OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethics & Behavior 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementation of a risk reduction protocol in youth violence research	42
Bibliometric review and mapping analysis of publication ethics research	37
Navigating the multidimensionality of social media presence: ethical considerations and recommendations for psychologists	35
How does ethical leadership enhance employee creativity during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China?	19
Ethical decision-making: a culture influenced virtue specific model for multinational corporations	19
Privileged professionalisms: Using co-cultural communication to strengthen inclusivity in professionalism education and community formation	19
The ethics of self-tracking. A comprehensive review of the literature	18
“Under the sword of Damocles”: psychologists relate their experience of a professional misconduct complaint	18
Beyond the bump: ethical and legal considerations for psychologists providing services to pregnant individuals who use substances	17
“The relationship between citizens’ ethical attitude and cultural orientation”	11
Student-to-school counselor ratios: understanding the history and ethics behind professional staffing recommendations and realities in the United States	11
Evolution of research on honesty and dishonesty in academic work: a bibliometric analysis of two decades	10
Chinese attitudes to plagiarism: a genre analysis of editorial statements on plagiarism cases (1950s-1960s)	9
From moral distress to burnout through work-family conflict: the protective role of resilience and positive refocusing	8
Ethical considerations for requesting waivers of parental consent for research with minor adolescents who identify as LGBTQ+	8
The blind obedience of others: a better than average effect in a Milgram-like experiment	7
The role of ethical trustworthiness in shaping trust and affective commitment in schools	7
Unethical behavior at work: the effects of ethical culture and implicit and explicit moral identity	7
Learners’ self-assessment as a measure to evaluate the effectiveness of research ethics and integrity training: can we rely on self-reports?	7
Factors Influencing Perceived Helpfulness and Participation in Innovative Research:A Pilot Study of Individuals with and without Mood Symptoms	7
Examining the influence of Islamic work ethics, organizational politics, and supervisor-initiated workplace incivility on employee deviant behaviors	6
The choice of deontological, virtue ethical, and consequentialist moral reasoning strategies by pre- and in-service police officers in the U.K.: an empirical study	6
The notion of moral competence in the scientific literature: a critical review of a thin concept	6
The participant’s voice: crowdsourced and undergraduate participants’ views toward ethics consent guidelines	6
Depressive symptoms are associated with utilitarian responses in trolley dilemmas: a study amongst university students in the United Arab Emirates	6

Freedom of thought at the ethical frontier of law & science	6
A phenomenological analysis of teachers’ perceptions of ethical factors affecting the teacher–student relationships	6
Cultural perspectives on academic dishonesty: exploring racial and ethnic diversity in higher education	5
Competence-based assessment and training for ethical situations in practice: a pilot study	4
Fraudulent participation in psychological research using virtual synchronous interviews: ethical challenges and potential solutions	4
Ethical governance in Chinese universities: an overview of research ethics committees	4
Knowledge about and attitudes toward medical informed consent: a Lebanese population survey	4
Nocebo effects on informed consent within medical and psychological settings: A scoping review	4
Ethical Considerations for Psychologists Addressing Racial Trauma Experienced by Black Americans	4
Ageism and employee silence: the serial mediating roles of work alienation and organizational commitment	4
Sharing for relief: associations of trauma-focused interviews and well-being among war-affected displaced populations in the Middle East	4
Rising to our Obligation to Give	4
Why do we need to employ exemplars in moral education? Insights from recent advances in research on artificial intelligence	4
How do you know if research ethics and integrity training is effective? – Overview of prior literature	3
Does childhood maltreatment make us more morally disengaged? The indirect effect of expressive suppression	3
Sociodemographic characteristics, moral sensitivity, and moral distress as predictors of nurses’ ageism toward older adults	3
Sheltering in chaos: parents’ experiences when facing moral challenges in childhood cancer care	3
Sexual attractions and boundary crossings among sport psychology graduate students and professionals	3
Perceptions of ethical misconduct scale development	3
Independent adolescent consent to mental health care: an ethical perspective	3
Confidentiality, informed consent, and multiple relationships in four emerging regions	3
Youth perceptions of AI ethics: a Q methodology approach	3
A bioecological systems review of ethical practice in educational and school psychology	3
Decent care and decent employment: family caregivers, migrant care workers and moral dilemmas	3
How do healthcare professionals experience being subject to complaint? A meta-synthesis of reported psychosocial impacts	3
