OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Ethics is 21. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of bioethics services in paediatric intensive care units: a qualitative descriptive study	297
Clinical ethics consultation documentation in the era of open notes	164
A comparative ethical analysis of the Egyptian clinical research law	95
Are investigators’ access to trial data and rights to publish restricted and are potential trial participants informed about this? A comparison of trial protocols and informed consent materials	63
Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review	62
Motivation to participate and experiences of the informed consent process for randomized clinical trials in emergency obstetric care in Uganda	54
Challenges and proposed solutions in making clinical research on COVID-19 ethical: a status quo analysis across German research ethics committees	45
Current status of umbilical cord blood storage and provision to private biobanks by institutions handling childbirth in Japan	38
When is it considered reasonable to start a risky and uncomfortable treatment in critically ill patients? A random sample online questionnaire study	36
Ethics support for ethics support: the development of the Confidentiality Compass for dealing with moral challenges concerning (breaching) confidentiality in moral case deliberation	32
Severity as a moral qualifier of malady	32
Normative framework of informed consent in clinical research in Germany, Poland, and Russia	28
Attitudes toward withholding antibiotics from people with dementia lacking decisional capacity: findings from a survey of Canadian stakeholders	27
A logic framework for addressing medical racism in academic medicine: an analysis of qualitative data	27
Effectiveness of data auditing as a tool to reinforce good research data management (RDM) practice: a Singapore study	26
Ethics knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of tertiary care pediatricians in Ethiopia	26
To donate or not to donate? Future healthcare professionals’ opinions on biobanking of human biological material for research purposes	23
The view of Hong Kong parents on secondary use of dried blood spots in newborn screening program	23
Ethical considerations for involving adolescents in biomedical HIV prevention research	23
Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review	23
Cross-sectional survey of surrogate decision-making in Japanese medical practice	23
The red packet phenomenon from the perspective of young Chinese doctors: a questionnaire study	21