OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to comments on my paper on whole body gestational donation	19
Johnson, L. Syd M. The ethics of uncertainty: entangled ethical and epistemic risks in disorders of consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780190943646	18
Robert Veatch’s Disrupted Dialogue and its implications for bioethics	17
The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations	17
The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle	15
Toward a digitalized medicine: the Covid-19 pandemic as a disclosure of the importance of digital communication in the clinical world	13
Deckers, Jan. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health Care Ethics and Law. Ghent, Belgium: Owl Press, 2023. 263 pp. $24.54(paperback). ISBN 978-9072201591.	9
Response to “The conceptual Injustice of the brain death standard”	8
Correction to: Transposon dynamics and the epigenetic switch hypothesis	7
Thomas Boggatz (ed.): Quality of life and person-centered care for older people	7
Treat the dead, not just death, with dignity	7
The prospects of precision psychiatry	7
Can AI principlism without explicability be coherent? A response to Segers and De Proost	5
Autonomy-based bioethics and vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards an African relational approach	5
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous	5
Explanatory integration and integrated explanations in Darwinian medicine and evolutionary medicine	5
Of rats and humans: rethinking physiological boundaries	5
Johnson, James A., Douglas E. Anderson, and Caren C. Rossow. Health Systems thinking: a primer. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2020. 138 pp. ISBN 9781284167146	5
The ubiquity of the fallacy of composition in cognitive enhancement and in education	5
Reviewers, 2023	5
Biting the bullet on ethical veganism, antinatalism, and the demands of morality	4
Sexual citizenship: defending society’s most disadvantaged	4
Cutter, Mary Ann G.: An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. New York: Routledge, 2024, x + 123 pp, $144 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-032-62099-2	4
Case analysis in ethics instruction: bootlegging theory in a topical structure	4
Saving the debate: why psychological accounts of personhood ought not accept a univocal biological definition and criterion of death	4

Public sexual health: replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programs	4
Correction to: Biographical lives and organ conscription	4
The place of sexuality in society: misplaced grand theorising will sideline disabled people’s sexual rights	4
Biographical lives and organ conscription	4
Principlism language in contemporary Chinese bioethics: dissonance and discordance	4
Bishop, Jeffrey P., M. Therese Lysaught, and Andrew A. Michel. Biopolitics after Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 288pp. $115.00 (cloth); $39.95	4
Correction to: Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease	3
Sex, demoralized	3
Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy: an African bioethical perspective	3
Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost	3
What is morally at stake when using algorithms to make medical diagnoses? Expanding the discussion beyond risks and harms	3
Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology: a mental health proposal	3
S. Clarke, H. Zohny and J. Savulescu (eds), Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-19-289407-6	3
Is the replication crisis a base-rate fallacy?	3
Subjectivity of pre-test probability value: controversies over the use of Bayes’ Theorem in medical diagnosis	3
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected: a response to Smajdor	2
Is pharmacogenetics being racialized? An investigation into the reinscription of racial beliefs in modern biomedicine	2
Whole body gestational donation	2
Paul Scherz: The Ethics of Precision Medicine: The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare. University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, 2024, 194 pp., $40.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-02682-0905-6	2
Chochinov, Harvey Max. Dignity in Care. The Human Side of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 184 pp. (print) ISBN 9780199380428, (online) ISBN 9780199380459	2
Pain-like isn’t pain. Reasserting affective attitudes as the boundary of moral life	2
In ethics a model is important: interview with Professor Edmund D. Pellegrino	2
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better	2
Culturally competent respect for the autonomy of Muslim patients: fostering patient agency by respecting justice	2
Benjamin’s translation as dialectical abduction: a novel epistemic framework for diagnostic hypothesizing	2
Boggatz Thomas (ed). Quality of life and person-centered care for older people. Springer, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. 466 pp. $59.99 (paper). ISBN 978-3-030-29989-7	2
Correction to: How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organism	2
Deleuzo–Guattarian de-construction of the mind to re-evaluate undeath	2
DeGrazia, David, and Millum, Joseph. A theory of bioethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 316 pp. $99.99 (cloth) ISBN 978,316,515,839, $24.99 (paper) SBN 9,781,009,011,747	2
Osteoporosis and risk of fracture: reference class problems are real	2
Can bioethics bray? Non-human animals, biosemiotics, and a road to shared decision-making	2
Disability bioethics and the commitment to equality	2
Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?	2
Rethinking the nature of medicine: limits of the inquiry thesis through the case of African traditional medicine	2
Defending secular clinical ethics expertise from an Engelhardt-inspired sense of theoretical crisis	2
Unmasking therapy-speak	2
Reviewers, 2022	2
Death as the extinction of the source of value: the constructivist theory of death as an irreversible loss of moral status	2