OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science As Culture is 1. 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 humanist challenge to China’s dominant policies for popularizing science and technology (PST)	24
Toxicity as process: tracing a new epigenetic regime of im/perceptibility in environmental toxicology	20
‘Shade trees for the next generation’: constructing the promissory publics of prospective cohort studies	17
Provisional by design. Frontex data infrastructures and the Europeanization of migration and border control	16
Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is adapting the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing	15
Staging interactivity: platform logics at the participatory museum	13
Communicating science through films: the case of the International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film (1956–1975)	13
Ignorance and the paradoxes of evidence-based global health: the case of mortality statistics in India’s million death study	12
Correction	11
Swedish nuclear waste management as an inert controversy: using critical constructivism to understand cold technological conflict	10
The ‘obligatory passage point’ in knowledge co-production: Italy’s participatory environmental monitoring platform	10
Metaphors of foreign strangers: antimicrobial resistance in biomedical discourses	10
Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure	8
Imagining techno-political alternatives: the (digital) commons as a response to tech oligarchies	8
Tech-oligarchic visions of automated science: lessons from Franz Neumann’s Behemoth	7
Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea	7
The co-production of biotechnology and democratization in community science labs	6
Making explicit an Ecosystem Services indicator as a policy instrument	6
Redefining expertise: how proponents and opponents of alternative therapies evaluate expertise	5
The official record of victims as a bordering technology: knowledge and (in)visibilities in post-conflict Colombia	5
Environmental governance through metrics: guest introduction	5
‘Perfect scientists and immoral non-scientists’: a boundary work analysis of Chinese scientists’ writing	4
Research repertoires and boundary work in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI)	4
A hermeneutic dialogical understanding of data reuse across different access regimes	4
New techno-natures: the future of human reproduction in sci-art	4

Otherwising as productive practice and meaningful work in STS	4
Stereotypes, gender, and humor in representations of coders in Silicon Valley. Review of TV series Silicon Valley (HBO 2014–2019)	3
Tech oligarchy and urban mobility in China: the case of DiDi	3
Sharing epistemic power: digitally mediated wolf monitoring in Finland	3
Science theater on stage: Review of the play The Right Way, written by Torbjörn Lindberg, produced by Teater Sagohuset (www.sagohuset.nu), 2019-2020.	3
Decentering tech oligarchy	3
DOGE Blitzkrieg: on Musk's artificial intelligence statecraft	3
Swept up in the swirls of toxic uncertainties	3
Platformization in the built environment: the political techno-economy of Building Information Modeling	3
Between animated cells and animated cels: symbiotic turn and animation in multispecies life	2
From evil demiurge to caring hero: images of geneticists in the movies	2
Curating the Widerstandsaviso: three cases of ethnographic intravention in R&D consortia	2
Small Modular Reactors: scaling down to better scale-up?	2
Manufacturing the Leviathan: Palantir’s ‘Technological republic’ and the nationalist faction of the tech oligarchy	2
Patient engagement in drug development: dialogically problematizing participation	2
Correction	2
Becoming amphibious: scientists’ identities and affective relations in the swamp of computational biology	2
Mistrust of the black box: the public auditing of private models in the chemicals regulatory space	2
Contested promises. Migrants’ material politics vis-à-vis the humanitarian border in Niger	2
Grounding circularity in Fryslân: discursive politics in the embedding of sociotechnical imaginaries	2
The Italian debate on the digital COVID certificate: co-producing epistemic and normative rationalities	2
Negotiating Belgian identity in Wisconsin through ancestry genomics	2
Paradoxical scientization: sisu, Finnish exceptionalism, and the limits of universal human experience	2
From data revolution to data narratives	1
Developing an intervention tool for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in laboratory settings	1
Mobilized publics in local environmental conflicts: comparing types of expertise and outcomes	1
Between the lab and the wild: establishing the potential of gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control	1
Playing science: representing and doing research in board games	1
The Student becomes the teacher: what the early American automotive industry taught the tech oligarchy, and what the modern industry has learned	1
Introduction: participatory knowledge co-production	1
How data governance principles influence participation in biodiversity science	1
An anticipatory regime of multiplanetary life: on SpaceX, Martian colonisation and terrestrial ruin	1
Making kin and unmaking the individual in the Capitalocene	1
Security knowledges: circulation, control, and responsible research and innovation in EU border management	1
Innovation without representation: epistemic, infrastructural and symbolic power in frontier AI governance	1
Harmonising automation: challenge-driven robotics and the making of Europe	1
Reading meat phors in DNA (and RNA): a bio-rhetorical view of genetic text metaphors	1
Practices of radical digital care: towards autonomous queer migration	1
Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement	1
Clouded relationality	1
Citizens as consumers: styles of reasoning about agricultural biotechnologies and publics	1
Ch’ixi animals in two environmental conflicts: evocations of Humboldt penguins and Huemuls	1
Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts	1
‘Scaling the heights – and the depths: zooming out and in on sociality and science’ Scale theory: a nondisciplinary inquiry , by Joshua DiCaglio, Minneapolis, University	1
Re-righting Water’s Future with the Master’s Tools?	1