OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science Technology & Human Values is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy	34
Citizen Observations as Legal Obligations: (Dis)Associations and Representation at the Swedish Land and Environment Court of Appeal	27
Multi-Faceted Platform Politics in the Design of the Korean Digital Environmental Impact Assessment System	26
Interstitial Politics: Thinking in Catastrophic Times	18
Reading Boxes, Exhibiting Practices	18
Cryovalues beyond High Expectations: Endurance and the Construction of Value in Cord Blood Banking	18
Congestion Conversations: Efficiency and Politics in an Eastern Mediterranean Port City	18
Human and Person When Life Is Fragile: New Relationships and Inherent Ambivalences in the Care of Dying Patients	14
Thank you to our reviewers for 2021 and 2022	14
Robot Drama: Investigating Frictions between Vision and Demonstration in Care Robotics	13
Constructing the “Cocreative Citizen”: Innovation Subjects, Statehood and the Common Good in Hybrid Public–Private Settings	11
Becoming a (Neuro)Migrant: Attachment, Early Stimulation, and the Government of the Future of Chile	11
Vanguard Visions of Vertical Farming: Envisaging and Contesting an Emerging Food Production System	11
QR Network Production: Labor Reskilling and Mass Customization in China's Shoe Supply Chain	11
Small Chemicals of Trauma: Epigenetics as Colonial Unknowing	11
Consolidating the Strata: Geoscience and Underground Territory in South Korean Radioactive Waste Disposal	11
Beyond the Egg and the Sperm?: How Science Has Revised a Romance through Reproductomics	10
Politicizing Expertise for Dutch Broad Wellbeing: Knowledge Accountability for Transformative Change	10
Formal and Informal Infrastructures of Collaboration in the Human Brain Project	9
More Instrument than Data	9
Machine's Eye View: Postmodern Data Science and the Politics of Ground Truth	9
The Performativity of AI-powered Event Detection: How AI Creates a Racialized Protest and Why Looking for Bias Is Not a Solution	9
Making the Global Local: The Case of Chinese Research and Innovation Evaluation Systems	9
Hydroelectric Chimeras and “Our” Mayan Rivers: De-inscribing Security in Guatemala	8
Performance, Spectacle, Affect: The Polygraph’s Sexual Politics	8

Sensor-algorithmic Virtuality: Machinic World-making on Mars	8
African Experiments in Health and Healing: Science from the Home and Homestead	8
Public Perceptions of Risks and Benefits of Gene-edited Food Crops: An International Comparative Study between the US, Japan, and Germany	8
Afterword: Reflections on the (In)Visibility of Labor in Translational Medicine	8
Making Citra: Branding, Breeding, and the Co-production of New Aroma Hops in the Yakima Valley	8
Science Estranged: Power and Inequity in Laboratory Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy	8
Scaling-up Ancestral Knowledges: Indigenous Climate Initiatives’ Boundary Work in Amazonia	7
Eliciting Values for Technology Design with Moral Philosophy: An Empirical Exploration of Effects and Shortcomings	7
Noise Underground: Transduction and Infrastructural Interference in German Deep-Shaft Coal Mines	7
Toward an Upgrade of Gaia-politics: A View from the East Asian Critical Zone	7
Change at Last? Dimensions of Disruption in the Swedish Electricity Market	7
Coding Beauty and Decoding Ugliness: The Role of Aesthetic Concerns in Programming Practices	7
Geological (Dis)orientations: Training Sites, Storytelling, and Fieldwork in the Chilean Andes	6
Regulation and Altruism as Valuation Mechanisms: A Political Economy of Ova Markets in Ukraine and Spain	6
Forgone, Not Forgotten: “DNA Fingerprinting,” Migration Control and Britain’s DNA Profiling Pilot Project	6
The Hidden Labor of Translation: Introduction to Special Issue	6
Testing and Errors: Aligning Cybersecurity Expertise in Contemporary UK Energy Infrastructures	6
Of Bridges, Translations, and Practical Necessities	6
Intersectionality and Science and Technology Studies	6
Judging Importance before Checking Correctness: Quick Opinions in Mathematical Peer Review	5
Citizen Science in News Media: Boundary Mediation of Public Participation in Health Expertise	5
The Efficacy Paradox Revisited: “Closing Up” Commitments in Nuclear Waste Governance	5
Spectacular Technology, Invisible Harms: Witnessing Techno-science on Waste Tours in China	4
