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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

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	16
Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility	13
Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies	13
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
The Emerging Hazard of AI‐Related Health Care Discrimination	12
Addressing Anti‐Black Racism in Bioethics: Responding to the Call	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
Is Trust Enough? Anti‐Black Racism and the Perception of Black Vaccine “Hesitancy”	11
Consent for Intimate Exams on Unconscious Patients: Sharpening Legislative Efforts	10
Life‐Years & Rationing in the Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Critical Analysis	10
The Social Risks of Science	10
Material Insecurity, Racial Capitalism, and Public Health	10
Ventilator Allocation Protocols: Sophisticated Bioethics for an Unworkable Strategy	9
Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal Publishing	9
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
Coming to Terms with the Black Box Problem: How to Justify AI Systems in Health Care	9
Antiracist Praxis in Public Health: A Call for Ethical Reflections	9

The University of California Crisis Standards of Care: Public Reasoning for Socially Responsible Medicine	8
The Limited Value of Dementia‐Specific Advance Directives	8
Can Our Schools Help Us Preserve Democracy? Special Challenges at a Time of Shifting Norms	7
Your Father's a Fighter; Your Daughter's a Vegetable: A Critical Analysis of the Use of Metaphor in Clinical Practice	7
If Not Now, Then When? Taking Disability Seriously in Bioethics	7
Can Genetic Nondiscrimination Laws Save Lives?	7
Public Deliberation about Gene Editing in the Wild	7
It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death	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
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
Activism and the Clinical Ethicist	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
What Is the Aim of Pediatric “Gender‐Affirming” Care?	6
Ethics of a Mandatory Waiting Period for Female Sterilization	6
Ending One's Life in Advance	6
Black Feminist Bioethics: Centering Community to Ask Better Questions	5
Mind the Gaps: Ethical and Epistemic Issues in the Digital Mental Health Response to Covid‐19	5
Deliberative Public Consultation via Deliberative Polling: Criteria and Methods	5
In This Together: Navigating Ethical Challenges Posed by Family Clustering during the Covid‐19 Pandemic	5
Empowering Indigenous Knowledge in Deliberations on Gene Editing in the Wild	5
Gender‐Affirming Care for Cisgender People	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
Deficits of Public Deliberation in U.S. Oversight for Gene Edited Organisms	5
Genetic Data Aren't So Special: Causes and Implications of Reidentification	5
The Market in Noninvasive Prenatal Tests and the Message to Consumers: Exploring Responsibility	5
Centering Social Justice for Covid‐19 Resources and Research	5
Legal and Ethical Issues in the Report Heritable Human Genome Editing	5
Against Exclusive Survivalism: Preventing Lost Life and Protecting the Disadvantaged in Resource Allocation	4
A Matter of Justice: “Fat” Is Not Necessarily a Bad Word	4
Does a Public Health Crisis Justify More Research with Incarcerated People?	4
Reciprocity and Liability Protections during the Covid‐19 Pandemic	4
Identity Theft, Deep Brain Stimulation, and the Primacy of Post‐trial Obligations	4
Antiracist Activism in Clinical Ethics: What's Stopping Us?	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
On the Shoulders of Giants: A Reckoning with Social Justice	4
Reproductive Embryo Editing: Attending to Justice	4
Regulating AI in Health Care: The Challenges of Informed User Engagement	4
White Privilege, White Poverty: Reckoning with Class and Race in America	4
DEI Is Not Enough	4
In Service to Others: A New Evolutionary Perspective on Human Enhancement	4
Handle with Care: The WHO Report on Human Genome Editing	4
Testimonies and Healing: Anti‐oppressive Research with Black Women and the Implications for Compassionate Ethical Care	4

