OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of East Asian Science Technology and Society-An International Journal 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
TraceTogether: Pandemic Response, Democracy, and Technology	48
Viral Sovereignty or Sequence Etiquette? Asian Science, Open Data, and Knowledge Control in Global Virus Surveillance	8
Consumer Movements Confronted by Naturalness in Gene Editing in Japan	7
Phnom Penh Kaleidoscope: Construction Boom, Material Itineraries and Changing Scales in Urban Cambodia	7
Contact Tracing and COVID-19: The South Korean Context for Public Health Enforcement	7
Science and Technology for Humanity: An STS View from Singapore	7
The Politics of Science and Undone Protection in the “Samsung Leukemia” Case	6
ELSI is Our Next Battlefield	6
“All We Want, Is to Get Rid of the Straw”: How Biofuel Policies Need to Be Multiple	6
Taming the Noise: Soundscape and Livability in a Technocratic City-State	5
GenomeAsia100K: Singapore Builds National Science with Asian DNA	5
From SARS to COVID-19: Rethinking Global Health Lessons from Taiwan	5
“Mr. Science”, May Fourth, and the Global History of Science	4
Diverged Evolutionary Pathways of Two Public Research Institutes in Taiwan and Korea: Shared Missions and Varied Organizational Dynamics in ITRI and KIST	4
A Site of Bounded Imaginaries: Local Narratives of Buan after Protests against a Nuclear Waste Repository	3
The Valuation of Contaminated Life: RCA in Taiwan and the Compensation of Toxic Exposure	3
Oozing Matters: Infracycles of “Waste Management” and Emergent Naturecultures in Phnom Penh	3
Generational Medicine in Singapore: A National Biobank for a Greying Nation	3
Material Itineraries of Electric Tuk- Tuks: The Challenges of Green Urban Development in Laos	3
Material Itineraries: Southeast Asian Urban Transformations	3
Who Is Mr. Science and Why Does He Matter?	3
The Global Comrades of Mr. Democracy and Mr. Science: Placing May Fourth in a Transnational History of Science Activism	3
Dynamic Capabilities in a Learning Society—The Case of Taiwan in Controlling the Coronavirus Outbreak	3
Social Systems Matter: Precision Medicine, Public Health, and the Medical Model	2
Public Deliberation on South Korean Nuclear Power Plants: How Can Lay Knowledge Resist against Expertise?	2

Emerging Potentials: Times and Climes of the Belt and Road Initiative in Cambodia and Beyond	2
Weaving the Net: Making a Smart City Through Data Workers in Shenzhen	2
“Invisible” Pollution? Knowledge Gridlock in Regulatory Science on Electronics Toxics	2
Defending Lives among Concrete Walls: An Interview with Flâneur Artist, Tom Rook	2
Infrastructure, Modernity, and the Technologies of Everyday Life: Insights from a Collaborative Research Project on the Making of Modern East Asia	2
Covers and the Poetics of Communication	2
Tomiko Yamaguchi 山口富子 and Masato Fukushima 福島真人, eds., Yosoku ga tsukuru shakai: “Kagaku no kotoba” no tsukawarekata 予測がつくる社会: 「科学の言葉」の使われ方 [Simulation, Prediction, and Society: The Politics	2
Reformulation and Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge in Industrial Ayurveda: The Trajectory of Jeevani	2
The Development of AI Ethics in Japan: Ethics-washing Society 5.0?	2
Practicing Mr. Science: Chinese Scientists and the May Fourth Movement from Zhu Kezhen to Fang Lizhi	2
Some Reflections on the History of Masked Societies in East Asia	2
Policy Inconsistency between Science and Technology Promotion and Graduate Education Regarding Developing Researchers with Science Communication Skills in Japan	2
COVID-19 Exceptionalism: Explaining South Korean Responses	2
Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China	1
Editor’s Note	1
Chuearok, Rangkai lae Rat Vetchakam: Prawatsat Kanphaet Samaimai nai Sangkhom Thai [Pathogen, the Body and Medical State: History of Modern Medicine in Thai Society]	1
Dialogue across Borders: Angela Su’s Chimeric Antibodies	1
Managing ‘Wicked’ Technoscientific Problems: The Postnormal Science of Risk Narratives	1
Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang, eds., Can Science and Technology Save China?	1
Data and Databases: Emerging Objects of Research	1
Field Report: Taiwan’s RCA Litigation and Its Multiple Outreaches: The Experience of an STS Community, 2011–2023	1
