OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Ethics is 27. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Patient perspectives on advance euthanasia directives in Huntington’s disease. A qualitative interview study	112
Understanding clinical ethics situations: a co-created repertoire of practices	69
Personal health monitoring in the armed forces – scouting the ethical dimension	66
Establishing a clinical ethics support service: lessons from the first 18 months of a new Australian service – a case study	64
The face of the other in the clinic: reframing patient impoliteness through phenomenological ethics in provider-patient communication	57
A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries	56
Management discussion of laws and regulations on human genetic resources in China: a scoping review	53
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?	47
Incognito standardized patients for studying healthcare stigma: partial deception and other ethical challenges	47
Development and validation of a tool to assess researchers’ knowledge of human subjects’ rights and their attitudes toward research ethics education in Saudi Arabia	46
The ethics of simplification: balancing patient autonomy, comprehension, and accuracy in AI-generated radiology reports	46
How patients experience respect in healthcare: findings from a qualitative study among multicultural women living with HIV	46
Return of health research findings in Nigeria-perspective of potential research participants	44
Community engagement conduct for genetics and genomics research: a qualitative study of the experiences and perspectives of key stakeholders in Uganda	43
Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees	41
Increasing physician participation as subjects in scientific and quality improvement research	41
Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review	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	34
A qualitative study of professionals’ perspectives on the ethics of medically-delivered safer injection education for people who inject drugs	34
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	33
Opportunities for a national genomic data governance framework in Australia: a systematic review	33
Awareness, attitudes, and educational needs regarding the life-sustaining treatment decision-making act in Korea among healthcare providers and medical students: a comparative analysis	32
Behind the scenes of research ethics committee oversight: a qualitative research study with committee chairs in the Middle East and North Africa region	32
Promoting trans patient autonomy in surgical preparation for phalloplasty and metoidioplasty: results from a community-based cross-sectional survey and implications for preoperative assessments	31
Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement	30

Putting patients first: when home-based care staff prioritise loyalty to patients above the system and themselves. An ethnographic study	29
Ethical use of artificial intelligence to prevent sudden cardiac death: an interview study of patient perspectives	28
From chaos to symbiosis: exploring adaptive co-evolution strategies for generative AI and research integrity systems	27