OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Law Review is 1. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Reproductive health, choice, and justice	28
The Voluntary Sterilisation Act: Best Interests, Caregivers, and Disability Rights	18
James Cameron, Critically Ill Children and the Law: Medical Decision-Making and the Best Interests Principle	16
The relationship between capacity and credibility: implications for epistemic injustice	12
Editorial: In Honour of Professor Margaret Brazier: Memories of Margot	12
Post-trial access to investigational drugs in India: addressing challenges in the regulatory framework	11
Jennings v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2022] EWHC 1619 (Fam): confirming the paradigm of inferred consent for posthumous conception	10
When is the processing of data from medical implants lawful? The legal grounds for processing health-related personal data from ICT implantable medical devices for treatment purposes under EU data pro	8
Sue Westwood, Regulating the End of Life—Death Rights	8
Is the categorical denial of pentobarbital for assisted suicide a violation of the constitutional right to a self-determined death in Germany?	8
Professional regulation and attitudinal issues: constructing the ‘good doctor’ and the ‘bad apple’ through the device of insight	8
Jo Samanta and Ash Samanta (eds), Clinical Guidelines and the Law of Medical Negligence—Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives	7
Fifty years of the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976: A spent statute?	6
Intellectual property protection for traditional medical knowledge in China’s context: a round peg in a square hole?	6
Interrogating the limits of precedent autonomy: the anomalous exclusion of basic care from the ambit of advance decisions	6
Capturing the medical gaze regulating medical photography of minors with intersex variations	6
The boundaries of qualification-disclosure: R (Anaesthetists United Ltd) and Others v General Medical Council [2025] EWHC 2270 (Admin)	5
Medical misogyny: understanding epistemic injustice to achieve safer healthcare for women in the UK	5
Julia Duffy, Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights	4
The role of the right to life in respect of deaths caused by negligence in the healthcare context	4
The social determinants of health, law, and urban development: using human rights to address structural health inequalities in our cities	4
Should states restrict recipient choice amongst relevant and available COVID-19 vaccines?	3
The Delicate Balance Struck by the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024	3
Carolyn Adams, Judy Allen, and Felicity Flack, Sharing Linked Data for Health Research: Toward Better Decision Making	3
Judicial Discomfort over ‘Innovative’ Treatment for Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria	3

Towards a rights-based approach for disabled women’s access to abortion	2
Legal horizons and new challenges	2
PMC v Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board [2025] EWCA Civ 1126: Surprising disregard for jigsaw identification	2
WHERE DOES RESPONSIBILITY LIE? ANALYSING LEGAL AND REGULATORY RESPONSES TO FLAWED CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS WHEN PATIENTS SUFFER HARM	2
Patents over ‘technologies’ related to how we treat, use, and modify the human body: An urgent need for greater bioethics scrutiny	2
Reimagining health law . Atina Krajewska and Jean McHale, eds	1
Location, location, location: the approach of healthcare professionals in defining the artificially gestated entity	1
‘THIS IS NO COUNTRY FOR OLD (WO)MEN’? AN EXAMINATION OF THE APPROACH TAKEN TO CARE HOME RESIDENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC	1
Donor conception, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, choices, and procedural justice: an argument for reform of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990	1
Govert den Hartogh, What Kind of Death: The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death	1
The Health and Care Act 2022: inserting telemedicine into the Abortion Act 1967	1
Record linkage of routine and cohort data of children in Portugal: challenges and opportunities when using record linkage as a tool for scientific research	1
Parsing human rights, promoting health equity: reflections on Colombia’s response to Venezuelan migration	1
Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu, Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context	1
Looking back to look forward—the history of VAD laws in Australia and future law reform in the Australian territories	1
Private by default: reasonable expectations in secondary uses of patient data	1
David Orentlicher and Tamara K.Hervey (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law	1
Let’s talk about AIDS, baby! Critiquing the HIV and AIDS Act, 2017 in India through a reproductive justice framework	1
B v University of Aberdeen [2020] CSIH 62: Where there’s a will, there’s a way	1