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 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
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	22
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	22
Cartographic Infrastructures: Geographical Pathology, Tumour Safaris, and Colonial Networks in British East Africa	21
Predictions, Uncertainty, and Collective Epistemic Work: How Projected Futures Informed and Misinformed Enactments of Covid-19	19
The Shifting ‘Self’ of Science’s Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature	19
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	17
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	17
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	17
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	15
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	15
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
Production of Limited Commensurability in Crises: Expert Knowledge on Nuclear Accidents After Fukushima	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
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
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
Attending to ‘Computational Universalism’: Practices, Frictions, Events	11
The Open Pharma Movement: Social Action to ‘Open’ Drug Research and Its Implications for Health	11
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	11
Satellite Internet and the Disruption of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Cameroon	10
The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction	10
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	10
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
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	9
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	8
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
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	7
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	7