OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Ethics is 25. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	481
Perceptions on using surplus embryos for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease among the Swedish population: a qualitative study	116
Participatory development of CURA, a clinical ethics support instrument for palliative care	108
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries	58
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	50
Cross-sectional survey of surrogate decision-making in Japanese medical practice	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?	42
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	40
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	40
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	40
Ethical considerations for involving adolescents in biomedical HIV prevention research	39
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	39
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	34
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	34
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	33
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs	32
Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments	31
“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	29
Being torn by inevitable moral dilemma: experiences of ICU nurses	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	27
Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model	26
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay	26
Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region	26
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	25