OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral Diversity for Medical Trainees	19
Diagnosis: What Is the Structure of Its Reasoning?	17
Organismal Superposition Problem and Nihilist Challenge in the Definition of Death	13
Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue on the Translational Work of Bioethics	10
Why the World Needs Bioethics Communication	8
Erratum	7
What Bioethicists Need to Know About the Social Determinants of Health—and Why	7
Conceptualizing Endometriosis Pain Through Metaphors	6
Historical Lessons on Vaccine Hesitancy: Smallpox, Polio, and Measles, and Implications for COVID-19	6
Courage, Conviction, Resolve: The Story of Dr. Gui Xi'en	5
Philosophical in Confronting Rejection: Language Confusion in the Correspondence Between Editor and Author	5
Out of This World: re-grounding justice through science fiction	5
Revising the Bioethics Story: Memory and Story in Precarious Times	4
Narratives of Space and Time in Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis	4
Erratum	4
Narrative Democracy in Health Care	4
Reenvisioning Mission and Moral Leadership in Health Care: an interview with Sachin Jain	4
Degendering Parents on Birth Certificates	4
Pursuing Excellence in Health Care: Using Fourth-Century Wisdom to Transform Modern Medicine	3
Alan N. Schechter (1939–2025)	3
Predicting Clinical Trial Results: A Synthesis of Five Empirical Studies and Their Implications	3
How Hospitals Work: New Understandings Using Practice Theory	3
Science and the Deepening of Historical Knowledge: The Case of the Haitian Revolution	3
Negative Impacts of Taegyo : Feminist and Disability Perspectives	3
Lives Cut Short: suicide among adolescent females	3

A Translational Role for Bioethics: Looking Back and Moving Forward	3
Unmasking Cultural Taboos: Cancer, Graphic Medicine, and Neelam Kumar's To Cancer, with Love	3
Scans and Prints	2
Lived Religion in Religious Vaccine Exemptions	2
Getting from “Just Us” to Justice: individual initiatives need organizational support	2
Can Bioethics Do for Our Planet What It's Done for Autonomy?	2
Health Equity Is No Spectator Sport: The Radical Rooting of a Post-Pandemic Bioethics	2
Amicus Brief	2
Public Health in Context: A Critical History of the Smallpox Vaccine	2
Organismal Superposition and Death	2
Magnanimity in Medicine: The Role of an Ancient Virtue in Health Care	2
Margin, Mission, and the Sociology of Profession: a conversation	2
Euthanasia and End-of-Life Decisions: From the Empirical Turn to Moral Intuitionism	2
Placebos and Metaphors	1
Elephants, Personhood, and Moral Status	1
In the Tradition of William Osler: A New Biohumanistic Model of Psychiatry	1
Making Fun of Medicine: Resisting Medicine's Principalities	1
Othering and Health Justice	1
Careful the Things You Say, Children Will Listen: Parents, Adolescents, and Fairytales	1
Disability and the Practice of Wonder	1
Sickening: who is protecting pharma consumers?	1
The Anti-Social US Health-Care System: A Case for Socially Oriented Reform	1
People in Drawers: Finding Wonder in the Archives	1
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Pandemic: The 1977 “Russian flu”	1
Pediatric Decision-Making for Children in State Custody	1
Publishing Biomedical Research: a rapidly evolving ecosystem	1
Could Behavioral Economics Mitigate Shortcomings in Shared Decision-Making?	1
Valuing the Acute Subjective Experience	1
Patients Before Profits: restoring agency and mitigating moral injury in medicine	1
Koan: Leonard laughing	1
Ethics at the Hinge: health-care organizations and family caregivers during discharge planning	1
The Wayback Machine	1
Does Bioethics Need Ethical Theories?	1
On Antiscience and Antisemitism	1
Guinea Pigs and Semplica Girls: On Degradation, Exploitation, and Clinical Research	1
Narrative Ethics, COVID-19, and Flawed Stories	1
What Can Medicine Do for Poetry? Poetry in the First Year of the CMAJ	1
Confronting the Medical Leviathan: Reading a Report from the Front Lines	1
Bioethics and Civic Education in a Post-Roe America	1
The Lifeboat at World's End: Moving Beyond Crisis Standards of Care	1
Protecting Practitioners in Stressed Systems: Translational Bioethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Donning the Imaging Gown : Enchanting the Ill and Pregnant Body in Art	1
Disputing Darwin: On Piloerection and Mental Illness	1
“First, Do No Harm?”: Metaphysical Harm and the Need for Iconic Perception	1
The World Turned Upside Down: Wonder, Disgust, and the Alienation Effect	1
Sacred-in-Practice: A Framework for Teaching Religion, Health, and Medicine	1
Is There a Problem with False Fear in Medicine?	1