OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Ethics is 22. 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
Clinical ethics consultation documentation in the era of open notes	379
Disparity in attitudes regarding assisted dying among physicians and the general public in Japan	115
Evaluating the understanding of the ethical and moral challenges of Big Data and AI among Jordanian medical students, physicians in training, and senior practitioners: a cross-sectional study	90
Factors influencing obstetricians’ acceptance of termination of pregnancy beyond the first trimester: a qualitative study	84
Ethics support for ethics support: the development of the Confidentiality Compass for dealing with moral challenges concerning (breaching) confidentiality in moral case deliberation	56
Ethics knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of tertiary care pediatricians in Ethiopia	53
Navigating ethics in HIV data and biomaterial management within Black, African, and Caribbean communities in Canada	42
What are the views of Quebec and Ontario citizens on the tiebreaker criteria for prioritizing access to adult critical care in the extreme context of a COVID-19 pandemic?	35
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	32
The view of Hong Kong parents on secondary use of dried blood spots in newborn screening program	32
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	32
Cross-sectional survey of surrogate decision-making in Japanese medical practice	32
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	32
COVID-19 underscores the important role of Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa	32
Perceptions, attitudes, and willingness of the public in low- and middle-income countries of the Arab region to participate in biobank research	31
Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review	30
Exploring Researchers’ Perspectives on Institutional Review Boards Functions in Saudi Arabia: A Survey Utilizing the IRB-RAT Tool	29
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	28
From ontological to relational: A scoping review of conceptions of dignity invoked in deliberations on medically assisted death	24
Medical students’ and residents’ views on euthanasia	24
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	24
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	23
Health equity and distributive justice: views of high-level African policymakers	22
Electronic informed consent criteria for research ethics review: a scoping review	22
A Q methodology study on divergent perspectives on CRISPR-Cas9 in the Netherlands	22

'Some parts of the consent form are written using complex scientific language’: community perspectives on informed consent for research with pregnant and lactating mothers in Uganda