OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science Technology & Human Values is 5. 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
Multi-Faceted Platform Politics in the Design of the Korean Digital Environmental Impact Assessment System	22
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
The Politics of Postgenomic Reproduction: Exploring Pregnant Narratives from within a Clinical Trial	19
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
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
Maternal–Fetal Microchimerism and Genetic Origins: Some Socio-legal Implications	15
Rationality in Context: Regulatory Science and the Best Scientific Method	15
Self-care Against the Grain: Normative Negotiations in Contraceptive Self-Tracking	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
Governing Occupational Exposure Using Thresholds: A Policy Biased Toward Industry	12
Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy	12
Seeing Like a State, Enacting Like an Algorithm: (Re)assembling Contact Tracing and Risk Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Introduction: Science, Technology, & Human Values at Fifty	11
Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies	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
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 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
Judging Importance before Checking Correctness: Quick Opinions in Mathematical Peer Review	7
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
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
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
Small Chemicals of Trauma: Epigenetics as Colonial Unknowing	5
An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence of Latour	5
Reading Boxes, Exhibiting Practices	5
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