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

Article	Citations
The humanist challenge to China’s dominant policies for popularizing science and technology (PST)	23
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	18
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	14
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	11
Staging interactivity: platform logics at the participatory museum	11
Correction	11
The ‘obligatory passage point’ in knowledge co-production: Italy’s participatory environmental monitoring platform	10
Swedish nuclear waste management as an inert controversy: using critical constructivism to understand cold technological conflict	8
Metaphors of foreign strangers: antimicrobial resistance in biomedical discourses	8
Imagining techno-political alternatives: the (digital) commons as a response to tech oligarchies	7
The co-production of biotechnology and democratization in community science labs	7
Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure	6
Tech-oligarchic visions of automated science: lessons from Franz Neumann’s Behemoth	6
Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea	6
Making explicit an Ecosystem Services indicator as a policy instrument	6
Redefining expertise: how proponents and opponents of alternative therapies evaluate expertise	5
Science theater on stage: Review of the play The Right Way, written by Torbjörn Lindberg, produced by Teater Sagohuset (www.sagohuset.nu), 2019-2020.	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
The official record of victims as a bordering technology: knowledge and (in)visibilities in post-conflict Colombia	4
Stereotypes, gender, and humor in representations of coders in Silicon Valley. Review of TV series Silicon Valley (HBO 2014–2019)	4
New techno-natures: the future of human reproduction in sci-art	4

Brazil’s supreme court on content moderation: national sovereignty versus tech oligarchy	4
Otherwising as productive practice and meaningful work in STS	4
‘Perfect scientists and immoral non-scientists’: a boundary work analysis of Chinese scientists’ writing	4
Environmental governance through metrics: guest introduction	4
DOGE Blitzkrieg: on Musk's artificial intelligence statecraft	3
Platformization in the built environment: the political techno-economy of Building Information Modeling	3
Swept up in the swirls of toxic uncertainties	3
Tech oligarchy	3
Between animated cells and animated cels: symbiotic turn and animation in multispecies life	3
Tech oligarchy and urban mobility in China: the case of DiDi	3
Decentering tech oligarchy	3
Correction	2
Sharing epistemic power: digitally mediated wolf monitoring in Finland	2
Grounding circularity in Fryslân: discursive politics in the embedding of sociotechnical imaginaries	2
Small Modular Reactors: scaling down to better scale-up?	2
Becoming amphibious: scientists’ identities and affective relations in the swamp of computational biology	2
Curating the Widerstandsaviso: three cases of ethnographic intravention in R&D consortia	2
Manufacturing the Leviathan: Palantir’s ‘Technological republic’ and the nationalist faction of the tech oligarchy	2
From evil demiurge to caring hero: images of geneticists in the movies	2
Paradoxical scientization: sisu, Finnish exceptionalism, and the limits of universal human experience	2
Negotiating Belgian identity in Wisconsin through ancestry genomics	2
Ch’ixi animals in two environmental conflicts: evocations of Humboldt penguins and Huemuls	2
Patient engagement in drug development: dialogically problematizing participation	2
Contested promises. Migrants’ material politics vis-à-vis the humanitarian border in Niger	2
Mistrust of the black box: the public auditing of private models in the chemicals regulatory space	2
The Italian debate on the digital COVID certificate: co-producing epistemic and normative rationalities	2
Security knowledges: circulation, control, and responsible research and innovation in EU border management	2
The rise of the tech oligarchy and its military entanglements: a platform approach	1
Mil-tech oligarchy and the security state	1
Practices of radical digital care: towards autonomous queer migration	1
Clouded relationality	1
Citizens as consumers: styles of reasoning about agricultural biotechnologies and publics	1
Ecologies of time: interdisciplinarity and temporal misalignments in data-mediated environmental research collaboration	1
Between the lab and the wild: establishing the potential of gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control	1
Infrastructuring tech-oligarchic futures: sociotechnical imaginaries and frontier environments in the San Francisco Bay Area	1
An anticipatory regime of multiplanetary life: on SpaceX, Martian colonisation and terrestrial ruin	1
The infrastructure of interdisciplinarity for EU research: institutional configurations and collaborative practices for the SSH disciplines	1
Gendering data care: curators, care, and computers in data-centric biology	1
Thinking tech oligarchy through venture capitalization	1
From data revolution to data narratives	1
How data governance principles influence participation in biodiversity science	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
The Student becomes the teacher: what the early American automotive industry taught the tech oligarchy, and what the modern industry has learned	1
Playing science: representing and doing research in board games	1
Reading meat phors in DNA (and RNA): a bio-rhetorical view of genetic text metaphors	1
Challenging epistemic injustices in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index: an engagement	1
Leaving Earth behind: the semiotics of the failing planet in NewSpace online corporate imagery	1
Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems	1
Developing an intervention tool for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in laboratory settings	1
The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy	1

Introduction: participatory knowledge co-production	1
Harmonising automation: challenge-driven robotics and the making of Europe	1
Innovation without representation: epistemic, infrastructural and symbolic power in frontier AI governance	1
Mobilized publics in local environmental conflicts: comparing types of expertise and outcomes	1
Making kin and unmaking the individual in the Capitalocene	1
Bioconstitutional visions in the debate on non-invasive prenatal testing in Germany	1