Legal Repair: Domesticating European Legislation on Pig Welfare	4
What Is an STS Contribution Now?	4
Becoming Scientific-Environmental Citizens Through Citizen Science in China	4
Contained Redistribution: The Technopolitics of Plastic Burning	4
Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas	4
Ethics and Practice in Communities of Care	4
Infrastructuring Care: Co-Designing Computational Notebooks for Environmental Data Justice	4
Friction and Promise in Data Labor	4
Buttery Smooth: Privacy’s Bundling with Attention in Web Browser Performance	4
Unruly Aquifers: Groundwater, Karst Landscapes, and a Post-Yugoslav Border Site	4
Judders, Jabs, and Slips: Automation, Anomalies, Movements	4
Self-updating Prophecies: An Inquiry into Imagining and Building Decentralized Sensor Networks	3
Making Light Work: Infrastructures and Their Many Publics	3
“Go to Another State”: Rust Belts, Microchip Futures, and Innovation's Others in Upstate New York	3
Constitutional Infrastructures: The Politics of Urban Sovereignty in the “Race to 5G”	3
Affective Labor in Integrative STS Research	3
Reflections on an Inclusive Boundary Worker	3
Agencements and Qualculations: Fukushima, Knowledge-Making, and Radiation Contamination	3
Translating Law and Code in Government: Algorithmic Decisions and Their Legal Effects in Canada	3
The Obligation to Know and the Right to Know: A Relational Approach to Environmental Justice Communication and Datafication	3
Tempting Luck: Temporalities and Risk Anticipation among Egg Donors in Spain	3
CORRIGENDUM to the Special Issue Titled “Reproduction in the Postgenomic Age”, Volume 47, Issue 6	3
Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data	3
Scaling Up or Deep Scaling? Problematizing the Scalability Imperative in Technological Innovation	3
Approximations: On Some Ways to Listen to a Building “in the Making”	3
Semantic Web Practices: Infrastructural Politics and the Future of the Web	3

The Active Form of Security: Technology and the Material-aesthetic Script	2
The Racial Spectacular: Pandemic Governance Through Dashboards and State Biosecurity	2
Sheldon Krimsky: An Appreciation of an STS Scholar Par Excellence (June 26, 1941 to April 23, 2022)	2
An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence of Latour	2
Mythologies of Wealth in Platform Economies: The Case of the Ride-Hailing Platform Didi in China	2
Autonomy Where the Underground and Aboveground Meet: Processing Plants in Colombian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining	2
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in the Interdisciplinary Collaborations of Smart Care	2
Life as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic Biology	2
From Neighborhoods to Molecules: The Selective Appropriation of Sociology in Social Epigenetics	2
Furthering Ontological Pluralism, Maybe: The Strange Case of the Microbial Recordings	2
The Shadow Bodies of Mice: Invisible Work in Translational Medicine	2
The Reproduction of Shame: Pregnancy, Nutrition and Body Weight in the Translation of Developmental Origins of Adult Disease	2
From Obsolescence to Abandonment: Exploring the Precarious Use of Cochlear Implants in India	2
Who Predicts? Scientific Authority and User Expertise in Dutch Storm Warnings 1860-1920	2
The Journal Attention Cycle: Indicators as Assets in the Chinese Scientific Publishing Economy	2
Out of Sync: The Making and Remaking of Data and Regulations on Greenhouse Gases at the International Maritime Organization	2
Synthetic Participation: How Zoom Shaped the Experience of Participation in the Danish Climate Assembly	2
“Kids are Kids”: Benevolent Ignorance and the Omission of Race in Developmental Justice Reform	2
Standardizing Excellence: Metric Assemblages in Mathematics Research in Chile	2
Laboratory Practices, Potentiality, and Material Patienthood in Genomic Cancer Medicine	2
The Pharmaceutical Industry and Its Subalterns: Venom Procurement, Ethnic Identities and Labor Exploitation in Indian Capitalism	2
Going with the Flow: Moving Cells and Changing Values in Biomedical Practice	2
Governing Agricultural Biotechnologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany: A Trans-decadal Study of Regulatory Cultures	2
The Virus That Therefore I Am	2
The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics: Modes of Strain Cryopreservation Since the 1970s	2
Making the Right Tools for the Job With Adele Clarke	2
