OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
One Last Unexpected Lesson From the Life and Death of Queen Elizabeth II?	37
Pragmatic pluralism: Mutual tolerance of contested understandings between orthodox and alternative practitioners in autologous stem cell transplantation	23
Priorities in the Protection of Citizens Who Have Fallen into Enemy Hands	23
How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being	17
The New Organization of Ethics Committees in Italy: What is the Future of Clinical Ethics?	16
Vascular Amputees: A Study in Disappointment	15
The Power in Rural Place Stigma	14
Putting “Epistemic Injustice” to Work in Bioethics: Beyond Nonmaleficence	14
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience	14
Honesty in Human Subject Research	13
Response—The Corruption of Character in Medicine	12
Two Decades of the JBI, Where to Next?	12
Why Intellectual Disability is Not Mere Difference	11
COVID-19 and Biomedical Experts: When Epistemic Authority is (Probably) Not Enough	10
The Use of Porcine-Derived Materials for Medical Purposes: What do Muslim and Jewish Individuals Know and Opine About It?	10
Response—A Critical Response to “Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience”	9
New Zealand’s Approaches to Regulating the Commodification of the Female Body	9
The Ethical Assessment of the Stay-At-Home Order in South Africa in Light of The Universal Declaration of Bioethics And Human Rights (UNESCO)	8
Walking a Fine Germline: Synthesizing Public Opinion and Legal Precedent to Develop Policy Recommendations for Heritable Gene-Editing	8
Developing Organizational Diversity Statements Through Dialogical Clinical Ethics Support: The Role of the Clinical Ethicist	8
“Expensive Sisters”	8
Overcoming Conflicting Definitions of “Euthanasia,” and of “Assisted Suicide,” Through a Value-Neutral Taxonomy of “End-Of-Life Practices”	8
Anatomy of Being, Metaphysics of Death: The Case of Avicenna’s Logical Dissection	7
Retrospective Radiology Research: Do We Need Informed Patient Consent?	7
Deconstructing COVID Time	7

Incarceration Postpartum: Is There a Right to Prison Nurseries?	7
A Clinician’s Obligation to be Vaccinated: Four Arguments that Establish a Duty for Healthcare Professionals to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19	7
Brain–Computer Interfaces, Completely Locked-In State in Neurodegenerative Diseases, and End-of-Life Decisions	7
When Black Health, Intersectionality, and Health Equity Meet a Pandemic	7
“Working on a Shoestring”: Critical Resource Challenges and Place-Based Considerations for Telehealth in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada	6
Islamic Perspectives on Polygenic Testing and Selection of IVF Embryos (PGT-P) for Optimal Intelligence and Other Non–Disease-Related Socially Desirable Traits	6
Biopolitics at the Nexus of Chronic and Infectious Diseases	6
Sperling, Daniel. 2019. Suicide tourism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-882545-6	6
Social Distance Warriors Should Not Be Regarded as Moral Exemplars in a Pandemic Nor as Paragons of Politeness: A Response to Shaw	6
The Most Essential Moral Virtues Enhance Happiness	6
Justice Before Pluriversality—A Response to Jecker et al	6
The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence	6
The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel Sequencing	6
No Need for Parental Involvement in the Vaccination Choice of Adolescents	6
Ethical Reflection on the “QR code Dilemma” Faced by Older People During COVID-19 in China	6
Re-imagining and Remembering in Gaza: A Response to Spivak’s Humanities Beyond the Disciplines: Imaginative Activism	6
Far From the Madding Crowd: Health Service Expectations in the “Country”	5
Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes	5
Proxies of Trustworthiness: A Novel Framework to Support the Performance of Trust in Human Health Research	5
Consideration of Sustainability When Approving Human Medical Research—A Scoping Review	5
War and Peace: What Can Bioethics Offer to Bring an End to Conflicts?	5
For the Good of the Globe: Moral Reasons for States to Mitigate Global Catastrophic Biological Risks	5
Despair of the Intellect, but Hope of the Heart?	5
Temporal Aspects of Epistemic Injustice: The Case of Patients with Drug Dependence	5
Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis	5
The Reasonableness Standard for Conscientious Objection in Healthcare	5
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Emerging Technology (ELSIET) Symposium	5
Correction to: “To Normalize is to Impose a Requirement on an Existence.” Why Health Professionals Should Think Twice Before Using the Term “Normal” With Patients	5
Spousal and Kinship Co-Authorship Should be Declared to Avoid Conflicts of Interest	4
