OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Ethics is 28. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	107
Understanding clinical ethics situations: a co-created repertoire of practices	67
Return of health research findings in Nigeria-perspective of potential research participants	65
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	62
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	53
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	51
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	49
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	46
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?	45
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	45
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries	44
Incognito standardized patients for studying healthcare stigma: partial deception and other ethical challenges	44
The ethics of simplification: balancing patient autonomy, comprehension, and accuracy in AI-generated radiology reports	44
Management discussion of laws and regulations on human genetic resources in China: a scoping review	42
The face of the other in the clinic: reframing patient impoliteness through phenomenological ethics in provider-patient communication	42
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	38
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	34
“Everything has been tried and his heart can’t recover…”: A Descriptive Review of “Do Everything!” in the Archive of Ontario Consent and Capacity Board	33
Differing needs for Advance Care Planning in the Veterans Health Administration: use of latent class analysis to identify subgroups to enhance Advance Care Planning via Group Visits for veterans	32
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs	32
The last human touch: why AI doesn’t belong in life’s defining moments	31
Opportunities for a national genomic data governance framework in Australia: a systematic review	31
From chaos to symbiosis: exploring adaptive co-evolution strategies for generative AI and research integrity systems	30
Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model	28
Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments	28

Awareness, attitudes, and educational needs regarding the life-sustaining treatment decision-making act in Korea among healthcare providers and medical students: a comparative analysis	28
Readability of health research informed consent forms: case of the National Health Research Ethics Committee in Tanzania	28
Medical staff’s sense of awareness of informed consent for adolescent cancer patients and the need for decision-making support practiced from the perspective of trauma-informed approach	28