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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action	47
The Dramaturgy of Science and Expertise at the World Anti-Doping Agency: Civic Epistemologies for Anti-Doping?	44
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	28
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	28
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	27
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	27
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	23
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	21
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	20
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	20
Cartographic infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa	19
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	18
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	18
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	18
The Shifting ‘Self’ of Science’s Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature	16
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	16
Predictions, Uncertainty, and Collective Epistemic Work: How Projected Futures Informed and Misinformed Enactments of Covid-19	15
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	14
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	14
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	14
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	14
Production of Limited Commensurability in Crises: Expert Knowledge on Nuclear Accidents After Fukushima	14
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	13
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	13
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	13

Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	12
‘Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’: On EPR, Unicorns, and Enchantment in Nanomedicine	12
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	12
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	12
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	12
The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction	11
Satellite Internet and the Disruption of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Cameroon	11
The Open Pharma Movement: Social Action to ‘Open’ Drug Research and Its Implications for Health	11
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	11
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	10
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	10
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	10
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	10
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	10
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	10
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	9
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	9
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	9
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	8
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	8
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	8
Nuclear Decommissioning and the Political Economy of Waste: Exploring Nuclear Attachments in Italy	8
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	7
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	7
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	7
Cleaning a dark matter detector: A case of ontological and normative elusiveness	7
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	6
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	6
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	6
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	6
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	5
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent SAGE and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK	5
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities	5
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Making a show of it: Reading demonstrations of empty government innovation through the metaphor of façade	5
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	5
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	5
Replication after Collins: An ethnography of current replication studies in psychology	5
Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization	5
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	5
Sensory Labor as Un/knowing in a Waste Composition Study: Identifying a Chain of Translation	4
The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice	4
The birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	4
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	4
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	4
The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima	4
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	4
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	3

Techno-Fixes: On the Non-Disruptive Disruptions of Cultured Meat, Social Freezing and AI Assistants	3
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	3
Computational universalism, or, Attending to relationalities at scale	3
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	3
Bettie’s travels: How pigs enable new connections between human health innovations and industrial agricultural pork production in Denmark	3
Making data markets: Assetization, valuation, and proxy work in a digital health start-up	3
Exclusionary data, inclusionary appeals: Gender and equity in an HIV-prevention clinical trial	3
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	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
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	3
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	3
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	3
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies	2
Virtual diversity and the value-ladenness of science	2
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	2
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	2
Silence of the labs	2
Coordinating uncertainty in the political economy of cyber threat intelligence	2
The history of seed banking and the hazards of backup	2
Staging Paro: The care of making robot(s) care	2
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	2
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	2
What Happens in Vegas Gets Hacked in Vegas: The Material Politics of DEF CON’s Place	2
What work does ‘contamination’ do? An agential realist account of oil wastewater and radium in groundwater	2
Right data, wrong data: Statistical sampling and the making of modern agriculture in India	2
Unboxing the imaginary: Typology of future imagination techniques in high-tech development	2
Numbers and emotions in the governance of the Covid-19 datademic	2
Scientific-intellectual movements in the post-truth age: The case of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis	2
Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research	2
How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	2
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	2
The art, science and technology studies movement: An essay review	2
Handmade relief models as matters of concern: Maintaining, restoring, and repairing mountains?	2
Virtual diversity: A proposal and discussion	2