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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
Vulnerable Patients, Adult Protective Services Investigations, and Reticent Surrogates: What is the Role of Clinical Ethics?	47
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails	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
Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology	35
Digital Privacy and Data Protection: From Ethical Principles to Action	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
Emergency Department Boarding of a Teen Requiring Complex Care: How Should an Ethics Consultant Respond?	28
Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings	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
From “Ought” to “Is”: Surfacing Values in Patient and Family Advocacy in Rare Diseases	26
Don’t Leave the Heart Behind	26

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