OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Big Data & Society is 27. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	126
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research	116
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	90
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	84
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	69
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	68
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	61
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	57
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	54
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	48
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	44
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	43
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	41
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	40
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	38
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	33
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	33
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	30
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	30
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	30
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	29
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	28
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	28
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	28
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	28

‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	28
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	28
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	27
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	27
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	27
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	27