The effect of leader unethical pro-organizational behaviour on subordinate silence: the mediating role of moral ownership	3
How does moral identity promote employee voice behavior? The roles of work engagement and leader secure-base support	3
An examination of online cheating among business students through the lens of the Dark Triad and Fraud Diamond	3
Exploring missing links between ethical leadership and multidimensional work behavior: the mediating role of multidimensional psychological ownership	3
Academic dishonesty among Greek University students from different disciplines: a latent profile analysis of cheating perceptions and academic self-handicapping	2
Do counselor candidates have individualizing or binding moral foundations?	2
Ethical considerations for the use of ecological momentary assessment in non-suicidal self-injury research	2
Nature and causes of questionable research practice and research misconduct from a philosophy of science perspective	2
Addressing fraudulent responses in quantitative and qualitative internet research: case studies from body image and appearance research	2
Cultural and psychological variables predicting academic dishonesty: a cross-sectional study in nine countries	2
A lesson from MMR: is choice of vaccine the missing link in promoting vaccine confidence through informed consent?	2
Exploring the association between character strengths and moral functioning	2
Longitudinal investigation of moral disengagement among undergraduate engineering students: findings from a mixed-methods study	2
Why do students cheat? Perceptions, evaluations, and motivations	2
Consensual ideas for prioritizing patients: correlates of preferences in the allocation of medical resources	2
Practice of common ethical standards in the field of counseling and psychotherapy in mainland China	2
The role of sensory processing sensitivity and analytic mind-set in ethical decision-making	2
See something, say something? exploring the gap between real and imagined moral courage	2
Incidental genetic findings discovered during autopsy: an ethical analysis of patient confidentiality post-mortem	2
Age differences in utilitarian and deontological moral judgments	2
Enhancing comprehension of online informed consent: the impact of interactive elements and presentation formats	2
Moral stress and coping: relationship with long-term positive reactions and PTSD indication in military personnel	2
Subjective norms and social media: predicting ethical perception and consumer intentions during a secondary crisis	2
Clinical adolescent decision-making: parental perspectives on confidentiality and consent in Belgium and The Netherlands	2
The Multidimensionality of moral identity – toward a broad characterization of the moral self	2

Does perceived parental emotional warmth contribute to adults’ higher compassion? The mediating role of moral identity	2
Educator experiences with postgraduate psychology students exhibiting professional competence issues	1
Ethical codes in the Arab region: comparisons and differences	1
Ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy with older adults: A grounded theory analysis	1
Hear no evil? investigating relationships between mindfulness and moral disengagement at work	1
From plagiarism to scientific paper mills: a profile of retracted articles within the SciELO Brazil collection	1
Environmental agency, moral reasoning, and moral disengagement in adults	1
Ethical considerations for treating non-native english-speaking immigrants	1
Conflicts surrounding individual and collective aspects of ethics in health emergencies	1
“Research exceptionalism” in the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of scientific retractions in Scopus	1
Use of generative AI in research: ethical considerations and emotional experiences	1
Youth materialism and consumer ethics: do Gen Z adolescents’ self-concepts (power and self-esteem) vary across cultures (China vs. France)?	1
Listen, explain, involve, and evaluate: why respecting autonomy benefits suicidal patients	1
Moral recognition for workplace offenses underlies the punitive responses of managers: A functional theoretical approach to morality and punishment	1
Publication pressure and questionable research practices: a moderated mediation model	1
Managerial ethical leadership, ethical climate and employee ethical behavior: does moral attentiveness matter?	1
Ethical aspects of psychological work in Ukraine: past, present, and future	1
I’m doing the right thing! Technological intimate partner violence and social media use: the moderating role of moral absolutism and the mediating role of jealousy	1
Characteristics of professional misconduct by school teachers and early childhood educators: 5 years of disciplinary decisions in New Zealand	1
Nonsmokers-only hiring policies: personal liberty vs. promoting public health	1
Harm Through Stigma: Commander Notification of Service Members’ Mental Health	1
Moral reasoning development: norms for Defining Issue Test-2 (DIT2)	1
Uncovering prospective teachers’ sense of moral agency within a multi-layered framework: an integrative grounded theory approach	1
Graduate student perceptions of preparedness for responsible conduct of research: a mixed methods study	1
Graduate recruitment offers: ethical and professional considerations for engineering graduate students and faculty members	1
Ethics in Action: Personal Reflections of Canadian Psychologists	1
The importance and efficacy of controlling for social desirability response bias	1