OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Hastings Center Report is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Covid‐19: Ethical Challenges for Nurses	162
Older Adults and Covid‐19: The Most Vulnerable, the Hardest Hit	56
Vaccine Rationing and the Urgency of Social Justice in the Covid‐19 Response	49
Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Public Health	42
Disability Rights as a Necessary Framework for Crisis Standards of Care and the Future of Health Care	38
Black Lives in a Pandemic: Implications of Systemic Injustice for End‐of‐Life Care	31
A Leap of Faith: Is There a Formula for “Trustworthy” AI?	28
AI Surveillance during Pandemics: Ethical Implementation Imperatives	25
Getting to the Truth: Ethics, Trust, and Triage in the United States versus Europe during the Covid‐19 Pandemic	22
Conceptualizing Race in the Genomic Age	22
Out of Africa: A Solidarity‐Based Approach to Vaccine Allocation	21
What We're Not Talking about When We Talk about Addiction	19
Can Clinical Empathy Survive? Distress, Burnout, and Malignant Duty in the Age of Covid‐19	19
Alzheimer's and Aducanumab: Unjust Profits and False Hopes	15
Global Disparity and Solidarity in a Pandemic	14
Duties toward Patients with Psychiatric Illness	13
Health Inequalities	12
Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies	12
Dying during Covid‐19	11
The Emerging Hazard of AI‐Related Health Care Discrimination	11
Realizing Present and Future Promise of DIY Biology and Medicine through a Trust Architecture	11
The Future of Bioethics: It Shouldn't Take a Pandemic	11
What Could “Fair Allocation” during the Covid‐19 Crisis Possibly Mean in Sub‐Saharan Africa?	11
Rethinking “Elective” Procedures for Women's Reproduction during Covid‐19	11
The Social Risks of Science	10

Life‐Years & Rationing in the Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Critical Analysis	10
Interdependent Citizens: The Ethics of Care in Pandemic Recovery	10
Reevaluating the Ethical Issues in Porcine‐to‐Human Heart Xenotransplantation	10
Addressing Anti‐Black Racism in Bioethics: Responding to the Call	9
Our Next Pandemic Ethics Challenge? Allocating “Normal” Health Care Services	9
Material Insecurity, Racial Capitalism, and Public Health	9
Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility	9
Carbon Emissions from Overuse of U.S. Health Care: Medical and Ethical Problems	9
Public Attitudes toward Consent When Research Is Integrated into Care—Any “Ought” from All the “Is”?	9
Trust Also Means Centering Black Women's Reproductive Health Narratives	9
Pandemics, Protocols, and the Plague of Athens: Insights from Thucydides	9
Antiracist Praxis in Public Health: A Call for Ethical Reflections	9
Is Trust Enough? Anti‐Black Racism and the Perception of Black Vaccine “Hesitancy”	8
Ventilator Allocation Protocols: Sophisticated Bioethics for an Unworkable Strategy	8
Pediatric Off‐Label Use of Covid‐19 Vaccines: Ethical and Legal Considerations	8
The Limited Value of Dementia‐Specific Advance Directives	8
Public Deliberation about Gene Editing in the Wild	7
Experiencing Community in a Covid Surge	7
The University of California Crisis Standards of Care: Public Reasoning for Socially Responsible Medicine	7
Consent for Intimate Exams on Unconscious Patients: Sharpening Legislative Efforts	7
Coming to Terms with the Black Box Problem: How to Justify AI Systems in Health Care	7
New Findings on Unconsented Intimate Exams Suggest Racial Bias and Gender Parity	7
Patients Left Behind: Ethical Challenges in Caring for Indirect Victims of the Covid‐19 Pandemic	7
Recognizing Moral Injury: Toward Legal Intervention for Physician Burnout	6
Covid‐19: Exposing the Lack of Evidence‐Based Practice in Medicine	6
It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death	6
Walls	6
Activism and the Clinical Ethicist	6
Ending One's Life in Advance	6
When Is Age Choosing Ageist Discrimination?	6
Covid Vaccine Mandates and Religious Accommodation in Employment	6
Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid‐19	6
Genetic Data Aren't So Special: Causes and Implications of Reidentification	5
Centering Social Justice for Covid‐19 Resources and Research	5
Can Genetic Nondiscrimination Laws Save Lives?	5
Employment‐Based, For‐Profit Health Care in a Pandemic	5
Deficits of Public Deliberation in U.S. Oversight for Gene Edited Organisms	5
Trust: The Need for Public Understanding of How Science Works	5
