OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Bioethics 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question	135
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits	88
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients	78
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?	70
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents	66
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind	62
ECMO as a Palliative Bridge to Death	61
Patient Diversity and Collaborative Co-Reasoning for Ethical Use of Machine Learning-Driven Decision Support Systems	56
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?	55
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge	55
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases	54
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings	47
Integrating Counterfactual Thinking and Economic Definitions of Regret into Discussions of Agent-Regret in Healthcare	45
The Representation Paradox: Rethinking Ethical Standards Through Anticipatory Autonomy	44
Beyond Integration: Advancing Climate-Conscious Clinical Ethics Through Temporal, Resilience, and Responsibility Frameworks	41
War, Bioethics, and Public Health	40
A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards	38
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails	34
Ethical Considerations in Clinical Trials for Rare Genetic Diseases: The Case of Huntington’s Disease	34
I Am Not My Genes: Against Genetic Exceptionalism and Essentialism in Justifying Confidentiality Breaches	33
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine	31
“Treatment Pressures” and “Informal Coercion”: “Threats” in Mental Healthcare	30
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts	29
Context-Sensitivity and the Inclusion of Subjective Beliefs Have Broad Implications	29
How Philosophy of Science Can Unlock New Methods in Bioethics	28

Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?	28
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria	27