OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Bioethical Inquiry is 3. 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
Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience	39
“Expensive Sisters”	25
The Most Essential Moral Virtues Enhance Happiness	25
Why Intellectual Disability is Not Mere Difference	17
“Working on a Shoestring”: Critical Resource Challenges and Place-Based Considerations for Telehealth in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada	17
Biopolitics at the Nexus of Chronic and Infectious Diseases	15
Proxies of Trustworthiness: A Novel Framework to Support the Performance of Trust in Human Health Research	15
Practising Less is More: An Exploration of What it Means to See “This Patient” Not a “Patient Like This”	14
Needle Stick Injury From a COVID-19 Patient—Fear It or Forget It?	14
Everyday Resistance in the U.K.’s National Health Service	13
The Unexamined Benefits of the Expansive Legalization of Medical Assistance-in-Dying	12
Gender Affirming Hormone Treatment for Trans Adolescents: A Four Principles Analysis	12
Better Regulation of End-Of-Life Care: A Call For A Holistic Approach	12
Should Doctors Offer Biomarker Testing to Those Afraid to Develop Alzheimer’s Dementia?	11
Correction to: No Need for Parental Involvement in the Vaccination Choice of Adolescents	11
It is Not Too Late for Reconciliation Between Israel and Palestine, Even in the Darkest Hour	10
End-of-Life Decisions in Intensive Care Units in Croatia—Pre COVID-19 Perspectives and Experiences From Nurses and Physicians	10
Nature of Suffering, Anarchy, Life and Liberty: Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?	9
An Archeology of Corruption in Medicine	9
What Ethics Support for Resolving Ethical Conflicts Do Internists Use in Spanish Hospitals?	9
Rereading Habermas in Times of CRISPR-cas: A Critique of and an Alternative to the Instrumentalist Interpretation of the Human Nature Argument	9
Diversity in German-speaking medical ethics and humanities	9
Philosophy of Science Can Prevent Manslaughter	9
An Ethics-Informed, Comparative Analysis of Uterus Transplantation and Gestational Surrogacy for Uterine Factor Infertility in High-Income Countries	8
Perspectives on Spare Embryos amongst IVF users: An Exploratory Study from a Selected District of the Southern Indian State of Karnataka	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
What Is A Family? A Constitutive-Affirmative Account	7
Unmasking the Ethics of Public Health Messaging in a Pandemic	7
The Pensive Gaze	7
Response—Forty-Seven Years Later: Further Studies in Disappointment?	7
“To Normalize is to Impose a Requirement on an Existence.” Why Health Professionals Should Think Twice Before Using the Term “Normal” With Patients	7
Correction to: Data Sharing During Pandemics: Reciprocity, Solidarity, and Limits to Obligations	7
The Wrong of Eugenic Sterilization	6
Ethical Stakes for Past, Present, and Prospective Tuberculosis Isolate Research Towards a Multicultural Data Sovereignty Model for Isolate Samples in Research	6
Clinicians’ Perspectives and an Ethical Analysis of Safer Supply Opioid Prescribing	6
Between “Medical” and “Social” Egg Freezing	6
Ethics and Health Security in the Australian COVID-19 Context: A Critical Interpretive Literature Review	6
Seeing Gaza: Objectivity and Emotion	6
Constitution of “The Already Dying”: The Emergence of Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria	6
The Morality of Kidney Sales: When Caring for the Seller’s Dignity Has Moral Costs	6
Lead Essay—Islamic Bioethics: A Vast, Fecund and Rapidly Evolving Field of Scholarship	6
Organ Markets, Options, and an Over-Inclusiveness Objection: On Rippon’s Argument	6
The Side Effects of Not Being Vaccinated: Individual Risk and Vaccine Hesitancy Nationalism	6
An Ageing Population Creates New Challenges Around Consent to Medical Treatment	6
Vascular Amputees: A Study in Disappointment	5
Review of Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation: Current Debates and International Perspectives	5
CRISPR: Beyond the Excitement	5
Correction: Pandemic Surveillance and Racialized Subpopulations: Mitigating Vulnerabilities in COVID-19 Apps	5
The Ethics of Overlapping Relationships in Rural and Remote Healthcare. A Narrative Review	5
How Resistance Shapes Health and Well-Being	5
Data Breach Notification Laws—Momentum Across the Asia-Pacific Region	5
Eight Strategies to Engineer Acceptance of Human Germline Modifications	5
Donation After Circulatory Death following Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatments. Are We Ready to Break the Dead Donor Rule?	5
Response—The Corruption of Character in Medicine	5
Family-Oriented Living Organ Donation in Bangladesh: A Bioethical Defence	5
