OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Ethics is 24. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	425
Perceptions on using surplus embryos for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease among the Swedish population: a qualitative study	115
Participatory development of CURA, a clinical ethics support instrument for palliative care	105
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries	100
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	55
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?	48
Cross-sectional survey of surrogate decision-making in Japanese medical practice	40
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	39
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	36
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	36
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	34
Ethical considerations for involving adolescents in biomedical HIV prevention research	33
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	33
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	33
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	32
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
Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study	29
Readability of health research informed consent forms: case of the National Health Research Ethics Committee in Tanzania	27
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	25
Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model	24
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay	24
Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region	24