OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Science and Engineering Ethics is 9. 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
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
Interdisciplinary Confusion and Resolution in the Context of Moral Machines	31
AI Moral Enhancement: Upgrading the Socio-Technical System of Moral Engagement	30
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
Learning from Retracted Papers Authored by the Highly Cited Iran-affiliated Researchers: Revisiting Research Policies and a Key Message to Clarivate Analytics	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
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
The Future Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Making Sense of Collaborative Models	14
Privacy versus Public Health? A Reassessment of Centralised and Decentralised Digital Contact Tracing	13
A Value Sensitive Scenario Planning Method for Adaptation to Uncertain Future Sea Level Rise	13
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
A Politics of Objectivity: Biomedicine’s Attempts to Grapple with “non-financial” Conflicts of Interest	12
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
Energy Communities and the Tensions Between Neoliberalism and Communitarianism	11
Technological Answerability and the Severance Problem: Staying Connected by Demanding Answers	10
States of Uncertainty, Risk–Benefit Assessment and Early Clinical Research: A Conceptual Investigation	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