OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Bioethics is 26. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents	126
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?	83
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question	69
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients	69
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits	60
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings	57
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?	57
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases	53
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?	53
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind	51
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death	49
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems	44
What Lane Should We Stay In? Medical Relevance, Medical Necessity, and Clinical Genital Alteration of Minors	42
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare	42
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards	37
Beyond Integration: Advancing Climate-Conscious Clinical Ethics Through Temporal, Resilience, and Responsibility Frameworks	37
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option	36
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?	33
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation	31
Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?	31
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics	28
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”	28
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria	28
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?	27
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology	26

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