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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience	45
The Most Essential Moral Virtues Enhance Happiness	28
“Expensive Sisters”	26
“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
Biopolitics at the Nexus of Chronic and Infectious Diseases	17
Needle Stick Injury From a COVID-19 Patient—Fear It or Forget It?	15
Proxies of Trustworthiness: A Novel Framework to Support the Performance of Trust in Human Health Research	15
The Unexamined Benefits of the Expansive Legalization of Medical Assistance-in-Dying	15
Correction to: No Need for Parental Involvement in the Vaccination Choice of Adolescents	14
End-of-Life Decisions in Intensive Care Units in Croatia—Pre COVID-19 Perspectives and Experiences From Nurses and Physicians	14
Should Doctors Offer Biomarker Testing to Those Afraid to Develop Alzheimer’s Dementia?	14
Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service	13
Practising Less is More: An Exploration of What it Means to See “This Patient” Not a “Patient Like This”	13
It is Not Too Late for Reconciliation Between Israel and Palestine, Even in the Darkest Hour	12
Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Injury: The Role of Expert Witness Testimony and a Recent Case Development	12
Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic Approach	11
Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis	10
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	10
Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?	10
Diversity in German-speaking medical ethics and humanities	10
An Archeology of Corruption in Medicine	10
What Ethics Support for Resolving Ethical Conflicts Do Internists Use in Spanish Hospitals?	10
Perspectives on Spare Embryos amongst IVF users: An Exploratory Study from a Selected District of the Southern Indian State of Karnataka	9
Rereading Habermas in Times of CRISPR-cas: A Critique of and an Alternative to the Instrumentalist Interpretation of the Human Nature Argument	9

An Ethics-Informed, Comparative Analysis of Uterus Transplantation and Gestational Surrogacy for Uterine Factor Infertility in High-Income Countries	9
Philosophy of Science Can Prevent Manslaughter	8
Unmasking the Ethics of Public Health Messaging in a Pandemic	8
What Is A Family? A Constitutive-Affirmative Account	8
The Pensive Gaze	8
Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review	7
Lead Essay—Islamic Bioethics: A Vast, Fecund and Rapidly Evolving Field of Scholarship	7
“To Normalize is to Impose a Requirement on an Existence.” Why Health Professionals Should Think Twice Before Using the Term “Normal” With Patients	7
Correction to: Data Sharing During Pandemics: Reciprocity, Solidarity, and Limits to Obligations	7
Response—Forty-Seven Years Later: Further Studies in Disappointment?	7
Clinicians’ Perspectives and an Ethical Analysis of Safer Supply Opioid Prescribing	7
Constitution of “The Already Dying”: The Emergence of Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria	6
The Wrong of Eugenic Sterilization	6
Data Breach Notification Laws—Momentum Across the Asia-Pacific Region	6
CRISPR: Beyond the Excitement	6
Correction: Pandemic Surveillance and Racialized Subpopulations: Mitigating Vulnerabilities in COVID-19 Apps	6
The Ethics of Time: Towards Temporal Bioethics	6
The Morality of Kidney Sales: When Caring for the Seller’s Dignity Has Moral Costs	6
Ethical Stakes for Past, Present, and Prospective Tuberculosis Isolate Research Towards a Multicultural Data Sovereignty Model for Isolate Samples in Research	6
Review of Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation: Current Debates and International Perspectives	6
An Ageing Population Creates New Challenges Around Consent to Medical Treatment	6
Between “Medical” and “Social” Egg Freezing	6
Family-Oriented Living Organ Donation in Bangladesh: A Bioethical Defence	6
The Side Effects of Not Being Vaccinated: Individual Risk and Vaccine Hesitancy Nationalism	6
Seeing Gaza: Objectivity and Emotion	6
Organ Markets, Options, and an Over-Inclusiveness Objection: On Rippon’s Argument	6
Eight Strategies to Engineer Acceptance of Human Germline Modifications	6
The Ethics of Stem Cell-Based Embryo-Like Structures	6
Donation After Circulatory Death following Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatments. Are We Ready to Break the Dead Donor Rule?	6
The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence	5
Deconstructing COVID Time	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
Reflections on the Cloak of Convenience	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
Retrospective Radiology Research: Do We Need Informed Patient Consent?	5
Overcoming Conflicting Definitions of “Euthanasia,” and of “Assisted Suicide,” Through a Value-Neutral Taxonomy of “End-Of-Life Practices”	5
Blanket Consent and Trust in the Biobanking Context	5
Vascular Amputees: A Study in Disappointment	5
The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel Sequencing	5
The New Organization of Ethics Committees in Italy: What is the Future of Clinical Ethics?	5
Priorities in the Protection of Citizens Who Have Fallen into Enemy Hands	5
Making Sense of “Ethics” of War: Just War, Just Peace, and Ethic of Care	4
An Exploratory Study of Physical Therapists From High-Income Countries Practising Outside of Their Scope in Low and Middle-Income Countries	4
Professional Oversight of Emergency-Use Interventions and Monitoring Systems: Ethical Guidance From the Singapore Experience of COVID-19	4

The Ethics of Speaking (of) AIs Through the Lens of Natural Language	4
Ethical Design and Use of Robotic Care of the Elderly	4
Applying the Concepts of Benefit and Harm in Malaysian Bioethical Discourse: Analysis of Malaysian Fatwa	4
Bioethics: Changing the World or Thinking About It?	4
Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes	4
Enhancing Gender	4
Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement	4
Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape	4
Risk, Responsibility, Rudeness, and Rules: The Loneliness of the Social Distance Warrior	4
The Substance View and Cases of Complicated Multifetal Pregnancy	4
War and Peace: What Can Bioethics Offer to Bring an End to Conflicts?	4
Response—Belonging, Interdisciplinarity, and Fragmentation: On the Conditions for a Bioethical Discourse Community	4
History, Hype, and Responsible Psychedelic Medicine: A Qualitative Study of Psychedelic Researchers	4
An Ageing President, Betty Draper, Mad Men, and Realistic Medicine	4
Spousal and Kinship Co-Authorship Should be Declared to Avoid Conflicts of Interest	4
Physician–Patient Relationship, Assisted Suicide and the Italian Constitutional Court	4