OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Big Data & Society is 26. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward cultural interpretability: A linguistic anthropological framework for describing and evaluating large language models	155
“Make our communities better through data”: The moral economy of smart city labor	122
Critical companionship: Some sensibilities for studying the lived experience of data subjects	90
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	84
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	83
Erratum to The digital life of the #migrantcaravan: Contextualizing Twitter as a spatial technology	77
Towards a United Nations Internal Regulation for Artificial Intelligence	62
Cooling down AI regulation controversies: Three closure processes in the Chilean legislative arena	53
Artificial intelligence as planetary assemblages of coloniality: The new power architecture driving a tiered global data economy	48
Modeling COVID-19 with big mobility data: Surveillance and reaffirming the people in the data	47
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	47
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	47
Low on trust, high on use: Datafied media, trust and everyday life	44
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	41
Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs	40
Enacting data context: Fixing meaning in transparency data initiatives	38
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	36
The corporate cultivation of digital resignation in policymaking: How weak US regulations enable data trafficking to China	36
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	35
Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools	35
Learning accountable governance: Challenges and perspectives for data-intensive health research networks	34
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms	29
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	28
‘Real-time’ air quality channels: A technology review of emerging environmental alert systems	28
Broken loops, open futures: The building and breaking of behavioural insurance	27

Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	27
Cities, COVID-19, and counting	26
Digital/computational phenotyping: What are the differences in the science and the ethics?	26