OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial Intelligence for Serious Illness Communication: Proactive Approaches to Mitigating Harm	24
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	22
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	22
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	21
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	20
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	18
Being in Relation, Being through Change	16
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	16
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	13
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	12
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	12
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	12
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	11
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	10
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	10
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	9
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	9
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	8
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	8
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	8
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	8
Is Death Irreversible?	7
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	7
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	7
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	7

Future Lives and Deaths with Purpose: Perspectives on Capacity, Character, and Intent	7
Beyond Conceptual Analysis: Social Objectivity and Conceptual Engineering to Define Disease	6
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	6
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	6
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	6
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
The Contradictions in the Criteria for Diagnosing Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome as Reflecting Some of the Philosophical Debates about the Threshold between the Normal and the Pathological	6
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	6
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	6
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	6
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	5
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	5
Practical Wisdom, Clinical Judgments, and the Agential View	5
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	5
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	5
The Logic of Pregnancy	5
On Drugs	5
The Scourges: Why Abortion Is Even More Morally Serious than Miscarriage	5
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	5
Compassionate Understanding	5
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	5
Anti-abortionist Action Theory and the Asymmetry between Spontaneous and Induced Abortions	5