Needle Stick Injury From a COVID-19 Patient—Fear It or Forget It?	4
Addressing Suffering in Infants and Young Children Using the Concept of Suffering Pluralism	4
Institutional Objection to Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria, Australia: An Analysis of Publicly Available Policies	4
Patients’ Values and Desire for Autonomy: An Empirical Study from Poland	4
Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape	4
An Ethics of Care, Relational Suffering, and Contested Invisible Disability	4
Response—Belonging, Interdisciplinarity, and Fragmentation: On the Conditions for a Bioethical Discourse Community	4
Training Ethical Competence in a World Growing Old: A Multimethod Ethical Round in Hospital and Residential Care Settings	4
The Need to Standardize the Reanalysis of Genomic Sequencing Results: Findings from Interviews with Underserved Families in Genomic Research	4
The Vagueness of Integrating the Empirical and the Normative: Researchers’ Views on Doing Empirical Bioethics	4
A Revised Approach to Advance Personal Planning: The Role of Theory in Achieving “The Good Result”	4
Respect for Autonomy and Dementia Care in Nursing Homes: Revising Beauchamp and Childress’s Account of Autonomous Decision-Making	4
Conditions of Global Health Crisis Decision-Making—An Ethical Analysis	4
End-of-Life Decisions in Intensive Care Units in Croatia—Pre COVID-19 Perspectives and Experiences From Nurses and Physicians	4
An Exploratory Study of Physical Therapists From High-Income Countries Practising Outside of Their Scope in Low and Middle-Income Countries	4
Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service	4
Correction to: No Need for Parental Involvement in the Vaccination Choice of Adolescents	4
Data Sharing During Pandemics: Reciprocity, Solidarity, and Limits to Obligations	3
What can European Principlism Teach about Public Funding of IVF? The Israeli Case	3
By Their Side, Not on Their Chest: Ethical Arguments to Allow Residential Aged Care Admission Policies to Forego Full Cardiac Resuscitation	3
The Substance View and Cases of Complicated Multifetal Pregnancy	3

Ethical Review of Animal Research and the Standards of Procedural Justice: A European Perspective	3
Kin or Research Material? Exploring IVF Couples’ Perceptions about the Human Embryo and Implications for Disposition Decisions in Norway	3
Making Sense of “Ethics” of War: Just War, Just Peace, and Ethic of Care	3
Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic Approach	3
Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy: An Islamic Perspective	3
Should Doctors Offer Biomarker Testing to Those Afraid to Develop Alzheimer’s Dementia?	3
It is Not Too Late for Reconciliation Between Israel and Palestine, Even in the Darkest Hour	3
Ethical Design and Use of Robotic Care of the Elderly	3
Remembering Miles Little (28.12.33 – 30.9.23)	3
Are Corporations Re-Defining Illness and Health? The Diabetes Epidemic, Goal Numbers, and Blockbuster Drugs	3
The Unexamined Benefits of the Expansive Legalization of Medical Assistance-in-Dying	3
An Archeology of Corruption in Medicine	3
Reflecting Before, During, and After the Heat of the Moment: A Review of Four Approaches for Supporting Health Staff to Manage Stressful Events	3
An Ageing President, Betty Draper, Mad Men, and Realistic Medicine	3
Practising Less is More: An Exploration of What it Means to See “This Patient” Not a “Patient Like This”	3
An Analysis of Australia’s Legal Framework for Access to More Affordable but Unapproved Medicines and Biologics	3
Ethical Challenges in Information Disclosure and Decision-making in Prenatal Testing: A Focus Group Study of Chinese Health Professionals in Maternal and Child Health Services	3
Is it Genocide?	3
Enhancing Gender	3
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust v WV [2022] EWCOP 9	3
Identity Disclosure Between Donor Family Members and Organ Transplant Recipients: A Description and Synthesis of Australian Laws and Guidelines	3
Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?	3
Applying the Concepts of Benefit and Harm in Malaysian Bioethical Discourse: Analysis of Malaysian Fatwa	3
Notes from the Rock Bottom	3
Semi-Automated Care: Video-Algorithmic Patient Monitoring and Surveillance in Care Settings	3
Expertise and Knowledge Required to Support Health Staff to Manage Stressful Events	3
Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) in America: A Novel Bioethical Argument for a Radical Public Health Proposal	3
Victoria, Australia, is getting a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Bill	3
A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring Colombian Adolescents’ Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: The Need for a Relational Autonomy Approach	3