OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Studies of Science 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	107
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	34
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	33
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	33
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	28
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	26
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	24
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	21
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	16
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	16
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	15
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	15
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	15
Negotiating attachments to plastic	14
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	14
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	14
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	14
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	13
A new Editor-in-Chief	12
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	12
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism	12
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	11
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	11
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	11
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	11

The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	11
Cryptography as information control	10
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	10
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	10
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	10
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	9
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)	9
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	9
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	9
The face as folded object: Race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping	8
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	8
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	8
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	8
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	8
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	8
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	8
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	8
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury	8
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	7
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	7
Internationalized science and human rights activism during the late Cold War: The French Committee of Mathematicians	7
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	7
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	7
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	7
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	6
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	6
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	6
Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation	6
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	6
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	6
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	6
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	6
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	6
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
‘A woman and now a man’: The legitimation of sex-assignment surgery in the United States (1849–1886)	5
Making a show of it: Reading demonstrations of empty government innovation through the metaphor of façade	5
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	5
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent SAGE and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK	5
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	5
Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization	5
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	5
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	4
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	4
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	4
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	4
The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas	3
When citizen science is public relations	3

Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	3
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	3
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	3
The birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	3
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	3
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	3
The return of nature? Negotiating the ‘renaturation’ of the Isar as an envirotechnical landscape	3
The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice	3
The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima	3
Bettie’s travels: How pigs enable new connections between human health innovations and industrial agricultural pork production in Denmark	3
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	3
Exclusionary data, inclusionary appeals: Gender and equity in an HIV-prevention clinical trial	2
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	2
Airport security as translation through division and movement	2
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	2
Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research	2
Writing good economics: How texts ‘on the move’ perform the lab and discipline of experimental economics	2
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	2
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	2
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	2
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	2
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies	2
Silence of the labs	2
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	2
How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	2
Numbers and emotions in the governance of the Covid-19 datademic	2
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	2
What work does ‘contamination’ do? An agential realist account of oil wastewater and radium in groundwater	2
Virtual diversity and the value-ladenness of science	2