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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	36
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action	36
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	35
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	33
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	20
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	20
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	19
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	18
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	18
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	17
Cartographic infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa	17
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	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
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	14
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	14
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	13
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	13
A new Editor-in-Chief	12
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	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	12
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	11
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	11
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	11

Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	11
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	11
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	11
Cryptography as information control	11
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	10
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	10
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	9
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	9
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	9
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	9
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)	9
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	8
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	8
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	8
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	7
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	7
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	7
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	7
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	7
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	7
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	7
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	6
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	6
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	6
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	6
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	6
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	6
Cleaning a dark matter detector: A case of ontological and normative elusiveness	6
‘A woman and now a man’: The legitimation of sex-assignment surgery in the United States (1849–1886)	5
Replication after Collins: An ethnography of current replication studies in psychology	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	5
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	5
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	5
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	5
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
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
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	5
Sensory labor as un/knowing in a waste composition study: Identifying a chain of translation	4
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	4
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	4
The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas	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
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
The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima	4
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	3

The return of nature? Negotiating the ‘renaturation’ of the Isar as an envirotechnical landscape	3
Exclusionary data, inclusionary appeals: Gender and equity in an HIV-prevention clinical trial	3
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	3
How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	3
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	3
Bettie’s travels: How pigs enable new connections between human health innovations and industrial agricultural pork production in Denmark	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 birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	3
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	3
Making data markets: Assetization, valuation, and proxy work in a digital health start-up	3
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	3
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	3
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	2
Writing good economics: How texts ‘on the move’ perform the lab and discipline of experimental economics	2
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	2
Scientific-intellectual movements in the post-truth age: The case of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis	2
What work does ‘contamination’ do? An agential realist account of oil wastewater and radium in groundwater	2
Virtual diversity and the value-ladenness of science	2
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	2
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	2
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	2
Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research	2
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	2
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	2