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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An Ecostructural Lens for Health Ethics	46
Guiding the Future: Rethinking the Role of Advance Directives in the Care of People with Dementia	37
Deciding with Others: Interdependent Decision‐Making	31
What Patient‐Experience Data Reveal about Trust	25
On the Authority of Advance Euthanasia Directives for People with Severe Dementia: Reflections on a Dutch Case	23
About the Special Report	20
Cultivating Peace and Health at Community Health Centers	19
Contributors	19
Moral Status and the Oversight of Research Involving Chimeric Animals	16
Digital Mental Health Tools and AI Therapy Chatbots: A Balanced Approach to Regulation	15
Contributors	15
From Eugenics to Human Genome Editing: Bionationalism and Instrumentalizing Life in China within a Global Context	14
Abortion Access Persists, but So Do the Threats	14
Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and the Need for Community Engagement	13
Moving toward Equity through Embedded ELSI Ethnography	13
Trust in Crises and Crises of Trust	12
Contributors	12
Home Care in America: The Urgent Challenge of Putting Ethical Care into Practice	12
Challenging Disability Discrimination in the Clinical Use of PDMP Algorithms	11
The Pandemic of Invisible Victims in American Mental Health	11
How Seeking Transfer Often Fails to Help Define Medically Inappropriate Treatment	11
Contributors	10
Reevaluating the Ethical Issues in Porcine‐to‐Human Heart Xenotransplantation	10
Facilitating Ukrainian Refugees’ Continued Participation in Clinical Trials	10
Lockdowns, Bioethics, and the Public: Policy‐Making in a Liberal Democracy	10

Errata	9
Identity Theft, Deep Brain Stimulation, and the Primacy of Post‐trial Obligations	9
Enhancing Equity in Genomics: Incorporating Measures of Structural Racism, Discrimination, and Social Determinants of Health	9
Who Carries the Responsibility for Health Care Carbon Reduction?	9
Moral Humility for a Complex World	9
Clinician Moral Distress: Toward an Ethics of Agent‐Regret	8
Choice in the Context of Dementia: Emerging Issues for Health Care Practice in Aging Societies	8
Contributors	8
“You have to trust yourself”: The Overlooked Role of Self‐Trust in Coping with Chronic Illness	8
Accountability for Reasonableness as a Framework for the Promotion of Fair and Equitable Research	8
Defining Death Anew: Reexamining the Twentieth‐Century Brain Death Debates and the Uniform Determination of Death Act	8
Complex Decisions	8
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Risk‐Sensitive Assessment of Decision‐Making Capacity: A Comprehensive Defense	7
Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols: Where the Bioethics of U.S. Covid‐19 Vaccine Allocation Went Wrong	7
Stef M. Shuster and Meredithe McNamara reply:	7
Neither Ethical nor Prudent: Why Not to Choose Normothermic Regional Perfusion	7
Learning Health Care and the Obligation to Participate in Research	7
The Case for Baptizing a Dying, Unconscious Atheist	7
Is Food Medicine?	7
Why Aren't There More Whistleblowers?	7
What Is the Aim of Pediatric “Gender‐Affirming” Care?	6
Rethinking the Burden of Traditional Informed Consent Prior to Prenatal Genetic Screening	5
Dementia and Concurrent Consent to Sexual Relations	5
In Defense of Openness—Genetic Knowledge and Gamete Donation	5
Contributors	5
The Microethics of Communication in Health Care: A New Framework for the Fast Thinking of Everyday Clinical Encounters	5
The Problem Is Not (Merely) Mass Incarceration: Incarceration as a Bioethical Crisis and Abolition as a Moral Obligation	5
Issue Information and About the Cover Art	5
Global Efforts to Protect Healthy Volunteers	5
Deception, Pain, and Placebo: Applying the Brummett‐Salter Deception Framework	4
The Values That Influence Psychiatric Diagnosis and Accountability	4
Principled Conscientious Provision: Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience	4
Forgotten and without Protections: Older Adults in Prison Settings	4
