Social studies of science (Soc Stud Sci)

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Top papers

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1 Stabilizing the boundary between US politics and science: the role of the Office of Technology Transfer as a boundary organization. 1999 3.62
2 An agenda for STS: Porter on trust and quantification in science, politics and society. [Review of: Porter TM. Trust in numbers: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life. Princeton University Press, 1995]. 1999 2.58
3 Code unknown: histories of the gene. [Reviews of: Keller, EF. The century of the gene. Harvard University Press, 2000 and Kay, LE. Who wrote the book of life? A history of the genetic code. Stanford University Press, 2000]. 2001 2.22
4 Medical science in the light of the Holocaust: Departing from a post-war paper by Ludwik Fleck. 2008 2.00
5 Understanding 'anticipatory governance'. 2014 1.89
6 Eugenics in Britain. 1976 1.88
7 Rhetorics of hope and fear in the great embryo debate. 1993 1.81
8 Neoliberal pharmaceutical science and the Chicago School of Economics. 2014 1.66
9 Different differences: the use of 'genetic ancestry' versus race in biomedical human genetic research. 2011 1.63
10 The rise of 'recruitmentology': clinical research, racial knowledge, and the politics of inclusion and difference. 2008 1.58
11 This view of science: Stephen Jay Gould as historian of science and scientific historian, popular scientist and scientific popularizer. 2002 1.53
12 The contract research organization and the commercialization of scientific research. 2005 1.53
13 The matilda effect in science: awards and prizes in the US, 1990s and 2000s. 2012 1.50
14 Certain uncertainties: modes of patient safety in healthcare. 2012 1.49
15 Experiences and voices of eugenics field-workers: 'women's work' in biology. 1997 1.40
16 Eyeballing expertise. 2014 1.39
17 The value of practice: A critique of interactional expertise. 2016 1.38
18 The drugs don't work: expectations and the shaping of pharmacogenetics. 2003 1.24
19 The American Breeders' Association: genetics and eugenics in an agricultural context, 1903-13. 1983 1.22
20 Ghosts in the machine: publication planning in the medical sciences. 2009 1.21
21 Sacrifice and the transformation of the animal body into a scientific object: laboratory culture and ritual practice in the neurosciences. 1988 1.21
22 Science friction: data, metadata, and collaboration. 2011 1.21
23 The 'Glasgow School' of Paton, Findlay and Cathcart: conservative thought in chemical physiology, nutrition and public health. 1989 1.20
24 Bio science: genetic genealogy testing and the pursuit of African ancestry. 2008 1.19
25 The standardization of race and ethnicity in biomedical science editorials and UK biobanks. 2008 1.14
26 Generating sociability to drive science: patient advocacy organizations and genetics research. 2011 1.14
27 The biologistical construction of race: 'admixture' technology and the new genetic medicine. 2008 1.14
28 Voxels in the brain: neuroscience, informatics and changing notions of objectivity. 2001 1.13
29 Ambivalence, equivocation and the politics of experimental knowledge: a transdisciplinary neuroscience encounter. 2014 1.12
30 How places matter: telecare technologies and the changing spatial dimensions of healthcare. 2012 1.10
31 Matters of care in technoscience: assembling neglected things. . 2011 1.10
32 The British success with penicillin. 1987 1.08
33 'The formula that killed Wall Street': the Gaussian copula and modelling practices in investment banking. 2014 1.08
34 The emergence of toxicogenomics: a case study of molecularization. 2005 1.07
35 The shipwreck of the singular. 2014 1.07
36 Shaping the intimate: influences on the experience of everyday nerves. 2004 1.06
37 Negotiating exclusion: MSM, identity, and blood policy in the age of AIDS. 2010 1.05
38 Scientific work and uncertainty. 1985 1.00
39 Architectures of genetic medicine: comparing genetic testing for breast cancer in the USA and the UK. 2005 0.99
40 Race, genetics, and disease: questions of evidence, matters of consequence. 2008 0.98
41 A black technician and blue babies. 2003 0.98
42 Medical and biological constraints: early research on variation in bacteriology. 1987 0.98
43 When humans are the exception: cross-species databases at the interface of biological and clinical research. 2012 0.97
44 Performing ontology. 2015 0.96
45 Ontological turns, turnoffs and roundabouts. 2015 0.96
46 Manufacturing desire: the commodification of female sexual dysfunction. 2004 0.96
47 The expulsion of the Neanderthals from human ancestry: Marcellin Boule and the social context of scientific research. 1982 0.96
48 Documenting the doable and doing the documented: bridging strategies at the UK Stem Cell Bank. 2011 0.96
49 The sciences of subjectivity. 2012 0.95
50 Stuck with/in a 'turn': Can we metaphorize better in Science and Technology Studies? 2015 0.95
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