Qi Han 韩琦, Tongtian zhi xue: Yesu huishi he tianwenxue zai zhongguo de chuanbo 通天之学:耶稣会士和天文学在中国的传播 [The Study of Communicating with Heaven: Jesuits and the Dissemination of Astronomy in Chin	1
Networking Universities and Hospitals: A Case Study of Research and Commercialization in the Taiwanese Herbal Medicine Sector	1
Would Mr. Science Eat the Chinese Diet?	1
Welcome to Our Newly Renovated Open Kitchen!	1
Sinology with Engineering Characteristics: Commentary on Jue Hou’s “The Cybernetic Writing Pad”	1
Rural–Urban Migration and Agro-Technical Change in Post-Reform China	1
What a Map and a Portrait Have in Common	1
Editor’s Note	1
News and Events	1
Editor’s Note	1
The Hybrid Metro: The Brown Line of the Taipei Metro and Technological Hybridity	1
Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan	1
Commentary on Four Tapuya Papers on Environmentalism in Latin America:The EASTS Perspective	1
GMO China: How Global Debates Transformed China’s Agricultural Biotechnology Policies	1
Daiwie Fu 傅大為, STS de yuan qi yu duo zhong jian gou - heng kan jin dai ke xue de yi zhong bian zhi yu da zao STS的緣起與多重建構—橫看近代科學的一種編織與打造 [A Genealogical History of STS and Its Multiple Constr	1
A Tradition of Invention: The Paradox of Glorifying Past Technological Breakthroughs	1
Practices on Aarogya Setu: Mapping Citizen Interaction with the Contact-Tracing App in the Time of COVID-19	1
Plague Masks in Japan: Reflecting on the 1899 German Debates and the Suffering of Patients/Doctors in Osaka	1
The Politics and Sub-Politics of Mad Cow Disease in South Korea	1
The Birth of Digital Epidemiology in South Korea	1
Invulnerable Facts: Infant Mortality and Development in Nationalist Gansu	1
Toxic Remedies: On the Cultivation of Medicinal Plants and Urban Ecologies	1
Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea	1
COVID-19 Making “Idols”: The Birth of Celebrity Scientists in China	1
Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia	1
Itineraries to a “Happy, Ordinary Place” for Future STS	1
Efficacy vs. Ideology: The Use of Food Therapies in Preventing and Treating Beriberi in the Japanese Army in the Meiji Era	1
Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan	1
Situating Science in the Century since the May Fourth Movement	1

Database as an Experiment: Parataxonomy of Medicinal Plants as Intellectual Property in India	1
Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911	1
Vernacular Technical Practices Beyond the Imitative/Innovative Boundary: Apple II Cloning in Early-1980s South Korea	1
Situational Analysis as an Interdisciplinary Research Method	1
Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine	1
Making Fast-Track Surgery Transportable: Sino-Danish Travel Work	1
Yancong zhi dao: Women yu shihua gongcun de liangwan ge rizi 煙囪之島:我們與石化共存的兩萬個日子 [A Smoking Island: Petrochemical Industry, Our Dangerous Companion for more than Fifty Years]	1
The Dawn of Science as Cultural Authority in China:Tianyanlun(On Heavenly Evolution) in the Post-1895 Debate over the Engagement with Western Civilization	1
Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia	1
Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory	1
Editor’s Note	1
Bangkok Precipitated: Cloudbursts, Sentient Urbanity, and Emergent Atmospheres	1
Lili Lai, Hygiene, Sociality, and Culture in Contemporary Rural China: The Uncanny New Village	1
Postscript: Material Itineraries in Southeast Asian Urban Transformations	1
Branding East Asia with STS: A Farewell Note from the Editor in Chief	1
Correcting Life through the Marketplace? Genome Editing and the Commercialization of Academic Research in South Korea	1
Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China	1
The Cybernetic Writing Pad: Information Technology and the Retheorization of the Chinese Script, 1977-1986	1
Editor’s Note: Prospects for STS and the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Weeds are Herbs: Botanic Arts of Foraging, Classifying, and Cooking	1
Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India	1
Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940	1
Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter	1
Late Industrialism, Advocacy, and Law: Relays Toward Just Transition	1
Knowledge Production in Mao-era China: Learning from the Masses	1
Duke as Spine	1