OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Studies of Science is 3. 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
The politics of scaling	56
Incompleteness of urban infrastructures in transition: Scenarios from the mobile age in Nairobi	39
Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future	38
Changing climate change: The carbon budget and the modifying-work of the IPCC	29
Sociotechnical imaginaries: An accidental themed issue	29
The model crisis, or how to have critical promiscuity in the time of Covid-19	29
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	26
Atmospheres of science: Experiencing scientific mobility	23
Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border	21
SAGE advice and political decision-making: ‘Following the science’ in times of epistemic uncertainty	19
Science, technology, security: Towards critical collaboration	18
Ethics in retrospect: Biomedical research, colonial violence, and Iñupiat sovereignty in the Alaskan Arctic	18
E-Infrastructures and the divergent assetization of public health data: Expectations, uncertainties, and asymmetries	16
Self-correction in science: The diagnostic and integrative motives for replication	16
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	15
Impact, theory of change, and the horizons of scientific practice	14
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	13
Deregulatory science: Chemical risk analysis in Trump’s EPA	13
Ignorance loops: How non-knowledge about bee-toxic agrochemicals is iteratively produced	13
When citizen science is public relations	12
The financial market of ideas: A theory of academic social media	12
Strategies of stratification: Regulating market access in the era of personalized medicine	11
Negotiating attachments to plastic	11
Apartheid drone: Infrastructures of militarism and the hidden genealogies of the South African Seeker	10
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	10

London’s fatbergs and affective infrastructuring	10
Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation: Views of forensic geneticists in Europe	10
The bad expert	10
Making science international: Chilean journals and communities in the world of science	9
Latina/o/e technoscience: Labor, race, and gender in cybernetics and computing	9
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	9
Imperfect diagnosis: The truncated legacies of Zika testing	9
Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age	8
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	8
Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management	8
Co-production, multiplied: Enactments of sex as a biological variable in US biomedicine	8
Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics I: Troubles with the Subject	8
The imagined scientist of science governance	8
Drum breach: Operational temporalities, error politics and WIPP’s kitty litter nuclear waste accident	7
Making and managing medical anomalies: Exploring the classification of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’	7
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	7
Making particularity travel: Trust and citizen science data in Swedish environmental governance	7
The ‘enigma’ of Richard Schultes, Amazonian hallucinogenic plants, and the limits of ethnobotany	7
In smell’s shadow: Materials and politics at the edge of perception	6
The history of seed banking and the hazards of backup	6
Taking responsibility, making irresponsibility: Controversies in human gene editing	6
The face as folded object: Race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping	6
Understanding science-in-the-making by letting scientific instruments speak: From semiotics to postphenomenology	6
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	6
Cycles of invisibility: The limits of transparency in dealing with scientific misconduct	6
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	6
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	5
Environmental Malthusianism and demography	5
Toxic remains: Infrastructural failure in a Ugandan molecular biology lab	5
Eye for an AI: More-than-seeing, fauxtomation, and the enactment of uncertain data in digital pathology	5
Thinking with attachments: Appreciating a generative analytic	5
Computing views, remodeling environments	5
COVID-19	5
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies	4
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	4
Maintenance epistemology and public order: Removing graffiti in Paris	4
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	4
The ecobiopolitics of environmental mitigation: Remaking fish habitat through the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project	4
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	4
Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics II: Troubles with the Object	4
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	4
Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation	4
Ghosts, brands, and influencers: Emergent trends in scientific authorship	4
Staging Paro: The care of making robot(s) care	4
Biometric imaginaries: Formatting voice, body, identity to data	4
Cultivated co-production: Sexual health, human rights, and the revision of the ICD	4
Defending ‘snake oil’: The preservation of contentious knowledge and practices	4
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury	4
Improvising care: Managing experimental animals at a Japanese laboratory	4
Politics of Nature: The board game	3

Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	3
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	3
Present to Bruno, from Donna	3
Trading zones in a colony: Transcultural techniques at missionary stations in the Dutch East Indies, 1860 – 1940	3
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	3
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	3
On the persistence of race: Unique skulls and average tissue depths in the practice of forensic craniofacial depiction	3
Subjectifying objectivity: Delineating tastes in theoretical quantum gravity research	3
Writing good economics: How texts ‘on the move’ perform the lab and discipline of experimental economics	3
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	3
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	3
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	3
Empire and indigestion: Materializing tannins in the Indian tea industry	3
Infrastructure, ontology and meaning: The endogenous development of economic ideas	3
Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy	3