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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dramaturgy of Science and Expertise at the World Anti-Doping Agency: Civic Epistemologies for Anti-Doping?	48
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action	48
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	30
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	29
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	29
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	28
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	23
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	21
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	21
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	21
Cartographic infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa	20
The Shifting ‘Self’ of Science’s Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature	20
Predictions, Uncertainty, and Collective Epistemic Work: How Projected Futures Informed and Misinformed Enactments of Covid-19	20
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	18
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	17
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	16
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	16
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	16
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	15
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	15
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	14
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	14
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	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

‘Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’: On EPR, Unicorns, and Enchantment in Nanomedicine	13
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	12
Satellite Internet and the Disruption of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Cameroon	12
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	12
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	12
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	12
Attending to ‘Computational Universalism’: Practices, Frictions, Events	12
The Open Pharma Movement: Social Action to ‘Open’ Drug Research and Its Implications for Health	11
The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction	11
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	10
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	10
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	10
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	10
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	10
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	10
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	9
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	9
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	8
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	8
Nuclear Decommissioning and the Political Economy of Waste: Exploring Nuclear Attachments in Italy	8
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	8
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	7
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	7
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	7
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	7
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	7
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	7
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	6
Cleaning a dark matter detector: A case of ontological and normative elusiveness	6
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
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	5
Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization	5
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
Replication after Collins: An ethnography of current replication studies in psychology	5
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	5
Making a show of it: Reading demonstrations of empty government innovation through the metaphor of façade	5
Money-Work: Science Funding as Relational Socioeconomics	5
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	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
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
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	4
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	4
The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima	4
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	4
The return of nature? Negotiating the ‘renaturation’ of the Isar as an envirotechnical landscape	3

Techno-Fixes: On the Non-Disruptive Disruptions of Cultured Meat, Social Freezing and AI Assistants	3
Computational universalism, or, Attending to relationalities at scale	3
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	3
The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas	3
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	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
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	3
Sensory Labor as Un/knowing in a Waste Composition Study: Identifying a Chain of Translation	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
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	3
What Happens in Vegas Gets Hacked in Vegas: The Material Politics of DEF CON’s Place	3
The birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	3