OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science Technology & Human Values is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Citizen Observations as Legal Obligations: (Dis)Associations and Representation at the Swedish Land and Environment Court of Appeal	187
Is Genericness Still Adequately Defined? Internet Search Firms and the Economic Rationale for Trademarks	23
Science or Ignorance of Animal Welfare? A Case Study: Scientific Reports Published in Preparation for the First European Directive on Animal Welfare (1979-1980)	22
Multi-Faceted Platform Politics in the Design of the Korean Digital Environmental Impact Assessment System	22
Diversifying the Deliberative Turn: Toward an Agonistic RRI	19
The Efficacy Paradox Revisited: “Closing Up” Commitments in Nuclear Waste Governance	19
Creating Regulatory Harmony: The Participatory Politics of OECD Chemical Testing Standards in the Making	19
The Politics of Postgenomic Reproduction: Exploring Pregnant Narratives from within a Clinical Trial	19
Six Days in Plastic: Potentiality, Normalization, and In Vitro Embryos in the Postgenomic Age	18
From Poacher to Protector of Attention: The Therapeutic Turn of Persuasive Technology and Ethics of a Smartphone Habit-breaking Application	17
Rationality in Context: Regulatory Science and the Best Scientific Method	15
Self-care Against the Grain: Normative Negotiations in Contraceptive Self-Tracking	15
Maternal–Fetal Microchimerism and Genetic Origins: Some Socio-legal Implications	15
Saved by the Moon: Imaginaries of Earthly Afterlife in Space	14
One Pipeline and Two Impact Assessments: Coproduction, Legal Pluralism, and the Trans Mountain Expansion Project	14
Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy	12
Governing Occupational Exposure Using Thresholds: A Policy Biased Toward Industry	12
Introduction: Science, Technology, & Human Values at Fifty	11
Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies	11
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm: (Re)assembling Contact Tracing and Risk Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Reproducibility and Instruction Following in the Shop Floor Laboratory Work: The Case of a TMS Experiment	10
Exploring Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity as Knowledge Regimes: A Heuristic Tool for Disentangling Understandings in Academia and Policy	10
A Contested Script: Conjuring Security through Registration in Italy	10
Cryovalues beyond High Expectations: Endurance and the Construction of Value in Cord Blood Banking	10
Making Kin with Adele: From Pathologizing in Vienna to Collaborating in Denver	10

The Algorithms of Mindfulness	10
Working with Olga Kuchinskaya and Katie Vann	9
Out of Sync: The Making and Remaking of Data and Regulations on Greenhouse Gases at the International Maritime Organization	9
Between the Lab and the Field: Plants and the Affective Atmospheres of Southern Science	9
The Techno-Optics of Safety: Surveillance and Women's Ambivalent Experiences in South Korea's “Smart Safe City”	8
The Media’s Taste for Gene-Edited Food: Comparing Media Portrayals within US and European Regulatory Environments	8
Urban Imaginaries as Tacit Governing Devices: The Case of Smart City Vienna	8
The Racializing Womb: Surrogacy and Epigenetic Kinship	8
Caring for Organoids: Patient Personhood and the Ethics of Avoidance in Translational Cancer Research	8
Intersectionality and Science and Technology Studies	8
Working at the Seams of Colonial Structures: Alternative Sociotechnical Infrastructures Revealed by Hurricane Maria	8
Permanent Temporality: Race, Time, and the Materiality of Romanian Identity Cards	8
Citizen Science in News Media: Boundary Mediation of Public Participation in Health Expertise	8
Introduction: Shifting Attention	8
The Ambivalence of Peer Review: Thank You ST&HV Reviewers 2019-2020	7
Artificial Intelligence from Colonial India: Race, Statistics, and Facial Recognition in the Global South	7
“Ready for What?”: Timing and Speculation in Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Development	7
Tracing Long-term Value Change in (Energy) Technologies: Opportunities of Probabilistic Topic Models Using Large Data Sets	7
