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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Talking AI into Being: The Narratives and Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics	126
Fixing Technology with Society: The Coproduction of Democratic Deficits and Responsible Innovation at the OECD and the European Commission	26
Hacking Humans? Social Engineering and the Construction of the “Deficient User” in Cybersecurity Discourses	24
A Science of Hope? Tracing Emergent Entanglements between the Biology of Early Life Adversity, Trauma-informed Care, and Restorative Justice	20
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm: (Re)assembling Contact Tracing and Risk Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Listening Like a Computer: Attentional Tensions and Mechanized Care in Psychiatric Digital Phenotyping	20
The Reproductive Bodies of Postgenomics	18
The Racializing Womb: Surrogacy and Epigenetic Kinship	18
Between Infrastructural Experimentation and Collective Imagination: The Digital Transformation of the EU Border Regime	18
Introduction: Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation	17
From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations	16
Global Fertility Chains: An Integrative Political Economy Approach to Understanding the Reproductive Bioeconomy	15
Between the Lab and the Field: Plants and the Affective Atmospheres of Southern Science	15
Editorial Work and the Peer Review Economy of STS Journals	14
“A Heat Pump Needs a Bit of Care”: On Maintainability and Repairing Gender–Technology Relations	14
Egg Freezing at the End of Romance: A Technology of Hope, Despair, and Repair	13
Freedom of Expression Challenged: Scientists’ Perspectives on Hidden Forms of Suppression and Self-censorship	13
The Double Darkness of Digitalization: Shaping Digital-ready Legislation to Reshape the Conditions for Public-sector Digitalization	13
Tracing Long-term Value Change in (Energy) Technologies: Opportunities of Probabilistic Topic Models Using Large Data Sets	13
On Theory–Methods Packages in Science and Technology Studies	13
Seeking Public Values of Digital Energy Platforms	13
Welcome to Whenever: Exploring Suspended Life in Cryopreservation Practices	12
Competing Transport Futures: Tensions between Imaginaries of Electrification and Biogas Fuel in Sweden	12
Public Trust and Political Legitimacy in the Smart City: A Reckoning for Technocracy	12
Ethics as Discursive Work: The Role of Ethical Framing in the Promissory Future of Data-driven Healthcare Technologies	11

Platform NHS: Reconfiguring a Public Service in the Age of Digital Capitalism	11
Value Change in Energy Systems	11
“Let’s Not Have the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good”: Social Impact Bonds, Randomized Controlled Trials, and the Valuation of Social Programs	10
Rethinking Science as a Vocation: One Hundred Years of Bureaucratization of Academic Science	9
Artificial Intelligence from Colonial India: Race, Statistics, and Facial Recognition in the Global South	9
Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations	9
Eliciting Values for Technology Design with Moral Philosophy: An Empirical Exploration of Effects and Shortcomings	9
To Test or Not to Test: Tools, Rules, and Corporate Data in US Chemicals Regulation	8
Predicting Success in the Embryology Lab: The Use of Algorithmic Technologies in Knowledge Production	8
Meditation Apps and the Promise of Attention by Design	8
Audible Crime Scenes: ShotSpotter as Diagnostic, Policing, and Space-making Infrastructure	8
Disagreement and Agonistic Chance in Peer Review	8
Public Perceptions of Risks and Benefits of Gene-edited Food Crops: An International Comparative Study between the US, Japan, and Germany	7
Opening Up Containment	7
Age-discriminated IVF Access and Evidence-based Ageism: Is There a Better Way?	7
Identity in Postgenomic Times: Epigenetic Knowledge and the Pursuit of Biological Origins	7
On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification	7
Searching for a Public in Controversies over Carbon Dioxide Removal: An Issue Mapping Study on BECCS and Afforestation	6
Legal Pluralism and Science and Technology Studies: Exploring Sources of the Legal Pluriverse	6
Diversifying the Deliberative Turn: Toward an Agonistic RRI	6
Technology, Sexual Violence, and Power-Evasive Politics: Mapping the Anti-violence Sociotechnical Imaginary	6
