OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Big Data & Society is 31. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	191
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	158
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	143
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	111
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	95
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	91
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	81
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	79
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	68
From authority to similarity: How Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision	61
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	60
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	52
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	45
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	40
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	39
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	39
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	39
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	38
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	38
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	37
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	37
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	36
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	34
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	34
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	34

Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	33
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	32
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	32
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	32
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	32
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	32
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	31
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	31