OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Bioethics 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question	92
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits	89
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?	78
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind	67
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death	57
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems	57
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge	52
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings	50
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare	49
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease	47
Beyond Integration: Advancing Climate-Conscious Clinical Ethics Through Temporal, Resilience, and Responsibility Frameworks	47
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?	37
I Am Not My Genes: Against Genetic Exceptionalism and Essentialism in Justifying Confidentiality Breaches	37
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails	37
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine	35
What Lane Should We Stay In? Medical Relevance, Medical Necessity, and Clinical Genital Alteration of Minors	35
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare	34
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications	34
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts	33
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria	32
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege	31
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse	31
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?	30
Pediatric Brain Death Testing Over Parental Objections: Not an Ethically Preferable Option	30
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation	30

Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?	30
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics	29
Expanding Access to Genomic Sequencing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Roadmap to Discharge and Beyond	28
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards	28