Latest Research in Sociotechnical Ethics and Policy

Top Research Topics in Sociotechnical Ethics and Policy

• Ethics and Social Impacts of AI — 809 papers
• Artificial Intelligence — 434 papers
• Embodied and Extended Cognition — 269 papers
• Computation and Language — 208 papers
• AI in Service Interactions — 172 papers
• Scientific Computing and Data Management — 167 papers
• Human-Computer Interaction — 149 papers
• Computers and Society — 133 papers
• Software Engineering — 121 papers
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) — 118 papers

Highest-Cited Papers

1. Two Evolutionary Trajectories and a Process-Regulation Gap: From the Evolution of Agency and External Trace to Large Language Models and AWM (4 citations)
2. ‘Don’t call me mzungu’: negotiating migration categories and privilege in Nairobi (6 citations)
3. Doing and undoing categories in migration (6 citations)
4. Verify if you are human: what is the ‘human’ in ‘human migration’? (5 citations)
5. Clean Word, Clean Function: Language as an Input Regulator in Human–AI Processes (2 citations)
6. Ontosystematics: Foundations of a Systematic Science of Ontological Nodes (6 citations)
7. Film promotion across the EU member states and abroad: institutional practices in Denmark, Finland and France in an evolving policy and technological architecture (2 citations)
8. Recursive Contextual Closure: Longitudinal Loss of Epistemic Permeability in Persistent Human-AI Ecosystems (Position Paper) (3 citations)
9. Quasi-exile as a condition: ‘Rùn’ from a post-COVID-19 China (2 citations)
10. Un-categorising ‘the migrant’ to interrogate the roles of migration in social mobility in four Asian cities (3 citations)
11. Proof Engine Infrastructure: A Claim-Graph Framework for AI-Assisted Mathematical Research
12. Monetizing the Headless Web by Akash Narayan (2 citations)
13. The Instrument — GFIS: A Verifiable Agentic Research Pipeline. Methods Note (System State as of 31 July 2026) (5 citations)
14. Encoding Organisational Judgement for Artificial Reasoners: Synthetic Reconstruction, Withholding, and Contrasting Engineering Practices (2 citations)
15. Functional Does Not Mean Fake: Toward a Concept of Artificial Feeling (3 citations)
16. The dynamics of ‘limited hybridity’ in migration: the case of Zera Beta Israel from Ethiopia (2 citations)
17. Recursive Sycophancy: When an LLM Addresses the Yes-Master Problem by Reproducing It (4 citations)
18. Lack of evidence for Initial Upper Paleolithic attribution at Cueva Millán in Iberia’s hinterland (1 citations)
19. Women workers at the Hogarth Press: MAPP, digital humanities, and collaborative process (1 citations)
20. Corruption as Functional Capture: From Diverted Flow to Self-Reproducing Systemic Environments (4 citations)

Sub-Regions

• Algorithmic Governance and Agentic Responsibility — 5,226 papers
• Archaeological Heritage and Eco-Ontological Formations — 1,738 papers
• Indo-Asian Cultural Heritage and Historiography — 1,406 papers
• Constitutional Jurisprudence and Geopolitical Conflict — 1,230 papers
• Political Participation and Electoral Dynamics — 1,101 papers
• Phenomenological Subjectivity and Existential Ethics — 1,055 papers
• Musicology and Cultural Soundscapes — 723 papers
• Analytical Psychology and Narrative Moral Theory — 638 papers