OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Hastings Center Report 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Leap of Faith: Is There a Formula for “Trustworthy” AI?	32
Getting to the Truth: Ethics, Trust, and Triage in the United States versus Europe during the Covid‐19 Pandemic	23
Out of Africa: A Solidarity‐Based Approach to Vaccine Allocation	23
Can Clinical Empathy Survive? Distress, Burnout, and Malignant Duty in the Age of Covid‐19	22
Alzheimer's and Aducanumab: Unjust Profits and False Hopes	19
Carbon Emissions from Overuse of U.S. Health Care: Medical and Ethical Problems	17
Addressing Anti‐Black Racism in Bioethics: Responding to the Call	15
Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility	15
Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies	13
The Emerging Hazard of AI‐Related Health Care Discrimination	12
Public Attitudes toward Consent When Research Is Integrated into Care—Any “Ought” from All the “Is”?	12
Trust Also Means Centering Black Women's Reproductive Health Narratives	12
Is Trust Enough? Anti‐Black Racism and the Perception of Black Vaccine “Hesitancy”	11
Reevaluating the Ethical Issues in Porcine‐to‐Human Heart Xenotransplantation	11
Realizing Present and Future Promise of DIY Biology and Medicine through a Trust Architecture	11
The Social Risks of Science	10
Consent for Intimate Exams on Unconscious Patients: Sharpening Legislative Efforts	10
Material Insecurity, Racial Capitalism, and Public Health	10
Antiracist Praxis in Public Health: A Call for Ethical Reflections	10
Coming to Terms with the Black Box Problem: How to Justify AI Systems in Health Care	10
Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing	10
Ventilator Allocation Protocols: Sophisticated Bioethics for an Unworkable Strategy	10
Life‐Years & Rationing in the Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Critical Analysis	10
New Findings on Unconsented Intimate Exams Suggest Racial Bias and Gender Parity	9
Pediatric Off‐Label Use of Covid‐19 Vaccines: Ethical and Legal Considerations	9

Can Our Schools Help Us Preserve Democracy? Special Challenges at a Time of Shifting Norms	8
If Not Now, Then When? Taking Disability Seriously in Bioethics	8
The University of California Crisis Standards of Care: Public Reasoning for Socially Responsible Medicine	8
The Limited Value of Dementia‐Specific Advance Directives	8
Public Deliberation about Gene Editing in the Wild	7
Toward Meeting the Obligation of Respect for Persons in Pragmatic Clinical Trials	7
In the Name of Racial Justice: Why Bioethics Should Care about Environmental Toxins	7
Can Genetic Nondiscrimination Laws Save Lives?	7
It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death	7
What Is the Aim of Pediatric “Gender‐Affirming” Care?	6
Activism and the Clinical Ethicist	6
Ending One's Life in Advance	6
Anti‐Black Racism and Power: Centering Black Scholars to Achieve Health Equity	6
The Consent Continuum: A New Model of Consent, Assent, and Nondissent for Primary Care	6
Ethics of a Mandatory Waiting Period for Female Sterilization	6
Covid Vaccine Mandates and Religious Accommodation in Employment	6
Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid‐19	6
Deciding with Others: Interdependent Decision‐Making	6
When Is Age Choosing Ageist Discrimination?	6
Black Feminist Bioethics: Centering Community to Ask Better Questions	5
Reproductive Embryo Editing: Attending to Justice	5
The Market in Noninvasive Prenatal Tests and the Message to Consumers: Exploring Responsibility	5
In This Together: Navigating Ethical Challenges Posed by Family Clustering during the Covid‐19 Pandemic	5
Handle with Care: The WHO Report on Human Genome Editing	5
Deficits of Public Deliberation in U.S. Oversight for Gene Edited Organisms	5
Gender‐Affirming Care for Cisgender People	5
Deliberative Public Consultation via Deliberative Polling:Criteria and Methods	5
Reciprocity and Liability Protections during the Covid‐19 Pandemic	5
Centering Social Justice for Covid‐19 Resources and Research	5
Legal and Ethical Issues in the Report Heritable Human Genome Editing	5
Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics	5
Mind the Gaps: Ethical and Epistemic Issues in the Digital Mental Health Response to Covid‐19	5
Brain Pioneers and Moral Entanglement: An Argument for Post‐trial Responsibilities in Neural‐Device Trials	5
Risk‐Sensitive Assessment of Decision‐Making Capacity: A Comprehensive Defense	5
Trust: The Need for Public Understanding of How Science Works	5
Empowering Indigenous Knowledge in Deliberations on Gene Editing in the Wild	5
The Moral Difference between Faces & FaceTime	4
Anti‐Black Racism as a Chronic Condition	4
Antiracist Activism in Clinical Ethics: What's Stopping Us?	4
Bioethics Rooted in Justice: Community‐Expert Reflections	4
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Reckoning with Social Justice	4
Against Exclusive Survivalism: Preventing Lost Life and Protecting the Disadvantaged in Resource Allocation	4
The Microethics of Communication in Health Care: A New Framework for the Fast Thinking of Everyday Clinical Encounters	4
Compulsory Research in Learning Health Care: Against a Minimal Risk Limit	4
Identity Theft, Deep Brain Stimulation, and the Primacy of Post‐trial Obligations	4
Clinician Moral Distress: Toward an Ethics of Agent‐Regret	4
Distressed Work: Chronic Imperatives and Distress in Covid‐19 Critical Care	4