Urban Imaginaries as Tacit Governing Devices: The Case of Smart City Vienna	2
Current Canons and Canonical Currents	2
Making Futures by Freezing Life: Ambivalent Temporalities of Cryopreservation Practices	2
Habilitation beyond the Bionic Metaphor: Producing Deafnesses of the Future	1
The Hunter Hypothesis: Scientific Speculation and Ancestral Imaginaries of Adult ADHD in Chile	1
The (Anti)Microbial Gaze: Surveillance Meets Resistance	1
Epigenomic Stories: Evidence of Harm and the Social Justice Promises and Perils of Environmental Epigenetics	1
More-than-Human Mediation: Social Scientists in the Making of Environmental AI Systems	1
Observer 8: Outliers, Attention, and Situated Knowledge in a Qualitative Behavioral Assessment of Laboratory Mouse Welfare	1
Underground and Underwater Mining: State Extractivism and the Socio-ecological Transformations of Socialist Bulgaria	1
The Gamete Donor Register, Kinship, and Belonging: State-Organized Openness in the Nordic Context of Transnational Egg Donation	1
Does “Precision” Matter? A Q Study of Public Interpretations of Gene Editing in Agriculture	1
Latour and After, or What Comes After Latour?	1
Transitions, Expansions, Engagements: Science, Technology, & Human Values between 2002 and 2007	1
Exploring Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity as Knowledge Regimes: A Heuristic Tool for Disentangling Understandings in Academia and Policy	1
Governance of Gene-edited Plants: Insights from the History of Biotechnology Oversight and Policy Process Theory	1
The Techno-Optics of Safety: Surveillance and Women's Ambivalent Experiences in South Korea's “Smart Safe City”	1
Theaters of Algorithmic Transparency and the Politics of Exemplarity	1
Citizen-Person: The “Me” in the “We” in Danish Precision Medicine	1
“Quality is an Illusion”: Effects of Market Power on Expert and Farm Infrastructures	1
Dissolving Boundaries, Fostering Dependencies. the new Forensic Genetics Assemblage	1
Cascades of Un/Becoming: How Blackouts Impact Transitional Electropolitics	1
Expendable Workers: Food Delivery and Technopolitics in China	1
Between Code and Culture: The Evolving Role of Conversation Designers and UX in AI Development	1
The Birth of Green Chemistry: A Political History	1
Drawing Data Together: Inscriptions, Asylum, and Scripts of Security	1
China Time Machines: The Temporal–Spatial Dynamics of China's Global Digital Platforms and Technocapitalist Expansions	1
Rethinking Extractivism in a Changing Climate: Complementary Gold and Coffee Livelihoods in the Steep, Tropical Andes	1
Fresh or Thawed T Cells?: How Modes of Bioavailability Matter in the Study of Translational Medicine	1
Treasure Hunting in Tanzania as a Chronopolitical Practice	1
A Contested Script: Conjuring Security through Registration in Italy	1
Underground Roots for Ancestral Futures: Exploring Lithium Through an Experimental Alliance between Chemistry and Anthropology	1
“This Is Not What I Signed up for”: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Expectations, and Disillusionment in a Dutch Military Innovation Hub	1
How to Turn Politics Around: Things, the Earth, Ecology	1
Two or Three Confusions About Vibrations	1
Between Decay and Maintenance: Tuberculosis Sanatoriums, Care Infrastructures and U.S. Health Policy Debates, 1945–1972	1
Infrastructuring Readability: Framing and Overflowing in Writing Assistant Software for Biomedical Research Informed Consent Forms	1
A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics	1
Blocks and Overflows of Care: Territorialization and Marine Conservation in the Balearic Sea	1
Digitized Patients: Elaborative Tinkering and Knowledge Practices in the Open-source Type 1 Diabetes “Looper Community”	1
From Attention to Attunement: Data-Driven Efficiency and Embodied Care in the Intensive Care Unit	1
The Economization of Early Life: Human Capital Theory, Biology, and Social Policy	1
The Time Politics of Agroforestry Science	1
Persuasive Technology and Personhood on Social Media	1
Caring for Organoids: Patient Personhood and the Ethics of Avoidance in Translational Cancer Research	1
Temporary Infrastructure: Temporal Boundary Work, Form Investments, and Delayed Endings	1
Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies	1
Political Prescriptions: Three Pandemic Stories	1
Exploring the Dynamics of Technological Decline through the History of a Soviet Computer “Ural” (1955-1990)	1