In This Together: Navigating Ethical Challenges Posed by Family Clustering during the Covid‐19 Pandemic	5
Coding the Self: The Infopolitics and Biopolitics of Genetic Sciences	5
Legal and Ethical Issues in the Report Heritable Human Genome Editing	5
If Not Now, Then When? Taking Disability Seriously in Bioethics	5
Your Father's a Fighter; Your Daughter's a Vegetable: A Critical Analysis of the Use of Metaphor in Clinical Practice	5
Provoking Bad Biocitizenship	5
The Consent Continuum: A New Model of Consent, Assent, and Nondissent for Primary Care	5
Empowering Indigenous Knowledge in Deliberations on Gene Editing in the Wild	5
Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing	4
The Pandemic: Lessons for Bioethics?	4
Can Our Schools Help Us Preserve Democracy? Special Challenges at a Time of Shifting Norms	4
Doubt, Disorientation, and Death in the Plague Time	4

Does Solidarity Require “All of Us” to Participate in Genomics Research?	4
Reciprocity and Liability Protections during the Covid‐19 Pandemic	4
In the Name of Racial Justice: Why Bioethics Should Care about Environmental Toxins	4
Guiding the Future: Rethinking the Role of Advance Directives in the Care of People with Dementia	4
A Strategy to Prevent and Control Zoonoses?	4
Mind the Gaps: Ethical and Epistemic Issues in the Digital Mental Health Response to Covid‐19	4
White Privilege, White Poverty: Reckoning with Class and Race in America	4
Deliberative Public Consultation via Deliberative Polling: Criteria and Methods	4
Toward Meeting the Obligation of Respect for Persons in Pragmatic Clinical Trials	4
Handle with Care: The WHO Report on Human Genome Editing	4
Bioethics Rooted in Justice: Community‐Expert Reflections	4
Deciding with Others: Interdependent Decision‐Making	4
Black Feminist Bioethics: Centering Community to Ask Better Questions	4
Burdening Others	4
Does a Public Health Crisis Justify More Research with Incarcerated People?	4
Anti‐Black Racism and Power: Centering Black Scholars to Achieve Health Equity	4
Health for Whom? Bioethics and the Challenge of Justice for Genomic Medicine	4
Structural Inequities, Fair Opportunity, and the Allocation of Scarce ICU Resources	3
Distressed Work: Chronic Imperatives and Distress in Covid‐19 Critical Care	3
Antiracist Activism in Clinical Ethics: What's Stopping Us?	3
Testimonies and Healing: Anti‐oppressive Research with Black Women and the Implications for Compassionate Ethical Care	3
The Ethics of Everyday Life in the Midst of a Pandemic	3
Disability Affirmative Action Requirements for the U.S. HHS and Academic Medical Centers	3
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Reckoning with Social Justice	3
	3
Against Exclusive Survivalism: Preventing Lost Life and Protecting the Disadvantaged in Resource Allocation	3
Compulsory Research in Learning Health Care: Against a Minimal Risk Limit	3
The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age	3
Planetary Ethics: Russell Train and Richard Nixon at the Creation	3
Ethics of a Mandatory Waiting Period for Female Sterilization	3
Why and How Bioethics Must Turn toward Justice: A Modest Proposal	3
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
Excavating the Personal Genome: The Good Biocitizen in the Age of Precision Health	3
The Decision Phases Framework for Public Engagement:Engaging Stakeholders about Gene Editing in the Wild	3
A Matter of Justice: “Fat” Is Not Necessarily a Bad Word	3
Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception	3
The Market in Noninvasive Prenatal Tests and the Message to Consumers: Exploring Responsibility	3
Opioid Treatment Agreements and Patient Accountability	3
Toward Fair and Humane Pain Policy	3
Advance Directives: The Principle of Determining Authenticity	3
Disability and the Damaging Master Narrative of an Open Future	3
Dueling Definitions of Abortifacient: How Cultural, Political, and Religious Values Affect Language in the Contraception Debate	3
Too Soon or Too Late: Rethinking the Significance of Six Months When Dementia Is a Primary Diagnosis	3
History and Bioethics	3
	3
Rethinking the Importance of the Individual within a Community of Data	3
Protecting Health after Dobbs	3
Regulating AI in Health Care: The Challenges of Informed User Engagement	3
When People Facing Dementia Choose to Hasten Death: The Landscape of Current Ethical, Legal, Medical, and Social Considerations in the United States	3