OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science Technology & Human Values is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Talking AI into Being: The Narratives and Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics	74
Race in the Microbiome	51
Humanly Extended Automation or the Future of Work Seen through Amazon Patents	38
Sensing Race as a Ghost Variable in Science, Technology, and Medicine	27
Sea Change: The World Ocean Circulation Experiment and the Productive Limits of Ocean Variability	23
Fixing Technology with Society: The Coproduction of Democratic Deficits and Responsible Innovation at the OECD and the European Commission	21
Race as a Ghost Variable in (White) Opioid Research	20
Crash Theory: Entrapments of Conservation Drones and Endangered Megafauna	19
Hacking Humans? Social Engineering and the Construction of the “Deficient User” in Cybersecurity Discourses	18
Renting Valuable Assets: Knowledge and Value Production in Academic Science	16
Constitutionalism at the Nexus of Life and Law	16
From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations	14
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm: (Re)assembling Contact Tracing and Risk Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
A Science of Hope? Tracing Emergent Entanglements between the Biology of Early Life Adversity, Trauma-informed Care, and Restorative Justice	14
The Racializing Womb: Surrogacy and Epigenetic Kinship	14
Model Talk: Calculative Cultures in Quantitative Finance	14
Between the Lab and the Field: Plants and the Affective Atmospheres of Southern Science	14
Editorial Work and the Peer Review Economy of STS Journals	13
Listening Like a Computer: Attentional Tensions and Mechanized Care in Psychiatric Digital Phenotyping	13
Globalizing the Scientific Bandwagon: Trajectories of Precision Medicine in China and Brazil	13
Global Fertility Chains: An Integrative Political Economy Approach to Understanding the Reproductive Bioeconomy	12
“A Heat Pump Needs a Bit of Care”: On Maintainability and Repairing Gender–Technology Relations	12
Gender Patterns of Publication in Top Sociological Journals	12
Between Infrastructural Experimentation and Collective Imagination: The Digital Transformation of the EU Border Regime	12
WP:NOT, WP:NPOV, and Other Stories Wikipedia Tells Us: A Feminist Critique of Wikipedia’s Epistemology	12

On Theory–Methods Packages in Science and Technology Studies	12
Freedom of Expression Challenged: Scientists’ Perspectives on Hidden Forms of Suppression and Self-censorship	12
Misoprostol: The Social Life of a Life-saving Drug in Global Maternal Health	11
Increasing Engagement in Regulatory Science: Reflections from the Field of Risk Assessment	11
Bored Techies Being Casually Racist: Race as Algorithm	11
Platform NHS: Reconfiguring a Public Service in the Age of Digital Capitalism	11
The Reproductive Bodies of Postgenomics	11
Seeking Public Values of Digital Energy Platforms	10
Competing Transport Futures: Tensions between Imaginaries of Electrification and Biogas Fuel in Sweden	10
The Double Darkness of Digitalization: Shaping Digital-ready Legislation to Reshape the Conditions for Public-sector Digitalization	10
Tracing Long-term Value Change in (Energy) Technologies: Opportunities of Probabilistic Topic Models Using Large Data Sets	10
Introduction: Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation	9
Egg Freezing at the End of Romance: A Technology of Hope, Despair, and Repair	9
“The Grievance Studies Affair” Project: Reconstructing and Assessing the Experimental Design	9
Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations	8
“Let’s Not Have the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good”: Social Impact Bonds, Randomized Controlled Trials, and the Valuation of Social Programs	8
Predicting Success in the Embryology Lab: The Use of Algorithmic Technologies in Knowledge Production	7
Who Gets to Choose? On the Socio-algorithmic Construction of Choice	7
Rethinking Science as a Vocation: One Hundred Years of Bureaucratization of Academic Science	7
Eliciting Values for Technology Design with Moral Philosophy: An Empirical Exploration of Effects and Shortcomings	7
Age-discriminated IVF Access and Evidence-based Ageism: Is There a Better Way?	7
Value Change in Energy Systems	7
To Test or Not to Test: Tools, Rules, and Corporate Data in US Chemicals Regulation	7
