OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Configurations is 0. 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
The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts	8
Twelve Years of Graphic Medicine: A Conversation with Comic Nurse on the Future of Comics and Medicine	5
The Cyber-Homunculus: On Race and Labor in Plans for Computation	3
Algorithmic Empathy: Toward a Critique of Aesthetic AI	2
A Hundred Tiny Hands: Slavery, Nanotechnology, and the Anthropocene in Midnight Robber	2
Aliens, Plagues, One Health, and the Medical Posthumanities	2
What Do Sex Robots Want? Representation, Materiality, and Queer Use	2
Fit, Fresh, and Frozen: The Rhetorics of Artificial Cold	1
The Politics of Wholesome Games: Conservative Comforts and Radical Softness	1
Contributors	1
Science Fiction Worldbuilding in Museum Displays of Extinct Life	1
Branded Communities: Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt and the Struggle for Utopia in the New Millennium	1
Introduction: Museums in Science Fiction, Science Fiction in Museums	0
Fabric Bodies: The Craft of Vascular Anastomosis	0
The Digitized Museum and the Troubling Reliance on Technology to Manage Knowledge in E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops	0
I Lost My Body Graphic Narratives in Medicine	0
Contributors	0
Introduction to the Game Studies Issue: A Metagame	0
Industries of Purity: Horses, Idols, and Affective Economy in Uma Musume Pretty Derby	0
Contributors	0
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens ed. by Nicolas Nova	0
Contributors	0
Configurations: A Thirty-Year Retrospective	0
Contributors	0
Special Issue: Science, Technology, and Literature during Plague and Pandemics	0

Erotic Surgery: J. G. Ballard’s Crash, Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” and the Visual Legacy of the Medical Museum	0
Epidemic Frontlines: The Slow Science of Observation	0
Translations in Green: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Vegetal Turn	0
I Just Don’t Think about It: Engaging Students with Critical Heritage Discourse through Science Fiction	0
Writing as Biometric: The Case of Graphology and Keystroke Dynamics	0
Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction by David Farrier	0
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin	0
Contributors	0
Creative Writing: Embracing Unfamiliar Knowledge	0
The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life by Peter Boxall (review)	0
Coda on Curation: Thoughts on Science Fiction and Museums	0
Reading Omens in the Escape of Genetically Engineered Dinosaurs, 1970s–1990s	0
Contributors	0
How Like a Leaf: Vital Energy in Greenhouse Infrastructures	0
Contributors	0
A Literary Landscape of Istanbul: Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Criticism	0
Connecting Literature and Science by Jay A. Labinger (review)	0
The Weird and the Meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts	0
The End of the Anthropocene: Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene by Michael J. Gormley (review)	0
The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives ed. by Arnon Levy and Peter Godfrey-Smith	0
The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan by Paul Roquet (review)	0
Playing at SLSA: A Game Studies Stream Retrospective	0
After the Jump: An SLSA Exchange on Platforming Games	0
I Cannot Tell You All the Story: Narrative, Historical Knowledge, and the Museum in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine	0
Where the Model Ends	0
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee McIntyre	0
Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice by Harlan Weaver	0
The Passing Hour: 1930s Real-Time, Vile Bodies, and the Ethics of Reading	0
Embodied Simulations and Neurodivergent Temporalities in To the Moon	0
The Monster Theory Reader ed. by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock	0
Media Exposure: Communicable Disease and Communication Networks in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Don DeLillo’s White Noise	0
Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition by Antoine Traisnel	0
Confluence and Change: The Emergence of Configurations	0
Contributors	0
Gut Sympathy: Anthropomorphism and Disgust in Whiting’s Memoirs of a Stomach	0
The Protoplasmic Imagination: Ernst Haeckel and H. P. Lovecraft	0
Contributors	0
Quantum Theory and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame	0
Roald Hoffmann: An Appreciation	0
Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England by Julie Orlemanski	0
Genesis Effects: Growing Planets in 1980s Computer Graphics	0
