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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Talking AI into Being: The Narratives and Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics	76
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	22
Hacking Humans? Social Engineering and the Construction of the “Deficient User” in Cybersecurity Discourses	19
Crash Theory: Entrapments of Conservation Drones and Endangered Megafauna	19
Constitutionalism at the Nexus of Life and Law	16
Listening Like a Computer: Attentional Tensions and Mechanized Care in Psychiatric Digital Phenotyping	15
Model Talk: Calculative Cultures in Quantitative Finance	15
The Racializing Womb: Surrogacy and Epigenetic Kinship	14
A Science of Hope? Tracing Emergent Entanglements between the Biology of Early Life Adversity, Trauma-informed Care, and Restorative Justice	14
From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations	14
Between Infrastructural Experimentation and Collective Imagination: The Digital Transformation of the EU Border Regime	14
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm: (Re)assembling Contact Tracing and Risk Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Between the Lab and the Field: Plants and the Affective Atmospheres of Southern Science	14
Introduction: Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation	14
Editorial Work and the Peer Review Economy of STS Journals	14
Globalizing the Scientific Bandwagon: Trajectories of Precision Medicine in China and Brazil	13
WP:NOT, WP:NPOV, and Other Stories Wikipedia Tells Us: A Feminist Critique of Wikipedia’s Epistemology	13
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
“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
Global Fertility Chains: An Integrative Political Economy Approach to Understanding the Reproductive Bioeconomy	12

The Reproductive Bodies of Postgenomics	12
Platform NHS: Reconfiguring a Public Service in the Age of Digital Capitalism	11
Misoprostol: The Social Life of a Life-saving Drug in Global Maternal Health	11
Competing Transport Futures: Tensions between Imaginaries of Electrification and Biogas Fuel in Sweden	11
Increasing Engagement in Regulatory Science: Reflections from the Field of Risk Assessment	11
Egg Freezing at the End of Romance: A Technology of Hope, Despair, and Repair	10
Tracing Long-term Value Change in (Energy) Technologies: Opportunities of Probabilistic Topic Models Using Large Data Sets	10
The Double Darkness of Digitalization: Shaping Digital-ready Legislation to Reshape the Conditions for Public-sector Digitalization	10
Seeking Public Values of Digital Energy Platforms	10
“The Grievance Studies Affair” Project: Reconstructing and Assessing the Experimental Design	9
Public Trust and Political Legitimacy in the Smart City: A Reckoning for Technocracy	9
Rethinking Science as a Vocation: One Hundred Years of Bureaucratization of Academic Science	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
Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations	8
Eliciting Values for Technology Design with Moral Philosophy: An Empirical Exploration of Effects and Shortcomings	8
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
Participation in Citizen Science: Insights from the CONECT-e Case Study	7
Predicting Success in the Embryology Lab: The Use of Algorithmic Technologies in Knowledge Production	7
Meditation Apps and the Promise of Attention by Design	7
On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification	7
Who Gets to Choose? On the Socio-algorithmic Construction of Choice	7
Ethics as Discursive Work: The Role of Ethical Framing in the Promissory Future of Data-driven Healthcare Technologies	6
Welcome to Whenever: Exploring Suspended Life in Cryopreservation Practices	6
Audible Crime Scenes: ShotSpotter as Diagnostic, Policing, and Space-making Infrastructure	6
Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-knowledge	6
Artificial Intelligence from Colonial India: Race, Statistics, and Facial Recognition in the Global South	6
Trading Social Visibility for Economic Amenability: Data-based Value Translation on a “Health and Fitness Platform”	6
Moving Evidence: Patients’ Groups, Biomedical Research, and Affects	6
Disagreement and Agonistic Chance in Peer Review	6
Nuclear Families: Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques and the Regulation of Parenthood	5
An Interpretation of Value Change: A Philosophical Disquisition of Climate Change and Energy Transition Debate	5
Gendered Boundary-work within the Finnish Skepticism Movement	5
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
Opening Up Containment	5
Governance of Gene-edited Plants: Insights from the History of Biotechnology Oversight and Policy Process Theory	5
The Media’s Taste for Gene-Edited Food: Comparing Media Portrayals within US and European Regulatory Environments	5
Patents as Vehicles of Social and Moral Concerns: The Case of Johnson & Johnson Disposable Feminine Hygiene Products (1925–2012)	5
Technology, Sexual Violence, and Power-Evasive Politics: Mapping the Anti-violence Sociotechnical Imaginary	5
Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition	5
Diversifying the Deliberative Turn: Toward an Agonistic RRI	5