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Papers

(The median citation count of Science and Engineering Ethics 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ethics Inside the Black Box: Integrating Science and Technology Studies into Engineering and Public Policy Curricula	98
Can Blockchain Solve the Dilemma in the Ethics of Genomic Biobanks?	80
Enhancing Engineering Ethics: Role Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility	59
Digital Technologies for Schizophrenia Management: A Descriptive Review	50
Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education	48
A Multi-level Review of Engineering Ethics Education: Towards a Socio-technical Orientation of Engineering Education for Ethics	38
A Value Sensitive Scenario Planning Method for Adaptation to Uncertain Future Sea Level Rise	36
A Politics of Objectivity: Biomedicine’s Attempts to Grapple with “non-financial” Conflicts of Interest	36
Acceptability of Neuroscientific Interventions in Education	36
Dual-Use and Trustworthy? A Mixed Methods Analysis of AI Diffusion Between Civilian and Defense R&D	34
Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework	30
Machine Ethics: Do Androids Dream of Being Good People?	29
Repentance as Rebuke: Betrayal and Moral Injury in Safety Engineering	27
Go Big or Go Home? A New Case for Integrating Micro-ethics and Macro-ethics in Engineering Ethics Education	25
Principal Investigators’ Priorities and Perceived Barriers and Facilitators When Making Decisions About Conducting Essential Research in the COVID-19 Pandemic	24
Startup Ethics: Ethically Responsible Conduct of Scientists and Engineers at Theranos	21
Book Review: Deborah G. Johnson (2020), Engineering Ethics: Contemporary and Eduring Debates, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2020, 189 + index, ISBN: 978-0-300-20924-2	21
How Competition for Funding Impacts Scientific Practice: Building Pre-fab Houses but no Cathedrals	21
Research Ethics in the Age of Digital Platforms	20
The Ethics of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs. An Enactivist Approach	20
The Future Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Making Sense of Collaborative Models	20
SAF: Stakeholders’ Agreement on Fairness in the Practice of Machine Learning Development	20
Interdisciplinary Confusion and Resolution in the Context of Moral Machines	19
Gender and Age Stereotypes in Robotics for Eldercare: Ethical Implications of Stakeholder Perspectives from Technology Development, Industry, and Nursing	17
A Taxonomy for Research Integrity Training: Design, Conduct, and Improvements in Research Integrity Courses	17