Public Trust and Political Legitimacy in the Smart City: A Reckoning for Technocracy	7
Ethics as Discursive Work: The Role of Ethical Framing in the Promissory Future of Data-driven Healthcare Technologies	6
Meditation Apps and the Promise of Attention by Design	6
Disagreement and Agonistic Chance in Peer Review	6
Audible Crime Scenes: ShotSpotter as Diagnostic, Policing, and Space-making Infrastructure	6
Moving Evidence: Patients’ Groups, Biomedical Research, and Affects	6
On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification	6
Trading Social Visibility for Economic Amenability: Data-based Value Translation on a “Health and Fitness Platform”	6
Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-knowledge	6
Participation in Citizen Science: Insights from the CONECT-e Case Study	6
Rationality in Context: Regulatory Science and the Best Scientific Method	5
Searching for a Public in Controversies over Carbon Dioxide Removal: An Issue Mapping Study on BECCS and Afforestation	5
Governance of Gene-edited Plants: Insights from the History of Biotechnology Oversight and Policy Process Theory	5
Patents as Vehicles of Social and Moral Concerns: The Case of Johnson & Johnson Disposable Feminine Hygiene Products (1925–2012)	5
The Media’s Taste for Gene-Edited Food: Comparing Media Portrayals within US and European Regulatory Environments	5
Technology, Sexual Violence, and Power-Evasive Politics: Mapping the Anti-violence Sociotechnical Imaginary	5
Nuclear Families: Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques and the Regulation of Parenthood	5
Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition	5
Diversifying the Deliberative Turn: Toward an Agonistic RRI	5
An Interpretation of Value Change: A Philosophical Disquisition of Climate Change and Energy Transition Debate	5
Opening Up Containment	5
Welcome to Whenever: Exploring Suspended Life in Cryopreservation Practices	5
Does “Precision” Matter? A Q Study of Public Interpretations of Gene Editing in Agriculture	4
Formal and Informal Infrastructures of Collaboration in the Human Brain Project	4
Gendered Boundary-work within the Finnish Skepticism Movement	4
Keep Calm and Carry On: Climate-ready Crops and the Genetic Codification of Climate Myopia	4
Microbial Extractions: Sequence-based Bioprospecting, Augmented Promises, and Elusive Politics	4

Privacy Worlds: Exploring Values and Design in the Development of the Tor Anonymity Network	4
Legal Pluralism and Science and Technology Studies: Exploring Sources of the Legal Pluriverse	4
Working with Infrastructural Communities: A Material Participation Approach to Urban Retrofit	4
Troubled Orbits and Earthly Concerns: Space Debris as a Boundary Infrastructure	4
Identity in Postgenomic Times: Epigenetic Knowledge and the Pursuit of Biological Origins	4
Transfer or Translation? Rethinking Traveling Technologies from the Global South	4
From Poacher to Protector of Attention: The Therapeutic Turn of Persuasive Technology and Ethics of a Smartphone Habit-breaking Application	4
Artificial Intelligence from Colonial India: Race, Statistics, and Facial Recognition in the Global South	4
What Is an STS Contribution Now?	3
Commodifying a “Good” Weather Data: Commercial Meteorology, Low-cost Stations, and the Global Scientific Infrastructure	3
Markets, Cultures, and the Politics of Value: The Case of Assisted Reproductive Technology	3
Citizen-Person: The “Me” in the “We” in Danish Precision Medicine	3
Governing Occupational Exposure Using Thresholds: A Policy Biased Toward Industry	3
Divided Attention, Divided Self: Race and Dual-mind Theories in the History of Experimental Psychology	3
(Re)Assembling Marine Space: Lobster Fishing Areas under Conditions of Technological and Legal Change in Atlantic Canada	3
Transitions, Expansions, Engagements: Science, Technology, & Human Values between 2002 and 2007	3
Public Perceptions of Risks and Benefits of Gene-edited Food Crops: An International Comparative Study between the US, Japan, and Germany	3
Eliminating Human Agency: Why Does Japan Abandon Predictive Simulations?	3
“Ready for What?”: Timing and Speculation in Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Development	3
Situated Ethics in Development: STS Insights for a Pragmatic Approach to Development Policy and Practice	3
Green Design Tools: Building Values and Politics into Material Choices	3
