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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	96
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	33
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	31
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	30
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	25
A new Editor-in-Chief	19
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	19
Maintaining innovation: How to make sewer robots and innovation policy work in Barcelona	19
Domesticating data: Traveling and value-making in the data economy	14
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	14
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism	14
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	14
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	13
Domesticating models: On the contingency of Covid-19 modelling in UK media and policy	13
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	13
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	12
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	12
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	12
Curious about race: Generous methods and modes of knowing in practice	11
Making modafinil: Classification and serendipity in drug development	11
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	11
From distance(s) to civilization(s): (Extra)terrestrial intelligence(s) of (post-) Soviet Armenian astronomy	11
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	10
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	10
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	10

Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	9
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	9
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	9
Latina/o/e technoscience: Labor, race, and gender in cybernetics and computing	9
How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	8
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	8
Groundwork for AI: Enforcing a benchmark for neoantigen prediction in personalized cancer immunotherapy	8
Imperfect diagnosis: The truncated legacies of Zika testing	8
And say the AI responded? Dancing around ‘autonomy’ in AI/human encounters	8
Cultivated co-production: Sexual health, human rights, and the revision of the ICD	7
From the bench to public policy: Enhancing public trust in science	7
The co-production of normal science: A social history of high-temperature superconductivity research in China (1987–2008)	7
InterFaces: On the relationality of vision, face and race in practices of identification. A multimodal intervention	7
Interfacing AlphaGo: Embodied play, object agency, and algorithmic drama	7
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	6
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations	6
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	6
When funding fails: Planetary exploration at NASA in an era of austerity, 1967–1976	6
Managing exactness and vagueness in computer science work: Programming and self-repair in meetings	6
Rise and fall of the (social) group	6
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	6
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020	6
Grid-scale batteries and the politics of storage	6
Constructing digital assets through blockchain technologies? Unpacking the techno-economic configuration of non-fungible tokens	6
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	6
Biopolitics and speculative objects in Chilean health projects	6
Writing good economics: How texts ‘on the move’ perform the lab and discipline of experimental economics	5
The art of ignoring others’ work among academics: A guessing game model of scholarly information search	5
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Sedimentary legacy and the disturbing recurrence of the human in long-term ecological research	5
Landlords of the internet: Big data and big real estate	5
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	5
Taking responsibility, making irresponsibility: Controversies in human gene editing	5
Imagining a ‘Jewish atom bomb’, constructing a scientific diaspora	4
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	4
Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	4
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil	4
Eye for an AI: More-than-seeing, fauxtomation, and the enactment of uncertain data in digital pathology	4
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	4
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities	4
State planning, cancer vaccine infrastructure, and the origins of the oncogene theory	4
Cryptography as information control	3
Thinking differently with Chinese medicine: ‘Explanations’ and case studies for a postcolonial STS	3
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	3
Changing publication practices and the typification of the journal article in science and technology studies	3
What work does ‘contamination’ do? An agential realist account of oil wastewater and radium in groundwater	3
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	3
Airport security as translation through division and movement	3
Virtual diversity and the value-ladenness of science	3
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	3

Seven moments with Bruno Latour	3
Equivocal diagnostics: Making a ‘good’ point-of-care test for elimination in global health	3
SAGE advice and political decision-making: ‘Following the science’ in times of epistemic uncertainty	2
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	2
Who knows what a mask is … and what it does? A bibliometric and textometric study of more than a century of scientific publications on sanitary masks (1892-2023)	2
Speculative sewing: Researching, reconstructing, and re-imagining wearable technoscience	2
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	2
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	2
Biometric imaginaries: Formatting voice, body, identity to data	2
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	2
Environmental Malthusianism and demography	2
Enacting biosocial complexity: Stress, epigenetic biomarkers and the tools of postgenomics	2
Proverbial economies of STS	2
Infrastructure, ontology and meaning: The endogenous development of economic ideas	2
Marginalized measures: The harmonization of diversity in precision medicine research	2
Staging Paro: The care of making robot(s) care	2