OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“We” Are In This Together, But We Are Not One and the Same	94
The Costs of Institutional Racism and its Ethical Implications for Healthcare	69
COVID-19 and Contact Tracing Apps: Ethical Challenges for a Social Experiment on a Global Scale	59
Teasing out Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: An Ethical Critique of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Medicine	52
COVID-19, Moral Conflict, Distress, and Dying Alone	48
Disability, Disablism, and COVID-19 Pandemic Triage	44
Lessons from Corporate Influence in the Opioid Epidemic: Toward a Norm of Separation	44
COVID-19—Extending Surveillance and the Panopticon	37
In the Shadow of Biological Warfare: Conspiracy Theories on the Origins of COVID-19 and Enhancing Global Governance of Biosafety as a Matter of Urgency	36
Family Presence for Patients and Separated Relatives During COVID-19: Physical, Virtual, and Surrogate	34
Ethical Challenges in Clinical Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic	29
Pandemic Surveillance and Racialized Subpopulations: Mitigating Vulnerabilities in COVID-19 Apps	26
This Wasn’t a Split-Second Decision”: An Empirical Ethical Analysis of Transgender Youth Capacity, Rights, and Authority to Consent to Hormone Therapy	25
Learning Lessons from COVID-19 Requires Recognizing Moral Failures	22
Interview: Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities (Republication)	21
Bias in algorithms of AI systems developed for COVID-19: A scoping review	19
Risk Communication Should be Explicit About Values. A Perspective on Early Communication During COVID-19	18
An Ethics Framework for Making Resource Allocation Decisions Within Clinical Care: Responding to COVID-19	18
What Triage Issues Reveal: Ethics in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy and France	18
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Ethics in Mexico Through a Gender Lens	17
Humiliating Whistle-Blowers: Li Wenliang, the Response to Covid-19, and the Call for a Decent Society	17
Rethinking the Central Role of Equity in the Global Governance of Pandemic Response	17
Heralding the Digitalization of Life in Post-Pandemic East Asian Societies	16
Beyond Duty: Medical “Heroes” and the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Understanding the Reasons Behind Healthcare Providers’ Conscientious Objection to Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria, Australia	16

Science at Warp Speed: Medical Research, Publication, and Translation During the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Systems of Care in Crisis: The Changing Nature of Palliative Care During COVID-19	14
Human Rights and Bioethical Considerations of Global Nurse Migration	14
Addressing Structural Racism Through Constitutional Transformation and Decolonization: Insights for the New Zealand Health Sector	13
Applying a Precautionary Approach to Mobile Contact Tracing for COVID-19: The Value of Reversibility	13
Unmasking the Ethics of Public Health Messaging in a Pandemic	13
The Ethical Dilemma of Truth-Telling in Healthcare in China	12
Antibodies as Currency: COVID-19’s Golden Passport	12
Biopower of Colonialism in Carceral Contexts: Implications for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody	11
Reflecting Before, During, and After the Heat of the Moment: A Review of Four Approaches for Supporting Health Staff to Manage Stressful Events	11
Black bodies and Bioethics: Debunking Mythologies of Benevolence and Beneficence in Contemporary Indigenous Health Research in Colonial Australia	11
Between “Medical” and “Social” Egg Freezing	11
End-of-Life Decisions in Intensive Care Units in Croatia—Pre COVID-19 Perspectives and Experiences From Nurses and Physicians	11
The Role of Physicians in Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs: A Mixed-Methods Study of Physicians’ Views and Experiences in The Netherlands	10
Ecologies of Public Trust: The NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App	10
Handling Ethics Dumping and Neo-Colonial Research: From the Laboratory to the Academic Literature	10
Fast Violence, Revolutionary Violence: Black Lives Matter and the 2020 Pandemic	9
