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History of Science and Natural History

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ai Nonaka
Unknown
2
Harriet Mercer
Brigham and Women's Hospital
3
A. Urry
University of Cambridge
4
Alexandra Nagel
Twitter (United States)
5
Lukas M. Verburgt
Utrecht University
6
Ivana Horacek
University of the Fraser Valley
7
Emily Thomas
Durham University
8
Sarah N. Hijmans
Université Paris Cité
9
Mariana Lenharo
Maria College
10
Joela Jacobs
University of Arizona

Rising Stars Papers

1
Hopes dashed for drug aimed at monkeypox virus spreading in Africa
Nature|2024
38 cit.
2
The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?
Nature|2024
31 cit.
3
Move over, CRISPR: RNA-editing therapies pick up steam
Nature|2024
19 cit.
4
ChatGPT turns two: how the AI chatbot has changed scientists’ lives
Nature|2024
19 cit.
5
Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses
Nature|2024
17 cit.
6
Brazil’s record dengue surge: why a vaccine campaign is unlikely to stop it
Nature|2024
17 cit.
7
Obesity drugs have another superpower: taming inflammation
Nature|2024
12 cit.
8
What should we do if AI becomes conscious? These scientists say it’s time for a plan
Nature|2024
10 cit.
9
Hope for global pandemic treaty rises — despite missed deadline
Nature|2024
8 cit.
10
Why do obesity drugs seem to treat so many other ailments?
Nature|2024
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Aileen Fyfe
University of St Andrews
2
Carmi Milagros Thompson
Florida Museum of Natural History
3
Constance K. Barsky
Ohio Sea Grant College Program
4
Gabriel Galvez-Behar
Université de Lille
5
Jana Bielick
Technische Universität Berlin
6
Thomas A. Stapleford
University of Notre Dame
7
Michael Roubach
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
8
Emma Mojet
University of Amsterdam
9
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Drexel University
10
Peter Buck
Public Health Agency of Canada

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Narrative in Economics: A New Turn on the Past
History of Political Economy|2023
21 cit.
2
An overview of the National West Nile Virus Surveillance System in Canada: A One Health approach
Canada Communicable Disease Report|2022
11 cit.
3
Death, Life, and Longing in the Pandemicene
HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology|2022
5 cit.
4
COVID Mask Wearing: Identity and Materiality
East Asian Science Technology and Society An International Journal|2022
4 cit.
5
From philanthropy to business: the economics of Royal Society journal publishing in the twentieth century
Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science|2022
4 cit.
6
Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China
History of Political Economy|2022
3 cit.
7
Le società scientifiche hanno bisogno delle riviste e viceversa?
Recenti Progressi in Medicina|2023
3 cit.
8
Husserl and Mathematics
History and Philosophy of Logic|2022
2 cit.
9
Science Education in an Age of Unnatural Disasters: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Science & Education|2025
2 cit.
10
The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France by Karena Kalmbach
Technology and Culture|2022
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Donna Haraway
Unknown
2
Londa Schiebinger
Stanford Health Care
3
Arnold Thackray
University of Edinburgh
4
Stephen Jay Gould
Harvard University
5
Jeffrey G. Williamson
University of Florida
6
Kathryn Yusoff
Queen Mary University of London
7
Perry Williams
Milton Keynes Hospital
8
Agustí Nieto‐Galan
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
9
Roy Porter
English Heritage
10
Douglas Johnson
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Feminist Studies|1988
17.5k cit.
2
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences|1979
7.8k cit.
3
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)|1988
7k cit.
4
Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
Feminist Review|1992
6.8k cit.
5
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1992
5.5k cit.
6
Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form
Paleobiology|1982
5.1k cit.
7
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
Environmental Humanities|2015
2.9k cit.
8
Punctuated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered
Paleobiology|1977
2.7k cit.
9
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Unknown Journal|2013
2.6k cit.
10
Ontogeny and Phylogeny.
Systematic Zoology|1978
2.4k cit.

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