OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroethics is 5. 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
The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	7
Consciousness Ain’t All That	7
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
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
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
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