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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The politics of scaling	56
Incompleteness of urban infrastructures in transition: Scenarios from the mobile age in Nairobi	39
Imagining sustainable energy and mobility transitions: Valence, temporality, and radicalism in 38 visions of a low-carbon future	38
The model crisis, or how to have critical promiscuity in the time of Covid-19	29
Changing climate change: The carbon budget and the modifying-work of the IPCC	29
Sociotechnical imaginaries: An accidental themed issue	29
The attachments of ‘autonomous’ vehicles	26
Atmospheres of science: Experiencing scientific mobility	23
Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border	21
SAGE advice and political decision-making: ‘Following the science’ in times of epistemic uncertainty	19
Science, technology, security: Towards critical collaboration	18
Ethics in retrospect: Biomedical research, colonial violence, and Iñupiat sovereignty in the Alaskan Arctic	18
E-Infrastructures and the divergent assetization of public health data: Expectations, uncertainties, and asymmetries	16
Self-correction in science: The diagnostic and integrative motives for replication	16
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing	15
Impact, theory of change, and the horizons of scientific practice	14
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation	13
Deregulatory science: Chemical risk analysis in Trump’s EPA	13
Ignorance loops: How non-knowledge about bee-toxic agrochemicals is iteratively produced	13
When citizen science is public relations	12
The financial market of ideas: A theory of academic social media	12
Strategies of stratification: Regulating market access in the era of personalized medicine	11
Negotiating attachments to plastic	11
Apartheid drone: Infrastructures of militarism and the hidden genealogies of the South African Seeker	10
Imaginaries of omniscience: Automating intelligence in the US Department of Defense	10

London’s fatbergs and affective infrastructuring	10
Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation: Views of forensic geneticists in Europe	10
The bad expert	10
Making science international: Chilean journals and communities in the world of science	9
Latina/o/e technoscience: Labor, race, and gender in cybernetics and computing	9
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets	9
Imperfect diagnosis: The truncated legacies of Zika testing	9
Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics I: Troubles with the Subject	8
The imagined scientist of science governance	8
Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age	8
Between stability and change: Tensions in the Norwegian electric mobility transition	8
Assembling airspace: The Single European Sky and contested transnationalities of European air traffic management	8
Co-production, multiplied: Enactments of sex as a biological variable in US biomedicine	8
Drum breach: Operational temporalities, error politics and WIPP’s kitty litter nuclear waste accident	7
Making and managing medical anomalies: Exploring the classification of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’	7
Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary	7
Making particularity travel: Trust and citizen science data in Swedish environmental governance	7
The ‘enigma’ of Richard Schultes, Amazonian hallucinogenic plants, and the limits of ethnobotany	7
In smell’s shadow: Materials and politics at the edge of perception	6
The history of seed banking and the hazards of backup	6
Taking responsibility, making irresponsibility: Controversies in human gene editing	6
The face as folded object: Race and the problems with ‘progress’ in forensic DNA phenotyping	6
Understanding science-in-the-making by letting scientific instruments speak: From semiotics to postphenomenology	6
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	6
Cycles of invisibility: The limits of transparency in dealing with scientific misconduct	6
Energy efficiency: The evolution of a motherhood concept	6