Social Studies of Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Studies of Science is 7. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action110
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research35
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites35
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity32
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report30
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration26
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science18
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal17
Postcolonial technoscience revisited17
Cartographic infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa16
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy16
Caring for robots: How care comes to matter in human-machine interfacing16
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems15
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI14
Predictions, uncertainty, and collective epistemic work: How projected futures informed and misinformed enactments of Covid-1914
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research14
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies13
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge13
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry12
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-198812
The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism11
A new Editor-in-Chief11
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil11
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine11
The commercial roots of the genomic commons11
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis10
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research10
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks9
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-29
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides9
When craft kicks back: Embryo culture as knowledge production in the context of the transnational fertility industry9
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies9
Cryptography as information control9
Trevor Pinch (1 January 1952–16 December 2021)9
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico8
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science8
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime8
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector8
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public8
Consider the woodpecker: The contested more-than-human ethics of biomimetic technology and traumatic brain injury8
Systemic failures and organizational risk management in algorithmic trading: Normal accidents and high reliability in financial markets8
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex7
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom7
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom7
Reflexive expectations in innovation financing: An analysis of venture capital as a mode of valuation7
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America7
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity7
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