OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Medical Ethics is 22. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Privacy and artificial intelligence: challenges for protecting health information in a new era	191
Artificial intelligence for good health: a scoping review of the ethics literature	138
Moral distress and ethical climate in intensive care medicine during COVID-19: a nationwide study	89
Embedded ethics: a proposal for integrating ethics into the development of medical AI	57
Digital tools in the informed consent process: a systematic review	52
Ethics education to support ethical competence learning in healthcare: an integrative systematic review	45
Ethics review of big data research: What should stay and what should be reformed?	42
Preprints in times of COVID19: the time is ripe for agreeing on terminology and good practices	32
Patients’ and professionals’ views related to ethical issues in precision medicine: a mixed research synthesis	32
Ethics parallel research: an approach for (early) ethical guidance of biomedical innovation	31
The patient and clinician experience of informed consent for surgery: a systematic review of the qualitative evidence	31
A scoping review of the literature featuring research ethics and research integrity cases	29
Structural coercion in the context of community engagement in global health research conducted in a low resource setting in Africa	28
The social licence for data-intensive health research: towards co-creation, public value and trust	28
Forgoing life-sustaining treatment – a comparative analysis of regulations in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and England	27
Ethical decision-making climate, moral distress, and intention to leave among ICU professionals in a tertiary academic hospital center	26
Do solidarity and reciprocity obligations compel African researchers to feedback individual genetic results in genomics research?	26
Public trust and global biobank networks	26
Trust and digital privacy in healthcare: a cross-sectional descriptive study of trust and attitudes towards uses of electronic health data among the general public in Sweden	25
Researchers’ views on, and experiences with, the requirement to obtain informed consent in research involving human participants: a qualitative study	24
In Defence of informed consent for health record research - why arguments from ‘easy rescue’, ‘no harm’ and ‘consent bias’ fail	23
Patient distrust in pharmaceutical companies: an explanation for women under-representation in respiratory clinical trials?	23
Asking the right questions: towards a person-centered conception of shared decision-making regarding treatment of advanced chronic kidney disease in older patients	22
The concept of vulnerability in aged care: a systematic review of argument-based ethics literature	22
Secondary research use of personal medical data: patient attitudes towards data donation	22

Ethical factors determining ECMO allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic