Arrhenius and Callendar to today's Earth System Models	Endeavour	2016	598
5	The structure and properties of spider silk	Endeavour	1986	562
6	Studies of Mind and Brain	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1982	559
7	The trilogy of mind: Cognition, affection, and conation	Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences	1980	544
8	Multicomponent reactions in organic chemistry	Endeavour	1994	534
9	Auxetic polymers: a new range of materials	Endeavour	1991	495
10	The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England	Isis	1988	459
11	Dictionary of Scientific Biography.	Isis	1974	420
12	DSM-III and the revolution in the classification of mental illness	Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences	2005	412
13	Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England	Osiris	1938	401
14	Models of Discovery	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1977	390
15	The Moral Economy of Science	Osiris	1995	389
16	Philosophical Problems of Space and Time	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1973	382
17	How Does a Brain Build a Cognitive Code?	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1982	381
18	The Emergence of a Visual Language for Geological Science 1760—1840	History of Science	1976	380
19	The Many Facets of DR William Hunter (1718–83)	History of Science	1994	374
20	FRANÇOIS ROUSSET UND DIE ERSTE MONOGRAPHIE ÜBER DEN KAISERSCHNITT•	Centaurus	1953	372
21	History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions	History of Science	1982	363
22	Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism	Osiris	2011	353
23	Separate Spheres and Public Places: Reflections on the History of Science Popularization and Science in Popular Culture	History of Science	1994	350
24	The Structure of Appearance	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1977	348
25	Is Water H2O?	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	2012	304
26	The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science	Isis	1961	302
27	What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution?	Isis	1982	297
28	Has Mendel's work been rediscovered?	Annals of Science	1936	293
29	Discipline and Bounding: The History and Sociology of Science as Seen through the Externalism-Internalism Debate	History of Science	1992	279
30	Natural Philosophy and Public Spectacle in the Eighteenth Century	History of Science	1983	274
31	The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory	Isis	1975	272
32	The Hill equation and the origin of quantitative pharmacology	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	2012	264
33	The Gibbs-Wilbraham phenomenon: An episode in fourier analysis	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	1979	263
34	The positivist repudiation of Wundt	Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences	1979	258
35	Quantitative Measures of Communication in Science: A Critical Review	History of Science	1979	257
36	Newton and the ‘Pipes of Pan’	Notes and Records of the Royal Society	1966	248
37	Differentials, higher-order differentials and the derivative in the Leibnizian calculus	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	1974	248
38	The Appropriation and Subsequent Naturalization of Greek Science in Medieval Islam: A Preliminary Statement	History of Science	1987	248
39	De-centring the ‘big picture’:The Origins of Modern Scienceand the modern origins of science	British Journal for the History of Science	1993	246
40	Teleological and Teleonomic, a New Analysis	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1974	236
41	The history of introspection reconsidered	Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences	1980	227
42	Science in the Pub: Artisan Botanists in Early Nineteenth-Century Lancashire	History of Science	1994	224
43	The mode of action of the bipyridylium herbicides, paraquat and diquat	Endeavour	1971	223
44	Beyond Postcolonialism … and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science	Isis	2013	216
45	Scientist: The story of a word	Annals of Science	1962	211
46	Non-additive probabilities in the work of Bernoulli and Lambert	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	1978	209
47	The Development of Micrometers in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	Journal for the History of Astronomy	1991	207
48	The discovery of microorganisms by Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Fellows of The Royal Society	Notes and Records of the Royal Society	2004	206
49	History of Science and its Rational Reconstructions	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1971	206
50	Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science	Isis	1986	205
51	The effects of plant oestrogens on animal reproduction	Endeavour	1976	202
52	The Astronomer's Role in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary Study	History of Science	1980	199