Dementia, Narrative, and Place: What Can Be Learned from the Age‐Friendly Movement?	4
Justifying Clinical Deception: Some Amendments to Brummett and Salter	4
Covid‐19: Medical Decisions, Mandates, and High‐Risk Minors	4
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Gender and Sport	4
Editors and Authors	4
A Timely Pursuit: Disability Justice in Pandemic Planning	4
Intersecting Narratives in the Lives of Black Women Aging with Dementia	4
Policy, Politics, and Impact	4
Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent‐Clinician Conflict	4
Rethinking Decision Quality: Measures, Meaning, and Bioethics	4
What Do Prospective Parents Owe to Their Children?	4
Moral Nuances in Broad Policies	4
Recalibrating Bioethics for the Reality of Interdependence: The Challenge of Collective‐Impact Problems	4
Rethinking Theory in Bioethics	4
Fifty Years of U.S. Mass Incarceration and What It Means for Bioethics	3

Living in the Shadow of Uncertainty: Rethinking Cancer as Chronic Illness	3
Science and Justice	3
Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics	3
Experiential Training in Psychedelic‐Assisted Therapy: A Risk‐Benefit Analysis	3
Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing	3
Bright‐Line Policy and the Future of the Fourteen‐Day Rule	3
Arguments and Analogies: Do Children Have a Right to Know Their Genetic Origins?	3
Editors and Authors	3
Participant Engagement, Epistemic Injustice, and Early‐Phase Implanted Neural Device Research	3
Daoist Views on Disability and Genetic Intervention	3
Issue Information and About the Cover Art	3
Xenotransplantation: Injustice, Harm, and Alternatives for Addressing the Organ Crisis	3
Erratum	3
Finding Disability in Everyday Life	3
Opening the Door: Rethinking “Difficult Conversations” about Living and Dying with Dementia	3
Contributors	3
Stories and Shame in Front‐Line Medicine	3
Public Engagement as a Form of Moral Leadership	3
Locked In	3
Gender‐Affirming Care for Cisgender People	2
Smuggled Doughnuts and Forbidden Fried Chicken: Addressing Tensions around Family and Food Restrictions in Hospitals	2
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The Need for Bioethics Departments in HBCU Medical Schools	2
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Should Parents of the Deceased Have Standing to Initiate Posthumous Sperm Retrieval? Analyzing Developments in Israel	2
Dementia as a Critical Lens on the Role of Narrative in Medical Training and Practice	2
Editors and Authors	2
Knowing the Mind from Brain Data: The Challenge of Prediction and the Fairness of Relying on Objective Data about the Mind	2
Rethinking the Ethics of the Covid‐19 Pandemic Lockdowns	2
Genetics and Scientific Values: Aaron Panofsky, Kushan Dasgupta, Nicole Iturriaga, and Bernard Koch Reply	2
Managing Dependence: Assistive Technologies in Dementia Care	2
The Dead Unborn, Postmortem Privacy Cases, and Abortion Rights	2
Parity, Poverty, and Physician Aid in Dying: Policy Recommendations for PAD in Light of Social Injustices	2
Dignity and the Founding Myth of Bioethics	2
Residency Requirements for Medical Aid in Dying	2
Issue Information	2
Can Caregivers Ever Say No?	2
Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: How Conscience Protections Preserved Mifepristone Access	2
A Life Worth Sustaining? Bestowed Worth and Pediatric Care	2
Can Open Science Advance Health Justice? Genomic Research Dissemination in the Evolving Data‐Sharing Landscape	2
Telemedicine and Healing Relationships	2
Choosing to Die	2
When Mistakes Multiply: How Inadequate Responses to Medical Mishaps Erode Trust in American Medicine	2
Implicit Narratives in Participatory Arts Collaborations with People with Lived Experience of Dementia	2
The Ethic of Accompaniment	2
The Bioethicist as Healer	2
Neuroscience and Society: Supporting and Unsettling Public Engagement	2
Contributors	2
Talking with Each Other about Science	2
About the Special Report	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
A Prescriptive Metaphysics of DEATH	2