OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Medical Ethics is 25. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Expanding choice at the end of life	118
Higher-order desires, risk attitudes and respect for autonomy	92
Perils of shared understanding as the goal for ethics consultation: a commentary on Delanyet al	84
Identity-relative paternalism and allowing harm to others	65
Abortion policies at the bedside: incorporating an ethical framework in the analysis and development of abortion legislation	53
Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are experimental treatments and should be confined to clinical trials	50
Against the biological account of death	46
A global redistributive auction for vaccine allocation	45
Family consent to deceased organ donation in China: a participatory qualitative study	44
Public attitudes about equitable COVID-19 vaccine allocation: a randomised experiment of race-based versus novel place-based frames	43
Missing voices: why youth perspectives are essential for Ubuntu bioethics in the context of HIV testing	43
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows	42
Ethical issues arising from the government allocation of physicians to rural areas: a case study from Japan	41
Enhancing the moral space offered by critical dialogue: negotiating shared goals and target-centred virtue ethics	37
Not all personal utilities are equal: a two-tier normative framework for genomic health technology assessment	37
Getting rights right: implementing ‘Martha’s Rule’	35
Manipulating embryogenesis and testing for potential: two real problems for the regulation of stem cell-based embryo models	35
Digital twins or AI SIMs? What to call generative AI systems designed to emulate specific individuals, in healthcare settings and beyond	33
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women	32
The Pregnancy Rescue Case: why abortion is immoral	30
The intervention stairway: a defence and clarifications	28
Antinomy of pronatalist policies: it is time to shift focusing from population sustainability to population well-being	27
When uncertainty is a symptom: intolerance of uncertainty in OCD and ‘irrational’ preferences	27
Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy	26
The ethics of firing unvaccinated employees	26

Why the wrongness of intentionally impairing children in utero does not imply the wrongness of abortion	25
Proportionality, wrongs and equipoise for natural immunity exemptions: response to commentators	25