OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience	46
The Most Essential Moral Virtues Enhance Happiness	31
“Working on a Shoestring”: Critical Resource Challenges and Place-Based Considerations for Telehealth in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada	18
Why Intellectual Disability is Not Mere Difference	18
“Expensive Sisters”	17
Posthuman Ethics for AI	17
The Algorithm and the Dying Patient: A Moral Mismatch	16
Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis	15
Biopolitics at the Nexus of Chronic and Infectious Diseases	15
Practising Less is More: An Exploration of What it Means to See “This Patient” Not a “Patient Like This”	15
Proxies of Trustworthiness: A Novel Framework to Support the Performance of Trust in Human Health Research	15
Correction to: No Need for Parental Involvement in the Vaccination Choice of Adolescents	14
The Unexamined Benefits of the Expansive Legalization of Medical Assistance-in-Dying	14
Should Doctors Offer Biomarker Testing to Those Afraid to Develop Alzheimer’s Dementia?	14
A Critical Interpretive Review of the Theoretical Literature Related to Healthcare Codes of Ethics	13
End-of-Life Decisions in Intensive Care Units in Croatia—Pre COVID-19 Perspectives and Experiences From Nurses and Physicians	13
Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service	12
It is Not Too Late for Reconciliation Between Israel and Palestine, Even in the Darkest Hour	11
Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic Approach	11
Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Injury: The Role of Expert Witness Testimony and a Recent Case Development	11
Diversity in German-speaking medical ethics and humanities	10
What Ethics Support for Resolving Ethical Conflicts Do Internists Use in Spanish Hospitals?	10
Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?	10
Perspectives on Spare Embryos amongst IVF users: An Exploratory Study from a Selected District of the Southern Indian State of Karnataka	9
Ethical Diversity and Practical Uncertainty: A Qualitative Interview Study of Clinicians’ Experiences in the Implementation Period Prior to Voluntary Assisted Dying Becoming Available in their Hospita	9

An Archeology of Corruption in Medicine	9
Rereading Habermas in Times of CRISPR-cas: A Critique of and an Alternative to the Instrumentalist Interpretation of the Human Nature Argument	9
Response—Forty-Seven Years Later: Further Studies in Disappointment?	8
Philosophy of Science Can Prevent Manslaughter	8
“To Normalize is to Impose a Requirement on an Existence.” Why Health Professionals Should Think Twice Before Using the Term “Normal” With Patients	8
What Is A Family? A Constitutive-Affirmative Account	8
The Pensive Gaze	8
Clinicians’ Perspectives and an Ethical Analysis of Safer Supply Opioid Prescribing	7
Correction to: Data Sharing During Pandemics: Reciprocity, Solidarity, and Limits to Obligations	7
Lead Essay—Islamic Bioethics: A Vast, Fecund and Rapidly Evolving Field of Scholarship	7
Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review	7
Ethical Stakes for Past, Present, and Prospective Tuberculosis Isolate Research Towards a Multicultural Data Sovereignty Model for Isolate Samples in Research	7
The Morality of Kidney Sales: When Caring for the Seller’s Dignity Has Moral Costs	6
Seeing Gaza: Objectivity and Emotion	6
Unmasking the Ethics of Public Health Messaging in a Pandemic	6
CRISPR: Beyond the Excitement	6
Family-Oriented Living Organ Donation in Bangladesh: A Bioethical Defence	6
Blanket Consent and Trust in the Biobanking Context	6
The Side Effects of Not Being Vaccinated: Individual Risk and Vaccine Hesitancy Nationalism	6
Organ Markets, Options, and an Over-Inclusiveness Objection: On Rippon’s Argument	6
The Ethics of Time: Towards Temporal Bioethics	6
Eight Strategies to Engineer Acceptance of Human Germline Modifications	6
Reflections on the Cloak of Convenience	6
The Ethics of Stem Cell-Based Embryo-Like Structures	6
Review of Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation: Current Debates and International Perspectives	6
The Wrong of Eugenic Sterilization	6
Data Breach Notification Laws—Momentum Across the Asia-Pacific Region	6
Will Human-Animal Chimeras Cause Moral Confusion? Exploring Public Attitudes	6
Correction: Pandemic Surveillance and Racialized Subpopulations: Mitigating Vulnerabilities in COVID-19 Apps	6
Donation After Circulatory Death following Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatments. Are We Ready to Break the Dead Donor Rule?	6
Between “Medical” and “Social” Egg Freezing	6
Deconstructing COVID Time	5
The New Organization of Ethics Committees in Italy: What is the Future of Clinical Ethics?	5
Retrospective Radiology Research: Do We Need Informed Patient Consent?	5
Narrative Affordances for Birthing-Selves	5
The Ethics of Overlapping Relationships in Rural and Remote Healthcare. A Narrative Review	5
How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being	5
The Ethical Assessment of the Stay-At-Home Order in South Africa in Light of The Universal Declaration of Bioethics And Human Rights (UNESCO)	5
Honesty in Human Subject Research	5
Automating Misrecognition: The Case of Disability	5
The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence	5
Response—The Corruption of Character in Medicine	5
The Use of Porcine-Derived Materials for Medical Purposes: What do Muslim and Jewish Individuals Know and Opine About It?	5
Anatomy of Being, Metaphysics of Death: The Case of Avicenna’s Logical Dissection	5
Priorities in the Protection of Citizens Who Have Fallen into Enemy Hands	5
Overcoming Conflicting Definitions of “Euthanasia,” and of “Assisted Suicide,” Through a Value-Neutral Taxonomy of “End-Of-Life Practices”	5
The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel Sequencing	5
Vascular Amputees: A Study in Disappointment	5
Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape	4
Making Sense of “Ethics” of War: Just War, Just Peace, and Ethic of Care	4

Spousal and Kinship Co-Authorship Should be Declared to Avoid Conflicts of Interest	4
An Ageing President, Betty Draper, Mad Men, and Realistic Medicine	4
Ethical Design and Use of Robotic Care of the Elderly	4
Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement	4
The Ethics of Speaking (of) AIs Through the Lens of Natural Language	4
Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes	4
Applying the Concepts of Benefit and Harm in Malaysian Bioethical Discourse: Analysis of Malaysian Fatwa	4
Response—Belonging, Interdisciplinarity, and Fragmentation: On the Conditions for a Bioethical Discourse Community	4
Potato Ethics: What Rural Communities Can Teach Us about Healthcare	4
Professional Oversight of Emergency-Use Interventions and Monitoring Systems: Ethical Guidance From the Singapore Experience of COVID-19	4
History, Hype, and Responsible Psychedelic Medicine: A Qualitative Study of Psychedelic Researchers	4
An Exploratory Study of Physical Therapists From High-Income Countries Practising Outside of Their Scope in Low and Middle-Income Countries	4
War and Peace: What Can Bioethics Offer to Bring an End to Conflicts?	4
Bioethics: Changing the World or Thinking About It?	4
The Substance View and Cases of Complicated Multifetal Pregnancy	4
Risk, Responsibility, Rudeness, and Rules: The Loneliness of the Social Distance Warrior	4
Enhancing Gender	4
“Please, Just Don’t Leave Me Alone.” A Cry for More Humanity in our Care	4