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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action	110
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	35
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	35
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	32
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	30
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	26
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	18
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	17
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	17
Cartographic infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa	16
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	16
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	16
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	15
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	14
Predictions, uncertainty, and collective epistemic work: How projected futures informed and misinformed enactments of Covid-19	14
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	14
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	13
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	13
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	12
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	12
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism	11
A new Editor-in-Chief	11
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	11
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	11
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	11

First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	10
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	10
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	9
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	9
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	9
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	9
Cryptography as information control	9
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)	9
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	9
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	8
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	8
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury	8
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	8
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	8
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	8
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	8
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	7
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	7
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	7
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	7
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	7
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	7
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	6
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	6
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	6
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	6
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	6
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	6
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	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
Cleaning a dark matter detector: A case of ontological and normative elusiveness	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	5
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities	5
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	5
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	5
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	5
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	5
‘A woman and now a man’: The legitimation of sex-assignment surgery in the United States (1849–1886)	4
Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization	4
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	4
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	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	4
The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas	3
The birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	3
Making data markets: Assetization, valuation, and proxy work in a digital health start-up	3

Computational universalism, or, Attending to relationalities at scale	3
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	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
Exclusionary data, inclusionary appeals: Gender and equity in an HIV-prevention clinical trial	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
Sensory labor as un/knowing in a waste composition study: Identifying a chain of translation	3
The return of nature? Negotiating the ‘renaturation’ of the Isar as an envirotechnical landscape	3
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	3
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	3
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	2
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	2
Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research	2
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	2
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	2
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	2
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	2
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	2
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	2
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	2
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	2
What work does ‘contamination’ do? An agential realist account of oil wastewater and radium in groundwater	2
How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	2
Airport security as translation through division and movement	2