OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Science and Engineering Ethics 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards Transparency by Design for Artificial Intelligence	180
Prevalence of Research Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	84
Ethics-Based Auditing of Automated Decision-Making Systems: Nature, Scope, and Limitations	61
Actionable Principles for Artificial Intelligence Policy: Three Pathways	55
A Multi-level Review of Engineering Ethics Education: Towards a Socio-technical Orientation of Engineering Education for Ethics	50
Ethical Considerations Associated with “Humanitarian Drones”: A Scoping Literature Review	35
Implementing Ethics in Healthcare AI-Based Applications: A Scoping Review	34
Digital Technologies for Schizophrenia Management: A Descriptive Review	31
Educating PhD Students in Research Integrity in Europe	31
The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review	31
Expanding Research Integrity: A Cultural-Practice Perspective	31
Exploring the Gray Area: Similarities and Differences in Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) Across Main Areas of Research	30
Cognitive Enhancement: Unanswered Questions About Human Psychology and Social Behavior	26
An Ethical Exploration of Increased Average Number of Authors Per Publication	26
Achieving a ‘Good AI Society’: Comparing the Aims and Progress of the EU and the US	26
Privacy versus Public Health? A Reassessment of Centralised and Decentralised Digital Contact Tracing	26
A Comparative Analysis of the Definitions of Autonomous Weapons Systems	25
Research and Practice of AI Ethics: A Case Study Approach Juxtaposing Academic Discourse with Organisational Reality	24
Capability Sensitive Design for Health and Wellbeing Technologies	23
The Future Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Making Sense of Collaborative Models	21
Practices for Research Integrity Promotion in Research Performing Organisations and Research Funding Organisations: A Scoping Review	20
Important Topics for Fostering Research Integrity by Research Performing and Research Funding Organizations: A Delphi Consensus Study	19
Gender Bias and Conversational Agents: an ethical perspective on Social Robotics	19
The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects	18
Reflections on Putting AI Ethics into Practice: How Three AI Ethics Approaches Conceptualize Theory and Practice	17

Engineering Students as Co-creators in an Ethics of Technology Course	17
Enhancing Engineering Ethics: Role Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility	17
Anticipatory Governance in Biobanking: Security and Risk Management in Digital Health	16
Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers	16
Domain Experts on Dementia-Care Technologies: Mitigating Risk in Design and Implementation	16
Ethical Issues in Social Science Research Employing Big Data	16
Weak Signal-Oriented Investigation of Ethical Dissonance Applied to Unsuccessful Mobility Experiences Linked to Human–Machine Interactions	15
Why a Virtual Assistant for Moral Enhancement When We Could have a Socrates?	15
Research Misconduct in the Fields of Ethics and Philosophy: Researchers’ Perceptions in Spain	14
The Ethics of ‘Deathbots’	14
Ethics and Values in Design: A Structured Review and Theoretical Critique	14
Interventions for Organizational Climate and Culture in Academia: A Scoping Review	14
Hiding Behind Machines: Artificial Agents May Help to Evade Punishment	14
Ethical Issues in Consent for the Reuse of Data in Health Data Platforms	13
A Review of Scientific Ethics Issues Associated with the Recently Approved Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease	13
Dual-Use and Trustworthy? A Mixed Methods Analysis of AI Diffusion Between Civilian and Defense R&D	12
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Digital Phenotyping as a Future Solution for Present-Day Challenges: A Scoping Review	12
Touching at a Distance: Digital Intimacies, Haptic Platforms, and the Ethics of Consent	12
Perceptions of Scientific Authorship Revisited: Country Differences and the Impact of Perceived Publication Pressure	11
Energy Communities and the Tensions Between Neoliberalism and Communitarianism	11
Community Heroes and Sleeping Members: Interdependency of the Tenets of Energy Justice	11
Why and Where to Fund Carbon Capture and Storage	11
Multi Scale Ethics—Why We Need to Consider the Ethics of AI in Healthcare at Different Scales	10
Plagiarism, Fake Peer-Review, and Duplication: Predominant Reasons Underlying Retractions of Iran-Affiliated Scientific Papers	10
Achieving Equity with Predictive Policing Algorithms: A Social Safety Net Perspective	10
Socially Assistive Robots in Aged Care: Ethical Orientations Beyond the Care-Romantic and Technology-Deterministic Gaze	9
University Teachers During the First Lockdown Due to SARS-CoV-2 in Italy: Stress, Issues and Perceptions of Misconduct	9
Ending the Energy-Poverty Nexus: An Ethical Imperative for Just Transitions	9
Applying a Social Constructivist Approach to an Online Course on Ethics of Research	9
The Ubuntu Robot: Towards a Relational Conceptual Framework for Intercultural Robotics	9
“In Our Own Little World”: Invisibility of the Social and Ethical Dimension of Engineering Among Undergraduate Students	8
