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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Guiding the Future: Rethinking the Role of Advance Directives in the Care of People with Dementia	52
Deciding with Others: Interdependent Decision‐Making	37
An Ecostructural Lens for Health Ethics	32
Reexamining the UDDA: Are We Ready for Significant Change?	26
What Patient‐Experience Data Reveal about Trust	25
About the Special Report	20
On the Authority of Advance Euthanasia Directives for People with Severe Dementia: Reflections on a Dutch Case	20
Cultivating Peace and Health at Community Health Centers	19
Contributors	19
Contributors	18
From Eugenics to Human Genome Editing: Bionationalism and Instrumentalizing Life in China within a Global Context	18
Moral Status and the Oversight of Research Involving Chimeric Animals	18
Abortion Access Persists, but So Do the Threats	18
Moving toward Equity through Embedded ELSI Ethnography	17
Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and the Need for Community Engagement	16
Trust in Crises and Crises of Trust	14
Home Care in America: The Urgent Challenge of Putting Ethical Care into Practice	13
Making the Move to a Learning System of Research Ethics	12
The Pandemic of Invisible Victims in American Mental Health	12
Challenging Disability Discrimination in the Clinical Use of PDMP Algorithms	11
Reevaluating the Ethical Issues in Porcine‐to‐Human Heart Xenotransplantation	11
Clinician Moral Distress: Toward an Ethics of Agent‐Regret	10
Enhancing Equity in Genomics: Incorporating Measures of Structural Racism, Discrimination, and Social Determinants of Health	10
Contributors	10
Digital Mental Health Tools and AI Therapy Chatbots: A Balanced Approach to Regulation	10

How Seeking Transfer Often Fails to Help Define Medically Inappropriate Treatment	10
Contributors	10
Who Carries the Responsibility for Health Care Carbon Reduction?	9
Moral Humility for a Complex World	9
Defining Death Anew: Reexamining the Twentieth‐Century Brain Death Debates and the Uniform Determination of Death Act	9
Identity Theft, Deep Brain Stimulation, and the Primacy of Post‐trial Obligations	9
Choice in the Context of Dementia: Emerging Issues for Health Care Practice in Aging Societies	9
Lockdowns, Bioethics, and the Public: Policy‐Making in a Liberal Democracy	9
Errata	9
Contributors	8
Complex Decisions	8
“You have to trust yourself”: The Overlooked Role of Self‐Trust in Coping with Chronic Illness	8
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Why Aren't There More Whistleblowers?	7
The Case for Baptizing a Dying, Unconscious Atheist	7
Stef M. Shuster and Meredithe McNamara reply:	7
Rethinking the Burden of Traditional Informed Consent Prior to Prenatal Genetic Screening	6
Preventing Diffusion of Moral Responsibility in Big Team Science: Taking an Ecosystem Approach	6
Neither Ethical nor Prudent: Why Not to Choose Normothermic Regional Perfusion	6
Risk‐Sensitive Assessment of Decision‐Making Capacity: A Comprehensive Defense	6
The Problem Is Not (Merely) Mass Incarceration: Incarceration as a Bioethical Crisis and Abolition as a Moral Obligation	6
Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols: Where the Bioethics of U.S. Covid‐19 Vaccine Allocation Went Wrong	6
What Is the Aim of Pediatric “Gender‐Affirming” Care?	6
Is Food Medicine?	6
Anne E. Clinton replies	6
Accountability for Reasonableness as a Framework for the Promotion of Fair and Equitable Research	6
Issue Information and About the Cover Art	6
Dementia and Concurrent Consent to Sexual Relations	5
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In Defense of Openness—Genetic Knowledge and Gamete Donation	5
Global Efforts to Protect Healthy Volunteers	5
Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent‐Clinician Conflict	5
The Values That Influence Psychiatric Diagnosis and Accountability	5
Rethinking Decision Quality: Measures, Meaning, and Bioethics	5
Gender and Sport	4
Moral Nuances in Broad Policies	4
Arguments and Analogies: Do Children Have a Right to Know Their Genetic Origins?	4
