OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Big Data & Society is 29. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	144
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	135
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	107
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	95
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	89
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	84
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	70
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	67
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	59
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	55
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	54
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	49
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	46
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	45
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	38
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	35
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	33
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	33
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	32
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	32
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	32
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	31
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	30
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	30
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	30

After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	30
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	29
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	29
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	29