OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Studies of Science is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The politics of scaling	57
Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future	40
Incompleteness of urban infrastructures in transition: Scenarios from the mobile age in Nairobi	39
Changing climate change: The carbon budget and the modifying-work of the IPCC	30
The model crisis, or how to have critical promiscuity in the time of Covid-19	29
Sociotechnical imaginaries: An accidental themed issue	29
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	27
Atmospheres of science: Experiencing scientific mobility	23
SAGE advice and political decision-making: ‘Following the science’ in times of epistemic uncertainty	21
Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border	21
Ethics in retrospect: Biomedical research, colonial violence, and Iñupiat sovereignty in the Alaskan Arctic	18
Self-correction in science: The diagnostic and integrative motives for replication	18
Science, technology, security: Towards critical collaboration	18
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	17
E-Infrastructures and the divergent assetization of public health data: Expectations, uncertainties, and asymmetries	16
Deregulatory science: Chemical risk analysis in Trump’s EPA	15
Impact, theory of change, and the horizons of scientific practice	14
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	13
Ignorance loops: How non-knowledge about bee-toxic agrochemicals is iteratively produced	13
The financial market of ideas: A theory of academic social media	12
When citizen science is public relations	12
London’s fatbergs and affective infrastructuring	11
Negotiating attachments to plastic	11
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	11
Strategies of stratification: Regulating market access in the era of personalized medicine	11

Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	10
Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation: Views of forensic geneticists in Europe	10
Imperfect diagnosis: The truncated legacies of Zika testing	10
Apartheid drone: Infrastructures of militarism and the hidden genealogies of the South African Seeker	10
The bad expert	10
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	9
Making science international: Chilean journals and communities in the world of science	9
Latina/o/e technoscience: Labor, race, and gender in cybernetics and computing	9
Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management	8
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	8
Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics I: Troubles with the Subject	8
Co-production, multiplied: Enactments of sex as a biological variable in US biomedicine	8
Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age	8
The imagined scientist of science governance	8
Drum breach: Operational temporalities, error politics and WIPP’s kitty litter nuclear waste accident	7
Making and managing medical anomalies: Exploring the classification of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’	7
The ‘enigma’ of Richard Schultes, Amazonian hallucinogenic plants, and the limits of ethnobotany	7
Making particularity travel: Trust and citizen science data in Swedish environmental governance	7
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	7
Cycles of invisibility: The limits of transparency in dealing with scientific misconduct	6
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	6
Taking responsibility, making irresponsibility: Controversies in human gene editing	6
The history of seed banking and the hazards of backup	6
Understanding science-in-the-making by letting scientific instruments speak: From semiotics to postphenomenology	6
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	6
In smell’s shadow: Materials and politics at the edge of perception	6
The face as folded object: Race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping	6
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	6