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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Implementation of a risk reduction protocol in youth violence research	59
Bibliometric review and mapping analysis of publication ethics research	30
Beyond cultural beliefs: core attitudes toward euthanasia in an aging Japan	29
Generative artificial intelligence and research integrity: a systematic review of impacts, causes, and governance	20
Bots, scammers, and fraudulent responders: a year of disrupted data collection	20
Scientific writing in the age of generative AI: usage patterns and ethical considerations among Israeli researchers	13
Ethical decision-making: a culture influenced virtue specific model for multinational corporations	13
The ethics of self-tracking. A comprehensive review of the literature	13
Beyond the bump: ethical and legal considerations for psychologists providing services to pregnant individuals who use substances	12
Developing and validating realistic moral dilemmas for deontological, utilitarian and virtue ethical orientations	12
“The relationship between citizens’ ethical attitude and cultural orientation”	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
Development and psychometric evaluation of the artificial intelligence ethical awareness scale	10
A bioethical analysis of medical gaslighting	10
Student-to-school counselor ratios: understanding the history and ethics behind professional staffing recommendations and realities in the United States	10
Moral injury symptoms: relationship with emotional stability, combat exposure, stress-related symptoms, and PTSD indication in Swedish military veterans	9
Ethical considerations for requesting waivers of parental consent for research with minor adolescents who identify as LGBTQ+	9
The blind obedience of others: a better than average effect in a Milgram-like experiment	8
Chinese attitudes to plagiarism: a genre analysis of editorial statements on plagiarism cases (1950s-1960s)	8
Examining the influence of Islamic work ethics, organizational politics, and supervisor-initiated workplace incivility on employee deviant behaviors	7
Unethical behavior at work: the effects of ethical culture and implicit and explicit moral identity	7
The notion of moral competence in the scientific literature: a critical review of a thin concept	7
Learners’ self-assessment as a measure to evaluate the effectiveness of research ethics and integrity training: can we rely on self-reports?	7
The participant’s voice: crowdsourced and undergraduate participants’ views toward ethics consent guidelines	7
Sharing for relief: associations of trauma-focused interviews and well-being among war-affected displaced populations in the Middle East	6

Knowledge about and attitudes toward medical informed consent: a Lebanese population survey	6
Fraudulent participation in psychological research using virtual synchronous interviews: ethical challenges and potential solutions	6
Cultural perspectives on academic dishonesty: exploring racial and ethnic diversity in higher education	6
Depressive symptoms are associated with utilitarian responses in trolley dilemmas: a study amongst university students in the United Arab Emirates	6
Ageism and employee silence: the serial mediating roles of work alienation and organizational commitment	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
Competence-based assessment and training for ethical situations in practice: a pilot study	6
Why do we need to employ exemplars in moral education? Insights from recent advances in research on artificial intelligence	6
Rising to our Obligation to Give	5
Goals, norms, attitudes, and self-efficacy as predictors of academic dishonesty: Two-wave prospective inquiries into additive and multiplicative effects	5
Sociodemographic characteristics, moral sensitivity, and moral distress as predictors of nurses’ ageism toward older adults	5
Does childhood maltreatment make us more morally disengaged? The indirect effect of expressive suppression	5
Nocebo effects on informed consent within medical and psychological settings: A scoping review	5
Rhetorical strategies for addressing retraction stigma in retraction notices	5
Independent adolescent consent to mental health care: an ethical perspective	5
Sheltering in chaos: parents’ experiences when facing moral challenges in childhood cancer care	4
An examination of online cheating among business students through the lens of the Dark Triad and Fraud Diamond	4
AI-driven fabrication of healthcare survey data: methods, motivations, and ethical implications	4
From institutional climate to moral attitudes: examining theoretical models of academic misconduct	4
How do healthcare professionals experience being subject to complaint? A meta-synthesis of reported psychosocial impacts	4
Youth perceptions of AI ethics: a Q methodology approach	4
Greater good from a distance: how psychological distance shapes utilitarian behavior	4
