OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Big Data & Society is 26. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	121
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	112
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	83
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	82
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research	62
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	61
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	59
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	51
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	51
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	46
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	42
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	38
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	37
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	36
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	35
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	33
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	31
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	29
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	28
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	28
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	28
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	28
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	27
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	27
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	27

Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	26
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	26
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	26
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	26