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
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
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	39
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	38
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	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
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
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	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