OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medicine Health Care and Philosophy is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	219
Diagnostic staging and stratification in psychiatry and oncology: clarifying their conceptual, epistemological and ethical implications	114
Learning from disability studies to introduce the role of the individual to naturalistic accounts of disease	41
The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?	39
Reclaiming human dignity: a critical review of contemporary theories in light of ontological foundations	36
An analysis of different concepts of “identity” in the heritable genome editing debate	35
An “ethics of strangers”? On knowing the patient in clinical ethics	29
Multi-professional healthcare teams, medical dominance, and institutional epistemic injustice	28
Rethinking advanced motherhood: a new ethical narrative	25
Dual-roles and beyond: values, ethics, and practices in forensic mental health decision-making	25
On misempowerment & mobile health	23
“The significance of clinical foetal autopsy for reproductive health care: an ethical analysis in the German context”	23
Giving as repaying: towards an embodied ethics of living donor liver transplantation	22
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of major depression: a synthesis of phenomenological explanations	21
The hermeneutics of symptoms	21
Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics	20
Correction: The impact of digital health technologies on moral responsibility: a scoping review	20
“Big chunks of blank memory”: complex trauma and dissociative body memory	19
Reconsidering harm in psychiatric manuals within an explicationist framework	19
A few remarks on limits of research risks and research payments	18
Pain and temporality: a merleau-pontyian approach	17
Indignity of Nazi data: reflections on the utilization of illicit research	15
Clouds on the horizon: clinical decision support systems, the control problem, and physician-patient dialogue	14
No (true) right to die: barriers in access to physician-assisted death in case of psychiatric disease, advanced dementia or multiple geriatric syndromes in the Netherlands	14
Biobank consent under the GDPR: are potential sample donors informed about all lawful uses of biobank data?	14

Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	14
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: a conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary	14
Dying like a dog: the convergence of concepts of a good death in human and veterinary medicine	13
Fostering dialogue: a phenomenological approach to bridging the gap between the “voice of medicine” and the “voice of the lifeworld”	12
The impotence of ethics	12
'You have to put a lot of trust in me': autonomy, trust, and trustworthiness in the context of mobile apps for mental health	11
Burnout as breakdown of one’s existence in the world	11
Beyond ethical post-mortems	10
Epistemic (in)justice, social identity and the Black Box problem in patient care	9
How do roles impact suicidal agents’ obligations?	9
Disclosing the person in renal care coordination: why unpredictability, uncertainty, and irreversibility are inherent in person-centred care	9
Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion	8
The “Medical friendship” or the true meaning of the doctor-patient relationship from two complementary perspectives: Goya and Laín	8
Mental health pluralism	8
Correction: Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	8
COVID-19 vaccine refusal as unfair free-riding	7
Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception	7
Research ethics in practice: An analysis of ethical issues encountered in qualitative health research with mental health service users and relatives	7
Why we should not “help bad choosers:” screening, nudging, and epistemic risk	7
Applied humanities as the antidote for the malaise of bioethics	7
Intentional presence and the accompaniment of dying patients	7
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?	7
What’s wrong with medical black box AI?	7
Correction: Conceptual scaffolding for the philosophy of medicine	7
The role of conscience and virtue: contrasting two models of medicine	6
Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care	6
Health within illness: The negativity of vulnerability revised	6
When the universal is particular: a re-examination of the common morality using the work of Charles Taylor	6
The ethical anatomy of payment for research participants	6
Bodily obsessions: intrusiveness of organs in somatic obsessive–compulsive disorder	6
Discovering clinical phronesis	6
Issues for a phenomenology of illness – transgressing psychologizations	6
Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare	5
Tracking ambivalence: an existential critique of datafication in the context of chronic pain	5
Paternalistic persuasion: are doctors paternalistic when persuading patients, and how does persuasion differ from convincing and recommending?	5
How to gain evidence for causation in disease and therapeutic intervention: from Koch’s postulates to counter-counterfactuals	5
Silence as epistemic agency in mania	5
Why physicians have authority over patients	5
REC review of deceptive studies: diversifying guidance for diverse review needs	5
First-person disavowals of digital phenotyping and epistemic injustice in psychiatry	5
Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science	5
«Doctors must live»: a care ethics inquiry into physicians’ late modern suffering	5
Well-being and enhancement: reassessing the welfarist account	5
Chronic illness as transformative activity	5
Medicine and machines	5
Foucault and medicine: challenging normative claims	5
Professionalism, Organizationalism and Sur-moralism: Three ethical systems for physicians	5