OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Big Data & Society is 29. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	151
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	142
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	119
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	102
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	97
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	87
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	76
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	75
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	62
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	60
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	56
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	49
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	49
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	47
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	39
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	37
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	35
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	34
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	34
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	33
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	32
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	32
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	32
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	32
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	32

Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	31
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	31
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	30
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	30
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	29
Producing shifting personhood: How designers anthropomorphize artificial intelligence	29
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	29