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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
An Ecostructural Lens for Health Ethics	48
Guiding the Future: Rethinking the Role of Advance Directives in the Care of People with Dementia	38
Deciding with Others: Interdependent Decision‐Making	32
What Patient‐Experience Data Reveal about Trust	26
On the Authority of Advance Euthanasia Directives for People with Severe Dementia: Reflections on a Dutch Case	24
About the Special Report	20
Cultivating Peace and Health at Community Health Centers	19
Contributors	19
Moral Status and the Oversight of Research Involving Chimeric Animals	18
Abortion Access Persists, but So Do the Threats	16
Contributors	16
From Eugenics to Human Genome Editing: Bionationalism and Instrumentalizing Life in China within a Global Context	15
Moving toward Equity through Embedded ELSI Ethnography	14
Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and the Need for Community Engagement	13
Home Care in America: The Urgent Challenge of Putting Ethical Care into Practice	13
Trust in Crises and Crises of Trust	13
The Pandemic of Invisible Victims in American Mental Health	12
Making the Move to a Learning System of Research Ethics	12
How Seeking Transfer Often Fails to Help Define Medically Inappropriate Treatment	11
Contributors	11
Digital Mental Health Tools and AI Therapy Chatbots: A Balanced Approach to Regulation	10
Challenging Disability Discrimination in the Clinical Use of PDMP Algorithms	10
Reevaluating the Ethical Issues in Porcine‐to‐Human Heart Xenotransplantation	10
Choice in the Context of Dementia: Emerging Issues for Health Care Practice in Aging Societies	10
Contributors	9

Enhancing Equity in Genomics: Incorporating Measures of Structural Racism, Discrimination, and Social Determinants of Health	9
Identity Theft, Deep Brain Stimulation, and the Primacy of Post‐trial Obligations	9
Clinician Moral Distress: Toward an Ethics of Agent‐Regret	9
Errata	9
Why Aren't There More Whistleblowers?	8
Complex Decisions	8
Who Carries the Responsibility for Health Care Carbon Reduction?	8
Lockdowns, Bioethics, and the Public: Policy‐Making in a Liberal Democracy	8
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“You have to trust yourself”: The Overlooked Role of Self‐Trust in Coping with Chronic Illness	8
Defining Death Anew: Reexamining the Twentieth‐Century Brain Death Debates and the Uniform Determination of Death Act	8
Stef M. Shuster and Meredithe McNamara reply:	8
Contributors	8
Moral Humility for a Complex World	8
The Case for Baptizing a Dying, Unconscious Atheist	7
Risk‐Sensitive Assessment of Decision‐Making Capacity: A Comprehensive Defense	7
Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols: Where the Bioethics of U.S. Covid‐19 Vaccine Allocation Went Wrong	7
What Is the Aim of Pediatric “Gender‐Affirming” Care?	7
Rethinking the Burden of Traditional Informed Consent Prior to Prenatal Genetic Screening	6
Is Food Medicine?	6
Neither Ethical nor Prudent: Why Not to Choose Normothermic Regional Perfusion	6
The Problem Is Not (Merely) Mass Incarceration: Incarceration as a Bioethical Crisis and Abolition as a Moral Obligation	5
In Defense of Openness—Genetic Knowledge and Gamete Donation	5
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Accountability for Reasonableness as a Framework for the Promotion of Fair and Equitable Research	5
Dementia and Concurrent Consent to Sexual Relations	5
The Values That Influence Psychiatric Diagnosis and Accountability	5
Issue Information and About the Cover Art	5
Global Efforts to Protect Healthy Volunteers	5
Rethinking Decision Quality: Measures, Meaning, and Bioethics	5
Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent‐Clinician Conflict	4
Editors and Authors	4
Principled Conscientious Provision: Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience	4
Recalibrating Bioethics for the Reality of Interdependence: The Challenge of Collective‐Impact Problems	4
Justifying Clinical Deception: Some Amendments to Brummett and Salter	4
Policy, Politics, and Impact	4
Deception, Pain, and Placebo: Applying the Brummett‐Salter Deception Framework	4
Gender and Sport	4
Intersecting Narratives in the Lives of Black Women Aging with Dementia	4
Rethinking Theory in Bioethics	4
Forgotten and without Protections: Older Adults in Prison Settings	4
The Microethics of Communication in Health Care: A New Framework for the Fast Thinking of Everyday Clinical Encounters	4
What Do Prospective Parents Owe to Their Children?	4
Moral Nuances in Broad Policies	4
Dementia, Narrative, and Place: What Can Be Learned from the Age‐Friendly Movement?	4
Finding Disability in Everyday Life	4
Stories and Shame in Front‐Line Medicine	3
Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics	3
Editors and Authors	3
Living in the Shadow of Uncertainty: Rethinking Cancer as Chronic Illness	3

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