A Timely Pursuit: Disability Justice in Pandemic Planning	4
What Do Prospective Parents Owe to Their Children?	4
Principled Conscientious Provision: Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience	4
Dementia, Narrative, and Place: What Can Be Learned from the Age‐Friendly Movement?	4
Recalibrating Bioethics for the Reality of Interdependence: The Challenge of Collective‐Impact Problems	4
Policy, Politics, and Impact	4
Editors and Authors	4
Intersecting Narratives in the Lives of Black Women Aging with Dementia	4
Justifying Clinical Deception: Some Amendments to Brummett and Salter	4
Finding Disability in Everyday Life	4
Deception, Pain, and Placebo: Applying the Brummett‐Salter Deception Framework	4
Forgotten and without Protections: Older Adults in Prison Settings	3
Editors and Authors	3

Opening the Door: Rethinking “Difficult Conversations” about Living and Dying with Dementia	3
Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics	3
Editors and Authors	3
Xenotransplantation: Injustice, Harm, and Alternatives for Addressing the Organ Crisis	3
Experiential Training in Psychedelic‐Assisted Therapy: A Risk‐Benefit Analysis	3
Contributors	3
Participant Engagement, Epistemic Injustice, and Early‐Phase Implanted Neural Device Research	3
Issue Information and About the Cover Art	3
Public Engagement as a Form of Moral Leadership	3
Fifty Years of U.S. Mass Incarceration and What It Means for Bioethics	3
Locked In	3
Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing	3
Living in the Shadow of Uncertainty: Rethinking Cancer as Chronic Illness	3
Science and Justice	3
Stories and Shame in Front‐Line Medicine	3
Contributors	3
About the Special Report	3
Dementia as a Critical Lens on the Role of Narrative in Medical Training and Practice	3
Daoist Views on Disability and Genetic Intervention	3
Implicit Narratives in Participatory Arts Collaborations with People with Lived Experience of Dementia	2
Neuroscience and Society: Supporting and Unsettling Public Engagement	2
Contributors	2
Telemedicine and Healing Relationships	2
The Need for Bioethics Departments in HBCU Medical Schools	2
Knowing the Mind from Brain Data: The Challenge of Prediction and the Fairness of Relying on Objective Data about the Mind	2
Should Parents of the Deceased Have Standing to Initiate Posthumous Sperm Retrieval? Analyzing Developments in Israel	2
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	2
A Prescriptive Metaphysics of DEATH	2
Choosing to Die	2
Strategic Ethics: Physician Associations and Their Roles in Pursuing Racial Equity	2
Gender‐Affirming Care for Cisgender People	2
Managing Dependence: Assistive Technologies in Dementia Care	2
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The Bioethicist as Healer	2
Issue Information and About the Cover Art	2
Can Caregivers Ever Say No?	2
Moral Worlds and Institutional Scripts at the End of Life	2
Talking with Each Other about Science	2
Bright‐Line Policy and the Future of the Fourteen‐Day Rule	2
Dignity and the Founding Myth of Bioethics	2
Rethinking the Ethics of the Covid‐19 Pandemic Lockdowns	2
Editors and Authors	2
When Mistakes Multiply: How Inadequate Responses to Medical Mishaps Erode Trust in American Medicine	2
About the Special Report	2
The Dead Unborn, Postmortem Privacy Cases, and Abortion Rights	2
Residency Requirements for Medical Aid in Dying	2
Parity, Poverty, and Physician Aid in Dying: Policy Recommendations for PAD in Light of Social Injustices	2
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Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: How Conscience Protections Preserved Mifepristone Access	2
Can Open Science Advance Health Justice? Genomic Research Dissemination in the Evolving Data‐Sharing Landscape	2
A Life Worth Sustaining? Bestowed Worth and Pediatric Care	2
Smuggled Doughnuts and Forbidden Fried Chicken: Addressing Tensions around Family and Food Restrictions in Hospitals	2
Issue Information (About the Cover Art)	2
The Ethic of Accompaniment	2
Genetics and Scientific Values: Aaron Panofsky, Kushan Dasgupta, Nicole Iturriaga, and Bernard Koch Reply	2