OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Big Data & Society is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction	273
Going viral: How a single tweet spawned a COVID-19 conspiracy theory on Twitter	103
Transparency you can trust: Transparency requirements for artificial intelligence between legal norms and contextual concerns	100
Big Data from the bottom up	95
The combine will tell the truth: On precision agriculture and algorithmic rationality	81
From data politics to the contentious politics of data	49
Logged out: Ownership, exclusion and public value in the digital data and information commons	45
Unsupervised by any other name: Hidden layers of knowledge production in artificial intelligence on social media	44
The social imaginaries of data activism	44
Smart forests and data practices: From the Internet of Trees to planetary governance	40
Big Data and quality data for fake news and misinformation detection	37
Challenging algorithmic profiling: The limits of data protection and anti-discrimination in responding to emergent discrimination	33
Big–Thick Blending: A method for mixing analytical insights from big and thick data sources	29
Data critique and analytical opportunities for very large Facebook Pages: Lessons learned from exploring “We are all Khaled Said”	29
Opening the black box of data-based school monitoring: Data infrastructures, flows and practices in state education agencies	28
Democratic governance in an age of datafication: Lessons from mapping government discourses and practices	28
An unexpected journey: A few lessons from sciences Po médialab's experience	25
Enforcing public data archiving policies in academic publishing: A study of ecology journals	25
From pool to profile: Social consequences of algorithmic prediction in insurance	25
Data out of place: Toxic traces and the politics of recycling	24
To predict and to manage. Predictive policing in the United States	23
“You Social Scientists Love Mind Games”: Experimenting in the “divide” between data science and critical algorithm studies	22
Conceptual frameworks for social and cultural Big Data analytics: Answering the epistemological challenge	21
Producing and projecting data: Aesthetic practices of government data portals	20
Learning from lines: Critical COVID data visualizations and the quarantine quotidian	20

Are the dead taking over Facebook? A Big Data approach to the future of death online