OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dramaturgy of Science and Expertise at the World Anti-Doping Agency: Civic Epistemologies for Anti-Doping?	51
The fall and rise of Iruda: Reassembling AI through ethics-in-action	34
Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity	32
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report	31
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites	30
The architecture of the hybrid lab: Spacing graphene research	26
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration	23
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal	23
Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science	22
Postcolonial technoscience revisited	22
Cartographic Infrastructures: Geographical Pathology, Tumour Safaris, and Colonial Networks in British East Africa	21
Predictions, Uncertainty, and Collective Epistemic Work: How Projected Futures Informed and Misinformed Enactments of Covid-19	19
The Shifting ‘Self’ of Science’s Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature	19
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies	17
The (un)making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy	17
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI	17
Luck and the ‘situations’ of research	15
Anticipation and modal power: Opening up and closing down the momentum of sociotechnical systems	15
Branding the Earth: Selling Earth system science in the United States, 1983-1988	14
Production of Limited Commensurability in Crises: Expert Knowledge on Nuclear Accidents After Fukushima	14
Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge	14
Population curation: The construction of mutual obligation between individual and state in Danish precision medicine	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
The commercial roots of the genomic commons	12

Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry	12
‘Nano Scale [is] Magic Scale’: On EPR, Unicorns, and Enchantment in Nanomedicine	12
Reconsidering the ‘post-truth critique’: Scientific controversies and pandemic responses in Brazil	12
The Open Pharma Movement: Social Action to ‘Open’ Drug Research and Its Implications for Health	11
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides	11
Attending to ‘Computational Universalism’: Practices, Frictions, Events	11
A precision immuno-oncology turn? Hybridizing cancer genomics and immunotherapy through neoantigens-based adoptive cell therapies	10
Satellite Internet and the Disruption of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Cameroon	10
The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction	10
‘Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of SARS-CoV-2	9
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public	9
The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks	9
Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime	9
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico	8
The sense of meaninglessness in bureaucratized science	7
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector	7
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom	7
Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America	7
Nuclear Decommissioning and the Political Economy of Waste: Exploring Nuclear Attachments in Italy	7