OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Studies of Science is 8. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action	47
The Dramaturgy of Science and Expertise at the World Anti-Doping Agency: Civic Epistemologies for Anti-Doping?	44
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	28
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	28
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	27
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	27
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	23
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	21
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	20
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	20
Cartographic infrastructures: Geographical pathology, tumour safaris, and colonial networks in British East Africa	19
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	18
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	18
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	18
The Shifting ‘Self’ of Science’s Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature	16
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	16
Predictions, Uncertainty, and Collective Epistemic Work: How Projected Futures Informed and Misinformed Enactments of Covid-19	15
Production of Limited Commensurability in Crises: Expert Knowledge on Nuclear Accidents After Fukushima	14
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	14
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	14
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	14
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	14
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	13
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	13
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis	13

Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research	12
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	12
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	12
‘Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’: On EPR, Unicorns, and Enchantment in Nanomedicine	12
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	12
The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction	11
Satellite Internet and the Disruption of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Cameroon	11
The Open Pharma Movement: Social Action to ‘Open’ Drug Research and Its Implications for Health	11
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	11
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	10
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	10
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	10
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	10
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	10
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	10
Making citizens, procedures, and outcomes: Theorizing politics in a co-productionist idiom	9
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic	9
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	9
Nuclear Decommissioning and the Political Economy of Waste: Exploring Nuclear Attachments in Italy	8
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	8
The de-perimeterisation of information security: The Jericho Forum, zero trust, and narrativity	8
Gathering around a satellite image: Visual media cycles of the nuclear nonproliferation complex	8