OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science Technology & Human Values is 5. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Algorithms of Mindfulness	166
Disagreement and Agonistic Chance in Peer Review	30
Citizen Science in News Media: Boundary Mediation of Public Participation in Health Expertise	23
Saved by the Moon: Imaginaries of Earthly Afterlife in Space	22
Creating Regulatory Harmony: The Participatory Politics of OECD Chemical Testing Standards in the Making	22
Judging Importance before Checking Correctness: Quick Opinions in Mathematical Peer Review	21
The Techno-Optics of Safety: Surveillance and Women's Ambivalent Experiences in South Korea's “Smart Safe City”	19
Citizen Observations as Legal Obligations: (Dis)Associations and Representation at the Swedish Land and Environment Court of Appeal	19
The Media’s Taste for Gene-Edited Food: Comparing Media Portrayals within US and European Regulatory Environments	19
Introduction: Science, Technology, & Human Values at Fifty	19
Is Genericness Still Adequately Defined? Internet Search Firms and the Economic Rationale for Trademarks	17
The Racializing Womb: Surrogacy and Epigenetic Kinship	17
Permanent Temporality: Race, Time, and the Materiality of Romanian Identity Cards	15
Working with Olga Kuchinskaya and Katie Vann	15
Out of Sync: The Making and Remaking of Data and Regulations on Greenhouse Gases at the International Maritime Organization	14
Between the Lab and the Field: Plants and the Affective Atmospheres of Southern Science	14
Introduction: Shifting Attention	13
The Politics of Postgenomic Reproduction: Exploring Pregnant Narratives from within a Clinical Trial	12
Tracing Long-term Value Change in (Energy) Technologies: Opportunities of Probabilistic Topic Models Using Large Data Sets	12
Diversifying the Deliberative Turn: Toward an Agonistic RRI	11
“Ready for What?”: Timing and Speculation in Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Development	11
Self-care Against the Grain: Normative Negotiations in Contraceptive Self-Tracking	10
One Pipeline and Two Impact Assessments: Coproduction, Legal Pluralism, and the Trans Mountain Expansion Project	10
Exploring Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity as Knowledge Regimes: A Heuristic Tool for Disentangling Understandings in Academia and Policy	10
Rationality in Context: Regulatory Science and the Best Scientific Method	10

Governing Occupational Exposure Using Thresholds: A Policy Biased Toward Industry	9
Cryovalues beyond High Expectations: Endurance and the Construction of Value in Cord Blood Banking	9
Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies	9
Science or Ignorance of Animal Welfare? A Case Study: Scientific Reports Published in Preparation for the First European Directive on Animal Welfare (1979-1980)	9
Artificial Intelligence from Colonial India: Race, Statistics, and Facial Recognition in the Global South	9
The Efficacy Paradox Revisited: “Closing Up” Commitments in Nuclear Waste Governance	9
Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy	8
Multi-Faceted Platform Politics in the Design of the Korean Digital Environmental Impact Assessment System	8
A Contested Script: Conjuring Security through Registration in Italy	8
Urban Imaginaries as Tacit Governing Devices: The Case of Smart City Vienna	8
Making Kin with Adele: From Pathologizing in Vienna to Collaborating in Denver	8
Caring for Organoids: Patient Personhood and the Ethics of Avoidance in Translational Cancer Research	7
Maternal–Fetal Microchimerism and Genetic Origins: Some Socio-legal Implications	7
Intersectionality and Science and Technology Studies	7
The Ambivalence of Peer Review: Thank You ST&HV Reviewers 2019-2020	7
Working at the Seams of Colonial Structures: Alternative Sociotechnical Infrastructures Revealed by Hurricane Maria	7
Reproducibility and Instruction Following in the Shop Floor Laboratory Work: The Case of a TMS Experiment	7
Judders, Jabs, and Slips: Automation, Anomalies, Movements	6
Editorial Work and the Peer Review Economy of STS Journals	6
Participation, Empowerment, and Evidence in the Current Discourse on Personalized Medicine: A Critique of “Democratizing Healthcare”	6
Underground Roots for Ancestral Futures: Exploring Lithium Through an Experimental Alliance between Chemistry and Anthropology	6
The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics: Modes of Strain Cryopreservation Since the 1970s	6
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm: (Re)assembling Contact Tracing and Risk Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification	6
Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas	6
Robot Drama: Investigating Frictions between Vision and Demonstration in Care Robotics	6
Six Days in Plastic: Potentiality, Normalization, and In Vitro Embryos in the Postgenomic Age	6
Creating Interpretative Spaces in and with Digital Infrastructures: How Editors Select Reviewers at a Biomedical Publisher	6
From Poacher to Protector of Attention: The Therapeutic Turn of Persuasive Technology and Ethics of a Smartphone Habit-breaking Application	6
Becoming Scientific-Environmental Citizens Through Citizen Science in China	6
Miscellaneous Care: Bridging the In-between of Translational Medicine	5
Vanguard Visions of Vertical Farming: Envisaging and Contesting an Emerging Food Production System	5
Between Open Deliberation and the Capturing of Public Opinion: Producing Opinions in Public Engagement	5
Drawing Data Together: Inscriptions, Asylum, and Scripts of Security	5
The Cryopolitics of Human Milk: Thermal Assemblages of Breast Milk in Donation, Banking, and Bioindustrial Research	5
Situated Ethics in Development: STS Insights for a Pragmatic Approach to Development Policy and Practice	5
“A Patchwork of Data Systems”: Quilting as an Analytic Lens and Stabilizing Practice for Knowledge Infrastructures	5
Who Predicts? Scientific Authority and User Expertise in Dutch Storm Warnings 1860-1920	5
Engaging Critically with Algorithms: Conceptual and Performative Interventions	5
Platform NHS: Reconfiguring a Public Service in the Age of Digital Capitalism	5