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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
ChatGPT: evolution or revolution?	119
Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care	65
Medical conspiracy theories: cognitive science and implications for ethics	33
Evaluating the effectiveness of clinical ethics committees: a systematic review	31
Empathy in patient care: from ‘Clinical Empathy’ to ‘Empathic Concern’	30
Optimizing peer review to minimize the risk of retracting COVID-19-related literature	28
Embodiment and personal identity in dementia	22
Towards a pragmatist dealing with algorithmic bias in medical machine learning	21
Controversies between regulations of research ethics and protection of personal data: informed consent at a cross-road	21
Defensive practice is indefensible: how defensive medicine runs counter to the ethical and professional obligations of clinicians	19
Dying like a dog: the convergence of concepts of a good death in human and veterinary medicine	17
Biological normativity: a new hope for naturalism?	17
Back to WHAT? The role of research ethics in pandemic times	16
Vulnerability as a key concept in relational patient- centered professionalism	16
Evaluating models of consent in changing health research environments	15
From hostile worlds to multiple spheres: towards a normative pragmatics of justice for the Googlization of health	15
Decision-making approaches in transgender healthcare: conceptual analysis and ethical implications	14
Decision-making capacity: from testing to evaluation	13
Personalized medicine, digital technology and trust: a Kantian account	13
Vulnerability in light of the COVID-19 crisis	12
Experiencing objectified health: turning the body into an object of attention	12
New perspectives on person-centered care: an affordance-based account	12
Genomics governance: advancing justice, fairness and equity through the lens of the African communitarian ethic of Ubuntu	11
Do we need the criminalization of medical fake news?	11
In the name of the family? Against parents’ refusal to disclose prognostic information to children	10

Listening to vaccine refusers	10
Nudging to donate organs: do what you like or like what we do?	10
Moralization and Mismoralization in Public Health	9
Ricoeur’s hermeneutic arc and the “narrative turn” in the ethics of care	9
Harming patients by provision of intensive care treatment: is it right to provide time-limited trials of intensive care to patients with a low chance of survival?	9
Compassionate use of psychedelics	9
The personalized medicine discourse: archaeology and genealogy	9
Healing time: the experience of body and temporality when coping with illness and incapacity	8
Revisiting respect for persons: conceptual analysis and implications for clinical practice	8
Regulating the international surrogacy market:the ethics of commercial surrogacy in the Netherlands and India	8
Ethical, legal, and social aspects of symptom checker applications: a scoping review	8
Responsible nudging for social good: new healthcare skills for AI-driven digital personal assistants	8
The Deception of Certainty: how Non-Interpretable Machine Learning Outcomes Challenge the Epistemic Authority of Physicians. A deliberative-relational Approach	8
Relational autonomy: lessons from COVID-19 and twentieth-century philosophy	8
Better in theory than in practise? Challenges when applying the luck egalitarian ethos in health care policy	8
Openness and trust in data-intensive science: the case of biocuration	8
The Many Moral Matters of Organoid Models: A systematic review of reasons	8
Empowerment through health self-testing apps? Revisiting empowerment as a process	8
Ethical issues in biomedical research using electronic health records: a systematic review	8
The practical ethics of repurposing health data: how to acknowledge invisible data work and the need for prioritization	8
COVID-19 and the ethics of quarantine: a lesson from the Eyam plague	7
Chronic pain patients’ need for recognition and their current struggle	7
The concept of social dignity as a yardstick to delimit ethical use of robotic assistance in the care of older persons	7
«If you give them your little finger, they’ll tear off your entire arm»: losing trust in biobank research	7
Vulnerability, ageism, and health: is it helpful to label older adults as a vulnerable group in health care?	7
Resilience beyond reductionism: ethical and social dimensions of an emerging concept in the neurosciences	6
Global bioethics and respect for cultural diversity: how do we avoid moral relativism and moral imperialism?	6
Wherein is the concept of disease normative? From weak normativity to value-conscious naturalism	6
On recovery: re-directing the concept by differentiation of its meanings	6
Ubuntu philosophy and the consensus regarding incidental findings in genomic research: a heuristic approach	6
Health and disease as practical concepts: exploring function in context-specific definitions	6
Patient autonomy, clinical decision making, and the Phenomenological reduction	6
Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis: are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue?	6
Withdrawing critical care from patients in a triage situation	6
Suffering, authenticity, and physician assisted suicide	6
Black-box assisted medical decisions: AI power vs. ethical physician care	6
“Green informed consent” in the classroom, clinic, and consultation room	6
Precision medicine and the fragmentation of solidarity (and justice)	5
Committing to endangerment: medical teams in the age of corona in Jewish ethics	5
Taking the principle of the primacy of the human being seriously	5
Precision medicine and the problem of structural injustice	5
Climate change and the different roles of physicians: a critical response to "A Planetary Health Pledge for Health Professionals in the Anthropocene"	5
Epistemologies of evidence-based medicine: a plea for corpus-based conceptual research in the medical humanities	5
Children with medical complexities: their distinct vulnerability in health systems’ Covid-19 response and their claims of justice in the recovery phase	5
How to evaluate the quality of an ethical deliberation? A pragmatist proposal for evaluation criteria and collaborative research	5
An ethical exploration of pregnancy related mHealth: does it deliver?	5