OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Medical Ethics is 24. 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
Expanding choice at the end of life	113
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy	84
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al	76
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’	57
Digital twins or AI SIMs? What to call generative AI systems designed to emulate specific individuals, in healthcare settings and beyond	47
Missing voices: why youth perspectives are essential for Ubuntu bioethics in the context of HIV testing	43
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others	42
Against the biological account of death	40
Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are experimental treatments and should be confined to clinical trials	40
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation	40
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics	39
Manipulating embryogenesis and testing for potential: two real problems for the regulation of stem cell-based embryo models	39
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames	37
Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study	36
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan	34
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation	34
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows	31
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women	30
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral	29
Does the Duty of Rescue support a moral obligation to vaccinate? Seasonal influenza and the Institutional Duty of Rescue	28
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications	27
Antinatalist challenges to Korean pronatalism	26
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences	26
Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being	25
Neuro rights and the right to mental integrity	24

Late-onset diseases and patient education: additional considerations for polygenic risk score regulation	24
Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators	24
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees	24