OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Ethics is 23. 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
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	404
Perceptions on using surplus embryos for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease among the Swedish population: a qualitative study	115
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries	95
Participatory development of CURA, a clinical ethics support instrument for palliative care	95
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	54
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	42
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	38
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?	37
Cross-sectional survey of surrogate decision-making in Japanese medical practice	36
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	33
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	33
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	32
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	32
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	32
Something must happen before first breath	31
Ethical considerations for involving adolescents in biomedical HIV prevention research	29
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs	28
Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments	27
“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	26
Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement	25
Readability of health research informed consent forms: case of the National Health Research Ethics Committee in Tanzania	24
Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study	24
Correction to: Mapping trust relationships in organ donation and transplantation: a conceptual model	23
Uncertain futures and unsolicited findings in pediatric genomic sequencing: guidelines for return of results in cases of developmental delay	23
Ethical use of artificial intelligence to prevent sudden cardiac death: an interview study of patient perspectives	23

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