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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Big Tech: Four Emerging Forms of Digital Rentiership	43
Big Tech	34
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech	29
Big Tech Meets Big Ag: Diversifying Epistemologies of Data and Power	27
Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Techno-Optimism: Examining Outer Space Utopias of Silicon Valley	27
The Big Techification of Everything	19
The Test Bed Island: Tech Business Experimentalism and Exception in Singapore	14
Big Tech and Labour Resistance at Amazon	13
Hawaiʻi as a Laboratory Paradise: Divergent Sociotechnical Island Imaginaries	12
Conscious, Complacent, Fearful: Agri-Food Tech’s Market-Making Public Imaginaries	11
Experimenting with the Social Life of Homes: Sensor Governmentality and Its Frictions	10
It Takes Two to Techno-Tango: An Analysis of a Close Embrace Between Google/Apple and the EU in Fighting the Pandemic Through Contact Tracing Apps	10
Data Hugging in European Biobank Networks	9
Misunderstanding Citizen Science: Hermeneutic Ignorance in U.S. Environmental Regulation	9
The Rape Kit’s Promise: Techno-optimism in the Fight Against the Backlog	8
Refused-knowledge during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mobilising Experiential Expertise for Care and Well-being	8
Amazon’s Ring: Surveillance as a Slippery Slope Service	8
Monstrous Motherhood – Women on the Edge of Reproductive Age	8
The (Possible) Future of Cyborg Healthcare: Depictions of Disability in Cyberpunk 2077	8
What Counts as the Environment in Epigenetics? Knowledge and Ignorance in the Entrepreneurial University	7
Island Imaginaries: Introduction to a Special Section	7
Demonstrating a Flexible Electricity Consumer: Keeping Sight of Sites in a Real-world Experiment	7
Empty Minds: Innovating Audience Participation in Symphonic Practice	5
Gaze-scaling: Planets as Islands in Exobiologists’ Imaginaries	5
How data governance principles influence participation in biodiversity science	5

Provisional by design. Frontex data infrastructures and the Europeanization of migration and border control	5
The Board Game Pandemic: Cooperative Sociotechnical Imaginaries Obscuring Power Relations	5
Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts	5
Assetization and the Logic of Venture Capital, or Why Facebook Does not ‘Feel’ Like a Monopoly to Zuckerberg	4
Data-driven governance and performances of accountability: critical reflections from US agri-environmental policy	4
Security knowledges: circulation, control, and responsible research and innovation in EU border management	4
Bioprinting as a Sociotechnical Project: Imaginaries, Promises and Futures	4
Institutionalised ignorance in policy and regulation	4
Democratising Monograph Publishing or Preying on Researchers? Scholarly Recognition and Global ‘Credibility Economies’	3
Big Tech’s ‘Voracious Appetite,’ or Entrepreneurs Who Dream of Acquisition? Regulation and the Interpenetration of Corporate Scales	3
Exploring Frictions of Participatory Innovation between Sites and Scales	3
On the Entanglement of Science and Europe at CERN: The Temporal Dynamics of a Coproductive Relationship	3
Transposing emotions to conserve nature? The positive politics of the metrics of ecosystem services	3
Demarcating Patriotic Science on Digital Platforms: Covid-19, Chloroquine and the Institutionalisation of Ignorance in Brazil	3
Why Does Controversy Persist? Paradigm Clash, Conflicting Visions, and Academic Productivity in the Aesthetics of Religion	3
The Promissory Visions of DIYbio: Reimaging Science from the Fringe	2
Secrecies as Organized Ignorance: The Illusion of Knowledge in French Pesticide Regulation	2
Contested promises. Migrants’ material politics vis-à-vis the humanitarian border in Niger	2
Science as Technology? What does Science Mean for the Chinese	2
Procedural Care: Licensing Practices in Animal Research	2
Research Communication on Climate Change through Open Letters: Uniting Cognition, Affect and Action by Affective Alignments	2
Capitalisms, Generative Projects and the New STS	2
Toxic Ignorance. How Regulatory Procedures and Industrial Knowledge Jeopardise the Risk Assessment of Chemicals	2
From Radical Science to STS	2
Environmental governance through metrics: guest introduction	2
Re-imagining The Space Age: Early Satellite Development from Earthly Fieldwork Practice	2
Ignorance and the paradoxes of evidence-based global health: the case of mortality statistics in India’s million death study	2
Kickstarting science? Crowdfunded research, public engagement, and the participatory condition	1
Mistrust of the black box: the public auditing of private models in the chemicals regulatory space	1
Judging Post-Controversy Expertise: Judicial Discretion and Scientific Marginalisation in the Courtroom	1
The official record of victims as a bordering technology: knowledge and (in)visibilities in post-conflict Colombia	1
Gendering data care: curators, care, and computers in data-centric biology	1
Expectations of Genomic Selection for Forestry: Expert Narratives of Anticipation and Legitimation	1
The humanist challenge to China’s dominant policies for popularizing science and technology (PST)	1
Vive La Résistance? Standard fire testing, regulation, and the performance of safety	1
New techno-natures: the future of human reproduction in sci-art	1
The promise of ELSI: coproducing the future of life on earth	1
Negotiating Belgian identity in Wisconsin through ancestry genomics	1
The Role of US Policymaking in the Emergence of a Digital Health Assemblage	1
Platformization in the built environment: the political techno-economy of Building Information Modeling	1
Between the lab and the wild: establishing the potential of gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control	1
Chains of Participation in Producing Biodiversity Infrastructures: Digital Reconfigurations of Scientific Work	1
Brand New or More of the Same Nuclear? (De)Constructing the Economic Promise of the European Pressurised Reactor in France and the UK	1
Between People and Paper: Inhabiting Experiment in a Journal Club	1
Safer-than: Making Nuclear Waste Disposal More Familiar	1
Metaphors of foreign strangers: antimicrobial resistance in biomedical discourses	1
Practices of radical digital care: towards autonomous queer migration	1