OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Big Data & Society is 31. 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
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	190
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	185
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	114
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	106
From authority to similarity: How Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision	102
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	97
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	72
Exploring relational farming futures for responsible innovation in precision agriculture through Q-method and speculative design	70
From rule of law to rule of algorithm: Generative Artificial Intelligence's threat to democracy	70
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	65
Embedding ethics in infrastructures for data-intensive health research	53
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	52
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	47
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	46
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	44
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	43
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	43
The technopolitics of database interoperability	42
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	41
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	39
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	38
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	37
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	37
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	36
Perpetuating misogyny with generative AI: How model personalization normalizes gendered harm	35

Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	35
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	35
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	34
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	34
Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment	33
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	31
Producing shifting personhood: How designers anthropomorphize artificial intelligence	31
Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good	31