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Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Bioethics is 25. 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
Focusing on Neutrality When Resolving Religious Conflicts in Pediatric Medical Care	104
Is Dupras and Bunnik’s Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks in Multi-Omic Research and Databases Still Too Exceptionalist?	77
Responding to Parental Objections Over Testing for Death by Neurologic Criteria	61
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation	59
Until Adolescents Can Consent for Vaccination, Protecting Them from COVID-19 Will Require Counseling Skeptical Parents	54
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege	53
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails	47
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?	47
Postponed Withholding: The Wrong Nudge	45
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients	44
Tube Feed or Not Tube Feed: Ethics beyond the Consult Question	43
Hare’s Archangel, Human Fallibility, and Utilitarian Justification(?) of Deception	41
Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits	40
Going Back to Basics: What is the Target of Prenatal Screening?	37
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action	35
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology	35
ChatGPT and the Law of the Horse	34
Participation in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: A Matter of Physicians’ Professional Ethics?	31
From Classification to Governance: Ethical Challenges of Adaptive Learning in Medicine	29
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings	28
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?	28
What Difference Can Public Engagement in Genome Editing Make, and for Whom?	27
Moral Stress and Moral Distress: Confronting Challenges in Post- Dobbs Contexts	27
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind	26
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases	26

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