OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroethics is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	63
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	38
Safeguarding Users of Consumer Mental Health Apps in Research and Product Improvement Studies: an Interview Study	31
What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?	29
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	21
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	20
Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement and Cheapened Achievement: A New Dilemma	20
Review of Walter Glannon’s The Neuroethics of Memory: From Total Recall to Oblivion, Cambridge University Press, 2019	15
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism	14
Exploring the Essence of the Freedom of Thought – A Normative Framework for Identifying Undue Mind Interventions	13
Mental Integrity in the Attention Economy: in Search of the Right to Attention	12
Neurorights – Do we Need New Human Rights? A Reconsideration of the Right to Freedom of Thought	12
Ethical Challenges of Human-Machine Symbiosis in Brain-Computer Interfaces: Insights from Chinese Experts	12
Protocol for Returning Results in Brain Science Research Targeting Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Japan	12
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
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again	10
Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness	9
Consciousness Ain’t All That	9
The Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Transplantation in Animals	9
Responsibility, Mental Capacities, and Socially Deprived Offenders	9
Preserving Narrative Identity for Dementia Patients: Embodiment, Active Environments, and Distributed Memory	8
Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	8
The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	8

Limiting the Epistemic Argument Against Retributivism	8
Revolutionizing Brain Research Using Portable MRI in Field Settings: Public Perspectives on the Ethical and Legal Challenges	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
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
Ethical Implications of the Impact of Fracking on Brain Health	6
Implications of Genetic Explanations for Addiction: Insights from Clinicians	6
Rationales and Approaches to Protecting Brain Data: a Scoping Review	6
Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging	6