Bioethics Rooted in Justice: Community‐Expert Reflections	4
Burdening Others	4
Mapping the Moral Terrain of Clinical Deception	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
The Moral Difference between Faces & FaceTime	4
Anti‐Black Racism as a Chronic Condition	4
The Bioethics of Built Space: Health Care Architecture as a Medical Intervention	4
Fifty Years of U.S. Mass Incarceration and What It Means for Bioethics	4
When People Facing Dementia Choose to Hasten Death: The Landscape of Current Ethical, Legal, Medical, and Social Considerations in the United States	3
History and Bioethics	3
Advance Directives: The Principle of Determining Authenticity	3
Love Your Patient as Yourself: On Reviving the Broken Heart of American Medical Ethics	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
Racism, Not Race: A Physician Perspective on Anti‐Black Racism in America	3
Protecting Health after Dobbs	3
Bioethics and War	3
Structural Inequities, Fair Opportunity, and the Allocation of Scarce ICU Resources	3
The Decision Phases Framework for Public Engagement:Engaging Stakeholders about Gene Editing in the Wild	3
Narratives in Public Deliberation: Empowering Gene Editing Debate with Storytelling	3
Regaining Trust in Public Health and Biomedical Science following Covid: The Role of Scientists	3
The Vaccination Cold War	3
Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols: Where the Bioethics of U.S. Covid‐19 Vaccine Allocation Went Wrong	3
Industry Technicians Embedded in Clinical Teams: Impacts on Medical Knowledge	3
The Vanishing Square: Civic Learning in the Internet Age	3
Disability Affirmative Action Requirements for the U.S. HHS and Academic Medical Centers	3
Too Soon or Too Late: Rethinking the Significance of Six Months When Dementia Is a Primary Diagnosis	3
Does Gene Editing in the Wild Require Broad Public Deliberation?	3
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Opioid Treatment Agreements and Patient Accountability	3
About the Special Report	2
Speaking Volumes: The Encyclopedia of Bioethics and Racism	2
Expanding Paid Sick Leave Laws: The Public Health Imperative	2
Care Ethics versus the CARES Act	2
The UN Challenge to Guardianship and Surrogate Decision‐Making	2
Ourselves, with Dementia	2
Do Health Care Organizations Have Legitimate Responsibilities beyond the Delivery of Health Care? Insights from Citizenship Theory	2
Civic Learning, Science, and Structural Racism	2
Restructuring Deliberation Using a Cultural Theory Lens	2
Rethinking the Ethics of the Covid‐19 Pandemic Lockdowns	2
Contributors	2
Latinx Bioethics: Toward a Braver, Broader, and More Just Bioethics	2
“We have nothing left to bury.”	2
Recommendations for Better Civic Learning: Building and Rebuilding Democracy	2
When Following the Rules Feels Wrong	2
From a Reckoning to Racial Concordance: A Strategy to Protect Black Mothers, Children, and Infants	2
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Clarifying the Ethics and Oversight of Chimeric Research	2
Wrestling with Public Input on an Ethical Analysis of Scientific Research	2
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Health Justice and Rawls's Theory at Fifty: Will New Thinking about Health and Inequality Influence the Most Influential Account of Justice?	2
Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent‐Clinician Conflict	2
Social Equality in an Alternate World	2
Checking in with Neuroethics	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
Redoing the Demos	2
Facilitating Ukrainian Refugees’ Continued Participation in Clinical Trials	2
Clinician Moral Distress: Toward an Ethics of Agent‐Regret	2
Digital Humans to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation: Ethics Concerns and Policy Recommendations	2
Principled Conscientious Provision: Referral Symmetry and Its Implications for Protecting Secular Conscience	2
Risk Trade‐Offs and Equitable Decision‐Making in the Covid‐19 Pandemic	2
Legal Discrepancies and Expectations of Women: Abortion, Fetal Therapy, and NICU Care	2
Opening the Door: Rethinking “Difficult Conversations” about Living and Dying with Dementia	2
Activism and Bioethics: Taking a Stand on Things That Matter	2
Living Donors and the Issue of “Informed Consent”	2
Rethinking Decision Quality: Measures, Meaning, and Bioethics	2
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Crisis Standards of Care—More Than Just a Thought Experiment?	2