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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Startup Ethics: Ethically Responsible Conduct of Scientists and Engineers at Theranos	84
The Ethics of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs. An Enactivist Approach	61
Epistemic and Non-epistemic Values in Earthquake Engineering	55
Book Review: Deborah G. Johnson (2020), Engineering Ethics: Contemporary and Eduring Debates, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2020, 189 + index, ISBN: 978-0-300-20924-2	50
A Multi-level Review of Engineering Ethics Education: Towards a Socio-technical Orientation of Engineering Education for Ethics	35
Contextualizing Security Innovation: Responsible Research and Innovation at the Smart Border?	34
Interdisciplinary Confusion and Resolution in the Context of Moral Machines	31
SAF: Stakeholders’ Agreement on Fairness in the Practice of Machine Learning Development	31
Go Big or Go Home? A New Case for Integrating Micro-ethics and Macro-ethics in Engineering Ethics Education	31
AI Moral Enhancement: Upgrading the Socio-Technical System of Moral Engagement	30
Learning from Retracted Papers Authored by the Highly Cited Iran-affiliated Researchers: Revisiting Research Policies and a Key Message to Clarivate Analytics	26
Why the Epistemic Objection Against Using Sentience as Criterion of Moral Status is Flawed	26
How Competition for Funding Impacts Scientific Practice: Building Pre-fab Houses but no Cathedrals	26
Max Power: Implementing the Capabilities Approach to Identify Thresholds and Ceilings in Energy Justice	26
Machine Ethics: Do Androids Dream of Being Good People?	25
Repentance as Rebuke: Betrayal and Moral Injury in Safety Engineering	24
Principal Investigators’ Priorities and Perceived Barriers and Facilitators When Making Decisions About Conducting Essential Research in the COVID-19 Pandemic	23
Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework	21
A Taxonomy for Research Integrity Training: Design, Conduct, and Improvements in Research Integrity Courses	19
Research Ethics in the Age of Digital Platforms	19
Ethical Issues in Consent for the Reuse of Data in Health Data Platforms	18
Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education	17
Interventions for Organizational Climate and Culture in Academia: A Scoping Review	17
The Societal Readiness Thinking Tool: A Practical Resource for Maturing the Societal Readiness of Research Projects	16
Acceptability of Neuroscientific Interventions in Education	16

Gender and Age Stereotypes in Robotics for Eldercare: Ethical Implications of Stakeholder Perspectives from Technology Development, Industry, and Nursing	16
Ethics-Based Auditing of Automated Decision-Making Systems: Nature, Scope, and Limitations	16
Digital Technologies for Schizophrenia Management: A Descriptive Review	15
The Future Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Making Sense of Collaborative Models	14
A Review of Scientific Ethics Issues Associated with the Recently Approved Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease	14
Ethics Inside the Black Box: Integrating Science and Technology Studies into Engineering and Public Policy Curricula	14
Enhancing Engineering Ethics: Role Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility	14
A Value Sensitive Scenario Planning Method for Adaptation to Uncertain Future Sea Level Rise	13
Privacy versus Public Health? A Reassessment of Centralised and Decentralised Digital Contact Tracing	13
A Politics of Objectivity: Biomedicine’s Attempts to Grapple with “non-financial” Conflicts of Interest	12
Dual-Use and Trustworthy? A Mixed Methods Analysis of AI Diffusion Between Civilian and Defense R&D	12
Can Blockchain Solve the Dilemma in the Ethics of Genomic Biobanks?	12
Energy Communities and the Tensions Between Neoliberalism and Communitarianism	11
The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review	11
Achieving Equity with Predictive Policing Algorithms: A Social Safety Net Perspective	11
Correction: Domain Experts on Dementia-Care Technologies: Mitigating Risk in Design and Implementation	11
States of Uncertainty, Risk–Benefit Assessment and Early Clinical Research: A Conceptual Investigation	10
Technological Answerability and the Severance Problem: Staying Connected by Demanding Answers	10
An African Relational Approach to Healthcare and Big Data Challenges	9
Solving a Wicked Problem in Deep Time: Nuclear Waste Disposal	9
Parity and the Resolution of Value Conflicts in Design	9
Fictional Film in Engineering Ethics Education: With Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises as Exemplar	9
When is it Safe to Edit the Human Germline?	9
Developing an Online Data Ethics Module Informed by an Ecology of Data Perspective	8
How Neurotech Start-Ups Envision Ethical Futures: Demarcation, Deferral, Delegation	8