Being Seen by the Doctor: A Meditation on Power, Institutional Racism, and Medical Ethics	9
Re-examining the Ethics of Genetic Counselling in the Genomic Era	9
Beyond Money: Conscientious Objection in Medicine as a Conflict of Interests	9
What Matters? Palliative Care, Ethics, and the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic Approach	9
Understanding Ethical and Legal Obligations in a Pandemic: A Taxonomy of “Duty” for Health Practitioners	9
Invisible Enemies: Coronavirus and Other Hidden Threats	9
Advancing Global Health Equity in the COVID-19 Response: Beyond Solidarity	9
Liminality: A major category of the experience of cancer illness	8
COVID-19 and Biomedical Experts: When Epistemic Authority is (Probably) Not Enough	8
Respecting Older Adults: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
A public health framework for reducing stigma: the example of weight stigma	8
The Role of Emotion in Understanding Whiteness	8
If the Price is Right: The Ethics and Efficiency of Market Solutions to the Organ Shortage	7
Medical Mistrust and Enduring Racism in South Africa	7
We Need to Talk About Rationing: The Need to Normalize Discussion About Healthcare Rationing in a Post COVID-19 Era	7
Social Justice for Public Health: The COVID-19 Response in Portugal	7
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Emerging Technology (ELSIET) Symposium	7
An Ethical Framework for Visitation of Inpatients Receiving Palliative Care in the COVID-19 Context	7
The Ethical Unjustifications of COVID-19 Triage Committees	7
Needle Stick Injury From a COVID-19 Patient—Fear It or Forget It?	6
Ethics Consultation for Adult Solid Organ Transplantation Candidates and Recipients: A Single Centre Experience	6
Bioethics, Race, and Contempt	6
COVID-19 and Australian Prisons: Human Rights, Risks, and Responses	6
Synergistic Disparities and Public Health Mitigation of COVID-19 in the Rural United States	6
Financial Conflicts of Interest are of Higher Ethical Priority than “Intellectual” Conflicts of Interest	6
Bioethicists Should Be Helping Scientists Think About Race	6
The Whiteness of Bioethics	6
The Use of Advance Directives in Specialized Care Units: A Focus Group Study With Healthcare Professionals in Madrid	6
Conflict of Interest in Scientific Research in China: A Socio-ethical Analysis of He Jiankui’s Human Genome-editing Experiment	6
Dignity, Autonomy, and Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During COVID-19	6
It Didn’t Have to be This Way Reflections on the Ethical Justification of the Running Ban in Northern Italy in Response to the 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak	6
Telling the Truth to Child Cancer Patients in COVID-19 Times	6

The Phenomenology of Contagion	6
Ethical Design and Use of Robotic Care of the Elderly	6
Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Ethical Sensitivity in Turkish Nursing Students	5
Ethics of Buying DNA	5
How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being	5
Accelerating the De-Personalization of Medicine: The Ethical Toxicities of COVID-19	5
Building an Ethics Framework for COVID-19 Resource Allocation: The How and the Why	5
The Morality of Kidney Sales: When Caring for the Seller’s Dignity Has Moral Costs	5
We’re in This Together: A Reflection on How Bioethics and Public Health Can Collectively Advance Scientific Efforts Towards Addressing Racism	5
Physician–Patient Relationship, Assisted Suicide and the Italian Constitutional Court	5
A Clinician’s Obligation to be Vaccinated: Four Arguments that Establish a Duty for Healthcare Professionals to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19	5
The Ethics of Adultcentrism in the Context of COVID-19: Whose Voice Matters?	5
An Ethical Overview of the CRISPR-Based Elimination of Anopheles gambiae to Combat Malaria	5
Philosophy of Science Can Prevent Manslaughter	5
Which Vaccine? The Cost of Religious Freedom in Vaccination Policy	5
From Sufficient Health to Sufficient Responsibility	5
Clinical Ethics Consultations in the Opinion of Polish Physicians	5
Constitution of “The Already Dying”: The Emergence of Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria	5