Cryovalues beyond High Expectations: Endurance and the Construction of Value in Cord Blood Banking	6
Microbial Extractions: Sequence-based Bioprospecting, Augmented Promises, and Elusive Politics	6
Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition	6
Rationality in Context: Regulatory Science and the Best Scientific Method	6
The Economization of Early Life: Human Capital Theory, Biology, and Social Policy	5
Patents as Vehicles of Social and Moral Concerns: The Case of Johnson & Johnson Disposable Feminine Hygiene Products (1925–2012)	5
Privacy Worlds: Exploring Values and Design in the Development of the Tor Anonymity Network	5
Citizen-Person: The “Me” in the “We” in Danish Precision Medicine	5
Troubled Orbits and Earthly Concerns: Space Debris as a Boundary Infrastructure	5
An Interpretation of Value Change: A Philosophical Disquisition of Climate Change and Energy Transition Debate	5
Science Communication as a Boundary Space: An Interactive Installation about the Social Responsibility of Science	5
The Media’s Taste for Gene-Edited Food: Comparing Media Portrayals within US and European Regulatory Environments	5
The Reproduction of Shame: Pregnancy, Nutrition and Body Weight in the Translation of Developmental Origins of Adult Disease	5
Governance of Gene-edited Plants: Insights from the History of Biotechnology Oversight and Policy Process Theory	5
Transfer or Translation? Rethinking Traveling Technologies from the Global South	5
Situated Ethics in Development: STS Insights for a Pragmatic Approach to Development Policy and Practice	4
Governing Occupational Exposure Using Thresholds: A Policy Biased Toward Industry	4
Reducing the Burden of Decision in Digital Democracy Applications: A Comparative Analysis of Six Decision-making Software	4
The Role of Vitrification in Spanish Reproductive Labs: A Cryo-revolution Led by Strategic Freezing	4
What Is an STS Contribution Now?	4
Green Design Tools: Building Values and Politics into Material Choices	4
Participation, Empowerment, and Evidence in the Current Discourse on Personalized Medicine: A Critique of “Democratizing Healthcare”	4
Creating Regulatory Harmony: The Participatory Politics of OECD Chemical Testing Standards in the Making	4
From Poacher to Protector of Attention: The Therapeutic Turn of Persuasive Technology and Ethics of a Smartphone Habit-breaking Application	4
Does “Precision” Matter? A Q Study of Public Interpretations of Gene Editing in Agriculture	4
Fixing Subjects, Fixing Outcomes: Civic Epistemologies and Epistemic Agency in Participatory Governance of Climate Risk	4
Socializing Scientists into Interdisciplinarity by Placemaking in a Multi-sited Research Center	4
Divisible Governance: Making Gas-fired Futures during Climate Collapse in Northern Australia	4
Scholarly Publishing, Boundary Processes, and the Problem of Fake Peer Reviews	4

Keep Calm and Carry On: Climate-ready Crops and the Genetic Codification of Climate Myopia	4
Commodifying a “Good” Weather Data: Commercial Meteorology, Low-cost Stations, and the Global Scientific Infrastructure	4
Innovation in Technology Instead of Thinking? Assetization and Its Epistemic Consequences in Academia	4
Publications about Women, Science, and Engineering: Use of Sex and Gender in Titles over a Forty-six-year Period	4
Formal and Informal Infrastructures of Collaboration in the Human Brain Project	4
The Cryopolitics of Human Milk: Thermal Assemblages of Breast Milk in Donation, Banking, and Bioindustrial Research	4
Epigenomic Stories: Evidence of Harm and the Social Justice Promises and Perils of Environmental Epigenetics	3
The Algorithms of Mindfulness	3
Divided Attention, Divided Self: Race and Dual-mind Theories in the History of Experimental Psychology	3
Maternal–Fetal Microchimerism and Genetic Origins: Some Socio-legal Implications	3
Global Trials, Local Bodies: Negotiating Difference and Sameness in Indian For-profit Clinical Trials	3
Transitions, Expansions, Engagements: Science, Technology, & Human Values between 2002 and 2007	3
Markets, Cultures, and the Politics of Value: The Case of Assisted Reproductive Technology	3
Beyond the Egg and the Sperm?: How Science Has Revised a Romance through Reproductomics	3
Becoming a (Neuro)Migrant: Attachment, Early Stimulation, and the Government of the Future of Chile	3
Drawing Data Together: Inscriptions, Asylum, and Scripts of Security	3
