OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Studies of Science is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action	39
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	37
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	34
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	23
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	22
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	21
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	20
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	18
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	18
Cartographic infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa	18
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	17
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	16
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	15
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	15
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	15
The Shifting ‘Self’ of Science’s Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature	15
Predictions, uncertainty, and collective epistemic work: How projected futures informed and misinformed enactments of Covid-19	14
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	14
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	13
A new Editor-in-Chief	13
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	13
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	13
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	12
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	12
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	12

The Open Pharma Movement: Social Action to ‘Open’ Drug Research and Its Implications for Health	11
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	11
Cryptography as information control	11
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	11
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	11
Satellite Internet and the Disruption of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Cameroon	10
The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction	10
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	10
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	10
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	9
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)	9
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	9
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	9
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	9
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	9
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	8
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	8
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	8
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	8
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	8
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	7
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	7
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	7
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	7
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	7
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	6
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	6
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	6
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	6
Cleaning a dark matter detector: A case of ontological and normative elusiveness	6
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	6
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	5
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	5
Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	5
Making a show of it: Reading demonstrations of empty government innovation through the metaphor of façade	5
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	5
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	5
Replication after Collins: An ethnography of current replication studies in psychology	5
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities	5
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	5
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	4
The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice	4
The return of nature? Negotiating the ‘renaturation’ of the Isar as an envirotechnical landscape	4
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent SAGE and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK	4
Sensory labor as un/knowing in a waste composition study: Identifying a chain of translation	4
The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima	4

The birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	4
The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas	4
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	4
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	4
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	3
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	3
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	3
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	3
Exclusionary data, inclusionary appeals: Gender and equity in an HIV-prevention clinical trial	3
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	3
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	3
Computational universalism, or, Attending to relationalities at scale	3
Techno-Fixes: On the Non-Disruptive Disruptions of Cultured Meat, Social Freezing and AI Assistants	3
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	3
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	3
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	3
Bettie’s travels: How pigs enable new connections between human health innovations and industrial agricultural pork production in Denmark	3
Making data markets: Assetization, valuation, and proxy work in a digital health start-up	3