OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics is 2. 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
Response to comments on my paper on whole body gestational donation	28
Deckers, Jan. Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health Care Ethics and Law. Ghent, Belgium: Owl Press, 2023. 263 pp. $24.54(paperback). ISBN 978-9072201591.	17
Robert Veatch’s Disrupted Dialogue and its implications for bioethics	13
Response to “The conceptual Injustice of the brain death standard”	13
Johnson, L. Syd M. The ethics of uncertainty: entangled ethical and epistemic risks in disorders of consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $55 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780190943646	11
The prospects of precision psychiatry	11
The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations	10
The harm threshold and Mill’s harm principle	9
Toward a digitalized medicine: the Covid-19 pandemic as a disclosure of the importance of digital communication in the clinical world	8
Thomas Boggatz (ed.): Quality of life and person-centered care for older people	7
Autonomy-based bioethics and vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic: towards an African relational approach	7
Correction to: Transposon dynamics and the epigenetic switch hypothesis	6
Why bother the public? A critique of Leslie Cannold’s empirical research on ectogenesis	6
The ubiquity of the fallacy of composition in cognitive enhancement and in education	5
Johnson, James A., Douglas E. Anderson, and Caren C. Rossow. Health Systems thinking: a primer. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2020. 138 pp. ISBN 9781284167146	4
Explanatory integration and integrated explanations in Darwinian medicine and evolutionary medicine	4
The place of sexuality in society: misplaced grand theorising will sideline disabled people’s sexual rights	4
Treat the dead, not just death, with dignity	4
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous	4
Case analysis in ethics instruction: bootlegging theory in a topical structure	4
Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease	4
Can AI principlism without explicability be coherent? A response to Segers and De Proost	4
Reviewers, 2023	4
Biting the bullet on ethical veganism, antinatalism, and the demands of morality	4
A plea for an experimental philosophy of medicine	3

Principlism language in contemporary Chinese bioethics: dissonance and discordance	3
Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost	3
Public sexual health: replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programs	3
Pain priors, polyeidism, and predictive power: a preliminary investigation into individual differences in ordinary thought about pain	3
Sexual citizenship: defending society’s most disadvantaged	3
Correction to: Biographical lives and organ conscription	3
Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology: a mental health proposal	3
Biographical lives and organ conscription	3
Bishop, Jeffrey P., M. Therese Lysaught, and Andrew A. Michel. Biopolitics after Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. 288pp. $115.00 (cloth); $39.95	3
Cutter, Mary Ann G.: An Ethics of Clinical Uncertainty: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. New York: Routledge, 2024, x + 123 pp, $144 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-032-62099-2	3
Subjectivity of pre-test probability value: controversies over the use of Bayes’ Theorem in medical diagnosis	3
Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?	2
Whole body gestational donation	2
What is morally at stake when using algorithms to make medical diagnoses? Expanding the discussion beyond risks and harms	2
Correction to: Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease	2
Benjamin’s translation as dialectical abduction: a novel epistemic framework for diagnostic hypothesizing	2
Boggatz Thomas (ed). Quality of life and person-centered care for older people. Springer, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. 466 pp. $59.99 (paper). ISBN 978-3-030-29989-7	2
Death as the extinction of the source of value: the constructivist theory of death as an irreversible loss of moral status	2
Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy: an African bioethical perspective	2
Is the replication crisis a base-rate fallacy?	2
Experimental philosophical bioethics and normative inference	2
Disability bioethics and the commitment to equality	2
Paul Scherz: The Ethics of Precision Medicine: The Problems of Prevention in Healthcare. University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, 2024, 194 pp., $40.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-02682-0905-6	2
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better	2
S. Clarke, H. Zohny and J. Savulescu (eds), Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-19-289407-6	2
Sex, demoralized	2
Culturally competent respect for the autonomy of Muslim patients: fostering patient agency by respecting justice	2
Defending secular clinical ethics expertise from an Engelhardt-inspired sense of theoretical crisis	2
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected: a response to Smajdor	2