OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Studies of Science is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	102
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	32
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	26
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	25
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	24
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	21
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	16
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	16
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	15
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	14
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	14
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	14
Negotiating attachments to plastic	13
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	13
A new Editor-in-Chief	12
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	12
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	12
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	11
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	11
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism	11
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	11
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	11
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	10

Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	10
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	10
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	9
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	9
Cryptography as information control	9
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	8
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)	8
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	8
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry	8
The face as folded object: Race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping	7
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	7
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury	7
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	7
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	7
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	7
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	7
Internationalized science and human rights activism during the late Cold War: The French Committee of Mathematicians	6
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	6
Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science	6
Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation	6
The maintenance of ambiguity in Martian exobiology	6
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	6
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
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	6
Low-carbon cows: From microbial metabolism to the symbiotic planet	6
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	6
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	6
Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves	6
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	6