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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience	51
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	22
Biopolitics at the Nexus of Chronic and Infectious Diseases	22
The Algorithm and the Dying Patient: A Moral Mismatch	19
Posthuman Ethics for AI	17
Pubertal Suppression for Transgender Youth: A Right to an Open Future Approach in Support of a Youth-Empowered Legal Framework	17
“Expensive Sisters”	17
Why Intellectual Disability is Not Mere Difference	16
Should Doctors Offer Biomarker Testing to Those Afraid to Develop Alzheimer’s Dementia?	16
The Unexamined Benefits of the Expansive Legalization of Medical Assistance-in-Dying	14
A Critical Interpretive Review of the Theoretical Literature Related to Healthcare Codes of Ethics	13
Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis	13
Practising Less is More: An Exploration of What it Means to See “This Patient” Not a “Patient Like This”	13
Correction to: No Need for Parental Involvement in the Vaccination Choice of Adolescents	13
The Doctrine of the Mean and Doctor–Patient Relationship: Proposal for the Doctor-Seeking-the-Mean Model	12
Literature as a Lens: Investigating Institutional Failures in Research Integrity through Fiction and Fact	11
It is Not Too Late for Reconciliation Between Israel and Palestine, Even in the Darkest Hour	11
Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic Approach	11
Symposium Lead Essay: Plural Perspectives on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence	10
Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service	9
What Ethics Support for Resolving Ethical Conflicts Do Internists Use in Spanish Hospitals?	9
Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?	9
Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Injury: The Role of Expert Witness Testimony and a Recent Case Development	9
Diversity in German-speaking medical ethics and humanities	9

Proxies of Trustworthiness: A Novel Framework to Support the Performance of Trust in Human Health Research	9
An Archeology of Corruption in Medicine	9
Philosophy of Science Can Prevent Manslaughter	8
Integrating Genetic Information into the Electronic Health Record: The Case of Adolescents’ Revelation of Misattributed Parentage	8
Seeing Gaza: Objectivity and Emotion	8
What Is A Family? A Constitutive-Affirmative Account	8
Perspectives on Spare Embryos amongst IVF users: An Exploratory Study from a Selected District of the Southern Indian State of Karnataka	8
Lead Essay—Islamic Bioethics: A Vast, Fecund and Rapidly Evolving Field of Scholarship	8
Rereading Habermas in Times of CRISPR-cas: A Critique of and an Alternative to the Instrumentalist Interpretation of the Human Nature Argument	8
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	8
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
Correction to: Data Sharing During Pandemics: Reciprocity, Solidarity, and Limits to Obligations	7
Will Human-Animal Chimeras Cause Moral Confusion? Exploring Public Attitudes	7
The Wrong of Eugenic Sterilization	7
Response—Forty-Seven Years Later: Further Studies in Disappointment?	7
Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review	7
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
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 Ethical Assessment of the Stay-At-Home Order in South Africa in Light of The Universal Declaration of Bioethics And Human Rights (UNESCO)	6
Retrospective Radiology Research: Do We Need Informed Patient Consent?	6
Family-Oriented Living Organ Donation in Bangladesh: A Bioethical Defence	6
Review of Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation: Current Debates and International Perspectives	6
Is Australia Ethically Justified in Implementing a Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB) Tax?	6
Clinicians’ Perspectives and an Ethical Analysis of Safer Supply Opioid Prescribing	6
Reflections on the Cloak of Convenience	6
Response—The Corruption of Character in Medicine	6
Honesty in Human Subject Research	6
The Ethics of Stem Cell-Based Embryo-Like Structures	6
Organ Markets, Options, and an Over-Inclusiveness Objection: On Rippon’s Argument	6
The Ethics of Time: Towards Temporal Bioethics	6
Eight Strategies to Engineer Acceptance of Human Germline Modifications	6
Blanket Consent and Trust in the Biobanking Context	6
Traditional Healthcare Practitioners’ Views on Informed Consent in African Traditional Medicine: A Qualitative Study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	6
The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel Sequencing	6
Priorities in the Protection of Citizens Who Have Fallen into Enemy Hands	6
How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being	5
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
Narrative Affordances for Birthing-Selves	5
Islamic Conceptions of Human Dignity and Their Relevance for Bioethics of End-of-Life Healthcare	5
Overcoming Conflicting Definitions of “Euthanasia,” and of “Assisted Suicide,” Through a Value-Neutral Taxonomy of “End-Of-Life Practices”	5
The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence	5
Vascular Amputees: A Study in Disappointment	5
The Use of Porcine-Derived Materials for Medical Purposes: What do Muslim and Jewish Individuals Know and Opine About It?	5

Automating Misrecognition: The Case of Disability	5
The Substance View and Cases of Complicated Multifetal Pregnancy	4
War and Peace: What Can Bioethics Offer to Bring an End to Conflicts?	4
Applying the Concepts of Benefit and Harm in Malaysian Bioethical Discourse: Analysis of Malaysian Fatwa	4
Ethical Design and Use of Robotic Care of the Elderly	4
“Please, Just Don’t Leave Me Alone.” A Cry for More Humanity in our Care	4
Should Australia Adopt a Groningen Like Protocol?	4
An Ageing President, Betty Draper, Mad Men, and Realistic Medicine	4
Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes	4
Making Sense of “Ethics” of War: Just War, Just Peace, and Ethic of Care	4
Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement	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
History, Hype, and Responsible Psychedelic Medicine: A Qualitative Study of Psychedelic Researchers	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
Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape	4
Enhancing Gender	4
Potato Ethics: What Rural Communities Can Teach Us about Healthcare	4
Burned in Pursuit of Beauty: Injuries From Cosmetic Use of Non-Ionizing Radiation and Associated Regulatory Gaps	4