OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioethics is 3. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
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“What can I possibly do?”: White individual responsibility for addressing racism as a public health crisis	42
Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations	41
“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consent	38
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners	32
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On the prospects of longtermism	26
Digitally supported public health interventions through the lens of structural injustice: The case of mobile apps responding to violence against women and girls	26
Issue Information	25
Reproductive Technologies and family ties	24
The commonsense case for common morality	23
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies	19
Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines	18
The delivery of health services as resistance	17
Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial	17
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications	17
Against COVID‐19 vaccination of healthy children	16
Issue Information	15
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics	15
A defense of ectogenic abortion	14
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics	14
Racism in child welfare: Ethical considerations of harm	14
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research	13
Virtual surgical planning and data ownership: Navigating the provider‐patient‐vendor relationship	13

Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation	13
Handle with care: Assessing performance measures of medical AI for shared clinical decision‐making	13
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds	13
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness	13
Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies	12
Clinical research vehicles as a modality for medical research education and conduct of decentralized trials, supporting justice, equity, and diversity in research	12
Freedom of choice and the tobacco endgame	11
From Abstinence to Assistance: Antinatalism's Unexpected Endorsement of the Principle of Procreative Beneficence	11
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn	11
Grief, trauma and mistaken identity: Ethically deceiving people living with dementia in complex cases	11
Bioethics, public reason, and religion: The liberalism problem By Fleck, Leonard M., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 75. £17.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 9781009078054	10
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Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements	10
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics	10
Moving beyond mistrust: Centering institutional change by decentering the white analytical lens	10
Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war	10
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination	10
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Slow codes as ethical disobedience	9
Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics	9
Issue Information	9
Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity	9
Issue Information	8
Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers	8
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?	8
Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion	8
Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities	8
Translational bioethics	8
Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye	8
NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views	8
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour	8
Racism in healthcare and bioethics	8
Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging	7
Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation	7
What is special about conscientious objection?	7
Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation	7
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Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective	7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations	7
Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection	7
Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’	7
Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know By Bonnie Steinbock and Paul T. Menzel, New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 308. $56.86 USD/$85.30 CDN (hardcover). ISBN 97801976579997, $20.95 USD/$20.	7
Dementia care, robot pets, and aliefs	6
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities	6
To remember, or not to remember? Potential impact of memory modification on narrative identity, personal agency, mental health, and well‐being	6
Religious pluralism in healthcare	6
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing	6
Creating a safer and better functioning system: Lessons to be learned from the Netherlands for an ethical defence of an autonomy‐only approach to assisted dying	6
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI	6
Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions	6

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Understanding the right to health in the context of collective rights to self‐determination	6
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach	6
Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice	6
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Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield	5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study	5
A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research	5
Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans	5
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care	5
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Patient autonomy in the context of digital health	5
Ethical challenges in research on sexual dysfunction	5
A critical take on procreative justice	5
The cambridge handbook of health research regulation Graeme Laurie, Edward Dove, Agomoni Ganguli‐Mitra, Catriona Mamillan, Emily Postan, Nayha Sethi, and Annie Sorbie (Eds.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U	5
Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent	5
Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes	5
Inducing immunity? Justifying immunization policies in times of vaccine hesitancy By RolandPierik and MarcelVerweij, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. 248. US $45.00. (Paperback). ISBN: 97802625	5
Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals	5
Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences	5
The ethics of precision health	5
Resistance in health and healthcare: Applying Essex conceptualisation to a multiphased study on the experiences of Australian nurses and midwives who provide abortion care to people victimised by gend	4
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?	4
Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco‐ethical assessment	4
An empirical bioethical examination of Norwegian and British doctors' views of responsibility and (de)prioritization in healthcare	4
CORRIGENDUM	4
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?	4
The brain during life and in adjudicating death: Reduced brain identity of persons as a critique of the neurological criteria of death	4
Biology of kindness: Six daily choices for health, well‐being, and longevity By ImmaculataDe Vivo and DanielLumera, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. 264. $24.95 (Paperback); $24.99 (eBook). ISB	4
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The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar	4
Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?	4
Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction	4
Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work	4
Does donor conception violate human dignity?	4
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited	4
Health care and the ethical implications of treatment spaces	4
‘If we don't have consent, we need to have beneficence’: Requiring beneficence in nonconsensual neurocorrection	4
Substituted judgment for the never‐capacitated: Crossing Storar's bridge too far	4
Racialized disablement and the need for conceptual analysis of “racial health disparities”	3
The ethical gene	3
The sanctity of life as a sacred value	3
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults	3
Mental Health Is Psychological Well‐Being	3
In Defence of Causing Patients to Worry: Ethical Issues in the Communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty	3
Care relationships and the autonomy of people with physical disabilities	3
The Effectiveness of Nudging and Its Ethical Implications	3
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?	3
The Ethics of Informed Consent for Data Registries: Moving Beyond Moral Minimalism to the High Ground	3
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All research that might result in a pandemic must undergo external review	3
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views	3
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On the morality of vaccination tourism	3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem	3
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)	3
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?	3
Military medical ethics in contemporary armed conflict: Mobilizing medicine in the pursuit of just warMichael L.GrossOxford University Press:Oxford,2021. 304 pp. ISBN 978‐0190694944. £29.99 (Paperback	3
International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza	3
The many metaphysical commitments of secular clinical ethics: Expanding the argument for a moral–metaphysical proceduralism	3
Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines	3
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Moral expertise without moral elitism	3
The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐19	3
Islamic virtues and end‐of‐life decisions in clinical practice: A commentary on Mehrunisha Suleman, ‘The Balancing of Virtues—Muslim Perspectives on End of Life Care: Empirical research analysing the	3
Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration	3
Bioethics reenvisioned: A path towards health justiceKing, Nancy M. P., Henderson, Gail E., Churchill, Larry R.Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 214 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐7159‐8	3
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs	3
Issue Information	3
Care of the older person and the value of human dignity	3
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws	3
Time to rethink assisted dying?	3
Why restrict medical effective altruism?	3
A theory of triage	3
Argumenta ad passiones: Canada debates access thresholds to MAiD	3
Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism	3