Judging Importance before Checking Correctness: Quick Opinions in Mathematical Peer Review	7
Editorial Work and the Peer Review Economy of STS Journals	6
Seeking Public Values of Digital Energy Platforms	6
Creating Interpretative Spaces in and with Digital Infrastructures: How Editors Select Reviewers at a Biomedical Publisher	6
Consolidating the Strata: Geoscience and Underground Territory in South Korean Radioactive Waste Disposal	6
A Meeting Point for STS Interventions and Conversations	6
Thank you to our reviewers for 2021 and 2022	6
Disagreement and Agonistic Chance in Peer Review	6
Transfer or Translation? Rethinking Traveling Technologies from the Global South	6
Afterword: Shifting the Terms of the Debate	6
Participation, Empowerment, and Evidence in the Current Discourse on Personalized Medicine: A Critique of “Democratizing Healthcare”	6
Vanguard Visions of Vertical Farming: Envisaging and Contesting an Emerging Food Production System	5
The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics: Modes of Strain Cryopreservation Since the 1970s	5
Divisible Governance: Making Gas-fired Futures during Climate Collapse in Northern Australia	5
Legal Pluralism and Science and Technology Studies: Exploring Sources of the Legal Pluriverse	5
Clothing Inventions as Acts of Citizenship? The Politics of Material Participation, Wearable Technologies, and Women Patentees in Late Victorian Britain	5
Between Open Deliberation and the Capturing of Public Opinion: Producing Opinions in Public Engagement	5
“This Is Not What I Signed up for”: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Expectations, and Disillusionment in a Dutch Military Innovation Hub	5
Who Predicts? Scientific Authority and User Expertise in Dutch Storm Warnings 1860-1920	5
“A Patchwork of Data Systems”: Quilting as an Analytic Lens and Stabilizing Practice for Knowledge Infrastructures	5
Miscellaneous Care: Bridging the In-between of Translational Medicine	5
Becoming a (Neuro)Migrant: Attachment, Early Stimulation, and the Government of the Future of Chile	5
Small Chemicals of Trauma: Epigenetics as Colonial Unknowing	5
An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence of Latour	5
Reading Boxes, Exhibiting Practices	5
Extractions: Data Infrastructures and the Public Good	4
Judders, Jabs, and Slips: Automation, Anomalies, Movements	4
Situated Ethics in Development: STS Insights for a Pragmatic Approach to Development Policy and Practice	4
Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas	4
On Staging Work: How Research Funding Bodies Create Adaptive Coherence in Times of Projectification	4
Citizen-Person: The “Me” in the “We” in Danish Precision Medicine	4
The Cryopolitics of Human Milk: Thermal Assemblages of Breast Milk in Donation, Banking, and Bioindustrial Research	4

Training Future Comrades: Gender Pedagogy and Model Train Sets in the German Democratic Republic	4
Doing STS Now: Of Hackers and Angels in Technoscience	4
Robot Drama: Investigating Frictions between Vision and Demonstration in Care Robotics	4
Underground Roots for Ancestral Futures: Exploring Lithium Through an Experimental Alliance between Chemistry and Anthropology	4
Scholarly Publishing, Boundary Processes, and the Problem of Fake Peer Reviews	4
Digitized Patients: Elaborative Tinkering and Knowledge Practices in the Open-source Type 1 Diabetes “Looper Community”	4
Engaging Critically with Algorithms: Conceptual and Performative Interventions	4
Exploring the Dynamics of Technological Decline through the History of a Soviet Computer “Ural” (1955-1990)	4
Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects: Exploring the Views of UK COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants on Animal Testing	4
Becoming Scientific-Environmental Citizens Through Citizen Science in China	4
Beyond Neural Connections: Using Strathern to Explore Knowledge-making at the Intersections of the Social and Neurosciences	4
Human and Person When Life Is Fragile: New Relationships and Inherent Ambivalences in the Care of Dying Patients	4
Governing Agricultural Biotechnologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany: A Trans-decadal Study of Regulatory Cultures	3
