OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medicine Health Care and Philosophy is 5. 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
New frontiers in the moral responsibility debate	197
To cure or not to cure	104
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	64
Shades of hope: Marcel’s notion of hope in end-of-life care	33
On recovery: re-directing the concept by differentiation of its meanings	31
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder	24
Adaptation and illness severity: the significance of suffering	24
Popperian methodology and the Semmelweis case*	23
Debates on humanization of human-animal brain chimeras – are we putting the cart before the horses?	22
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	21
Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis: are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue?	19
Managing feeding needs in advanced dementia: perspectives from ethics of care and ubuntu philosophy	19
Maternal epigenetic responsibility: what can we learn from the pandemic?	19
The medical gap: intuition in medicine	19
Ethical challenges of clinical trials with a repurposed drug in outbreaks	18
Suicide and Homicide: Symmetries and Asymmetries in Kant’s Ethics	17
Who has a meaningful life? A care ethics analysis of selective trait abortion	16
Personhood as projection: the value of multiple conceptions of personhood for understanding the dehumanisation of people living with dementia	15
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	15
Genetic enhancement from the perspective of transhumanism: exploring a new paradigm of transhuman evolution	14
The significance of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of responsibility for medical judgment	14
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	14
Potentiality switches and epistemic uncertainty: the Argument from Potential in times of human embryo-like structures	14
Sharing a medical decision	14
Severity and death	13

Children with medical complexities: their distinct vulnerability in health systems’ Covid-19 response and their claims of justice in the recovery phase	13
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	12
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	12
Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised	12
Making Biomedical Sciences publications more accessible for machines	11
Why a responsibility sensitive healthcare system is not disrespectful	11
Systemising triage: COVID-19 guidelines and their underlying theories of distributive justice	11
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants	10
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	10
“Green informed consent” in the classroom, clinic, and consultation room	10
Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care	10
Precision medicine and the problem of structural injustice	10
Editors’ statement on the responsible use of generative AI technologies in scholarly journal publishing	9
Who decides who goes first? Taking democracy seriously in micro-allocative healthcare decisions	9
Ethical (mis)use of prehistory	8
Medicine, health and the human side: responsibility in medical practice	8
Correction to: On the relation between decision quality and autonomy in times of patient‑centered care: a case study	8
Letter to the editor: considerations for ethical incentives in research	8
Epistemologies of evidence-based medicine: a plea for corpus-based conceptual research in the medical humanities	7
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	7
Commodification of biomaterials and data when funding is contingent to transfer in biobank research	7
Correction: Editors’ statement on the responsible use of generative AI technologies in scholarly journal publishing	7
Controversies between regulations of research ethics and protection of personal data: informed consent at a cross-road	7
Intergenerational contract in Ageing Democracies: sustainable Welfare Systems and the interests of future generations	6
Disease diagnosis and treatment; could theranostics change everything?	6
Solidarity and Public Health	6
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
The duty of care and the right to be cared for: is there a duty to treat the unvaccinated?	6
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	6
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	6
Toward a new clinical pragmatism: method in clinical ethics consultation	6
Epistemic solidarity in medicine and healthcare	6
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	5
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	5
Empathy is not so perfect! -For a descriptive and wide conception of empathy	5
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	5
Relating to foetal persons: why women’s Voices come first and last, but not alone in Abortion debates	5
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	5
Phenomenological and existential contributions to the study of erectile dysfunction	5
Vision, body and interpretation in medical imaging diagnostics	5
When the universal is particular: a re-examination of the common morality using the work of Charles Taylor	5
Precision medicine and the fragmentation of solidarity (and justice)	5