The multidimensionality of moral identity – toward a broad characterization of the moral self	4
Does perceived parental emotional warmth contribute to adults’ higher compassion? The mediating role of moral identity	4
A bioecological systems review of ethical practice in educational and school psychology	4
Confidentiality, informed consent, and multiple relationships in four emerging regions	4
Perceptions of ethical misconduct scale development	4
The effect of leader unethical pro-organizational behaviour on subordinate silence: the mediating role of moral ownership	4
Decent care and decent employment: family caregivers, migrant care workers and moral dilemmas	4
See something, say something? exploring the gap between real and imagined moral courage	4
Ethical governance in Chinese universities: an overview of research ethics committees	4
How do you know if research ethics and integrity training is effective? – Overview of prior literature	4
Age differences in utilitarian and deontological moral judgments	3
AI ethical awareness in L2 AI-Assisted academic writing: development and initial validation of the AEAL2-AWS	3
Practice of common ethical standards in the field of counseling and psychotherapy in mainland China	3
Clinical adolescent decision-making: parental perspectives on confidentiality and consent in Belgium and The Netherlands	3
Bridging the CNI model and neo-Kohlbergian approach to moral judgment	3
Trusted autonomy and academic integrity: a grounded theory of moral decision‑making in exams	3
Incidental genetic findings discovered during autopsy: an ethical analysis of patient confidentiality post-mortem	3
Do counselor candidates have individualizing or binding moral foundations?	3
Addressing fraudulent responses in quantitative and qualitative internet research: case studies from body image and appearance research	3
Nature and causes of questionable research practice and research misconduct from a philosophy of science perspective	3
The importance and efficacy of controlling for social desirability response bias	3
Ethical guidelines and best practices for health research with Indigenous peoples and ethnic groups in Colombia: insights from experience	3
Consensual ideas for prioritizing patients: correlates of preferences in the allocation of medical resources	3
Academic dishonesty among Greek University students from different disciplines: a latent profile analysis of cheating perceptions and academic self-handicapping	3
Enhancing comprehension of online informed consent: the impact of interactive elements and presentation formats	3
Teachers vs. large language models: ethical decision-making across educational dilemmas in Turkish schools	3
Moral stress and coping: relationship with long-term positive reactions and PTSD indication in military personnel	3
Ethical considerations for the use of ecological momentary assessment in non-suicidal self-injury research	3

Ethical codes in the Arab region: comparisons and differences	2
The experience of newly qualified clinical psychologists within the NHS subject to a complaint	2
Public Perspectives on Moral Acceptance and Willingness to Use Preimplantation Genetic Testing in Germany	2
“Research exceptionalism” in the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of scientific retractions in Scopus	2
Ethics in Action: Personal Reflections of Canadian Psychologists	2
AI-Assisted peer review: a scoping review of governance, ethical-behavioral risks, and integrity	2
Ethical considerations for treating non-native english-speaking immigrants	2
Generative large language models and academic integrity: ethical risks, detection challenges, and Governance in the age of AI	2
Listen, explain, involve, and evaluate: why respecting autonomy benefits suicidal patients	2
From plagiarism to scientific paper mills: a profile of retracted articles within the SciELO Brazil collection	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
Bridging ethics and culture: a co-created, culturally sensitive informed consent framework for research in Bimoba and Mamprusi communities in Ghana	2
Educator experiences with postgraduate psychology students exhibiting professional competence issues	2
Characteristics of professional misconduct by school teachers and early childhood educators: 5 years of disciplinary decisions in New Zealand	2
Ethical aspects of psychological work in Ukraine: past, present, and future	2
Moral recognition for workplace offenses underlies the punitive responses of managers: A functional theoretical approach to morality and punishment	2
Use of generative AI in research: ethical considerations and emotional experiences	2
Youth materialism and consumer ethics: do Gen Z adolescents’ self-concepts (power and self-esteem) vary across cultures (China vs. France)?	2
Evaluating consent processes within a longitudinal cohort study: text-based vs visual consent at the Raine Study	2
Graduate recruitment offers: ethical and professional considerations for engineering graduate students and faculty members	2