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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action	112
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	35
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	35
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	35
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	32
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	27
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	20
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	20
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	18
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	17
Cartographic infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa	17
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	17
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	16
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	15
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	14
Predictions, uncertainty, and collective epistemic work: How projected futures informed and misinformed enactments of Covid-19	14
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	14
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	13
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	13
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	13
A new Editor-in-Chief	12
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	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
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism	11

Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	11
Cryptography as information control	10
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	10
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	10
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	10
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	10
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	9
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	9
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	9
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)	9
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	9
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	9
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	8
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	8
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	8
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury	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	8
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	7
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	7
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	7
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	7
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	7
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	6
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry	6
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice	6
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	6
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism	6
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	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
‘A woman and now a man’: The legitimation of sex-assignment surgery in the United States (1849–1886)	5
Cleaning a dark matter detector: A case of ontological and normative elusiveness	5
‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling	5
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation	5
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology	5
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	5
Making a show of it: Reading demonstrations of empty government innovation through the metaphor of façade	5
Reflections on translating Bruno Latour	5
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities	5
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022)	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
Adequate trials: How the search for a cure shaped leukemia diagnosis	4
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC	4
Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization	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
Sensory labor as un/knowing in a waste composition study: Identifying a chain of translation	4
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics	4
‘Consent’ as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order	3

Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production	3
Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science	3
Making data markets: Assetization, valuation, and proxy work in a digital health start-up	3
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions	3
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology	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
The trickle-down of political and economic control: On the organizational suppression of environmental scientists in government science	3
The routinization of lay expertise: A diachronic account of the invention and stabilization of an open-source artificial pancreas	3
Computational universalism, or, Attending to relationalities at scale	3
The birth of thermopolitics: Wet-bulb temperatures, industrial microclimates, and class struggle in the early 20th century	3
The return of nature? Negotiating the ‘renaturation’ of the Isar as an envirotechnical landscape	3
How scientists become experts—or don’t: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory	3
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization	3
Exclusionary data, inclusionary appeals: Gender and equity in an HIV-prevention clinical trial	3