OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Neuroethics is 2. 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
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	67
The Unintended Consequences of Chile’s Neurorights Constitutional Reform: Moving beyond Negative Rights to Capabilities	58
On the Possibility and Probability of Post-Persons: Neuroenhancements and Moral Status	38
Safeguarding Users of Consumer Mental Health Apps in Research and Product Improvement Studies: an Interview Study	32
What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?	31
Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement and Cheapened Achievement: A New Dilemma	22
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	20
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	20
Review of Walter Glannon’s The Neuroethics of Memory: From Total Recall to Oblivion, Cambridge University Press, 2019	16
Exploring the Essence of the Freedom of Thought – A Normative Framework for Identifying Undue Mind Interventions	16
Protocol for Returning Results in Brain Science Research Targeting Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Japan	14
Mental Integrity in the Attention Economy: in Search of the Right to Attention	12
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism	12
Neurorights – Do we Need New Human Rights? A Reconsideration of the Right to Freedom of Thought	12
Living With Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: a Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis of Patient Experiences	12
Ethical Challenges of Human-Machine Symbiosis in Brain-Computer Interfaces: Insights from Chinese Experts	11
Recruitment and Engagement of Indigenous Peoples in Brain-Related Health Research	10
Is the Treatment Worse than the Disease?: Key Stakeholders’ Views about the Use of Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions for Treatment-Resistant Depression	10
Consciousness Ain’t All That	9
The Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Transplantation in Animals	9
Responsibility, Mental Capacities, and Socially Deprived Offenders	9
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again	9
Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	9
Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness	9
The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	8

Limiting the Epistemic Argument Against Retributivism	8
Preserving Narrative Identity for Dementia Patients: Embodiment, Active Environments, and Distributed Memory	8
Revolutionizing Brain Research Using Portable MRI in Field Settings: Public Perspectives on the Ethical and Legal Challenges	7
One-Factor versus Two-Factor Theory of Delusion: Replies to Sullivan-Bissett and Noordhof	7
The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation	7
A Mixed-methods Study of Deep Brain Stimulation's Temporal Impact on Parkinson’s Disease Patients: Insights from Short-, Medium-, and Long-term Experiences	7
Implications of Genetic Explanations for Addiction: Insights from Clinicians	6
Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging	6
Memory Modification and Authenticity: A Narrative Approach	5
Philosophical foundation of the right to mental integrity in the age of neurotechnologies	5
Neuroenhancements in the Military: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Attitudes of Staff Officers to Ethics and Rules	5
Rationales and Approaches to Protecting Brain Data: a Scoping Review	5
The Ethics of Set and Setting in Psychedelic Psychotherapy	5
Informal Caregivers of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: a Qualitative Study of Communication Experiences and Information Needs with Physicians	5
Neurotechnological Applications and the Protection of Mental Privacy: An Assessment of Risks	5
Ethical Implications of the Impact of Fracking on Brain Health	5
A Conceptual Framework to Safeguard the Neuroright to Personal Autonomy	5
The Illusion of Agency in Human–Computer Interaction	5
Neurodiversity with Nuance	5
The “Wheels That Keep Me Goin’”: Invisible Forms of Support for Brain Pioneers	4
"In the spectrum of people who are healthy": Views of individuals at risk of dementia on using neurotechnology for cognitive enhancement	4
Mitigating Ethical Issues in Training for Psychedelic Therapy	4
How to Advance the Debate on the Criminal Responsibility of Antisocial Offenders	4
The Faithful Response to the Comforting Delusion Objection	4
“You shall have the thought”: habeas cogitationem as a New Legal Remedy to Enforce Freedom of Thinking and Neurorights	4
Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority	4
Stream of Consciousness: Some Propositions and Reflections	3
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion	3
Health Aspirations for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)	3
Correction to: Who does Neuroethics Scholarship Address, and What Does it Recommend? A Content Analysis of Selected Abstracts from the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meetings	3
Neuro-Nonsense: Why Ulysses Contracts don't Compute in Brain-Computer Interface Research	3
What Happens After a Neural Implant Study? Neuroethics Expert Workshop on Post-Trial Obligations	3
Neurorights as Hohfeldian Privileges	3
Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance	2
Neither the “Devil’s Lettuce” nor a “Miracle Cure:” The Use of Medical Cannabis in the Care of Children and Youth	2
Affect and Human Electrophysiological Research	2
The Right to Mental Integrity: Multidimensional, Multilayered and Extended	2
Hope and Optimism in Pediatric Deep Brain Stimulation: Key Stakeholder Perspectives	2
Correction to: First Epileptic Seizure and Initial Diagnosis of Juvenile Myoclonus Epilepsy (JME) in a Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Study– Ethical Analysis of a Clinical Case	2
When Do People Have an Obligation Not to Tic? Blame, Free Will, and Moral Character Judgments of People with Tourette’s Syndrome	2
How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?	2
Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Why Earlier Use Makes Shared Decision Making Important	2
Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life	2
When the Trial Ends: The Case for Post-Trial Provisions in Clinical Psychedelic Research	2
Novel Neurorights: From Nonsense to Substance	2
Literary Neuroexistentialism: Coming to Terms with Materialism and Finding Meaning in the Age of Neuroscience through Literature	2