The Ethics of Time: Towards Temporal Bioethics	5
The Ethics of Stem Cell-Based Embryo-Like Structures	5
Blanket Consent and Trust in the Biobanking Context	5
Priorities in the Protection of Citizens Who Have Fallen into Enemy Hands	4
Anatomy of Being, Metaphysics of Death: The Case of Avicenna’s Logical Dissection	4
Retrospective Radiology Research: Do We Need Informed Patient Consent?	4
Spousal and Kinship Co-Authorship Should be Declared to Avoid Conflicts of Interest	4
Applying the Concepts of Benefit and Harm in Malaysian Bioethical Discourse: Analysis of Malaysian Fatwa	4
Bioethics: Changing the World or Thinking About It?	4
The Use of Porcine-Derived Materials for Medical Purposes: What do Muslim and Jewish Individuals Know and Opine About It?	4
The Evolution of Forensic Genomics: Regulating Massively Parallel Sequencing	4
The New Organization of Ethics Committees in Italy: What is the Future of Clinical Ethics?	4
Deconstructing COVID Time	4
Response—Belonging, Interdisciplinarity, and Fragmentation: On the Conditions for a Bioethical Discourse Community	4
The Substance View and Cases of Complicated Multifetal Pregnancy	4
War and Peace: What Can Bioethics Offer to Bring an End to Conflicts?	4
Overcoming Conflicting Definitions of “Euthanasia,” and of “Assisted Suicide,” Through a Value-Neutral Taxonomy of “End-Of-Life Practices”	4
The Ethical Assessment of the Stay-At-Home Order in South Africa in Light of The Universal Declaration of Bioethics And Human Rights (UNESCO)	4
Honesty in Human Subject Research	4
Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes	4

Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape	4
Making Sense of “Ethics” of War: Just War, Just Peace, and Ethic of Care	4
The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence	4
Right Versus Wrong: A Qualitative Appraisal With Respect to Pandemic Trajectories of Transgender Population in Kerala, India	3
Ethical Risks of Systematic Menstrual Tracking in Sport	3
Response—Liminality and the Mirage of Settlement	3
An Ageing President, Betty Draper, Mad Men, and Realistic Medicine	3
Professional Oversight of Emergency-Use Interventions and Monitoring Systems: Ethical Guidance From the Singapore Experience of COVID-19	3
Expanded Non-invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT)	3
Lead Essay—Rural Bioethics	3
A Historical Review on the Andalusian Physicians and the Treatment of Mental Health	3
A public health framework for reducing stigma: the example of weight stigma	3
Meme Science, Pandemic Preparedness, and the Trajectory of Failure	3
How the Doctrine of Double Effect Rhetoric Harms Patients Seeking Voluntary Assisted Dying	3
Enhancing Gender	3
History, Hype, and Responsible Psychedelic Medicine: A Qualitative Study of Psychedelic Researchers	3
Potato Ethics: What Rural Communities Can Teach Us about Healthcare	3
Physician–Patient Relationship, Assisted Suicide and the Italian Constitutional Court	3
The Ethics of Adultcentrism in the Context of COVID-19: Whose Voice Matters?	3
Care for Language: Etymology as a Continental Argument in Bioethics	3
COVID-19 Health Passes: Practical and Ethical Issues	3
The Impossible Triangle Model of Pandemic Prevention and Control	3
Human Brain Organoid Research and Applications: Where and How to Meet Legal Challenges?	3
The Right to Protest During a Pandemic: Using Public Health Ethics to Bridge the Divide Between Public Health Goals and Human Rights	3
Supporting One Health for Pandemic Prevention: The Need for Ethical Innovation	3
Humanitarian Action and the Value of Relationships: A Book Review of Chin Ruamps’ The Humanitarian Exit Dilemma	3
Ethical Design and Use of Robotic Care of the Elderly	3
Risk, Responsibility, Rudeness, and Rules: The Loneliness of the Social Distance Warrior	3
A Principle-Based Approach to Visual Identification Systems for Hospitalized People with Dementia	3
An Exploratory Study of Physical Therapists From High-Income Countries Practising Outside of Their Scope in Low and Middle-Income Countries	3
Digital Covid Certificates as Immunity Passports: An Analysis of Their Main Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues	3
The Ethical Significance of Post-Vaccination COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics	3
The Physician-Assisted Suicide Pathway in Italy: Ethical Assessment and Safeguard Approaches	3
Response—The Road Less Travelled: Why did Miles Little Turn to Qualitative Research and Where Did This Lead?	3
Principles for Just Prioritization of Expensive Biological Therapies in the Danish Healthcare System	3
Radicalizing Hope	3
Dogs, Epistemic Indefensibility and Ethical Denial: Don’t Let Sleeping Dog Owners Lie	3