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

Article	Citations
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Why the Professional Duty Argument is Unconvincing	22
Artificial Intelligence for Serious Illness Communication: Proactive Approaches to Mitigating Harm	22
Justification and Limitations of the Duty to Treat	21
Patient Safety and the Question of Dignitary Harms	21
Human Nature and Aspiring the Divine: On Antiquity and Transhumanism	20
What is Phenomenological Bioethics? A Critical Appraisal of Its Ends and Means	20
Being in Relation, Being through Change	17
Tōjisha Research and Narrative Medicine: Contribution of a Japanese Experiment in the Investigation of Patients’ Personal Experience	14
Do Not Risk Homicide: Abortion After 10 Weeks Gestation	14
The Disease Loophole: Index Terms and Their Role in Disease Misclassification	12
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine	12
A New Defense of Brain Death as the Death of the Human Organism	12
The Altruism Requirement as Moral Fiction	11
Ethical Problems of Observational Studies and Big Data Compared to Randomized Trials	11
What Happens When the Zygote Divides? On the Metaphysics of Monozygotic Twinning	10
The Saturated Phenomenon of Flesh and Mineness and Otherness of the Body in Illness	10
Wakefield’s Harm-Based Critique of the Biostatistical Theory	9
Critically Appraising Pragmatist Critiques of Evidence-Based Medicine: Is EBM Defensible on Pragmatist Grounds?	9
Disability and the Goods of Life	8
Naturalism, Disease, and Levels of Functional Description	8
Reasoning about Death in Biomedical Decision-Making	8
Can a MacIntyrian Care about Severely Disabled Strangers?	7
Is There a “Best” Way for Patients to Participate in Pharmacovigilance?	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	7

The Ethical Duty to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Industrialized Healthcare Services and Facilities	7
Nosological Diagnosis, Theories of Categorization, and Argumentations by Analogy	7
Is Death Irreversible?	6
Assisted Death, Dignity, and Respect for Humanity	6
What Happens if the Brain Goes Elsewhere? Reflections on Head Transplantation and Personal Embodiment	6
Illness Experience and Social Suffering: Synthesizing Medical Phenomenology and Critical Theory	6
Rejoinder to Dominiak and Wysocki on Evictionism	6
Genetic Enhancement, Human Rights, and Regioglobal Bioethics	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
A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability	6
A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo	6
Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing	6
Intentions at the End of Life: Continuous Deep Sedation and France’s Claeys-Leonetti law	6
Compassionate Understanding	5
When Words Fail: “Miscarriage,” Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm	5
A Critical Interpretive Literature Review of Phronesis in Medicine	5
The Logic of Pregnancy	5
Head Transplantation and Immortality: When Is Life Worth Living Forever?	5
Philosophical Failure and the Reasonability View of Conscientious Objection: Can Reason Adjudicate Metaphysical or Religious Claims?	5
Memories without Survival: Personal Identity and the Ascending Reticular Activating System	5
The Relational Care Framework: Promoting Continuity or Maintenance of Selfhood in Person-Centered Care	5
On Drugs	5
Philosophical Acts of Wonder in Bioethics	5