Un-silencing an Experimental Technique: Listening to the Electrical Penetration Graph	3
The Internet of Futures Past: Values Trajectories of Networking Protocol Projects	3
Contesting Infrastructural Futures: 5G Opposition as a Technological Drama	3
African Experiments in Health and Healing: Science from the Home and Homestead	3
“Ready for What?”: Timing and Speculation in Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Development	3
Troubleshooting: The Automation of Synthetic Biology and the Labor of Technological Futures	3
Legal Pluralism in Infrastructural Designs: Alternative Supply Chains in the Moroccan Argan Oil Export	3
Eliminating Human Agency: Why Does Japan Abandon Predictive Simulations?	3
Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects: Exploring the Views of UK COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants on Animal Testing	3
Urban Imaginaries as Tacit Governing Devices: The Case of Smart City Vienna	3
(Re)Assembling Marine Space: Lobster Fishing Areas under Conditions of Technological and Legal Change in Atlantic Canada	3
Wild, Native, or Pure: Trout as Genetic Bodies	3
Linked Descendants: Genetic-genealogical Practices and the Refusal of Ignorance around Slavery	3
The Deadlock in European Decision-Making on GMOs as a Wicked Problem by Design: A Need for Repoliticization	3
Six Days in Plastic: Potentiality, Normalization, and In Vitro Embryos in the Postgenomic Age	3
Industrializing Bacterial Work: Microbiopolitics, Biogas Alchemy, and the French Waste Management Sector	3
How to Turn Politics Around: Things, the Earth, Ecology	3
“A Patchwork of Data Systems”: Quilting as an Analytic Lens and Stabilizing Practice for Knowledge Infrastructures	3
“This Is Not What I Signed up for”: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Expectations, and Disillusionment in a Dutch Military Innovation Hub	3
Clothing Inventions as Acts of Citizenship? The Politics of Material Participation, Wearable Technologies, and Women Patentees in Late Victorian Britain	2
The Politics of Postgenomic Reproduction: Exploring Pregnant Narratives from within a Clinical Trial	2
Working at the Seams of Colonial Structures: Alternative Sociotechnical Infrastructures Revealed by Hurricane Maria	2
Approximations: On Some Ways to Listen to a Building “in the Making”	2
Bootstrapping the Boundary between Research and Environmental Management: The TMDL as a Point of Engagement between Science and Governance	2
Unscripted Practices for Uncertain Events: Organizational Problems in Cybersecurity Incident Management	2
Making Measuring Bodies	2
Going with the Flow: Moving Cells and Changing Values in Biomedical Practice	2
Transformation: Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1977-1987	2
Robot Drama: Investigating Frictions between Vision and Demonstration in Care Robotics	2
Digitized Patients: Elaborative Tinkering and Knowledge Practices in the Open-source Type 1 Diabetes “Looper Community”	2
Introduction: Shifting Attention	2
Working with Olga Kuchinskaya and Katie Vann	2
Editing as a Vocation	2
Defects in Doubt Manufacturing: The Trajectory of a Pro-industrial Argument in the Struggle for the Definition of Carcinogenic Substances	2
Crowdfunding Conservation Science: Tracing the Participatory Dynamics of Native Parrot Genome Sequencing	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
Governing Agricultural Biotechnologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany: A Trans-decadal Study of Regulatory Cultures	2
Human and Person When Life Is Fragile: New Relationships and Inherent Ambivalences in the Care of Dying Patients	2
A Contested Script: Conjuring Security through Registration in Italy	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
Life as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic Biology	2
Toward an Upgrade of Gaia-politics: A View from the East Asian Critical Zone	2
Engineering for Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a Human Rights–based Approach to Engineering	2
Learning Right from Wrong: A Cross-national Analysis of Education, National Scientific Investment, and the Morality of Science	2
The Performativity of AI-powered Event Detection: How AI Creates a Racialized Protest and Why Looking for Bias Is Not a Solution	2
Transitions: Science, Technology, & Human Values in 1986 and Onward	2
Engaging Critically with Algorithms: Conceptual and Performative Interventions	2