OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioethics 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
Utilitarianism and the pandemic	123
Recommendations on COVID‐19 triage: international comparison and ethical analysis	89
Responsibility beyond design: Physicians’ requirements for ethical medical AI	44
Neonatal incubator or artificial womb? Distinguishing ectogestation and ectogenesis using the metaphysics of pregnancy	33
Accounting for research fatigue in research ethics	30
Saving the most lives—A comparison of European triage guidelines in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic	29
Research integrity codes of conduct in Europe: Understanding the divergences	27
Should we replace radiologists with deep learning? Pigeons, error and trust in medical AI	23
Collective Reflective Equilibrium in Practice (CREP) and controversial novel technologies	21
Does the heterogeneity of autism undermine the neurodiversity paradigm?	21
Queue questions: Ethics of COVID‐19 vaccine prioritization	21
Intentional machines: A defence of trust in medical artificial intelligence	20
REASONS TO REDEFINE MORAL DISTRESS: A FEMINIST EMPIRICAL BIOETHICS ANALYSIS	18
Harming one to benefit another: The paradox of autonomy and consent in maternity care	18
Artificial intelligence and the doctor–patient relationship expanding the paradigm of shared decision making	17
Environmentally sustainable development and use of artificial intelligence in health care	16
Ethical issues surrounding controlled human infection challenge studies in endemic low‐and middle‐income countries	16
Rethinking counselling in prenatal screening: An ethical analysis of informed consent in the context of non‐invasive prenatal testing (NIPT)	16
How competitors become collaborators—Bridging the gap(s) between machine learning algorithms and clinicians	16
Evaluation of artificial intelligence clinical applications: Detailed case analyses show value of healthcare ethics approach in identifying patient care issues	15
Against COVID‐19 vaccination of healthy children	15
The telemedical imperative	15
Explicability of artificial intelligence in radiology: Is a fifth bioethical principle conceptually necessary?	14
Contextual bias, the democratization of healthcare, and medical artificial intelligence in low‐ and middle‐income countries	14
The death of dignity is greatly exaggerated: Reflections 15 years after the declaration of dignity as a useless concept	14

A consequentialist argument for considering age in triage decisions during the coronavirus pandemic	13
Deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with malaria parasites: Perceptions and experiences of participants and other stakeholders in a Kenyan‐based malaria infection study	13
Ethics, public health and technology responses to COVID‐19	13
Resistance in health and healthcare	12
The Montreal Criteria and uterine transplants in transgender women	11
Critical analysis of communication strategies in public health promotion: An empirical‐ethical study on organ donation in Germany	11
Autonomy and social influence in predictive genetic testing decision‐making: A qualitative interview study	11
The ethics of ectogenesis	11
Avoiding ‘selection’?—References to history in current German policy debates about non‐invasive prenatal testing	10
‘Too late or too soon’: The ethics of advance care planning in dementia setting	10
One health ethics	10
Queries on the COVID‐19 quick publishing ethics	10
Ectogenesis and gender‐based oppression: Resisting the ideal of assimilation	10
A more‐than‐human approach to bioethics: The example of digital health	10
COVID19: Why justice and transparency in hospital triage policies are paramount	9
Suffering is not enough: Assisted dying for people with mental illness	9
The curious case of “trust” in the light of changing doctor–patient relationships	9
Public reasoning about voluntary assisted dying: An analysis of submissions to the Queensland Parliament, Australia	9
Environmental justice and climate change policies	9
Moving beyond mistrust: Centering institutional change by decentering the white analytical lens	9
Exploring the phenomenon and ethical issues of AI paternalism in health apps	9
Digitally supported public health interventions through the lens of structural injustice: The case of mobile apps responding to violence against women and girls	9
Dying well in nursing homes during COVID‐19 and beyond: The need for a relational and familial ethic	9
Moving from ‘fully’ to ‘appropriately’ informed consent in genomics: The PROMICE framework	9
Responsibility amid the social determinants of health	9
Racism in child welfare: Ethical considerations of harm	9
Your pain is not mine: A critique of clinical empathy	8
The bioethics of loneliness	8
Beneficent dehumanization: Employing artificial intelligence and carebots to mitigate shame‐induced barriers to medical care	8
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study	7
Facing difficult but unavoidable choices: Donor blood safety and the deferral of men who have sex with men	7
A sufficiency threshold is not a harm principle: A better alternative to best interests for overriding parental decisions	7
Autonomy and the limits of cognitive enhancement	7
He Jiankui´s gene‐editing experiment and the non‐identity problem	7
Should we accept a higher cost per health improvement for orphan drugs? A review and analysis of egalitarian arguments	7
Space bioethics: Why we need it and why it should be a feminist space bioethics	7
The ethical‐legal requirements for adolescent self‐consent to research in sub‐Saharan Africa: A scoping review	7
Ethical issues in managing the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
May I give my heart away? On the permissibility of living vital organ donation	7
The emergence of the “genetic counseling” profession as a counteraction to past eugenic concepts and practices	7
Disability‐based arguments against assisted dying laws	6
Nudging for others’ sake: An ethical analysis of the legitimacy of nudging healthcare workers to accept influenza immunization	6
Withdrawal of intensive care during times of severe scarcity: Triage during a pandemic only upon arrival or with the inclusion of patients who are already under treatment?	6
A local criterion of fairness in sport: Comparing the property advantages of Caster Semenya and Eero Mäntyranta with implications for the construction of categories in sport	6
Stopping exploitation: Properly remunerating healthcare workers for risk in the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
The ethics of ethics conferences: Is Qatar a desirable location for a bioethics conference?	6
Too old to save? COVID‐19 and age‐based allocation of lifesaving medical care	6
In defence of the bioethics scoping review: Largely systematic literature reviewing with broad utility	6
