OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Big Data & Society is 32. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	206
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	164
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	157
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	118
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	101
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	96
From authority to similarity: How Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision	85
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	82
From rule of law to rule of algorithm: Generative Artificial Intelligence's threat to democracy	69
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	63
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	61
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	56
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	48
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	43
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	42
The technopolitics of database interoperability	42
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	40
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	40
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	40
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	39
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	39
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	38
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	36
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	35
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	34

Data futurities: Negotiating statistical citizenship and ethnoracial visibility in Portugal's 2021 population census	34
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	34
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	33
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	33
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	33
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	32
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	32