OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Ethics & Behavior is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Bibliometric review and mapping analysis of publication ethics research	52
Implementation of a risk reduction protocol in youth violence research	46
Beyond cultural beliefs: core attitudes toward euthanasia in an aging Japan	24
Ethical decision-making: a culture influenced virtue specific model for multinational corporations	23
Bots, scammers, and fraudulent responders: a year of disrupted data collection	22
The ethics of self-tracking. A comprehensive review of the literature	15
“The relationship between citizens’ ethical attitude and cultural orientation”	12
Beyond the bump: ethical and legal considerations for psychologists providing services to pregnant individuals who use substances	12
Scientific writing in the age of generative AI: usage patterns and ethical considerations among Israeli researchers	11
A qualitative evaluation of ETHICA-4P, a toolkit for ethical clinical decision-making and overcoming cultural barriers in psychotherapy in the United Kingdom	10
Student-to-school counselor ratios: understanding the history and ethics behind professional staffing recommendations and realities in the United States	10
Learners’ self-assessment as a measure to evaluate the effectiveness of research ethics and integrity training: can we rely on self-reports?	9
Evolution of research on honesty and dishonesty in academic work: a bibliometric analysis of two decades	9
The blind obedience of others: a better than average effect in a Milgram-like experiment	9
Ethical considerations for requesting waivers of parental consent for research with minor adolescents who identify as LGBTQ+	9
The role of ethical trustworthiness in shaping trust and affective commitment in schools	9
Chinese attitudes to plagiarism: a genre analysis of editorial statements on plagiarism cases (1950s-1960s)	9
The participant’s voice: crowdsourced and undergraduate participants’ views toward ethics consent guidelines	8
Unethical behavior at work: the effects of ethical culture and implicit and explicit moral identity	8
Examining the influence of Islamic work ethics, organizational politics, and supervisor-initiated workplace incivility on employee deviant behaviors	7
The notion of moral competence in the scientific literature: a critical review of a thin concept	7
Depressive symptoms are associated with utilitarian responses in trolley dilemmas: a study amongst university students in the United Arab Emirates	6
Fraudulent participation in psychological research using virtual synchronous interviews: ethical challenges and potential solutions	5
Competence-based assessment and training for ethical situations in practice: a pilot study	5
Why do we need to employ exemplars in moral education? Insights from recent advances in research on artificial intelligence	5

Cultural perspectives on academic dishonesty: exploring racial and ethnic diversity in higher education	5
Sharing for relief: associations of trauma-focused interviews and well-being among war-affected displaced populations in the Middle East	5
Ageism and employee silence: the serial mediating roles of work alienation and organizational commitment	5
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	5
Nocebo effects on informed consent within medical and psychological settings: A scoping review	5
Knowledge about and attitudes toward medical informed consent: a Lebanese population survey	5
Rhetorical strategies for addressing retraction stigma in retraction notices	4
Youth perceptions of AI ethics: a Q methodology approach	4
Sheltering in chaos: parents’ experiences when facing moral challenges in childhood cancer care	4
How do you know if research ethics and integrity training is effective? – Overview of prior literature	4
Sociodemographic characteristics, moral sensitivity, and moral distress as predictors of nurses’ ageism toward older adults	4
Rising to our Obligation to Give	4
The effect of leader unethical pro-organizational behaviour on subordinate silence: the mediating role of moral ownership	4
Perceptions of ethical misconduct scale development	4
An examination of online cheating among business students through the lens of the Dark Triad and Fraud Diamond	4
Does childhood maltreatment make us more morally disengaged? The indirect effect of expressive suppression	4
How do healthcare professionals experience being subject to complaint? A meta-synthesis of reported psychosocial impacts	4
Ethical governance in Chinese universities: an overview of research ethics committees	4
A bioecological systems review of ethical practice in educational and school psychology	4
Sexual attractions and boundary crossings among sport psychology graduate students and professionals	4
Confidentiality, informed consent, and multiple relationships in four emerging regions	4
Independent adolescent consent to mental health care: an ethical perspective	4
AI-driven fabrication of healthcare survey data: methods, motivations, and ethical implications	3
A lesson from MMR: is choice of vaccine the missing link in promoting vaccine confidence through informed consent?	3
Age differences in utilitarian and deontological moral judgments	3
Enhancing comprehension of online informed consent: the impact of interactive elements and presentation formats	3
See something, say something? exploring the gap between real and imagined moral courage	3
Decent care and decent employment: family caregivers, migrant care workers and moral dilemmas	3
From institutional climate to moral attitudes: examining theoretical models of academic misconduct	3
Academic dishonesty among Greek University students from different disciplines: a latent profile analysis of cheating perceptions and academic self-handicapping	3
Does perceived parental emotional warmth contribute to adults’ higher compassion? The mediating role of moral identity	3
Exploring missing links between ethical leadership and multidimensional work behavior: the mediating role of multidimensional psychological ownership	3
The multidimensionality of moral identity – toward a broad characterization of the moral self	3
Incidental genetic findings discovered during autopsy: an ethical analysis of patient confidentiality post-mortem	3
Exploring the association between character strengths and moral functioning	3
Educator experiences with postgraduate psychology students exhibiting professional competence issues	2
Ethical codes in the Arab region: comparisons and differences	2
“Research exceptionalism” in the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of scientific retractions in Scopus	2
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	2
Graduate recruitment offers: ethical and professional considerations for engineering graduate students and faculty members	2
Ethical considerations for the use of ecological momentary assessment in non-suicidal self-injury research	2
Moral stress and coping: relationship with long-term positive reactions and PTSD indication in military personnel	2
Clinical adolescent decision-making: parental perspectives on confidentiality and consent in Belgium and The Netherlands	2
The importance and efficacy of controlling for social desirability response bias	2
Bridging ethics and culture: a co-created, culturally sensitive informed consent framework for research in Bimoba and Mamprusi communities in Ghana	2
Use of generative AI in research: ethical considerations and emotional experiences	2
Ethical aspects of psychological work in Ukraine: past, present, and future	2
Ethical guidelines and best practices for health research with Indigenous peoples and ethnic groups in Colombia: insights from experience	2
Subjective norms and social media: predicting ethical perception and consumer intentions during a secondary crisis	2
Addressing fraudulent responses in quantitative and qualitative internet research: case studies from body image and appearance research	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
Characteristics of professional misconduct by school teachers and early childhood educators: 5 years of disciplinary decisions in New Zealand	2
Youth materialism and consumer ethics: do Gen Z adolescents’ self-concepts (power and self-esteem) vary across cultures (China vs. France)?	2
Ethical considerations for treating non-native english-speaking immigrants	2
Ethics in Action: Personal Reflections of Canadian Psychologists	2
Nature and causes of questionable research practice and research misconduct from a philosophy of science perspective	2
Do counselor candidates have individualizing or binding moral foundations?	2
Why do students cheat? Perceptions, evaluations, and motivations	2