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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	128
Understanding clinical ethics situations: a co-created repertoire of practices	86
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	74
Incognito standardized patients for studying healthcare stigma: partial deception and other ethical challenges	72
The ethics of simplification: balancing patient autonomy, comprehension, and accuracy in AI-generated radiology reports	71
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	61
Return of health research findings in Nigeria-perspective of potential research participants	60
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	58
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	56
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?	54
The face of the other in the clinic: reframing patient impoliteness through phenomenological ethics in provider-patient communication	52
Management discussion of laws and regulations on human genetic resources in China: a scoping review	51
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries	49
Sacred choices and willing hearts: exploring spiritual beliefs in body donation - a cross-sectional study of Nigerian medical and allied health students	48
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	47
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	45
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	41
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	39
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs	38
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	38
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	36
Opportunities for a national genomic data governance framework in Australia: a systematic review	36
Awareness, attitudes, and educational needs regarding the life-sustaining treatment decision-making act in Korea among healthcare providers and medical students: a comparative analysis	35
Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study	35
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay	33

The last human touch: why AI doesn’t belong in life’s defining moments	32
Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement	28
Readability of health research informed consent forms: case of the National Health Research Ethics Committee in Tanzania	28
Moral distress and turnover intention in deceased donor organ procurement teams in Serbia: a cross-sectional study	28