Equity in AgeTech for Ageing Well in Technology-Driven Places: The Role of Social Determinants in Designing AI-based Assistive Technologies	8
Authorship Policies at U.S. Doctoral Universities: A Review and Recommendations for Future Policies	8
A Politics of Objectivity: Biomedicine’s Attempts to Grapple with “non-financial” Conflicts of Interest	7
Grant Review Feedback: Appropriateness and Usefulness	7
Post-publication Peer Review with an Intention to Uncover Data/Result Irregularities and Potential Research Misconduct in Scientific Research: Vigilantism or Volunteerism?	7
Can Blockchain Solve the Dilemma in the Ethics of Genomic Biobanks?	7
A Hippocratic Oath for Mathematicians? Mapping the Landscape of Ethics in Mathematics	7
Which Framework to Use? A Systematic Review of Ethical Frameworks for the Screening or Evaluation of Health Technology Innovations	7
Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Research and Development: A Dual Advantage for Sustainability	7
Why the Epistemic Objection Against Using Sentience as Criterion of Moral Status is Flawed	7
Understanding Value Change in the Energy Transition: Exploring the Perspective of Original Institutional Economics	7
How to Handle Co-authorship When Not Everyone’s Research Contributions Make It into the Paper	7
An African Relational Approach to Healthcare and Big Data Challenges	7
Towards a Theory of Digital Well-Being: Reimagining Online Life After Lockdown	6
Research Ethical Norms, Guidance and the Internet	6
Interdisciplinary Confusion and Resolution in the Context of Moral Machines	6
The Mentor’s Role in Fostering Research Integrity Standards Among New Generations of Researchers: A Review of Empirical Studies	6
Responsible Learning About Risks Arising from Emerging Biotechnologies	6
Parity and the Resolution of Value Conflicts in Design	6

Perceptions of Research Integrity Climate in Hungarian Universities: Results from A Survey among Academic Researchers	6
AI as an Epistemic Technology	6
A Taxonomy for Research Integrity Training: Design, Conduct, and Improvements in Research Integrity Courses	6
What do Retraction Notices Reveal About Institutional Investigations into Allegations Underlying Retractions?	5
Developing an Online Data Ethics Module Informed by an Ecology of Data Perspective	5
Three Risks That Caution Against a Premature Implementation of Artificial Moral Agents for Practical and Economical Use	5
The Autonomy of Science as a Civilian Casualty of Economic Warfare: Inadvertent Censorship of Science Resulting from Unilateral Economic Sanctions	5
Leadership, Engineering and Ethical Clashes at Boeing	5
How Neurotech Start-Ups Envision Ethical Futures: Demarcation, Deferral, Delegation	4
Acceptability of Neuroscientific Interventions in Education	4
Authorship Issues When Articles are Retracted Due to Research Misconduct and Then Resubmitted	4
Guilt Without Fault: Accidental Agency in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles	4
Gender and Age Stereotypes in Robotics for Eldercare: Ethical Implications of Stakeholder Perspectives from Technology Development, Industry, and Nursing	4
AI Moral Enhancement: Upgrading the Socio-Technical System of Moral Engagement	4
Knowledge and Perceptions of Honorary Authorship among Health Care Researchers: Online Cross-sectional Survey Data from the Middle East	4
Co-creating Research Integrity Education Guidelines for Research Institutions	4
Machine Ethics: Do Androids Dream of Being Good People?	4
On the (Non-)Rationality of Human Enhancement and Transhumanism	4
Socially Assistive Devices in Healthcare–a Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence from an Ethical Perspective	4
Responsible Innovation and De Jure Standardisation: An In-Depth Exploration of Moral Motives, Barriers, and Facilitators	3
Energy Sovereignty: A Values-Based Conceptual Analysis	3
Meaningful Lives in an Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Danaher	3
Caring in an Algorithmic World: Ethical Perspectives for Designers and Developers in Building AI Algorithms to Fight Fake News	3
Fairness as Equal Concession: Critical Remarks on Fair AI	3
Research Ethics in the Age of Digital Platforms	3
Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams	3
The Rule of Virtue: A Confucian Response to the Ethical Challenges of Technocracy	3
Robot Technology for the Elderly and the Value of Veracity: Disruptive Technology or Reinvigorating Entrenched Principles?	3
Contextual Exceptionalism After Death: An Information Ethics Approach to Post-Mortem Privacy in Health Data Research	3
Technological Answerability and the Severance Problem: Staying Connected by Demanding Answers	3
Learning from Retracted Papers Authored by the Highly Cited Iran-affiliated Researchers: Revisiting Research Policies and a Key Message to Clarivate Analytics	3
When Ethics is a Technical Matter: Engineers’ Strategic Appeal to Ethical Considerations in Advocating for System Integrity	3
“Technical” Contributors and Authorship Distribution in Health Science	3
Benchmarking Scientific Image Forgery Detectors	3
Modeling Ethics: Approaches to Data Creep in Higher Education	3
The Value-Free Ideal of Science: A Useful Fiction? A Review of Non-epistemic Reasons for the Research Integrity Community	3
Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education	3
Max Power: Implementing the Capabilities Approach to Identify Thresholds and Ceilings in Energy Justice	3