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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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	58
“What can I possibly do?”: White individual responsibility for addressing racism as a public health crisis	39
Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations	38
“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	37
The delivery of health services as resistance	33
Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines	33
Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial	30
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On the prospects of longtermism	25
Reproductive Technologies and family ties	23
Issue Information	23
Against COVID‐19 vaccination of healthy children	22
The commonsense case for common morality	20
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies	18
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications	17
Racism in child welfare: Ethical considerations of harm	16
Issue Information	16
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics	15
A defense of ectogenic abortion	14
Moving beyond mistrust: Centering institutional change by decentering the white analytical lens	14
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics	14
Freedom of choice and the tobacco endgame	14

Virtual surgical planning and data ownership: Navigating the provider‐patient‐vendor relationship	13
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness	13
Handle with care: Assessing performance measures of medical AI for shared clinical decision‐making	13
Grief, trauma and mistaken identity: Ethically deceiving people living with dementia in complex cases	13
The fragility of origin essentialism: Where mitochondrial ‘replacement’ meets the non‐identity problem	13
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds	12
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research	12
Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation	12
Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies	11
Clinical research vehicles as a modality for medical research education and conduct of decentralized trials, supporting justice, equity, and diversity in research	11
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
Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements	10
Issue Information	10
Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye	10
Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity	10
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn	10
Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war	10
Racism in healthcare and bioethics	10
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics	10
Slow codes as ethical disobedience	9
Issue Information	9
Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics	9
From the chimera research frontiers: Ethics of monkey–human embryos	8
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination	8
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Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers	8
Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion	8
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?	8
Translational bioethics	8
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour	8
NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views	7
Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities	7
Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation	7
Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective	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
Vulnerable groups and the hollow promise of benefit from human gene editing	7
Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection	7
Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging	7
Issue Information	7
Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’	7
Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation	7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations	7
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Dementia care, robot pets, and aliefs	6
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach	6
What is special about conscientious objection?	6
Religious pluralism in healthcare	6
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The ethics of precision health	6

Understanding the right to health in the context of collective rights to self‐determination	6
Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice	6
To remember, or not to remember? Potential impact of memory modification on narrative identity, personal agency, mental health, and well‐being	6
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing	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
Ethical challenges in research on sexual dysfunction	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
Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences	5
A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research	5
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care	5
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Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions	5
Patient autonomy in the context of digital health	5
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities	5
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI	5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study	5
Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes	5
Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent	5
Gendering the seed: Mitochondrial replacement techniques and the erasure of the maternal	5
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield	5
Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction	4
Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans	4
Does donor conception violate human dignity?	4
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited	4
Judicial interventions in health policy: Epistemic competence and the courts	4
Health care and the ethical implications of treatment spaces	4
Substituted judgment for the never‐capacitated: Crossing Storar's bridge too far	4
Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work	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
The brain during life and in adjudicating death: Reduced brain identity of persons as a critique of the neurological criteria of death	4
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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
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	4
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?	4
Care relationships and the autonomy of people with physical disabilities	4
A critical take on procreative justice	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
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?	4
Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals	4
An empirical bioethical examination of Norwegian and British doctors' views of responsibility and (de)prioritization in healthcare	4
Time to rethink assisted dying?	4
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The ethical gene	3
Evaluation of artificial intelligence clinical applications: Detailed case analyses show value of healthcare ethics approach in identifying patient care issues	3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem	3
Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration	3
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs	3
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults	3
‘If we don't have consent, we need to have beneficence’: Requiring beneficence in nonconsensual neurocorrection	3
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar	3
Care of the older person and the value of human dignity	3
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Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views	3
Racialized disablement and the need for conceptual analysis of “racial health disparities”	3
The sanctity of life as a sacred value	3
Issue Information	3
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)	3
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws	3
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?	3
A theory of triage	3
The many metaphysical commitments of secular clinical ethics: Expanding the argument for a moral–metaphysical proceduralism	3
Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines	3
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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
On the morality of vaccination tourism	3
The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐19	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
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?	3
Exploring the phenomenon and ethical issues of AI paternalism in health apps	3
Why restrict medical effective altruism?	3
CORRIGENDUM	3
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	3
Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?	3