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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience	43
The Most Essential Moral Virtues Enhance Happiness	26
“Expensive Sisters”	25
Why Intellectual Disability is Not Mere Difference	18
“Working on a Shoestring”: Critical Resource Challenges and Place-Based Considerations for Telehealth in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada	17
Biopolitics at the Nexus of Chronic and Infectious Diseases	16
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
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?	13
Practising Less is More: An Exploration of What it Means to See “This Patient” Not a “Patient Like This”	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
Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Injury: The Role of Expert Witness Testimony and a Recent Case Development	11
Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis	10
Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?	10
It is Not Too Late for Reconciliation Between Israel and Palestine, Even in the Darkest Hour	10
Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic Approach	10
An Archeology of Corruption in Medicine	10
Diversity in German-speaking medical ethics and humanities	9
Rereading Habermas in Times of CRISPR-cas: A Critique of and an Alternative to the Instrumentalist Interpretation of the Human Nature Argument	9
What Ethics Support for Resolving Ethical Conflicts Do Internists Use in Spanish Hospitals?	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
Perspectives on Spare Embryos amongst IVF users: An Exploratory Study from a Selected District of the Southern Indian State of Karnataka	8

What Is A Family? A Constitutive-Affirmative Account	8
An Ethics-Informed, Comparative Analysis of Uterus Transplantation and Gestational Surrogacy for Uterine Factor Infertility in High-Income Countries	8
“To Normalize is to Impose a Requirement on an Existence.” Why Health Professionals Should Think Twice Before Using the Term “Normal” With Patients	7
Response—Forty-Seven Years Later: Further Studies in Disappointment?	7
Philosophy of Science Can Prevent Manslaughter	7
The Pensive Gaze	7
Unmasking the Ethics of Public Health Messaging in a Pandemic	7
Correction to: Data Sharing During Pandemics: Reciprocity, Solidarity, and Limits to Obligations	7
The Wrong of Eugenic Sterilization	6
Seeing Gaza: Objectivity and Emotion	6
Review of Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation: Current Debates and International Perspectives	6
Constitution of “The Already Dying”: The Emergence of Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria	6
Ethical Stakes for Past, Present, and Prospective Tuberculosis Isolate Research Towards a Multicultural Data Sovereignty Model for Isolate Samples in Research	6
Organ Markets, Options, and an Over-Inclusiveness Objection: On Rippon’s Argument	6
The Side Effects of Not Being Vaccinated: Individual Risk and Vaccine Hesitancy Nationalism	6
Data Breach Notification Laws—Momentum Across the Asia-Pacific Region	6
Clinicians’ Perspectives and an Ethical Analysis of Safer Supply Opioid Prescribing	6
Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review	6
An Ageing Population Creates New Challenges Around Consent to Medical Treatment	6
The Morality of Kidney Sales: When Caring for the Seller’s Dignity Has Moral Costs	6
The Ethics of Time: Towards Temporal Bioethics	6
Lead Essay—Islamic Bioethics: A Vast, Fecund and Rapidly Evolving Field of Scholarship	6
Blanket Consent and Trust in the Biobanking Context	5
Correction: Pandemic Surveillance and Racialized Subpopulations: Mitigating Vulnerabilities in COVID-19 Apps	5
Eight Strategies to Engineer Acceptance of Human Germline Modifications	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
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
Donation After Circulatory Death following Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatments. Are We Ready to Break the Dead Donor Rule?	5
CRISPR: Beyond the Excitement	5
The Ethics of Overlapping Relationships in Rural and Remote Healthcare. A Narrative Review	5
Vascular Amputees: A Study in Disappointment	5
Overcoming Conflicting Definitions of “Euthanasia,” and of “Assisted Suicide,” Through a Value-Neutral Taxonomy of “End-Of-Life Practices”	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
Family-Oriented Living Organ Donation in Bangladesh: A Bioethical Defence	5
Between “Medical” and “Social” Egg Freezing	5
The Ethics of Stem Cell-Based Embryo-Like Structures	5
How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being	5
Deconstructing COVID Time	5
Anatomy of Being, Metaphysics of Death: The Case of Avicenna’s Logical Dissection	5
Spousal and Kinship Co-Authorship Should be Declared to Avoid Conflicts of Interest	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
Retrospective Radiology Research: Do We Need Informed Patient Consent?	4
The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence	4
Applying the Concepts of Benefit and Harm in Malaysian Bioethical Discourse: Analysis of Malaysian Fatwa	4
War and Peace: What Can Bioethics Offer to Bring an End to Conflicts?	4
An Ageing President, Betty Draper, Mad Men, and Realistic Medicine	4
Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement	4

Priorities in the Protection of Citizens Who Have Fallen into Enemy Hands	4
Honesty in Human Subject Research	4
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
Bioethics: Changing the World or Thinking About It?	4
The Substance View and Cases of Complicated Multifetal Pregnancy	4
Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes	4
Response—Belonging, Interdisciplinarity, and Fragmentation: On the Conditions for a Bioethical Discourse Community	4