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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	225
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	45
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	43
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	41
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	40
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	35
“The significance of clinical foetal autopsy for reproductive health care: an ethical analysis in the German context”	31
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	30
Reclaiming human dignity: a critical review of contemporary theories in light of ontological foundations	26
Giving as repaying: towards an embodied ethics of living donor liver transplantation	25
On misempowerment & mobile health	24
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	23
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	23
“Big chunks of blank memory”: complex trauma and dissociative body memory	23
The hermeneutics of symptoms	22
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	20
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of major depression: a synthesis of phenomenological explanations	20
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	19
Reconsidering harm in psychiatric manuals within an explicationist framework	19
Burnout as breakdown of one’s existence in the world	18
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments	17
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research	15
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary	15
Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	14
No (true) right to die: barriers in access to physician-assisted death in case of psychiatric disease, advanced dementia or multiple geriatric syndromes in the Netherlands	14

Fostering dialogue: a phenomenological approach to bridging the gap between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”	13
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach	13
The impotence of ethics	13
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?	12
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue	12
Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care	12
'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health	12
How do roles impact suicidal agents’ obligations?	11
Correction: Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	10
Mental health pluralism	9
The “Medical friendship” or the true meaning of the doctor-patient relationship from two complementary perspectives: Goya and Laín	9
Beyond ethical post-mortems	9
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion	8
Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk	8
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care	8
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?	8
Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception	7
Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised	7
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	7
What’s wrong with medical black box AI?	7
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder	7
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	7
COVID-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding	7
Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	7
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	7
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	6
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	6
Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science	6
When the universal is particular: a re-examination of the common morality using the work of Charles Taylor	6
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	6
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	6
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants	6
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	6
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	6
Professionalism, Organizationalism and Sur-moralism: Three ethical systems for physicians	6
The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	5
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	5
Chronic illness as transformative activity	5
Historical empathy and medicine: Pathography and empathy in Sophocles’ Philoctetes	5
«Doctors must live»: a care ethics inquiry into physicians’ late modern suffering	5
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	5
Medicine and machines	5
A fair exchange: why living kidney donors in England should be financially compensated	5
Why physicians have authority over patients	5
REC review of deceptive studies: diversifying guidance for diverse review needs	5
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	5
Well-being and enhancement: reassessing the welfarist account	5