Science Fiction at the Natural History Museum	0
Toward a Pandemic Poetics: Contamination, Infiltration, and Dispersal in Inger Christensen’s Alphabet	0
The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children’s Literature, 1762–1860 by Elizabeth Massa Hoiem (review)	0
Contributors	0
Erratum	0
Video Games and American Culture: How Ideology Influences Virtual Worlds by Aaron A. Toscano (review)	0
Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France by Kari Weil	0
Gaming in the Dark: Colossal Cave Adventure, Kentucky Route Zero , and the Racial Imaginary of the Mammoth Cave System	0
Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity by Tom Tyler (review)	0

Material Foundations of Scientific Metaphors: A New Materialist Metaphor Studies	0
Machine Dream Anthropocene: On Taking a Bot to the MLA	0
On the Confusion Matrix	0
Spectacle and Sympathy in the Origin Narratives of Lifesaving at Sea	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Erratum	0
The Global Distribution, Life History, and Taxonomic Description of the Common Oceanic Plastic Bag: Plasticus sacculi sp. nov	0
Science, Scientists, and Prehistories of SSK in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Literature	0
Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now by Vincent Ialenti	0
Seas of Data; or, The Oceanographer in the Archive	0
From SLS to SLSA: A Brief History	0
I Can’t Hear You: Gestures, Stereotypes, and Brushings against the Player in Dota 2	0
PandemIcons? The Medical Scientist as Iconic Figure in Times of Crisis	0
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch	0
H. P. Lovecraft, Photography, and the Transhumanist Imagination	0
Breathing in a Pandemic: Covid-19’s Atmospheric Erasures	0
Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness by Jonathan Kramnick	0
Games as Epistemic Mediators: Rethinking Gamification with Morgenstern, von Neumann, and Bateson	0
Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser	0
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy	0
Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater by Melody Jue	0
Contributors	0
The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies by Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, and Jussi Parikka (review)	0
The Interplay of Human and Nonhuman Realities in Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia	0
Contributors	0
The Origins of Animal Art	0
Contributors	0
Cli-fi and the Future of the Novel: Building on Helena Feder’s “Ecocriticism and Biology” Special Issue	0
Lipstick Vitalism: On the Beauty of a Different Modernity in Primo Levi’s Periodic Table	0
Through the Portal, and What Michael Joyce Found There	0
Dispassionate Dissections and Their Emotional Rewards: Reading William Harvey and Richard Blackmore	0
Interspecies Ethics and the Limits of Epistemic Authority in Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves	0
Mediated Anarchy in Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed	0
Isamu Noguchi's Gardens: Yellow Peril in the Age of Information	0
Hearing the Living Metaphors: A Response to Serpil Oppermann’s “Storied Seas”	0
Scrambled Astronomy in Fatouville’s French Scenes for Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune	0
Measuring the Impact of Mathematics: Towards a Critical Mathematical Studies	0
Feminist Digital Ecology: Mimesis, Fictocriticism and Altering Technological Space	0
Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex by Timothy Wientzen (review)	0
Accidentals by Susan M. Gaines	0
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino: Reality in Trouble by Isabella Stengers (review)	0
Echo by Amit Pinchevski (review)	0
The Laboratory of the Mind’s Eye: Scientific Romance as Thought Experiment and Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages	0
Reading Storied Corals with the Scientific Poetics of Water	0
Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel ed. by Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines, and Roslynn D. Haynes	0
Literary Studies and Well-Being: Structures of Experience in the Worldly Work of Literature and Healthcare by Ronald Schleifer (review)	0
Abraham Cowley against Bacon's "Idols of the Mind"	0
(In)Hospitable Games: Playing God, the Minecraft Effect, and the Supraphylogenesis of SimEarth	0
Middle-out from Bottom-up: Engineering and Close Reading Code in HBO’s Silicon Valley	0
Doing Nothing in San Andreas: Contesting the Value of Play in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V	0
Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions by Katherine Keyser	0
Climate and Literature ed. by Adeline Johns-Putra	0