OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Hastings Center Report is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An Ecostructural Lens for Health Ethics	38
Authenticity and Clinical Decision‐Making	31
Living Out a Life's Meaning	25
What Patient‐Experience Data Reveal about Trust	21
About the Special Report	20
Deciding with Others: Interdependent Decision‐Making	19
Guiding the Future: Rethinking the Role of Advance Directives in the Care of People with Dementia	19
About the Special Report	15
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On the Authority of Advance Euthanasia Directives for People with Severe Dementia: Reflections on a Dutch Case	15
How Seeking Transfer Often Fails to Help Define Medically Inappropriate Treatment	15
Contributors	14
Trust in Crises and Crises of Trust	14
Cultivating Peace and Health at Community Health Centers	14
Digital Mental Health Tools and AI Therapy Chatbots: A Balanced Approach to Regulation	12
Challenging Disability Discrimination in the Clinical Use of PDMP Algorithms	12
Contributors	11
Moral Status and the Oversight of Research Involving Chimeric Animals	11
From Eugenics to Human Genome Editing: Bionationalism and Instrumentalizing Life in China within a Global Context	10
Holding Them Accountable: Organizational Commitments to Ending Systemic Anti‐Black Racism in Medicine and Public Health	10
Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and the Need for Community Engagement	9
Testimonies and Healing: Anti‐oppressive Research with Black Women and the Implications for Compassionate Ethical Care	9
The Pandemic of Invisible Victims in American Mental Health	9
Moving toward Equity through Embedded ELSI Ethnography	9
A Call for Solidarity in Bioethics: Confronting Anti‐Black Racism Together	9

Choice in the Context of Dementia: Emerging Issues for Health Care Practice in Aging Societies	8
Contributors	8
Narratives in Public Deliberation: Empowering Gene Editing Debate with Storytelling	8
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Reevaluating the Ethical Issues in Porcine‐to‐Human Heart Xenotransplantation	8
Home Care in America: The Urgent Challenge of Putting Ethical Care into Practice	8
Errata	8
Contributors	8
Contributors	8
Lockdowns, Bioethics, and the Public: Policy‐Making in a Liberal Democracy	7
Who Carries the Responsibility for Health Care Carbon Reduction?	7
Issue Information	7
Facilitating Ukrainian Refugees’ Continued Participation in Clinical Trials	7
Moral Humility for a Complex World	7
Justice, Bioethics, and Covid‐19	7
BeforeThe Birth of Bioethics: James M. Gustafson at Yale	7
New Findings on Unconsented Intimate Exams Suggest Racial Bias and Gender Parity	7
Enhancing Equity in Genomics: Incorporating Measures of Structural Racism, Discrimination, and Social Determinants of Health	7
Identity Theft, Deep Brain Stimulation, and the Primacy of Post‐trial Obligations	7
“You have to trust yourself”: The Overlooked Role of Self‐Trust in Coping with Chronic Illness	6
The Problem Is Not (Merely) Mass Incarceration: Incarceration as a Bioethical Crisis and Abolition as a Moral Obligation	6
Clinician Moral Distress: Toward an Ethics of Agent‐Regret	6
Complex Decisions	6
Now You Are Part of the Solution: Bioethicists' Contribution in Addressing Racialized Health Inequity	6
Issue Information	6
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Accountability for Reasonableness as a Framework for the Promotion of Fair and Equitable Research	5
Latinx Bioethics: Toward a Braver, Broader, and More Just Bioethics	5
The Case for Baptizing a Dying, Unconscious Atheist	5
What Is the Aim of Pediatric “Gender‐Affirming” Care?	5
Issue Information and About the Cover Art	5
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Contributors	5
Learning Health Care and the Obligation to Participate in Research	5
Neither Ethical nor Prudent: Why Not to Choose Normothermic Regional Perfusion	5
Rethinking the Burden of Traditional Informed Consent Prior to Prenatal Genetic Screening	5
Stef M. Shuster and Meredithe McNamara reply:	5
Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols: Where the Bioethics of U.S. Covid‐19 Vaccine Allocation Went Wrong	5
Why Aren't There More Whistleblowers?	5
Risk‐Sensitive Assessment of Decision‐Making Capacity: A Comprehensive Defense	5
Contributors	5
Principled Conscientious Provision: Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience	4
Justifying Clinical Deception: Some Amendments to Brummett and Salter	4
What Do Prospective Parents Owe to Their Children?	4
Rethinking Decision Quality: Measures, Meaning, and Bioethics	4