The birth of the “digital turn” in bioethics?	6
A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma: How semantic black boxes and opaque artificial intelligence confuse medical decision‐making	6

Vaccination status and intensive care unit triage: Is it fair to give unvaccinated Covid‐19 patients equal priority?	6
Fallacious, misleading and unhelpful: The case for removing ‘systematic review’ from bioethics nomenclature	6
A conscious choice: Is it ethical to aim for unconsciousness at the end of life?	6
‘Aching to be a boy’: A preliminary analysis of gender assignment of intersex persons in India in a culture of son preference	6
To offer or request? Disclosing variants of uncertain significance in prenatal testing	6
Addressing racism in the healthcare encounter: The role of clinical ethics consultants	6
Bioethics met its COVID‐19 Waterloo: The doctor knows best again	6
The use of human artificial gametes and the limits of reproductive freedom	5
Eating meat and not vaccinating: In defense of the analogy	5
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?	5
Why IRBs should protect bystanders in human research	5
Moving forwards: A problem for full ectogenesis	5
A trade‐off: Antimicrobial resistance and COVID‐19	5
Mobile health technology and empowerment	5
Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent	5
COVID‐19 and the possibility of solidarity	5
Vulnerability in practice: Peeling back the layers, avoiding triggers, and preventing cascading effects	5
Navigating conflicts of justice in the use of race and ethnicity in precision medicine	5
Justice and the racial dimensions of health inequalities: A view from COVID‐19	5
Contractualist age rationing under outbreak circumstances	5
Judging the social value of controlled human infection studies	5
The balancing of virtues—Muslim perspectives on palliative and end of life care: Empirical research analysing the perspectives of service users and providers	5
To remember, or not to remember? Potential impact of memory modification on narrative identity, personal agency, mental health, and well‐being	5
Compensation and reparations for victims and bystanders of the U.S. Public Health Service research studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala: Who do we owe what?	5
Access to effective but expensive treatments: An analysis of the solidarity argument in discussions on funding of medical treatments	4
Digital surveillance in a pandemic response: What bioethics ought to learn from Indigenous perspectives	4
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar	4
The right to a second opinion on Artificial Intelligence diagnosis—Remedying the inadequacy of a risk‐based regulation	4
Ethics of controlled human infection studies: Past, present and future	4
Individual moral responsibility for antibiotic resistance	4
Should clinicians make chest surgery available to transgender male adolescents?	4
Towards conjoint solidarity in healthcare	4
Reconstructing feminist perspectives of women’s bodies using a globalized view: The changing surrogacy market in Japan	4
Cultivating conscience: Moral neurohabilitation of adolescents and young adults with conduct and/or antisocial personality disorders	4
The cost of safety: Balancing risk and liberty in psychiatric units	4
Surrogacy and uterus transplantation using live donors: Examining the options from the perspective of ‘womb‐givers’	4
Telling the truth to seriously ill children: Considering children's interests when parents veto telling the truth	4
From scientific exploitation to individual memorialization: Evolving attitudes towards research on Nazi victims’ bodies	4
Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity	4
On the impairment argument	4
Symposium on risks to bystanders in clinical research: An introduction	4
World Congress of Bioethics in Qatar raises ethical questions	4
Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging	4
Towards equitable genomics governance in Africa: Guiding principles from theories of global health governance and the African moral theory of Ubuntu	3
The differentiation argument: If newborns outrank animals, so do fetuses	3
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In defense of dignity: Reflections on the moral function of human dignity	3
Autonomy rights and abortion after the point of viability	3
Informed consent for controlled human infection studies in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Ethical challenges and proposed solutions	3
Bioethics and the argumentative legacy of atrocities in medical history: Reflections on a complex relationship	3
Technological solutions to loneliness—Are they enough?	3
Truth and diversion: Self and other‐regarding lies in dementia care	3
Not just a tragic compromise: The positive case for adolescent access to puberty‐blocking treatment	3
A principled approach to cross‐sector genomic data access	3
‘Mad’, bad or Muslim? The UK's Vulnerability Support Hubs and the nexus of mental health, counterterrorism and racism	3
Bystanders and ethical review of research: Proceed with caution	3
Racialized disablement and the need for conceptual analysis of “racial health disparities”	3
Accuracy of post‐publication Financial Conflict of Interest corrections in medical research: A secondary analysis of pharmaceutical company payments to the authors of the CREATE‐X trial report in the	3
Handle with care: Assessing performance measures of medical AI for shared clinical decision‐making	3
Response to the ISSCR guidelines on human–animal chimera research	3
Gendering the seed: Mitochondrial replacement techniques and the erasure of the maternal	3
Moving beyond the moral status of organoid‐entities	3
An empirical perspective on moral expertise: Evidence from a global study of philosophers	3
Rethinking patient involvement in healthcare priority setting	3
Reproductive justice for the haunted Nordic welfare state: Race, racism, and queer bioethics in Finland	3
Causation and Injustice: Locating the injustice of racial and ethnic health disparities	3
Equality‐enhancing potential of novel forms of assisted gestation: Perspectives of reproductive rights advocates	3
The fragility of origin essentialism: Where mitochondrial ‘replacement’ meets the non‐identity problem	3
Using, risking, and consent: Why risking harm to bystanders is morally different from risking harm to research subjects	3
Bioethics and the thorny question of diversity: The example of Qatar‐based institutions hosting the World Congress of Bioethics 2024	3
“What can I possibly do?”: White individual responsibility for addressing racism as a public health crisis	3
Respecting relational agency in the context of vulnerability: What can research ethics learn from the social sciences?	3
Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?	3