53	Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1980	198
54	The Sensory Core and the Medieval Foundations of Early Modern Perceptual Theory	Isis	1979	197
55	On the limits of ‘presentism’ and ‘historicism’ in the historiography of the behavioral sciences	Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences	1965	194
56	Selected Papers on Language and the Brain	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1974	193
57	The Victorian Conflict between Science and Religion: A Professional Dimension	Isis	1978	193
58	Jewish theologies of space in the scientific revolution: Henry More, Joseph Raphson, Isaac Newton and their predecessors	Annals of Science	1980	193
59	Kirchhoff's theory of rods	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	1992	191
60	Big Science and Big Data in Biology: From the International Geophysical Year through the International Biological Program to the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, 1957–Present	Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences	2010	191
61	The Establishment of the Mechanical Philosophy	Osiris	1952	190
62	Displaying Sara Baartman, the ‘Hottentot Venus’	History of Science	2004	190
63	Contour Enhancement, Short Term Memory, and Constancies in Reverberating Neural Networks	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1982	187
64	Occult Qualities and the Experimental Philosophy: Active Principles in Pre-Newtonian Matter Theory	History of Science	1986	185
65	Construing "Technology" as "Applied Science": Public Rhetoric of Scientists and Engineers in the United States, 1880-1945	Isis	1995	185
66	Elementary Quantum Metaphysics	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1996	185
67	The Ehrenfest Classification of Phase Transitions: Introduction and Evolution	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	1998	179
68	Chlorinated hydrocarbons and the environment	Endeavour	1975	172
69	The Industrialization of Invention: A Case Study from the German Chemical Industry	Isis	1982	171
70	The Chemist Breeders: The Research Schools of Liebig and Thomas Thomson	Ambix	1972	170
71	Phrenological knowledge and the social structure of early nineteenth-century Edinburgh	Annals of Science	1975	167
72	Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1969	166
73	Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1991	165
74	Science and popular education in the 1830s: the role of theBridgewater Treatises	British Journal for the History of Science	1992	164
75	Historical Development of the Graphical Representation of Statistical Data	Osiris	1937	162
76	The Formation of Modern Conceptions of Formal Logic in the Development of Geometry	Osiris	1939	162
77	The Demise of the Demarcation Problem	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1983	161
78	Astronomy and Astrology in India and Iran	Isis	1963	160
79	Non-destructive pigment analysis of artefacts by Raman microscopy	Endeavour	1992	160
80	Objects and the Museum	Isis	2005	160
81	The Strength of Loose Concepts — Boundary Concepts, Federative Experimental Strategies and Disciplinary Growth: The Case of Immunology	History of Science	1992	159
82	Scientific Discovery, Logic, and Rationality	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1980	158
83	Gauss and the history of the fast Fourier transform	Archive for History of Exact Sciences	1985	158
84	Leibniz and the Vis Viva Controversy	Isis	1971	156
85	Organism: A Meshwork of Selfless Selves	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1991	156
86	Mendel No Mendelian?	History of Science	1979	153
87	Totius in Verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society	Isis	1985	153
88	The Mechanics' Philosophy and the Mechanical Philosophy	History of Science	1986	151
89	Melanin pigmentation in mammals	Endeavour	1976	150
90	The Buffon-Linnaeus Controversy	Isis	1976	148
91	On Scientific Observation	Isis	2008	148
92	Einstein, Michelson, and the "Crucial" Experiment	Isis	1969	147
93	The Organization of Complex Systems	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1977	147
94	Kant, Blumenbach, and Vital Materialism in German Biology	Isis	1980	147
95	Locality in the History of Science: Colonial Science, Technoscience, and Indigenous Knowledge	Osiris	2000	145
96	Sciences and the Global: On Methods, Questions, and Theory	Isis	2010	145
97	Galileo and the Art of Reasoning	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science	1980	145
98	Making Dollars out of DNA: The First Major Patent in Biotechnology and the Commercialization of Molecular Biology, 1974-1980	Isis	2001	144
99	The learning of discriminations by animals	Endeavour	1964	144
100	Mosaic Physics and the Search for a Pious Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance	Isis	2000	142

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