OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Big Data & Society is 12. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	190
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	185
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	114
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	106
From authority to similarity: How Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision	102
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	97
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	72
Exploring relational farming futures for responsible innovation in precision agriculture through Q-method and speculative design	70
From rule of law to rule of algorithm: Generative Artificial Intelligence's threat to democracy	70
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	65
Embedding ethics in infrastructures for data-intensive health research	53
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	52
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	47
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	46
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	44
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	43
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	43
The technopolitics of database interoperability	42
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	41
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	39
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
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	37
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	36
Perpetuating misogyny with generative AI: How model personalization normalizes gendered harm	35

Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	35
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	35
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	34
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	34
Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment	33
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	31
Producing shifting personhood: How designers anthropomorphize artificial intelligence	31
Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good	31
MarxistLLM: Fine-tuning a language model with a Marxist worldview	29
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	29
Data futurities: Negotiating statistical citizenship and ethnoracial visibility in Portugal's 2021 population census	29
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	29
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	28
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	28
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	28
Technologies of distinction for indiscriminate killing: What can the Israeli war on Gaza teach us about the social meaning of AI	27
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	27
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	27
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	27
Emergency curation as anticipatory maintenance: Lessons from the 2016/2017 data rescue movement	26
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	25
The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement	25
Algorithmicized bodies: Account nurturing behaviors on Chinese short video platforms	24
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	24
From flatlands to livable futures: Unflattening carbon metrics in the energy and data industries	24
From “I have nothing to hide” to “Its stalking”: Americans’ comfort sharing individual mobility features	23
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	22
Mapping the landscape of deepfake research: A systematic review of empirical studies	22
Stupid AI around? Understanding users’ everyday AI complaints	21
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	21
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	21
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	21
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	21
Generative AI, propaganda, and digital authoritarianism: Comparative insights from six democratically weakened countries	21
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	20
Racial framing contests: How anti-Asian racism and its resistance enacted racial projects during COVID-19	20
Working closely with data: Aspirations and constraints of Chinese data scientists	20
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	19
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	19
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	19
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	19
The algorithmic other: Dehumanization, infrastructure, and racial capitalism in the age of AI	19
Bridging silos or adding friction? The data work behind re-identification across interoperable data infrastructures	19
Strategising imaginaries: How corporate actors in China, Germany and the US shape AI governance	18
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	18
Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence: Cross-national media coverage in China, Germany, and the US (2012–2024)	18
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	18
Creating certainty where there is none: Artificial intelligence as political concept	18
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	18
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	18

Dancing with anklets: Navigating digital rural governance with big data in China	18
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	17
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	17
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	17
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	17
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	17
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	17
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	17
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	17
Legitimacy practices, algorithms, and the new bureaucratic quantification	16
Double standards of generative AI chatbots: Unveiling (digital) ageism versus sexism through sociological interviews	16
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	15
AI failure loops in devalued work: The confluence of overconfidence in AI and underconfidence in worker expertise	15
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	15
Algorithmic responsibility in PPC practice: Interpreting black boxes in digital advertising work	15
#TargetedAds, or memeing dataveillance on TikTok: How users comply, oppose, and imagine datafication practices	15
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania	15
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	15
The role of data literacies in participatory data stewardship: Drawing on the Round ‘Ere project	15
CO2e (best) avoided? How people experience CO2e avoided on the Too Good To Go app	15
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	15
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	14
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	14
Rating villagers’ morality: Techno-moral governance via a data scoring system in rural China	14
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	14
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	14
Prediction as extraction of discretion	14
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home	14
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	13
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system	13
Patchwork surveillance and accountability labor: China's Health Code Systems during COVID-19	13
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	13
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	13
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	13
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	13
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance	13
Digital phantoms in medical research: Synthetic data and the pursuit of ground truth	13
Doing data, doing gender: Manufacturing gendered AI through the optimization loop	12
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	12
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	12
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana	12
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	12
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	12
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion	12
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?	12
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	12
Repair and redress: A research program for algorithmic futures	12
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights	12
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach	12
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	12
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	12
Platform sub-imperialism	12
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	12
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data	12