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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents	110
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?	78
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails	62
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge	59
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients	56
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question	51
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits	48
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?	45
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings	45
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?	44
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?	43
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases	41
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death	37
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems	37
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind	37
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare	35
Agent-Regret in Healthcare	35
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards	31
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option	31
Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?	30
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics	28
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”	27
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria	27
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?	26
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation	26

Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology