| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39 | Social Studies of Science | 1989 | 7,386 |
| 2 | The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other | Social Studies of Science | 1984 | 1,720 |
| 3 | The Third Wave of Science Studies | Social Studies of Science | 2002 | 1,590 |
| 4 | The Impact of Research Collaboration on Scientific Productivity | Social Studies of Science | 2005 | 1,136 |
| 5 | Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things | Social Studies of Science | 2011 | 862 |
| 6 | The Zimbabwe Bush Pump | Social Studies of Science | 2000 | 843 |
| 7 | Regions, Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology | Social Studies of Science | 1994 | 832 |
| 8 | Contested Boundaries in Policy-Relevant Science | Social Studies of Science | 1987 | 628 |
| 9 | The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science | Social Studies of Science | 1993 | 602 |
| 10 | The Dominant View of Popularization: Conceptual Problems, Political Uses | Social Studies of Science | 1990 | 569 |
| 11 | The Politics of Talk | Social Studies of Science | 2006 | 566 |
| 12 | Some Results on the Function and Quality of Citations | Social Studies of Science | 1975 | 543 |
| 13 | Collaborative Research Across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries | Social Studies of Science | 2005 | 534 |
| 14 | The Issues Deserve More Credit | Social Studies of Science | 2007 | 534 |
| 15 | Seeing in Depth | Social Studies of Science | 1995 | 531 |
| 16 | Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology | Social Studies of Science | 1984 | 501 |
| 17 | Constructing `Do-able' Problems in Cancer Research: Articulating Alignment | Social Studies of Science | 1987 | 456 |
| 18 | Standardization in Action: Achieving Local Universality through Medical Protocols | Social Studies of Science | 1997 | 455 |
| 19 | Understanding ‘anticipatory governance’ | Social Studies of Science | 2014 | 426 |
| 20 | Stabilizing the Boundary between US Politics and Science: | Social Studies of Science | 1999 | 409 |
| 21 | Stages in the Empirical Programme of Relativism | Social Studies of Science | 1981 | 403 |
| 22 | Biodiversity Datadiversity | Social Studies of Science | 2000 | 398 |
| 23 | Publication Productivity among Scientists: A Critical Review | Social Studies of Science | 1983 | 382 |
| 24 | The wrong bin bag: A turn to ontology in science and technology studies? | Social Studies of Science | 2013 | 359 |
| 25 | `Nuts and Bolts and People' | Social Studies of Science | 2007 | 357 |
| 26 | Infrastructuring and the formation of publics in participatory design | Social Studies of Science | 2013 | 348 |
| 27 | The politics of care in technoscience | Social Studies of Science | 2015 | 346 |
| 28 | On Interests and their Transformation: Enrolment and Counter-Enrolment | Social Studies of Science | 1982 | 324 |
| 29 | Science friction: Data, metadata, and collaboration | Social Studies of Science | 2011 | 324 |
| 30 | Unsettling care: Troubling transnational itineraries of care in feminist health practices | Social Studies of Science | 2015 | 314 |
| 31 | The Social Construction of Technological Systems | Social Studies of Science | 1989 | 312 |
| 32 | Nature as infrastructure: Making and managing the Panama Canal watershed | Social Studies of Science | 2012 | 312 |
| 33 | Gender, Family Characteristics, and Publication Productivity among Scientists | Social Studies of Science | 2005 | 309 |
| 34 | Actor–Network Theory and methodology: Just what does it mean to say that nonhumans have agency? | Social Studies of Science | 2014 | 306 |
| 35 | Dualisms, Hierarchies and Gender in Engineering | Social Studies of Science | 2000 | 304 |
| 36 | Discipline and the Material Form of Images: An Analysis of Scientific Visibility | Social Studies of Science | 1985 | 291 |
| 37 | Ordering theories: Typologies and conceptual frameworks for sociotechnical change | Social Studies of Science | 2017 | 291 |
| 38 | The Drugs Don't Work | Social Studies of Science | 2003 | 290 |
| 39 | Different differences: The use of ‘genetic ancestry’ versus race in biomedical human genetic research | Social Studies of Science | 2011 | 280 |
| 40 | Tacit Knowledge, Trust and the Q of Sapphire | Social Studies of Science | 2001 | 277 |
| 41 | Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies: | Social Studies of Science | 2000 | 276 |
| 42 | Making time for soil: Technoscientific futurity and the pace of care | Social Studies of Science | 2015 | 274 |
| 43 | Beyond Epistemology: Relativism and Engagement in the Politics of Science | Social Studies of Science | 1996 | 264 |
| 44 | Turning Around Politics | Social Studies of Science | 2007 | 260 |
| 45 | Scientific Communities or Transepistemic Arenas of Research? A Critique of Quasi-Economic Models of Science | Social Studies of Science | 1982 | 255 |
| 46 | Ghosts in the Machine | Social Studies of Science | 2009 | 250 |
| 47 | City as Truth-Spot | Social Studies of Science | 2006 | 248 |
| 48 | Sacrifice and the Transformation of the Animal Body into a Scientific Object: Laboratory Culture and Ritual Practice in the Neurosciences | Social Studies of Science | 1988 | 247 |
| 49 | Bio Science | Social Studies of Science | 2008 | 246 |
| 50 | Seductive Simulations? Uncertainty Distribution Around Climate Models | Social Studies of Science | 2005 | 241 |
