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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations	57
Issue Information	32
On the prospects of longtermism	31
The delivery of health services as resistance	30
“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consent	30
Reproductive Technologies and family ties	26
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners	25
“What can I possibly do?”: White individual responsibility for addressing racism as a public health crisis	23
The commonsense case for common morality	22
Against COVID‐19 vaccination of healthy children	20
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications	20
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies	20
Little Things Mean A Lot	18
I Feel I Need to Think about It: A Defence of Affective Moral Enhancement	18
Israel's Post‐War Healthcare Obligations	18
Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines	18
Disability, Subject‐Dependence, and the Bad‐Difference View	17
Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial	17
Issue Information	17
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds	16
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn	16
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research	15
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics	14
Virtual surgical planning and data ownership: Navigating the provider‐patient‐vendor relationship	14

From Abstinence to Assistance: Antinatalism's Unexpected Endorsement of the Principle of Procreative Beneficence	14
A defense of ectogenic abortion	14
Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation	13
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness	13
Moving beyond mistrust: Centering institutional change by decentering the white analytical lens	12
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics	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 as Non‐Domination, Rules, and the Pandemic	12
Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies	12
Racism in child welfare: Ethical considerations of harm	11
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics	11
Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war	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	11
Slow codes as ethical disobedience	11
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination	10
Issue Information	10
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Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye	9
Considering the Developing Entity in an Artificial Womb as a Patient	9
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour	9
Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity	9
Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion	9
Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics	9
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?	8
Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements	8
Translational bioethics	8
Racism in healthcare and bioethics	8
Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers	8
Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities	7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations	7
Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’	7
Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation	7
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Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging	7
Issue Information	7
Ethicists and the Gaza War	7
NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views	7
Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation	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
Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective	7
Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice	6
Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions	6
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach	6
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing	6
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The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities	6
The ethics of precision health	6
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Religious pluralism in healthcare	6
Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection	6
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI	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
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What is special about conscientious objection?	6
Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes	5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study	5
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield	5
Patient autonomy in the context of digital health	5
Does donor conception violate human dignity?	5
Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals	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
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Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent	5
A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research	5
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?	5
Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans	5
Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences	5
Ethical challenges in research on sexual dysfunction	5
Issue Information	5
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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
A critical take on procreative justice	5
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care	5
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	4
Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco‐ethical assessment	4
The brain during life and in adjudicating death: Reduced brain identity of persons as a critique of the neurological criteria of death	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
CORRIGENDUM	4
The many metaphysical commitments of secular clinical ethics: Expanding the argument for a moral–metaphysical proceduralism	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
Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work	4
The Ethics of Informed Consent for Data Registries: Moving Beyond Moral Minimalism to the High Ground	4
Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?	4
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	4
Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction	4
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?	4
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited	4
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
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Why restrict medical effective altruism?	4
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs	3
Issue Information	3
The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐19	3
The sanctity of life as a sacred value	3
Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration	3
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Empowering Patient Autonomy: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Scaffolding Informed Consent in Medical Practice	3
Care of the older person and the value of human dignity	3
Time to rethink assisted dying?	3
Substituted judgment for the never‐capacitated: Crossing Storar's bridge too far	3
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults	3
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws	3
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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
Racialized disablement and the need for conceptual analysis of “racial health disparities”	3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem	3
In Defence of Causing Patients to Worry: Ethical Issues in the Communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty	3
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?	3
Thoughtful Accompaniment in Life's Final Stages: Philosophical Practice as a Complement to Ethics Consultation	3
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?	3
A theory of triage	3
Mental Health Is Psychological Well‐Being	3
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Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism	3
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views	3
The ethical gene	3
Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines	3
Care relationships and the autonomy of people with physical disabilities	3
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar	3
International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza	3
The Effectiveness of Nudging and Its Ethical Implications	3
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)	3