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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dramaturgy of Science and Expertise at the World Anti-Doping Agency: Civic Epistemologies for Anti-Doping?	51
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action	34
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	32
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	31
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	30
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	26
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	23
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	22
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	22
Cartographic Infrastructures: Geographical Pathology, Tumour Safaris, and Colonial Networks in British East Africa	21
The Shifting ‘Self’ of Science’s Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature	19
Predictions, Uncertainty, and Collective Epistemic Work: How Projected Futures Informed and Misinformed Enactments of Covid-19	19
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	17
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	17
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	17
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	15
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	15
Production of Limited Commensurability in Crises: Expert Knowledge on Nuclear Accidents After Fukushima	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
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	13
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	13
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	12
‘Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’: On EPR, Unicorns, and Enchantment in Nanomedicine	12

Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	12
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	12
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	12
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	11
Attending to ‘Computational Universalism’: Practices, Frictions, Events	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	10
Satellite Internet and the Disruption of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Cameroon	10
The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction	10
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	9
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	9
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	9
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	9
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	8
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	7
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	7
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	7
Nuclear Decommissioning and the Political Economy of Waste: Exploring Nuclear Attachments in Italy	7
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	7
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	6
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	6
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	6
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	6
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	6
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	6
Cleaning a dark matter detector: A case of ontological and normative elusiveness	5
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	5
Making a show of it: Reading demonstrations of empty government innovation through the metaphor of façade	5
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	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
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	5
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Money-Work: Science Funding as Relational Socioeconomics	5
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
Replication After Collins: An Ethnography of Current Replication Studies in Psychology	4
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	4
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	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
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	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
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	4
Bettie’s travels: How pigs enable new connections between human health innovations and industrial agricultural pork production in Denmark	3
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	3
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	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
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	3

How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	3
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	3
Techno-Fixes: On the Non-Disruptive Disruptions of Cultured Meat, Social Freezing and AI Assistants	3
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	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
Computational Universalism, or, Attending to Relationalities at Scale	3
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	3
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	3
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	3
The return of nature? Negotiating the ‘renaturation’ of the Isar as an envirotechnical landscape	3
The birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	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
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	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
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	3