OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Ethics is 24. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries	133
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	130
What are the views of Quebec and Ontario citizens on the tiebreaker criteria for prioritizing access to adult critical care in the extreme context of a COVID-19 pandemic?	53
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	50
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	47
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	46
The ethics of simplification: balancing patient autonomy, comprehension, and accuracy in AI-generated radiology reports	45
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	44
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	44
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	41
Perceptions on using surplus embryos for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease among the Swedish population: a qualitative study	38
Participatory development of CURA, a clinical ethics support instrument for palliative care	37
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	35
“Everything has been tried and his heart can’t recover…”: A Descriptive Review of “Do Everything!” in the Archive of Ontario Consent and Capacity Board	34
Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region	34
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	34
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs	34
Differing needs for Advance Care Planning in the Veterans Health Administration: use of latent class analysis to identify subgroups to enhance Advance Care Planning via Group Visits for veterans	33
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay	30
Readability of health research informed consent forms: case of the National Health Research Ethics Committee in Tanzania	29
Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study	29
Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model	28
Being torn by inevitable moral dilemma: experiences of ICU nurses	27
Medical staff’s sense of awareness of informed consent for adolescent cancer patients and the need for decision-making support practiced from the perspective of trauma-informed approach	25
Ethical use of artificial intelligence to prevent sudden cardiac death: an interview study of patient perspectives	24

Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement