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

Article	Citations
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	58
The Unintended Consequences of Chile’s Neurorights Constitutional Reform: Moving beyond Negative Rights to Capabilities	55
On the Possibility and Probability of Post-Persons: Neuroenhancements and Moral Status	35
Safeguarding Users of Consumer Mental Health Apps in Research and Product Improvement Studies: an Interview Study	28
Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement and Cheapened Achievement: A New Dilemma	26
What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?	20
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	20
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	19
Review of Walter Glannon’s The Neuroethics of Memory: From Total Recall to Oblivion, Cambridge University Press, 2019	13
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism	12
Neurorights – Do we Need New Human Rights? A Reconsideration of the Right to Freedom of Thought	11
Protocol for Returning Results in Brain Science Research Targeting Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Japan	11
Exploring the Essence of the Freedom of Thought – A Normative Framework for Identifying Undue Mind Interventions	11
Recruitment and Engagement of Indigenous Peoples in Brain-Related Health Research	10
Mental Integrity in the Attention Economy: in Search of the Right to Attention	10
Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness	10
The Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Transplantation in Animals	9
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again	9
Is the Treatment Worse than the Disease?: Key Stakeholders’ Views about the Use of Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions for Treatment-Resistant Depression	8
Responsibility, Mental Capacities, and Socially Deprived Offenders	8
Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	8
Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging	7
Preserving Narrative Identity for Dementia Patients: Embodiment, Active Environments, and Distributed Memory	7
The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation	7
Limiting the Epistemic Argument Against Retributivism	7

The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	7
Consciousness Ain’t All That	7
One-Factor versus Two-Factor Theory of Delusion: Replies to Sullivan-Bissett and Noordhof	6
Rationales and Approaches to Protecting Brain Data: a Scoping Review	6
Ethical Implications of the Impact of Fracking on Brain Health	6
Neuroenhancements in the Military: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Attitudes of Staff Officers to Ethics and Rules	6
The Illusion of Agency in Human–Computer Interaction	5
Revisiting Moral Bioenhancement and Autonomy	5
A Conceptual Framework to Safeguard the Neuroright to Personal Autonomy	5
Philosophical foundation of the right to mental integrity in the age of neurotechnologies	5
Neurotechnological Applications and the Protection of Mental Privacy: An Assessment of Risks	5
The Impact of Dementia on the Self: Do We Consider Ourselves the Same as Others?	5
Informal Caregivers of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: a Qualitative Study of Communication Experiences and Information Needs with Physicians	5
Memory Modification and Authenticity: A Narrative Approach	4
The Faithful Response to the Comforting Delusion Objection	4
Mitigating Ethical Issues in Training for Psychedelic Therapy	4
How to Advance the Debate on the Criminal Responsibility of Antisocial Offenders	4
"In the spectrum of people who are healthy": Views of individuals at risk of dementia on using neurotechnology for cognitive enhancement	4
Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority	4
The “Wheels That Keep Me Goin’”: Invisible Forms of Support for Brain Pioneers	4
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
Neurorights as Hohfeldian Privileges	3
Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance	3
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion	3
Health Aspirations for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)	3
Stream of Consciousness: Some Propositions and Reflections	3
What Happens After a Neural Implant Study? Neuroethics Expert Workshop on Post-Trial Obligations	3
“You shall have the thought”: habeas cogitationem as a New Legal Remedy to Enforce Freedom of Thinking and Neurorights	3
Hope and Optimism in Pediatric Deep Brain Stimulation: Key Stakeholder Perspectives	3
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
Neither the “Devil’s Lettuce” nor a “Miracle Cure:” The Use of Medical Cannabis in the Care of Children and Youth	2
How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?	2
Affect and Human Electrophysiological Research	2
When the Trial Ends: The Case for Post-Trial Provisions in Clinical Psychedelic Research	2
Novel Neurorights: From Nonsense to Substance	2
When Do People Have an Obligation Not to Tic? Blame, Free Will, and Moral Character Judgments of People with Tourette’s Syndrome	2
Who does Neuroethics Scholarship Address, and What Does it Recommend? A Content Analysis of Selected Abstracts from the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meetings	2
The Right to Mental Integrity: Multidimensional, Multilayered and Extended	2
Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Why Earlier Use Makes Shared Decision Making Important	2
Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life	2
Literary Neuroexistentialism: Coming to Terms with Materialism and Finding Meaning in the Age of Neuroscience through Literature	2
Towards a Governance Framework for Brain Data	2