A Review of Scientific Ethics Issues Associated with the Recently Approved Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease	17
Correction: Domain Experts on Dementia-Care Technologies: Mitigating Risk in Design and Implementation	16
Epistemic and Non-epistemic Values in Earthquake Engineering	16
AI Moral Enhancement: Upgrading the Socio-Technical System of Moral Engagement	14
Learning from Retracted Papers Authored by the Highly Cited Iran-affiliated Researchers: Revisiting Research Policies and a Key Message to Clarivate Analytics	14
Energy Communities and the Tensions Between Neoliberalism and Communitarianism	14
Max Power: Implementing the Capabilities Approach to Identify Thresholds and Ceilings in Energy Justice	13
Why the Epistemic Objection Against Using Sentience as Criterion of Moral Status is Flawed	13
Ethics-Based Auditing of Automated Decision-Making Systems: Nature, Scope, and Limitations	13
Correction to: Biobanks and Individual Health Related Findings: from an Obstacle to an Incentive	12
The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review	12
Mark Coeckelbergh, AI Ethics, Mit Press, 2021	12
The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects	12
A Comparative Analysis of the Definitions of Autonomous Weapons Systems	11
Caring in an Algorithmic World: Ethical Perspectives for Designers and Developers in Building AI Algorithms to Fight Fake News	11
Ending the Energy-Poverty Nexus: An Ethical Imperative for Just Transitions	10
The Ethics of ‘Deathbots’	10
The Ubuntu Robot: Towards a Relational Conceptual Framework for Intercultural Robotics	9
The Value-Free Ideal of Science: A Useful Fiction? A Review of Non-epistemic Reasons for the Research Integrity Community	9
When is it Safe to Edit the Human Germline?	9
Fictional Film in Engineering Ethics Education: With Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises as Exemplar	9
Socially Assistive Devices in Healthcare–a Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence from an Ethical Perspective	9
Correction to: The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review	8
Empowering the Research Community to Investigate Misconduct and Promote Research Integrity and Ethics: New Regulation in Scandinavia	8
Developing an Online Data Ethics Module Informed by an Ecology of Data Perspective	8
Fairness as Equal Concession: Critical Remarks on Fair AI	8
Contextual Exceptionalism After Death: An Information Ethics Approach to Post-Mortem Privacy in Health Data Research	8
Tech Ethics Through Trust Auditing	8
Gender Bias and Conversational Agents: an ethical perspective on Social Robotics	7
Technological Answerability and the Severance Problem: Staying Connected by Demanding Answers	7
Parity and the Resolution of Value Conflicts in Design	7
An African Relational Approach to Healthcare and Big Data Challenges	7
Guilt Without Fault: Accidental Agency in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles	7
States of Uncertainty, Risk–Benefit Assessment and Early Clinical Research: A Conceptual Investigation	6
Achieving Equity with Predictive Policing Algorithms: A Social Safety Net Perspective	6
Designing for Care	6
How Neurotech Start-Ups Envision Ethical Futures: Demarcation, Deferral, Delegation	6
Post-publication Peer Review with an Intention to Uncover Data/Result Irregularities and Potential Research Misconduct in Scientific Research: Vigilantism or Volunteerism?	6
Co-creating Research Integrity Education Guidelines for Research Institutions	6
Measures of Ethics and Social Responsibility Among Undergraduate Engineering Students: Findings from a Longitudinal Study	6
Advance Car-Crash Planning: Shared Decision Making between Humans and Autonomous Vehicles	5
How Do Chemistry Faculty and Graduate Students Engage in Decision Making on Issues Related to Ethical and Responsible Conduct of Research Including Authorship?	5
Research Ethical Norms, Guidance and the Internet	5
What do Retraction Notices Reveal About Institutional Investigations into Allegations Underlying Retractions?	5
Retractions and Rewards in Science: An Open Question for Reviewers and Funders	5
Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Research and Development: A Dual Advantage for Sustainability	5
Sims and Vulnerability: On the Ethics of Creating Emulated Minds	5
Modeling Ethics: Approaches to Data Creep in Higher Education	5
Meaningful Lives in an Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Danaher	5
Why and Where to Fund Carbon Capture and Storage	5

Stakeholders’ Experiences of Research Integrity Support in Universities: A Qualitative Study in Three European Countries	4
On the (Non-)Rationality of Human Enhancement and Transhumanism	4
Benchmarking Scientific Image Forgery Detectors	4
Correction to: Does Proof of Concept Trump All? RRI Dilemmas in Research Practices	4
RESPONSE_ABILITY A Card-Based Engagement Method to Support Researchers’ Ability to Respond to Integrity Issues	4
“In Our Own Little World”: Invisibility of the Social and Ethical Dimension of Engineering Among Undergraduate Students	4
Professional and Organizational Leadership Role in Ethics Management: Avoiding Reliance on Ethical Codification and Nurturing Ethical Culture	4
AI as an Epistemic Technology	4
Why a Virtual Assistant for Moral Enhancement When We Could have a Socrates?	4
Correction to: Mark Coeckelbergh, AI Ethics, Mit Press, 2021	4
Robot Technology for the Elderly and the Value of Veracity: Disruptive Technology or Reinvigorating Entrenched Principles?	4
An Ethical Exploration of Increased Average Number of Authors Per Publication	4
How to Handle Co-authorship When Not Everyone’s Research Contributions Make It into the Paper	4
Knowledge and Perceptions of Honorary Authorship among Health Care Researchers: Online Cross-sectional Survey Data from the Middle East	4