The Coronavirus as a Revenge Effect: The Pandemic from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technique	3
Political Prescriptions: Three Pandemic Stories	3
The Reproductive Bodies of Postgenomics	3
Transformation: Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1977-1987	3
Power and Domination in Emerging Technologies	3
Contained Redistribution: The Technopolitics of Plastic Burning	3
Welcome to Whenever: Exploring Suspended Life in Cryopreservation Practices	3
Meditation Apps and the Promise of Attention by Design	3
Transitions: Science, Technology, & Human Values in 1986 and Onward	3
“Samples Are Precious”: Value Formations in the Potentiality and Practices of Biobanking in Singapore	3
From Obsolescence to Abandonment: Exploring the Precarious Use of Cochlear Implants in India	3
Spectacular Technology, Invisible Harms: Witnessing Techno-science on Waste Tours in China	3
Drawing Data Together: Inscriptions, Asylum, and Scripts of Security	3
Platform NHS: Reconfiguring a Public Service in the Age of Digital Capitalism	3
Music to My Ears: A Material-semiotic Analysis of Fetal Heart Sounds in Midwifery Prenatal Care	3
The Performativity of AI-powered Event Detection: How AI Creates a Racialized Protest and Why Looking for Bias Is Not a Solution	3
Curing Leprosy with DDS: Metamorphosis of Colonial Medicine into Global Health	3
The Politics of Amphibiousness: Shifting Coastal Management in the Netherlands	3
Legal Pluralism in Infrastructural Designs: Alternative Supply Chains in the Moroccan Argan Oil Export	3
An Interpretation of Value Change: A Philosophical Disquisition of Climate Change and Energy Transition Debate	2
The Virus That Therefore I Am	2
The (Anti)Microbial Gaze: Surveillance Meets Resistance	2
Formal and Informal Infrastructures of Collaboration in the Human Brain Project	2
Habilitation beyond the Bionic Metaphor: Producing Deafnesses of the Future	2
A Sustainable City Made By Resident-Experts - How Designerly Intervention Enacted Rights of the Public and Urban Infrastructure	2
Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition	2
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Science and Technology Studies (STS)	2
Privacy Worlds: Exploring Values and Design in the Development of the Tor Anonymity Network	2
Afterword: Reflections on the (In)Visibility of Labor in Translational Medicine	2
Science Estranged: Power and Inequity in Laboratory Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Fixing Subjects, Fixing Outcomes: Civic Epistemologies and Epistemic Agency in Participatory Governance of Climate Risk	2
Making Futures by Freezing Life: Ambivalent Temporalities of Cryopreservation Practices	2
Introduction: Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation	2
Eliminating Human Agency: Why Does Japan Abandon Predictive Simulations?	2
Age-discriminated IVF Access and Evidence-based Ageism: Is There a Better Way?	2
How to Turn Politics Around: Things, the Earth, Ecology	2
Going with the Flow: Moving Cells and Changing Values in Biomedical Practice	2
Sheldon Krimsky: A Peer without Peer	2
Standardizing Excellence: Metric Assemblages in Mathematics Research in Chile	2
Unscripted Practices for Uncertain Events: Organizational Problems in Cybersecurity Incident Management	2
The Shadow Bodies of Mice: Invisible Work in Translational Medicine	2
To Test or Not to Test: Tools, Rules, and Corporate Data in US Chemicals Regulation	2
Socializing Scientists into Interdisciplinarity by Placemaking in a Multi-sited Research Center	2
Beyond the Egg and the Sperm?: How Science Has Revised a Romance through Reproductomics	2
Theaters of Algorithmic Transparency and the Politics of Exemplarity	2
Observations and Confessions: Honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of Science, Technology, & Human Values Publications	2
Science Communication as a Boundary Space: An Interactive Installation about the Social Responsibility of Science	2
Publications about Women, Science, and Engineering: Use of Sex and Gender in Titles over a Forty-six-year Period	2
On Peer Review and Exchanges Unseen: Thank You to Our Reviewers 2023 and 2024	2