OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Studies of Science is 7. 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
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
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	11
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	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
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
‘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
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