Wild, Native, or Pure: Trout as Genetic Bodies	3
Reducing the Burden of Decision in Digital Democracy Applications: A Comparative Analysis of Six Decision-making Software	3
Sensor-floors: Changing Work and Values in Care for Frail Older Persons	3
Linked Descendants: Genetic-genealogical Practices and the Refusal of Ignorance around Slavery	3
Publications about Women, Science, and Engineering: Use of Sex and Gender in Titles over a Forty-six-year Period	3
Socializing Scientists into Interdisciplinarity by Placemaking in a Multi-sited Research Center	3
Participation, Empowerment, and Evidence in the Current Discourse on Personalized Medicine: A Critique of “Democratizing Healthcare”	3
Six Days in Plastic: Potentiality, Normalization, and In Vitro Embryos in the Postgenomic Age	3
Divisible Governance: Making Gas-fired Futures during Climate Collapse in Northern Australia	3
Approximations: On Some Ways to Listen to a Building “in the Making”	3
Un-silencing an Experimental Technique: Listening to the Electrical Penetration Graph	3
The Deadlock in European Decision-Making on GMOs as a Wicked Problem by Design: A Need for Repoliticization	3
Global Trials, Local Bodies: Negotiating Difference and Sameness in Indian For-profit Clinical Trials	3
Governing Agricultural Biotechnologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany: A Trans-decadal Study of Regulatory Cultures	2
Transformation: Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1977-1987	2
Wax Moulages and the Pastpresence Work of the Dead	2
Engaging Critically with Algorithms: Conceptual and Performative Interventions	2
The Algorithms of Mindfulness	2
Working at the Seams of Colonial Structures: Alternative Sociotechnical Infrastructures Revealed by Hurricane Maria	2
The Internet of Futures Past: Values Trajectories of Networking Protocol Projects	2
Editing as a Vocation	2
African Experiments in Health and Healing: Science from the Home and Homestead	2
Fixing Subjects, Fixing Outcomes: Civic Epistemologies and Epistemic Agency in Participatory Governance of Climate Risk	2
The Reproduction of Shame: Pregnancy, Nutrition and Body Weight in the Translation of Developmental Origins of Adult Disease	2
Transitions: Science, Technology, & Human Values in 1986 and Onward	2
Science Communication as a Boundary Space: An Interactive Installation about the Social Responsibility of Science	2
“A Patchwork of Data Systems”: Quilting as an Analytic Lens and Stabilizing Practice for Knowledge Infrastructures	2
Clothing Inventions as Acts of Citizenship? The Politics of Material Participation, Wearable Technologies, and Women Patentees in Late Victorian Britain	2
Creating Regulatory Harmony: The Participatory Politics of OECD Chemical Testing Standards in the Making	2
Working with Olga Kuchinskaya and Katie Vann	2
Designing Technology, Developing Theory: Toward a Symmetrical Approach	2
On the Potentialities of Spaces of Care: Openness, Enticement, and Variability in a Psychiatric Center	2
Troubleshooting: The Automation of Synthetic Biology and the Labor of Technological Futures	2
Knowing Times: Temporalities of Evidence for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators	2
Science, Technology, & Human Values at Fifty: A Deserter Reports	2
Observations and Confessions: Honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of Science, Technology, & Human Values Publications	2
Beyond the Egg and the Sperm?: How Science Has Revised a Romance through Reproductomics	2
Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects: Exploring the Views of UK COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants on Animal Testing	2
Urban Imaginaries as Tacit Governing Devices: The Case of Smart City Vienna	2
Science or Ignorance of Animal Welfare? A Case Study: Scientific Reports Published in Preparation for the First European Directive on Animal Welfare (1979-1980)	2
Reproducibility and Instruction Following in the Shop Floor Laboratory Work: The Case of a TMS Experiment	2
Innovation in Technology Instead of Thinking? Assetization and Its Epistemic Consequences in Academia	2
Bootstrapping the Boundary between Research and Environmental Management: The TMDL as a Point of Engagement between Science and Governance	2
Crowdfunding Conservation Science: Tracing the Participatory Dynamics of Native Parrot Genome Sequencing	2
Making Measuring Bodies	2