Empowering the Research Community to Investigate Misconduct and Promote Research Integrity and Ethics: New Regulation in Scandinavia	8
Socially Assistive Devices in Healthcare–a Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence from an Ethical Perspective	7
Co-creating Research Integrity Education Guidelines for Research Institutions	7
Leadership, Engineering and Ethical Clashes at Boeing	7
A Framework for Ethical Research and Innovation	7
Guilt Without Fault: Accidental Agency in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles	7
Caring in an Algorithmic World: Ethical Perspectives for Designers and Developers in Building AI Algorithms to Fight Fake News	7
The Ubuntu Robot: Towards a Relational Conceptual Framework for Intercultural Robotics	7
The Value-Free Ideal of Science: A Useful Fiction? A Review of Non-epistemic Reasons for the Research Integrity Community	7
A Comparative Analysis of the Definitions of Autonomous Weapons Systems	7
Contextual Exceptionalism After Death: An Information Ethics Approach to Post-Mortem Privacy in Health Data Research	7
Tech Ethics Through Trust Auditing	7
Fairness as Equal Concession: Critical Remarks on Fair AI	7
Ending the Energy-Poverty Nexus: An Ethical Imperative for Just Transitions	6
Correction to: The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review	6
The Ethics of ‘Deathbots’	6
Actionable Principles for Artificial Intelligence Policy: Three Pathways	6
Does Proof of Concept Trump All? RRI Dilemmas in Research Practices	6
Gender Bias and Conversational Agents: an ethical perspective on Social Robotics	6
Correction to: Biobanks and Individual Health Related Findings: from an Obstacle to an Incentive	6
Domain Experts on Dementia-Care Technologies: Mitigating Risk in Design and Implementation	6
Mark Coeckelbergh, AI Ethics, Mit Press, 2021	5
Professional and Organizational Leadership Role in Ethics Management: Avoiding Reliance on Ethical Codification and Nurturing Ethical Culture	5
Stakeholders’ Experiences of Research Integrity Support in Universities: A Qualitative Study in Three European Countries	5
How Do Chemistry Faculty and Graduate Students Engage in Decision Making on Issues Related to Ethical and Responsible Conduct of Research Including Authorship?	5

An Ethical Exploration of Increased Average Number of Authors Per Publication	4
“In Our Own Little World”: Invisibility of the Social and Ethical Dimension of Engineering Among Undergraduate Students	4
Measures of Ethics and Social Responsibility Among Undergraduate Engineering Students: Findings from a Longitudinal Study	4
Meaningful Lives in an Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Reply to Danaher	4
Advance Car-Crash Planning: Shared Decision Making between Humans and Autonomous Vehicles	4
Why a Virtual Assistant for Moral Enhancement When We Could have a Socrates?	4
Sims and Vulnerability: On the Ethics of Creating Emulated Minds	4
On the (Non-)Rationality of Human Enhancement and Transhumanism	4
Modeling Ethics: Approaches to Data Creep in Higher Education	4
Why and Where to Fund Carbon Capture and Storage	4
Robot Technology for the Elderly and the Value of Veracity: Disruptive Technology or Reinvigorating Entrenched Principles?	4
Global Catastrophic Risk and the Drivers of Scientist Attitudes Towards Policy	3
Retractions and Rewards in Science: An Open Question for Reviewers and Funders	3
What do Retraction Notices Reveal About Institutional Investigations into Allegations Underlying Retractions?	3
Research Ethical Norms, Guidance and the Internet	3
How to Handle Co-authorship When Not Everyone’s Research Contributions Make It into the Paper	3
The Problem is Not Monsters: The FRANKENCON Panel on Science and Ethics	3
How Do Scientists Perceive the Relationship Between Ethics and Science? A Pilot Study of Scientists’ Appeals to Values	3
Post-publication Peer Review with an Intention to Uncover Data/Result Irregularities and Potential Research Misconduct in Scientific Research: Vigilantism or Volunteerism?	3
Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Research and Development: A Dual Advantage for Sustainability	3
Socially Assistive Robots in Aged Care: Ethical Orientations Beyond the Care-Romantic and Technology-Deterministic Gaze	3
Taking Responsible Innovation to China: The Dalian Port Development Case	3
Ethics of Autonomous Collective Decision-Making: The Caesar Framework	3
AI as an Epistemic Technology	3
Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law (2020) by Joshua Gellers	3
Designing for Care	3
Touching at a Distance: Digital Intimacies, Haptic Platforms, and the Ethics of Consent	3
Exploring the Gray Area: Similarities and Differences in Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) Across Main Areas of Research	3
Benchmarking Scientific Image Forgery Detectors	3