OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Studies of Science 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	98
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	33
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	31
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	31
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	26
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	22
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	21
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	21
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	16
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	15
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	14
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	14
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	13
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	13
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	13
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	13
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	12
Negotiating attachments to plastic	12
A new Editor-in-Chief	11
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	11
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	11
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism	11
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	10
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	10
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	10

When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	9
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	9
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	9
Cryptography as information control	9
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	8
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)	8
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	8
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	7
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	7
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury	7
The face as folded object: Race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping	7
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	7
Internationalized science and human rights activism during the late Cold War: The French Committee of Mathematicians	6
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	6
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	6
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	6
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	6
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	6
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	6
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	6
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	6
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	6
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	6
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	6
Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation	6
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	5
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	5
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	5
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	5
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	5
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	5
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities	5
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	5
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	5
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	4
‘A woman and now a man’: The legitimation of sex-assignment surgery in the United States (1849–1886)	4
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent SAGE and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK	4
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	3
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	3
The birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	3
The return of nature? Negotiating the ‘renaturation’ of the Isar as an envirotechnical landscape	3
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	3
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	3
The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima	3
When citizen science is public relations	3
The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice	3
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	3

Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	3
The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas	3
Bettie’s travels: How pigs enable new connections between human health innovations and industrial agricultural pork production in Denmark	3
How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	2
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	2
What work does ‘contamination’ do? An agential realist account of oil wastewater and radium in groundwater	2
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	2
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	2
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	2
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	2
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	2
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	2
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	2
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	2
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies	2
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	2
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	2
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	2