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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The politics of scaling	71
The model crisis, or how to have critical promiscuity in the time of Covid-19	34
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	28
SAGE advice and political decision-making: ‘Following the science’ in times of epistemic uncertainty	25
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	24
Self-correction in science: The diagnostic and integrative motives for replication	22
Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border	22
E-Infrastructures and the divergent assetization of public health data: Expectations, uncertainties, and asymmetries	18
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	18
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	16
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	15
Deregulatory science: Chemical risk analysis in Trump’s EPA	15
The financial market of ideas: A theory of academic social media	14
When citizen science is public relations	13
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	13
Strategies of stratification: Regulating market access in the era of personalized medicine	13
Imperfect diagnosis: The truncated legacies of Zika testing	13
Staging Paro: The care of making robot(s) care	11
Co-production, multiplied: Enactments of sex as a biological variable in US biomedicine	11
Negotiating attachments to plastic	11
The bad expert	11
Apartheid drone: Infrastructures of militarism and the hidden genealogies of the South African Seeker	10
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	10
The history of seed banking and the hazards of backup	10
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	10

Latina/o/e technoscience: Labor, race, and gender in cybernetics and computing	10
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	9
Thinking with attachments: Appreciating a generative analytic	9
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	9
Making particularity travel: Trust and citizen science data in Swedish environmental governance	9
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	9
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	8
Drum breach: Operational temporalities, error politics and WIPP’s kitty litter nuclear waste accident	8
Cycles of invisibility: The limits of transparency in dealing with scientific misconduct	8
The imagined scientist of science governance	8
Biometric imaginaries: Formatting voice, body, identity to data	8
Understanding science-in-the-making by letting scientific instruments speak: From semiotics to postphenomenology	8
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	7
Cultivated co-production: Sexual health, human rights, and the revision of the ICD	7
Taking responsibility, making irresponsibility: Controversies in human gene editing	7
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	6
The face as folded object: Race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping	6
Toxic remains: Infrastructural failure in a Ugandan molecular biology lab	6
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury	6
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies	6
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	5
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	5
Computing views, remodeling environments	5
Writing good economics: How texts ‘on the move’ perform the lab and discipline of experimental economics	5
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	5
Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation	5
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	5
The ecobiopolitics of environmental mitigation: Remaking fish habitat through the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project	5
Environmental Malthusianism and demography	5
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
Defending ‘snake oil’: The preservation of contentious knowledge and practices	5
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	5
Improvising care: Managing experimental animals at a Japanese laboratory	5
Eye for an AI: More-than-seeing, fauxtomation, and the enactment of uncertain data in digital pathology	5
Interfacing AlphaGo: Embodied play, object agency, and algorithmic drama	5
Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy	4
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	4
Enabling ‘AI’? The situated production of commensurabilities	4
Ghosts, brands, and influencers: Emergent trends in scientific authorship	4
Present to Bruno, from Donna	4
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	4
On the persistence of race: Unique skulls and average tissue depths in the practice of forensic craniofacial depiction	3
Politics of Nature: The board game	3
Speculative sewing: Researching, reconstructing, and re-imagining wearable technoscience	3
Managing exactness and vagueness in computer science work: Programming and self-repair in meetings	3
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	3
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	3
Infrastructure, ontology and meaning: The endogenous development of economic ideas	3
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	3
The multistability of predictive technology in nuclear disasters	3

Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research	3
Cryptography as information control	3
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	3
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	2
Neanderthal and the fossilization of the Third World	2
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	2
Health policy counterpublics: Enacting collective resistances to US molecular HIV surveillance and cluster detection and response programs	2
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	2
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	2
On first reading Bruno Latour	2
Imagining a ‘Jewish atom bomb’, constructing a scientific diaspora	2
InterFaces: On the relationality of vision, face and race in practices of identification. A multimodal intervention	2
The art of ignoring others’ work among academics: A guessing game model of scholarly information search	2
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	2
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	2
Digital twins and the digital logics of biodiversity	2
Enacting biosocial complexity: Stress, epigenetic biomarkers and the tools of postgenomics	2
Thinking differently with Chinese medicine: ‘Explanations’ and case studies for a postcolonial STS	2
Groundwork for AI: Enforcing a benchmark for neoantigen prediction in personalized cancer immunotherapy	2
Curious about race: Generous methods and modes of knowing in practice	2
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	2
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	2
The Big Flush of Montreal: On affective maintenance and infrastructural events	2