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Exclusionary data, inclusionary appeals: Gender and equity in an HIV-prevention clinical trial. 排除性数据，包容性申诉：艾滋病毒预防临床试验中的性别与公平。

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251349231

Jason V D'Amours, Miranda R Waggoner

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The extractive loops of biocapital: Venom procurement and antivenom production in India. 生物资本的提取循环：印度的蛇毒采购和抗蛇毒血清生产。

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-20 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251347915

Mathieu Quet

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Handmade relief models as matters of concern: Maintaining, restoring, and repairing mountains? 手工浮雕模型值得关注：维护、修复、修复山脉？

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251346168

Alain Müller

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Precision justice: An imaginary of data and justice 精确正义：数据和正义的想象

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251342275

Margarita Boenig-Liptsin

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Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization 子宫内膜异位症的自我跟踪：芬兰患者组织开发的妇科应用程序的演变期望

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251344961

Venla Oikkonen, Maria Temmes

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Response to Damianos—Anthropocene angst: Authentic geology and stratigraphic sincerity 对达米亚诺斯-人类世焦虑的回应：真实的地质学和地层学诚意

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251343046

Colin N Waters, Jan Zalasiewicz, Martin J Head, Georg N Schäfer, Francine MG McCarthy, Simon D Turner

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First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis. 第一印象很重要：在指纹分析中进行概率报告的法医设备面临的世俗障碍。

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251333074

Simon A Cole,Justin L Sola

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Making a show of it: Reading demonstrations of empty government innovation through the metaphor of façade. 作秀：通过faalade的比喻解读政府空洞创新的例证。

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251337781

Santtu Räisänen

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Virtual diversity: A proposal and discussion 虚拟多样性：一个建议和讨论

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251334495

Sergio Sismondo

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Virtual diversity revisited 重新审视虚拟多样性

IF 3 2区社会学

Social Studies of Science Pub Date : 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1177/03063127251330545

Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Luis Reyes-Galindo

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