OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science As Culture is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The humanist challenge to China’s dominant policies for popularizing science and technology (PST)	49
‘Shade trees for the next generation’: constructing the promissory publics of prospective cohort studies	42
Toxicity as process: tracing a new epigenetic regime of im/perceptibility in environmental toxicology	37
Provisional by design. Frontex data infrastructures and the Europeanization of migration and border control	33
Ignorance and the paradoxes of evidence-based global health: the case of mortality statistics in India’s million death study	14
Communicating science through films: the case of the International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film (1956–1975)	14
Correction	13
Re-imagining The Space Age: Early Satellite Development from Earthly Fieldwork Practice	12
The ‘obligatory passage point’ in knowledge co-production: Italy’s participatory environmental monitoring platform	10
Staging interactivity: platform logics at the participatory museum	10
Big Tech Meets Big Ag: Diversifying Epistemologies of Data and Power	9
Swedish nuclear waste management as an inert controversy: using critical constructivism to understand cold technological conflict	9
Metaphors of foreign strangers: antimicrobial resistance in biomedical discourses	9
The co-production of biotechnology and democratization in community science labs	9
A hermeneutic dialogical understanding of data reuse across different access regimes	8
Redefining expertise: how proponents and opponents of alternative therapies evaluate expertise	7
Environmental governance through metrics: guest introduction	7
Making explicit an Ecosystem Services indicator as a policy instrument	7
The official record of victims as a bordering technology: knowledge and (in)visibilities in post-conflict Colombia	7
Research repertoires and boundary work in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI)	6
‘Perfect scientists and immoral non-scientists’: a boundary work analysis of Chinese scientists’ writing	6
Stereotypes, gender, and humor in representations of coders in Silicon Valley. Review of TV series Silicon Valley (HBO 2014–2019)	6
New techno-natures: the future of human reproduction in sci-art	6
Democratising Monograph Publishing or Preying on Researchers? Scholarly Recognition and Global ‘Credibility Economies’	6
Amazon’s Ring: Surveillance as a Slippery Slope Service	6

The Promissory Visions of DIYbio: Reimaging Science from the Fringe	5
Science theater on stage: Review of the play The Right Way, written by Torbjörn Lindberg, produced by Teater Sagohuset (www.sagohuset.nu), 2019-2020.	5
Swept up in the swirls of toxic uncertainties	5
Between animated cells and animated cels: symbiotic turn and animation in multispecies life	5
Germ Growers in the Colonial Laboratory	5
Sharing epistemic power: digitally mediated wolf monitoring in Finland	4
Toxic Ignorance. How Regulatory Procedures and Industrial Knowledge Jeopardise the Risk Assessment of Chemicals	4
Platformization in the built environment: the political techno-economy of Building Information Modeling	4
Patient engagement in drug development: dialogically problematizing participation	3
Correction	3
Expectations of Genomic Selection for Forestry: Expert Narratives of Anticipation and Legitimation	3
The Italian debate on the digital COVID certificate: co-producing epistemic and normative rationalities	3
Becoming amphibious: scientists’ identities and affective relations in the swamp of computational biology	3
Contested promises. Migrants’ material politics vis-à-vis the humanitarian border in Niger	3
Curating the Widerstandsaviso: three cases of ethnographic intravention in R&D consortia	3
Negotiating Belgian identity in Wisconsin through ancestry genomics	3
Big Tech’s ‘Voracious Appetite,’ or Entrepreneurs Who Dream of Acquisition? Regulation and the Interpenetration of Corporate Scales	3
From evil demiurge to caring hero: images of geneticists in the movies	3
Mistrust of the black box: the public auditing of private models in the chemicals regulatory space	2
Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts	2
Citizens as consumers: styles of reasoning about agricultural biotechnologies and publics	2
How data governance principles influence participation in biodiversity science	2
Between the lab and the wild: establishing the potential of gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control	2
‘Scaling the heights – and the depths: zooming out and in on sociality and science’ Scale theory: a nondisciplinary inquiry , by Joshua DiCaglio, Minneapolis, University	2
Introduction: participatory knowledge co-production	2
The Heredity Matrix: Genetics and the Understanding ofMestizaje, Health, and Belonging in Mexico	2
Security knowledges: circulation, control, and responsible research and innovation in EU border management	2
Ch’ixi animals in two environmental conflicts: evocations of Humboldt penguins and Huemuls	2
Re-righting Water’s Future with the Master’s Tools?	2
The (Possible) Future of Cyborg Healthcare: Depictions of Disability in Cyberpunk 2077	2
Making kin and unmaking the individual in the Capitalocene	1
An anticipatory regime of multiplanetary life: on SpaceX, Martian colonisation and terrestrial ruin	1
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech	1
Secrecies as Organized Ignorance: The Illusion of Knowledge in French Pesticide Regulation	1
It Takes Two to Techno-Tango: An Analysis of a Close Embrace Between Google/Apple and the EU in Fighting the Pandemic Through Contact Tracing Apps	1
Developing an intervention tool for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in laboratory settings	1
Procedural Care: Licensing Practices in Animal Research	1
Reading meat phors in DNA (and RNA): a bio-rhetorical view of genetic text metaphors	1
On the Entanglement of Science and Europe at CERN: The Temporal Dynamics of a Coproductive Relationship	1
Gendering data care: curators, care, and computers in data-centric biology	1
Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems	1
Clouded relationality	1
Mobilized publics in local environmental conflicts: comparing types of expertise and outcomes	1
From data revolution to data narratives	1
The Board Game Pandemic: Cooperative Sociotechnical Imaginaries Obscuring Power Relations	1
Practices of radical digital care: towards autonomous queer migration	1
The Role of US Policymaking in the Emergence of a Digital Health Assemblage	1