Guiding the Future: Rethinking the Role of Advance Directives in the Care of People with Dementia	4
Burdening Others	4
Regulating AI in Health Care: The Challenges of Informed User Engagement	4

Does a Public Health Crisis Justify More Research with Incarcerated People?	4
DEI Is Not Enough	4
In Service to Others: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Human Enhancement	4
The Bioethics of Built Space: Health Care Architecture as a Medical Intervention	4
Testimonies and Healing: Anti‐oppressive Research with Black Women and the Implications for Compassionate Ethical Care	4
Fifty Years of U.S. Mass Incarceration and What It Means for Bioethics	4
Regaining Trust in Public Health and Biomedical Science following Covid: The Role of Scientists	4
Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception	4
White Privilege, White Poverty: Reckoning with Class and Race in America	4
Racism, Not Race: A Physician Perspective on Anti‐Black Racism in America	3
The Decision Phases Framework for Public Engagement:Engaging Stakeholders about Gene Editing in the Wild	3
About the Special Report	3
Bioethics and War	3
Structural Inequities, Fair Opportunity, and the Allocation of Scarce ICU Resources	3
Narratives in Public Deliberation: Empowering Gene Editing Debate with Storytelling	3
Does Gene Editing in the Wild Require Broad Public Deliberation?	3
The Vaccination Cold War	3
Disability Affirmative Action Requirements for the U.S. HHS and Academic Medical Centers	3
Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols: Where the Bioethics of U.S. Covid‐19 Vaccine Allocation Went Wrong	3
When People Facing Dementia Choose to Hasten Death: The Landscape of Current Ethical, Legal, Medical, and Social Considerations in the United States	3
The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age	3
Too Soon or Too Late: Rethinking the Significance of Six Months When Dementia Is a Primary Diagnosis	3
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What Makes a Better Life for People Facing Dementia? Toward Dementia‐Friendly Health and Social Policy, Medical Care, and Community Support in the United States	3
Protecting Health after Dobbs	3
History and Bioethics	3
Industry Technicians Embedded in Clinical Teams: Impacts on Medical Knowledge	3
Opioid Treatment Agreements and Patient Accountability	3
Advance Directives: The Principle of Determining Authenticity	3
Home Care in America: The Urgent Challenge of Putting Ethical Care into Practice	2
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The UN Challenge to Guardianship and Surrogate Decision‐Making	2
Activism and Bioethics: Taking a Stand on Things That Matter	2
Physician Perspectives on Building Trust with Patients	2
Rethinking Decision Quality: Measures, Meaning, and Bioethics	2
Social Equality in an Alternate World	2
Latinx Bioethics: Toward a Braver, Broader, and More Just Bioethics	2
Living Donors and the Issue of “Informed Consent”	2
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Crisis Standards of Care—More Than Just a Thought Experiment?	2
When Following the Rules Feels Wrong	2
OK, Boomer, MD: The Rights of Aging Physicians and the Health of Our Communities	2
Speaking Volumes: The Encyclopedia of Bioethics and Racism	2
Clarifying the Ethics and Oversight of Chimeric Research	2
Risk Trade‐Offs and Equitable Decision‐Making in the Covid‐19 Pandemic	2
Principled Conscientious Provision: Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience	2
Legal Discrepancies and Expectations of Women: Abortion, Fetal Therapy, and NICU Care	2
Wrestling with Public Input on an Ethical Analysis of Scientific Research	2
Rethinking the Ethics of the Covid‐19 Pandemic Lockdowns	2
Health Justice and Rawls's Theory at Fifty: Will New Thinking about Health and Inequality Influence the Most Influential Account of Justice?	2
Civic Learning, Science, and Structural Racism	2
Restructuring Deliberation Using a Cultural Theory Lens	2
A Path Forward—and Outward: Repositioning Bioethics to Face Future Challenges	2
“We have nothing left to bury.”	2
Recommendations for Better Civic Learning: Building and Rebuilding Democracy	2
Redoing the Demos	2
Facilitating Ukrainian Refugees’ Continued Participation in Clinical Trials	2
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Digital Humans to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation: Ethics Concerns and Policy Recommendations	2
On the Authority of Advance Euthanasia Directives for People with Severe Dementia: Reflections on a Dutch Case	2
Ourselves, with Dementia	2
Recalibrating Bioethics for the Reality of Interdependence: The Challenge of Collective‐Impact Problems	2
Do Health Care Organizations Have Legitimate Responsibilities beyond the Delivery of Health Care? Insights from Citizenship Theory	2
Checking in with Neuroethics	2
Opening the Door: Rethinking “Difficult Conversations” about Living and Dying with Dementia	2
Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent‐Clinician Conflict	2
Contributors	2
Civic Learning for a Democracy in Crisis	2
Covid‐19, Free Exercise, and the Changing Constitution	2
The Pitfalls of Genomic Data Diversity	2
From a Reckoning to Racial Concordance: A Strategy to Protect Black Mothers, Children, and Infants	2
Expanding Paid Sick Leave Laws: The Public Health Imperative	2
Care Ethics versus the CARES Act	2