OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Big Data & Society is 11. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	126
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research	116
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	90
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	84
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	69
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	68
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	61
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	57
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	54
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	48
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	44
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	43
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	41
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	40
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	38
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	33
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	33
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	30
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	30
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	30
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	29
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	28
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	28
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	28
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	28

Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	28
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	28
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	27
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	27
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	27
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	27
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	26
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	26
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	24
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication	24
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	23
Situating questions of data, power, and racial formation	22
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	22
Anthropographics in COVID-19 simulations	22
Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions	21
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	21
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	21
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	21
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	21
The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement	21
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	20
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	20
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	19
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	19
In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models	19
Carceral algorithms and the history of control: An analysis of the Pennsylvania additive classification tool	19
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	19
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	19
Taking stock of COVID-19 health status certificates: Legal implications for data privacy and human rights	18
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	18
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	18
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	17
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	17
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	17
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	17
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	17
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	17
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	17
Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs	16
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	16
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	16
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	16
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	16
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	16
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	16
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	15
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	14
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	14
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	14
Tradeoffs all the way down: Ethical abduction as a decision-making process for data-intensive technology development	14

Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	14
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system	14
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	14
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	14
Public views of the smart city: Towards the construction of a social problem	14
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	14
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home	13
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	13
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania	13
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	13
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	13
Prediction as extraction of discretion	13
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	13
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	13
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach	12
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	12
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?	12
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion	12
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	12
Platform sub-imperialism	12
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	12
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	12
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance	12
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	12
Governing teachers through datafication: Physical–virtual hybridity and language interoperability in teacher accountability	11
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	11
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data	11
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana	11
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	11
Repair and redress: A research program for algorithmic futures	11
Erratum to Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science	11
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations	11