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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	102
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	34
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	33
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	32
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	26
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	25
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	24
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	21
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	16
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	16
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	15
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	14
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	14
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	14
Negotiating attachments to plastic	13
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	13
A new Editor-in-Chief	12
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	12
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	12
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	11
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	11
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	11
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism	11
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	11
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	10

Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	10
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	10
Cryptography as information control	9
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	9
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	9
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	8
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	8
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)	8
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	8
The face as folded object: Race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping	7
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	7
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury	7
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	7
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	7
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	7
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	7
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	6
Internationalized science and human rights activism during the late Cold War: The French Committee of Mathematicians	6
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	6
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	6
Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation	6
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	6
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	6
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	6
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	6
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	6
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	6
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	6
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	6
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	5
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	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
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	5
Making a show of it: Reading demonstrations of empty government innovation through the metaphor of façade	5
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	5
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	4
‘A woman and now a man’: The legitimation of sex-assignment surgery in the United States (1849–1886)	4
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	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
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	4
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
The return of nature? Negotiating the ‘renaturation’ of the Isar as an envirotechnical landscape	3
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	3
When citizen science is public relations	3

In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	3
The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima	3
Bettie’s travels: How pigs enable new connections between human health innovations and industrial agricultural pork production in Denmark	3
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	3
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	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
The birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	3
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	3
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	3
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	2
Airport security as translation through division and movement	2
Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research	2
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	2
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	2
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	2
Virtual diversity and the value-ladenness of science	2
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	2
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies	2
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	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
Writing good economics: How texts ‘on the move’ perform the lab and discipline of experimental economics	2
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	2
How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	2