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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Digitally supported public health interventions through the lens of structural injustice: The case of mobile apps responding to violence against women and girls	66
“What can I possibly do?”: White individual responsibility for addressing racism as a public health crisis	41
Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations	39
“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consent	37
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners	34
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On the prospects of longtermism	26
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Reproductive Technologies and family ties	25
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies	24
The commonsense case for common morality	24
Against COVID‐19 vaccination of healthy children	21
Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines	18
Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial	17
The delivery of health services as resistance	17
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications	17
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics	16
Issue Information	16
A defense of ectogenic abortion	15
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics	15
Handle with care: Assessing performance measures of medical AI for shared clinical decision‐making	14
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds	13
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness	13

Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research	13
Grief, trauma and mistaken identity: Ethically deceiving people living with dementia in complex cases	13
Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation	13
Virtual surgical planning and data ownership: Navigating the provider‐patient‐vendor relationship	13
Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies	12
Clinical research vehicles as a modality for medical research education and conduct of decentralized trials, supporting justice, equity, and diversity in research	12
Freedom of choice and the tobacco endgame	11
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn	11
The fragility of origin essentialism: Where mitochondrial ‘replacement’ meets the non‐identity problem	11
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics	10
Racism in child welfare: Ethical considerations of harm	10
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Bioethics, public reason, and religion: The liberalism problem By Fleck, Leonard M., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 75. £17.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 9781009078054	10
Moving beyond mistrust: Centering institutional change by decentering the white analytical lens	10
Issue Information	9
Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war	9
Slow codes as ethical disobedience	9
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Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements	9
Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics	9
Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity	9
Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye	8
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?	8
Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers	8
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour	8
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination	8
Translational bioethics	8
Racism in healthcare and bioethics	8
Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion	8
Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’	7
Issue Information	7
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What is special about conscientious objection?	7
Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know By Bonnie Steinbock and Paul T. Menzel, New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 308. $56.86 USD/$85.30 CDN (hardcover). ISBN 97801976579997, $20.95 USD/$20.	7
NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views	7
Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging	7
Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation	7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations	7
Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation	7
Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities	7
Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection	7
Religious pluralism in healthcare	7
Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective	7
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach	6
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI	6
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Dementia care, robot pets, and aliefs	6
Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions	6
Creating a safer and better functioning system: Lessons to be learned from the Netherlands for an ethical defence of an autonomy‐only approach to assisted dying	6
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing	6

The ethics of precision health	6
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities	6
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Understanding the right to health in the context of collective rights to self‐determination	6
Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes	5
Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice	5
Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences	5
A critical take on procreative justice	5
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A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research	5
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield	5
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care	5
Patient autonomy in the context of digital health	5
To remember, or not to remember? Potential impact of memory modification on narrative identity, personal agency, mental health, and well‐being	5
Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent	5
Inducing immunity? Justifying immunization policies in times of vaccine hesitancy By RolandPierik and MarcelVerweij, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. 248. US $45.00. (Paperback). ISBN: 97802625	5
Ethical challenges in research on sexual dysfunction	5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study	5
The brain during life and in adjudicating death: Reduced brain identity of persons as a critique of the neurological criteria of death	4
The cambridge handbook of health research regulation Graeme Laurie, Edward Dove, Agomoni Ganguli‐Mitra, Catriona Mamillan, Emily Postan, Nayha Sethi, and Annie Sorbie (Eds.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U	4
An empirical bioethical examination of Norwegian and British doctors' views of responsibility and (de)prioritization in healthcare	4
Military medical ethics in contemporary armed conflict: Mobilizing medicine in the pursuit of just warMichael L.GrossOxford University Press:Oxford,2021. 304 pp. ISBN 978‐0190694944. £29.99 (Paperback	4
Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction	4
Health care and the ethical implications of treatment spaces	4
Biology of kindness: Six daily choices for health, well‐being, and longevity By ImmaculataDe Vivo and DanielLumera, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. 264. $24.95 (Paperback); $24.99 (eBook). ISB	4
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Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans	4
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Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work	4
CORRIGENDUM	4
Substituted judgment for the never‐capacitated: Crossing Storar's bridge too far	4
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited	4
Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals	4
Resistance in health and healthcare: Applying Essex conceptualisation to a multiphased study on the experiences of Australian nurses and midwives who provide abortion care to people victimised by gend	4
Does donor conception violate human dignity?	4
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar	4
‘If we don't have consent, we need to have beneficence’: Requiring beneficence in nonconsensual neurocorrection	4
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?	4
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?	4
Issue Information	3
Why restrict medical effective altruism?	3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem	3
The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐19	3
Procedural fairness for radiotherapy priority setting in a low resource context	3
Argumenta ad passiones: Canada debates access thresholds to MAiD	3
Good principles, badly applied: Logical and ethical inconsistencies in selecting Qatar as a venue for the WCB	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
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On the morality of vaccination tourism	3
The many metaphysical commitments of secular clinical ethics: Expanding the argument for a moral–metaphysical proceduralism	3
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults	3
Judicial interventions in health policy: Epistemic competence and the courts	3
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?	3
Care of the older person and the value of human dignity	3
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)	3
Contraception is not a reductio of Marquis	3
Stewardship according to context: Justifications for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies in agriculture and their limitations	3
All research that might result in a pandemic must undergo external review	3
Islamic virtues and end‐of‐life decisions in clinical practice: A commentary on Mehrunisha Suleman, ‘The Balancing of Virtues—Muslim Perspectives on End of Life Care: Empirical research analysing the	3
The ethical gene	3
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Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration	3
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?	3
Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?	3
Bioethics reenvisioned: A path towards health justiceKing, Nancy M. P., Henderson, Gail E., Churchill, Larry R.Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 214 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐7159‐8	3
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs	3
Care relationships and the autonomy of people with physical disabilities	3
The sanctity of life as a sacred value	3
The ethical indefensibility of heartbeat bills	3
The case against death Ingemar Patrick Linden Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. 258 pp. ISBN: 9780262543163 $45.00 (Paperback); $31.99 (Kindle).	3
Moral expertise without moral elitism	3
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views	3
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws	3
Racialized disablement and the need for conceptual analysis of “racial health disparities”	3
Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines	3
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Time to rethink assisted dying?	3
A theory of triage	3