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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	85
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism	37
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	30
Maintaining innovation: How to make sewer robots and innovation policy work in Barcelona	28
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	28
Domesticating data: Traveling and value-making in the data economy	24
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	23
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	18
A new Editor-in-Chief	16
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	14
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	14
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	14
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	13
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	13
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	13
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	13
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	12
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	12
Curious about race: Generous methods and modes of knowing in practice	11
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	11
Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy	11
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	11
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	10
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	10
Constructing digital assets through blockchain technologies? Unpacking the techno-economic configuration of non-fungible tokens	10

Rise and fall of the (social) group	10
Taking responsibility, making irresponsibility: Controversies in human gene editing	9
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	9
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	9
From the bench to public policy: Enhancing public trust in science	9
How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	8
InterFaces: On the relationality of vision, face and race in practices of identification. A multimodal intervention	8
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	8
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	7
The co-production of normal science: A social history of high-temperature superconductivity research in China (1987–2008)	7
Imperfect diagnosis: The truncated legacies of Zika testing	7
Cultivated co-production: Sexual health, human rights, and the revision of the ICD	6
Biopolitics and speculative objects in Chilean health projects	6
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	6
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	6
Groundwork for AI: Enforcing a benchmark for neoantigen prediction in personalized cancer immunotherapy	6
The art of ignoring others’ work among academics: A guessing game model of scholarly information search	6
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	6
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	6
When funding fails: Planetary exploration at NASA in an era of austerity, 1967–1976	6
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	6
The model crisis, or how to have critical promiscuity in the time of Covid-19	5
Managing exactness and vagueness in computer science work: Programming and self-repair in meetings	5
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	5
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	5
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	5
Latina/o/e technoscience: Labor, race, and gender in cybernetics and computing	5
Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research	5
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	5
Interfacing AlphaGo: Embodied play, object agency, and algorithmic drama	5
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies	4
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	4
State planning, cancer vaccine infrastructure, and the origins of the oncogene theory	4
Equivocal diagnostics: Making a ‘good’ point-of-care test for elimination in global health	4
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	4
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	4
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities	4
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	4
Speculative sewing: Researching, reconstructing, and re-imagining wearable technoscience	3
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	3
Enacting biosocial complexity: Stress, epigenetic biomarkers and the tools of postgenomics	3
Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	3
Infrastructure, ontology and meaning: The endogenous development of economic ideas	3
Imagining a ‘Jewish atom bomb’, constructing a scientific diaspora	3
Eye for an AI: More-than-seeing, fauxtomation, and the enactment of uncertain data in digital pathology	3
Airport security as translation through division and movement	3
Biometric imaginaries: Formatting voice, body, identity to data	3
Virtual diversity and the value-ladenness of science	3
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	3
Environmental Malthusianism and demography	3

What work does ‘contamination’ do? An agential realist account of oil wastewater and radium in groundwater	3
Writing good economics: How texts ‘on the move’ perform the lab and discipline of experimental economics	3
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	3
Thinking differently with Chinese medicine: ‘Explanations’ and case studies for a postcolonial STS	3
On first reading Bruno Latour	2
Present to Bruno, from Donna	2
Enabling ‘AI’? The situated production of commensurabilities	2
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	2
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	2
Seven moments with Bruno Latour	2
Unclearing the air: Data’s unexpected limitations for environmental advocacy	2
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent SAGE and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK	2
SAGE advice and political decision-making: ‘Following the science’ in times of epistemic uncertainty	2
Proverbial economies of STS	2
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	2
Marginalized measures: The harmonization of diversity in precision medicine research	2
The Big Flush of Montreal: On affective maintenance and infrastructural events	2
Numbers and emotions in the governance of the Covid-19 datademic	2
Call for new Associate Editors	2
Cryptography as information control	2