OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry is 4. 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
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience	50
The Most Essential Moral Virtues Enhance Happiness	33
“Working on a Shoestring”: Critical Resource Challenges and Place-Based Considerations for Telehealth in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada	20
The Algorithm and the Dying Patient: A Moral Mismatch	19
Biopolitics at the Nexus of Chronic and Infectious Diseases	19
“Expensive Sisters”	17
Posthuman Ethics for AI	17
The Unexamined Benefits of the Expansive Legalization of Medical Assistance-in-Dying	16
Why Intellectual Disability is Not Mere Difference	16
Should Doctors Offer Biomarker Testing to Those Afraid to Develop Alzheimer’s Dementia?	16
Proxies of Trustworthiness: A Novel Framework to Support the Performance of Trust in Human Health Research	16
Correction to: No Need for Parental Involvement in the Vaccination Choice of Adolescents	15
A Critical Interpretive Review of the Theoretical Literature Related to Healthcare Codes of Ethics	14
Practising Less is More: An Exploration of What it Means to See “This Patient” Not a “Patient Like This”	13
Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis	13
It is Not Too Late for Reconciliation Between Israel and Palestine, Even in the Darkest Hour	12
The Doctrine of the Mean and Doctor–Patient Relationship: Proposal for the Doctor-Seeking-the-Mean Model	12
Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic Approach	11
Literature as a Lens: Investigating Institutional Failures in Research Integrity through Fiction and Fact	11
Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Injury: The Role of Expert Witness Testimony and a Recent Case Development	11
Symposium Lead Essay: Plural Perspectives on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence	10
Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service	9
An Archeology of Corruption in Medicine	9
Ethical Diversity and Practical Uncertainty: A Qualitative Interview Study of Clinicians’ Experiences in the Implementation Period Prior to Voluntary Assisted Dying Becoming Available in their Hospita	9
What Ethics Support for Resolving Ethical Conflicts Do Internists Use in Spanish Hospitals?	9

Diversity in German-speaking medical ethics and humanities	9
Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?	9
Perspectives on Spare Embryos amongst IVF users: An Exploratory Study from a Selected District of the Southern Indian State of Karnataka	9
Seeing Gaza: Objectivity and Emotion	8
Rereading Habermas in Times of CRISPR-cas: A Critique of and an Alternative to the Instrumentalist Interpretation of the Human Nature Argument	8
Lead Essay—Islamic Bioethics: A Vast, Fecund and Rapidly Evolving Field of Scholarship	8
Integrating Genetic Information into the Electronic Health Record: The Case of Adolescents’ Revelation of Misattributed Parentage	8
What Is A Family? A Constitutive-Affirmative Account	8
Philosophy of Science Can Prevent Manslaughter	8
The Wrong of Eugenic Sterilization	7
Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review	7
Ethical Stakes for Past, Present, and Prospective Tuberculosis Isolate Research Towards a Multicultural Data Sovereignty Model for Isolate Samples in Research	7
Reconsidering Governance Models to Strengthen Rural Healthcare	7
Organ Markets, Options, and an Over-Inclusiveness Objection: On Rippon’s Argument	7
Response—Forty-Seven Years Later: Further Studies in Disappointment?	7
Correction to: Data Sharing During Pandemics: Reciprocity, Solidarity, and Limits to Obligations	7
The Ethics of Stem Cell-Based Embryo-Like Structures	6
Response—The Corruption of Character in Medicine	6
Honesty in Human Subject Research	6
Clinicians’ Perspectives and an Ethical Analysis of Safer Supply Opioid Prescribing	6
The Ethics of Time: Towards Temporal Bioethics	6
Eight Strategies to Engineer Acceptance of Human Germline Modifications	6
The Ethics of Overlapping Relationships in Rural and Remote Healthcare. A Narrative Review	6
Donation After Circulatory Death following Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatments. Are We Ready to Break the Dead Donor Rule?	6
The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel Sequencing	6
Family-Oriented Living Organ Donation in Bangladesh: A Bioethical Defence	6
The Morality of Kidney Sales: When Caring for the Seller’s Dignity Has Moral Costs	6
Data Breach Notification Laws—Momentum Across the Asia-Pacific Region	6
CRISPR: Beyond the Excitement	6
Blanket Consent and Trust in the Biobanking Context	6
Reflections on the Cloak of Convenience	6
The Ethical Assessment of the Stay-At-Home Order in South Africa in Light of The Universal Declaration of Bioethics And Human Rights (UNESCO)	6
Will Human-Animal Chimeras Cause Moral Confusion? Exploring Public Attitudes	6
Review of Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation: Current Debates and International Perspectives	6
The Side Effects of Not Being Vaccinated: Individual Risk and Vaccine Hesitancy Nationalism	6
Between “Medical” and “Social” Egg Freezing	6
The New Organization of Ethics Committees in Italy: What is the Future of Clinical Ethics?	5
Deconstructing COVID Time	5
Priority-Setting and Values: A Qualitative Study of the Danish Medicines Council	5
Response—Belonging, Interdisciplinarity, and Fragmentation: On the Conditions for a Bioethical Discourse Community	5
Priorities in the Protection of Citizens Who Have Fallen into Enemy Hands	5
Narrative Affordances for Birthing-Selves	5
Vascular Amputees: A Study in Disappointment	5
Overcoming Conflicting Definitions of “Euthanasia,” and of “Assisted Suicide,” Through a Value-Neutral Taxonomy of “End-Of-Life Practices”	5
Islamic Conceptions of Human Dignity and Their Relevance for Bioethics of End-of-Life Healthcare	5
Retrospective Radiology Research: Do We Need Informed Patient Consent?	5
Automating Misrecognition: The Case of Disability	5
The Use of Porcine-Derived Materials for Medical Purposes: What do Muslim and Jewish Individuals Know and Opine About It?	5
How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being	5
Ethical Design and Use of Robotic Care of the Elderly	4

Enhancing Gender	4
Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement	4
Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape	4
An Exploratory Study of Physical Therapists From High-Income Countries Practising Outside of Their Scope in Low and Middle-Income Countries	4
Bioethics: Changing the World or Thinking About It?	4
The Substance View and Cases of Complicated Multifetal Pregnancy	4
The Ethics of Speaking (of) AIs Through the Lens of Natural Language	4
Professional Oversight of Emergency-Use Interventions and Monitoring Systems: Ethical Guidance From the Singapore Experience of COVID-19	4
The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence	4
Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes	4
War and Peace: What Can Bioethics Offer to Bring an End to Conflicts?	4
Burned in Pursuit of Beauty: Injuries From Cosmetic Use of Non-Ionizing Radiation and Associated Regulatory Gaps	4
Ethical Risks of Systematic Menstrual Tracking in Sport	4
History, Hype, and Responsible Psychedelic Medicine: A Qualitative Study of Psychedelic Researchers	4
Applying the Concepts of Benefit and Harm in Malaysian Bioethical Discourse: Analysis of Malaysian Fatwa	4
Making Sense of “Ethics” of War: Just War, Just Peace, and Ethic of Care	4
An Ageing President, Betty Draper, Mad Men, and Realistic Medicine	4