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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	109
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	35
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	33
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	33
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	29
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	28
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	24
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	18
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	16
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	16
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	15
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	15
Predictions, uncertainty, and collective epistemic work: How projected futures informed and misinformed enactments of Covid-19	15
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	15
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	15
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	14
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	14
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism	13
A new Editor-in-Chief	13
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	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
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	11
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	11

The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	10
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	10
Cryptography as information control	10
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	10
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	9
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	9
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	9
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	9
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)	9
The face as folded object: Race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping	8
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury	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	8
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	8
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	8
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	8
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	8
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	8
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	7
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	7
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	7
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	7
Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation	7
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	7
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	6
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	6
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	6
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	6
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	6
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	6
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	6
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	5
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	5
Making a show of it: Reading demonstrations of empty government innovation through the metaphor of façade	5
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	5
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	5
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	5
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities	5
‘A woman and now a man’: The legitimation of sex-assignment surgery in the United States (1849–1886)	5
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	5
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent SAGE and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK	4
The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas	4
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	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
Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization	4
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	4
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
The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima	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
Exclusionary data, inclusionary appeals: Gender and equity in an HIV-prevention clinical trial	3
Bettie’s travels: How pigs enable new connections between human health innovations and industrial agricultural pork production in Denmark	3
Sensory labor as un/knowing in a waste composition study: Identifying a chain of translation	3
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	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
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	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
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
What work does ‘contamination’ do? An agential realist account of oil wastewater and radium in groundwater	2
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies	2
Airport security as translation through division and movement	2
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	2
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	2
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	2
Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research	2
Scientific-intellectual movements in the post-truth age: The case of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis	2
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	2
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	2
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	2
Virtual diversity and the value-ladenness of science	2
Writing good economics: How texts ‘on the move’ perform the lab and discipline of experimental economics	2