OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Bioethics is 27. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question	139
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits	88
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients	85
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?	73
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents	70
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind	64
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems	61
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death	61
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge	56
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?	56
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings	54
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare	48
The Representation Paradox: Rethinking Ethical Standards Through Anticipatory Autonomy	47
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?	46
What Lane Should We Stay In? Medical Relevance, Medical Necessity, and Clinical Genital Alteration of Minors	43
Beyond Integration: Advancing Climate-Conscious Clinical Ethics Through Temporal, Resilience, and Responsibility Frameworks	41
Weighing Parents’ Reasons Regarding the Use of GLP-1 Medications in Pediatric Care	41
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease	39
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails	34
I Am Not My Genes: Against Genetic Exceptionalism and Essentialism in Justifying Confidentiality Breaches	33
Heroism Is Not a Plan—From “Duty to Treat” to “Risk and Rewards”	31
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications	30
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare	30
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine	30
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics	29

Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts	29
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria	27
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse	27
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action	27
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology	27