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The Microethics of Communication in Health Care: A New Framework for the Fast Thinking of Everyday Clinical Encounters	4
Moral Nuances in Broad Policies	4
Finding Disability in Everyday Life	4
Gender and Sport	4

Deception, Pain, and Placebo: Applying the Brummett‐Salter Deception Framework	4
Dementia and Concurrent Consent to Sexual Relations	4
The Values That Influence Psychiatric Diagnosis and Accountability	4
Rethinking Theory in Bioethics	4
Policy, Politics, and Impact	4
Editors and Authors	4
Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent‐Clinician Conflict	4
In Defense of Openness—Genetic Knowledge and Gamete Donation	4
Global Efforts to Protect Healthy Volunteers	4
Govind Persad replies	4
Covid‐19: Medical Decisions, Mandates, and High‐Risk Minors	4
Fifty Years of U.S. Mass Incarceration and What It Means for Bioethics	3
Editors and Authors	3
Social Equality in an Alternate World	3
Intersecting Narratives in the Lives of Black Women Aging with Dementia	3
Participant Engagement, Epistemic Injustice, and Early‐Phase Implanted Neural Device Research	3
Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics	3
Xenotransplantation: Injustice, Harm, and Alternatives for Addressing the Organ Crisis	3
Erratum	3
Editors and Authors	3
Experiential Training in Psychedelic‐Assisted Therapy: A Risk‐Benefit Analysis	3
Daoist Views on Disability and Genetic Intervention	3
Science and Justice	3
Trust Also Means Centering Black Women's Reproductive Health Narratives	3
Forgotten and without Protections: Older Adults in Prison Settings	3
Recalibrating Bioethics for the Reality of Interdependence: The Challenge of Collective‐Impact Problems	3
A Developing Timeline for Bioethics	3
Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: How Conscience Protections Preserved Mifepristone Access	3
Can Open Science Advance Health Justice? Genomic Research Dissemination in the Evolving Data‐Sharing Landscape	3
Pediatric Off‐Label Use of Covid‐19 Vaccines: Ethical and Legal Considerations	3
Bioethics Rooted in Justice: Community‐Expert Reflections	3
Opening the Door: Rethinking “Difficult Conversations” about Living and Dying with Dementia	3
Addressing Anti‐Black Racism in Bioethics: Responding to the Call	3
Dementia, Narrative, and Place: What Can Be Learned from the Age‐Friendly Movement?	3
Stories and Shame in Front‐Line Medicine	3
Contributors	3
Dementia as a Critical Lens on the Role of Narrative in Medical Training and Practice	3
Locked In	3
Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing	3
Industry Technicians Embedded in Clinical Teams: Impacts on Medical Knowledge	2
Telemedicine and Healing Relationships	2
From a Reckoning to Racial Concordance: A Strategy to Protect Black Mothers, Children, and Infants	2
Giving Voice to the Voiceless in Environmental Gene Editing	2
What Makes a Better Life for People Facing Dementia? Toward Dementia‐Friendly Health and Social Policy, Medical Care, and Community Support in the United States	2
Residency Requirements for Medical Aid in Dying	2
A Prescriptive Metaphysics of DEATH	2
A “Surprise” Health Policy Legislative Victory	2
The Need for Bioethics Departments in HBCU Medical Schools	2
Neuroscience and Society: Supporting and Unsettling Public Engagement	2
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Issue Information	2
Smuggled Doughnuts and Forbidden Fried Chicken: Addressing Tensions around Family and Food Restrictions in Hospitals	2
About the Special Report	2
Risk Trade‐Offs and Equitable Decision‐Making in the Covid‐19 Pandemic	2
The Bioethicist as Healer	2
Parity, Poverty, and Physician Aid in Dying: Policy Recommendations for PAD in Light of Social Injustices	2
About The Hastings, The Greenwall Foundation, and the Cover Art	2
The Dead Unborn, Postmortem Privacy Cases, and Abortion Rights	2
When Mistakes Multiply: How Inadequate Responses to Medical Mishaps Erode Trust in American Medicine	2
Allocation of Opportunities to Participate in Clinical Trials during the Covid‐19 Pandemic and Other Public Health Emergencies	2
Contributors	2
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Talking with Each Other about Science	2
Bright‐Line Policy and the Future of the Fourteen‐Day Rule	2
Dignity and the Founding Myth of Bioethics	2
Knowing the Mind from Brain Data: The Challenge of Prediction and the Fairness of Relying on Objective Data about the Mind	2
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Herstory as an Important Force in Bioethics	2
Rethinking the Ethics of the Covid‐19 Pandemic Lockdowns	2
The Ethic of Accompaniment	2