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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
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Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations	58
Issue Information	34
“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consent	31
On the prospects of longtermism	31
Little Things Mean A Lot	30
Disability, Subject‐Dependence, and the Bad‐Difference View	26
Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial	25
Reproductive Technologies and family ties	25
“What can I possibly do?”: White individual responsibility for addressing racism as a public health crisis	22
The commonsense case for common morality	21
Refugees' right to health: A case study of Poland's disparate migration policies	21
I Feel I Need to Think about It: A Defence of Affective Moral Enhancement	20
Moral experts as members of ethics commissions as seen through the prism of comprehensive doctrines	19
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners	18
The delivery of health services as resistance	18
Fast‐tracking development and regulatory approval of COVID‐19 vaccines in the EU: A review of ethical implications	18
Israel's Post‐War Healthcare Obligations	18
Against COVID‐19 vaccination of healthy children	18
Issue Information	17
Let the foxes run free: Arresting bioethics' inward turn	17
The ethics of overriding patient refusals during 5150s and other involuntary psychiatric holds	17
A defense of ectogenic abortion	16
Abolishing morality in biomedical ethics	15
Virtual surgical planning and data ownership: Navigating the provider‐patient‐vendor relationship	15

Virtue ethics and the unsettled ethical questions in controlled human infection studies	14
Racism in child welfare: Ethical considerations of harm	14
Distinguishing appropriate from inappropriate conditions on research participation	14
From Abstinence to Assistance: Antinatalism's Unexpected Endorsement of the Principle of Procreative Beneficence	14
To never exist is always best. A critique of the metaphysics of pronatalism in contemporary bioethics	13
Clinical research vehicles as a modality for medical research education and conduct of decentralized trials, supporting justice, equity, and diversity in research	13
Freedom as Non‐Domination, Rules, and the Pandemic	12
On the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza: A Reply to Lederman	12
Expert identification for ethics expertise informed by feminist epistemology—Using awareness of biases and situated ignorance as an indicator of trustworthiness	12
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research	11
Medical test and employee's autonomy. Confidentiality of data and non‐discrimination	11
Treating the innocent victims of trolleys and war	11
Issue Information	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	11
Moving beyond mistrust: Centering institutional change by decentering the white analytical lens	11
Slow codes as ethical disobedience	11
Ethical challenges in accessing and providing healthcare for Syrian refugees in Türkiye	10
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Arguments for a ban on pediatric intersex surgery: A dis/analogy with Jehovah witness blood transfusion	10
Transformative medical ethics: A framework for changing practice according to normative–ethical requirements	9
Racism in healthcare and bioethics	9
Procreative Justice and genetic selection for skin colour	9
Considering the Developing Entity in an Artificial Womb as a Patient	9
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NIPT for adult‐onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views	8
Many thanks to Bioethics reviewers	8
Moral expertise in (bio‐)ethics	8
Racism without racists and consequentialist life‐maximizing approaches to triaging	8
Issue Information	8
Translational bioethics	8
Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity	8
Will older adults be represented in patient‐reported data? Opportunities and realities	8
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Are menstrual periods an environmental liability? Period poverty and eco‐feminist bioethics	8
What moral weight should patient‐led demand have in clinical decisions about assisted reproductive technologies?	8
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
Black box algorithms in mental health apps: An ethical reflection	7
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Ethical and legal race‐responsive vaccine allocation	7
Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation	7
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Ethicists and the Gaza War	7
Generative AI in healthcare: A call for a Māori perspective	7
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Euthanasia in detention and the ethics of caring solidarity: A case study of the ‘Tarragona Gunman’	7
Cryonics: Traps and transformations	7
Religious pluralism in healthcare	6
Value change, reprogenetic technologies, and the axiological underpinnings of reproductive choice	6
Moral enhancement and cheapened achievement: Psychedelics, virtual reality and AI	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

The ethics of precision health	6
What is special about conscientious objection?	6
Show and slow codes: A historical analysis of clinicians' adaptations to ethical overreach	6
Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishing	6
The Ethics of Heart Donation After the Circulatory Determination of Death: Gaps in Knowledge and Research Opportunities	6
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Slow codes, multiple layers of deception, and partial solutions	6
Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent	6
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Trading one problem for two: The case against tobacco bans	5
Why caregivers have no autonomy‐based reason to respect advance directives in dementia care	5
Moral enhancement, acquired virtue, and theism: A response to Brummett and Crutchfield	5
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic‐modeling study	5
Time to expand a paradigm: Healthcare sustainability and eco‐ethical assessment	5
Commercialization and the Olympics: A step too far?	5
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	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
Patient autonomy in the context of digital health	5
Issue Information	5
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	5
A critical take on procreative justice	5
Family‐making avec emerging technologies and/or non‐human animals	5
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Accuracy is inaccurate: Why a focus on diagnostic accuracy for medical chatbot AIs will not lead to improved health outcomes	5
Fertility treatment, valuable life projects and social norms: In defence of defending (reproductive) preferences	5
Ethical challenges in research on sexual dysfunction	5
A multidimensional account of social justice for global health research	5
Does donor conception violate human dignity?	5
Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work	4
‘Bioethics: What? and why?’ : Revisited	4
Why restrict medical effective altruism?	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
Not just “bodies with vaginas”: A Kantian defense of pelvic exam consent laws	4
The Ethics of Informed Consent for Data Registries: Moving Beyond Moral Minimalism to the High Ground	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
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‘If we don't have consent, we need to have beneficence’: Requiring beneficence in nonconsensual neurocorrection	4
The Credibility of Bioethics After the Gaza Genocide	4
The many metaphysical commitments of secular clinical ethics: Expanding the argument for a moral–metaphysical proceduralism	4
Are heartbeat bills ethically defensible?	4
Is germline genome‐editing person‐affecting or identity‐affecting, and does it matter?	4
The brain during life and in adjudicating death: Reduced brain identity of persons as a critique of the neurological criteria of death	4
Corrigendum to: Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction	4
CORRIGENDUM	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
Christian anthropology‐based contributions to the ethics of socially assistive robots in care for older adults	4
Health care and the ethical implications of treatment spaces	4
Care relationships and the autonomy of people with physical disabilities	3
Mental Health Is Psychological Well‐Being	3
The ethics of autonomous neurosurgical robots (ANRs)	3
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Ethics of a pandemic of deliberate health misinformation: From abortion care to vaccines	3
Moral expertise without moral elitism	3
Racialized disablement and the need for conceptual analysis of “racial health disparities”	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
Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability‐sensitive designs	3
The ethics of bioethics conferencing in Qatar	3
A theory of triage	3
The Effectiveness of Nudging and Its Ethical Implications	3
Issue Information	3
Sustainable global health practice: An ethical imperative?	3
Workplace heating and gender discrimination	3
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The case against death Ingemar Patrick Linden Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022. 258 pp. ISBN: 9780262543163 $45.00 (Paperback); $31.99 (Kindle).	3
Against Public‐Facing Religious Bio‐Restrictionism	3
Ethics is everywhere: Human Geography, Bioethics and the value of interdisciplinary collaboration	3
International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza	3
When (if ever) may doctors discuss religion with their patients?	3
Time to rethink assisted dying?	3
Substituted judgment for the never‐capacitated: Crossing Storar's bridge too far	3
Thoughtful Accompaniment in Life's Final Stages: Philosophical Practice as a Complement to Ethics Consultation	3
Toxic masculinity: A neglected public health problem	3
Contraception is not a reductio of Marquis	3
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood: A binational empirical bioethical investigation of women's views	3
The precautionary principle in public health emergency regime: Ethical and legal examinations of Vietnamese and global response to COVID‐19	3
In Defence of Causing Patients to Worry: Ethical Issues in the Communication of Diagnostic Uncertainty	3
Empowering Patient Autonomy: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Scaffolding Informed Consent in Medical Practice	3
The sanctity of life as a sacred value	3
Care of the older person and the value of human dignity	3