OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Biosocieties 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
Publisher Correction: Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria	22
Between technology transfer and South–South collaboration: an Indo-Cuban experiment in biopharmaceutical innovation	21
Validating what counts as knowledge: the algorithmic gaze and nested multifocality in the biosciences	21
Horizoning work in a (de-)contaminated village in Fukushima: how are these Japanese urbanites living a normal life there?	19
Making pain social: developing a critical social science of pain	10
When sociality fails to produce solidarity: environmental NGOs and the politics of public engagement in contemporary China	10
Cell freezing and the biology of inexorability: on cryoprotectants and chemical time	6
Hormonal stories: a new materialist exploration of hormonal emplotment in four case studies	6
Conceptualization of genotype–phenotype relationships and the assessment of risk in advertising of direct-to-consumer and preimplantation polygenic tests	6
Agri-food tech’s building block: narrating protein, agnostic of source, in the face of crisis	6
“Black race”, “Schwarze Hautfarbe”, “Origine africaine”, or “Etnia nera”? The absent presence of race in European pharmaceutical regulation	6
“An entire career in 10 seconds”: on protein chemistry, AI, and the threat of obsolescence	6
Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity	5
Choreographies of nearness: self and other in personal cancer immune therapy research	5
Regulating synthetic biology by naturalizing it: the mis-classification of a GE mosquito	5
Challenges in public policy for the implementation of pharmacogenetic tests in Europe	4
What to do with the new molecular publics: the vernacularization of pathogen genomics and the future of infectious disease biosocialities	4
Data roles: youth mental health outcome measures and the young people who defy them	4
Post-identifiability in changing sociotechnological genomic data environments	4
Accept no limits: biocontainment and the construction of a safer space for experimentation in xenobiology as a legacy of Asilomar	4
Epistemology of the side effect: anecdote and evidence in the digital age	4
The pharmaceutical commons: conceptual clarifications, a practice example, and a research agenda	4
Introduction to the special issue: Politics of suspension? Time, space, and control in cryopreservation practices	3
Psychedelic innovations and the crisis of psychopharmacology	3
Processes of encountering: locating urban mental health in the entanglements of weak social relations, material elements and normative orders	3

Introduction to the special issue: The Near Human in life science, biomedicine, and care	3
Making death through producing life: Necrovalue and the political economy of death	3
Sanitizing psychedelics: the biopolitics of non-hallucinogenic psychoplastogens	3
Correction: An imagined future community: Taiwan Biobank, Taiwanese genome, and nation-building	3
Turning biodiversity data into evidence: the role of protocols in the epistemology of evidence-based conservation	3
Our thanks to founding editor Professor Nikolas Rose	3
Negotiating the necessity of biomedical animal use through relations with vulnerability	3
Navigating biosafety concerns within COVID-19 do-it-yourself (DIY) science: an ethnographic and interview study	2
Correction: Reproducing the normal and the pathological in personalized cancer medicine clinical trials	2
Population anxieties in constituting Nordic welfare state futures: affective biopolitics in the age of environmental crises	2
Afterword: the politics of suspension as an analytical gestalt switch	2
Foetal programming meets human capital: biological plasticity, development, and the limits to the economization of life	2
Anticipating and suspending: the chronopolitics of cryopreservation	2
Allostatic load: historical origins, promises and costs of a recent biosocial approach	2
“Is your brain in danger of overheating?”: neurobiologizing the labouring subject in cognitive capitalism	2
Microbial eccentricity: more-than-human creativity in anthropoeccentric worlds	2
Good donors, bad donors and oddities in the family tree: genomics, donation and reproductive citizenship in Finnish egg donor accounts	2
Styles of thought in healthcare governance: A situational analysis of English PrEP discourse 2016–2020	2
Antibiotics in the environment: molecularisation, drug resistance and pharmaceutical pollution in India	1
The normal is pathological: semi-conscious brains, mindless habits, and the paradoxical science of mindfulness	1
In whose pockets? How small Danish patient organisations balance legitimacy, representation and dependency in collaboration with public sector medical researchers and the life science industry	1
Profit and power: negotiating medical authority and an informed consumer-patient in transgender surgery	1
On psychedelic liberalism and mad trust: towards varieties of willing in extreme experiences	1
Guardians of ableist family formation: the legitimation work of Danish abortion committees in cases of termination for fetal anomaly	1
Paradoxical bodies: negotiating biomedical fix, responsibility, and care in a weight-loss surgery clinic	1
The effects of COVID-19 on imagined reproductive futures	1
Forged in fires: notes on adaptive intelligence among Roma children in the "Terra dei Fuochi"	1
Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria	1
‘Nonetheless biosocial’: experiences and embodied knowledge of birth cohort participants in the UK and Brazil	1
Reproducing the normal and the pathological in personalized cancer medicine clinical trials	1
The concept of metabolism in ocean biogeochemistry: departures, consistencies, and implications	1
Suspending life, controlling change: cryotechnology, genetic identity, and ecological separation	1
Inscrutable futures: biotechnology, architecture, and planetary ecology in late industrial China	1
Formatting patient knowledge and channelling participation: how patient organisations work under authoritarianism	1
Introduction to Special Issue: Reconceptualising toxicity and environmental justice	1
Correction: Core values of genomic citizen science: results from a qualitative interview study	1
Chronic pain across clinical settings: the changing understanding of pain and its treatment in endometriosis	1
‘Our biology is listening’: biomarkers as molecular vestiges of early life and the production of positive childhood experiences in behavioral epigenetics	1
“Being useful, I think it's the result of a sick society”: Critical reflections on reproductive politics and markets by women freezing their eggs in Spain	1