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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral Diversity for Medical Trainees	20
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
Historical Lessons on Vaccine Hesitancy: Smallpox, Polio, and Measles, and Implications for COVID-19	6
Out of This World: re-grounding justice through science fiction	6
Conceptualizing Endometriosis Pain Through Metaphors	6
Philosophical in Confronting Rejection: Language Confusion in the Correspondence Between Editor and Author	5
Courage, Conviction, Resolve: The Story of Dr. Gui Xi'en	5
Reenvisioning Mission and Moral Leadership in Health Care: an interview with Sachin Jain	4
Pursuing Excellence in Health Care: Using Fourth-Century Wisdom to Transform Modern Medicine	4
Revising the Bioethics Story: Memory and Story in Precarious Times	4
Degendering Parents on Birth Certificates	4
Narrative Democracy in Health Care	4
Erratum	4
Narratives of Space and Time in Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis	4
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
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
Can Bioethics Do for Our Planet What It's Done for Autonomy?	2
Margin, Mission, and the Sociology of Profession: a conversation	2
Making Fun of Medicine: Resisting Medicine's Principalities	2
Scans and Prints	2
Euthanasia and End-of-Life Decisions: From the Empirical Turn to Moral Intuitionism	2
Getting from “Just Us” to Justice: individual initiatives need organizational support	2
Amicus Brief	2
Magnanimity in Medicine: The Role of an Ancient Virtue in Health Care	2
Health Equity Is No Spectator Sport: The Radical Rooting of a Post-Pandemic Bioethics	2
Lived Religion in Religious Vaccine Exemptions	2
Public Health in Context: A Critical History of the Smallpox Vaccine	2
Organismal Superposition and Death	2
Koan: Leonard laughing	1
Donning the Imaging Gown : Enchanting the Ill and Pregnant Body in Art	1
Othering and Health Justice	1
Disability and the Practice of Wonder	1
Ethics at the Hinge: health-care organizations and family caregivers during discharge planning	1
The Wayback Machine	1
On Antiscience and Antisemitism	1
Does Bioethics Need Ethical Theories?	1
Guinea Pigs and Semplica Girls: On Degradation, Exploitation, and Clinical Research	1
Elephants, Personhood, and Moral Status	1
Could Behavioral Economics Mitigate Shortcomings in Shared Decision-Making?	1
Publishing Biomedical Research: a rapidly evolving ecosystem	1
In the Tradition of William Osler: A New Biohumanistic Model of Psychiatry	1
Valuing the Acute Subjective Experience	1
Patients Before Profits: restoring agency and mitigating moral injury in medicine	1
Bioethics and Civic Education in a Post-Roe America	1
What Can Medicine Do for Poetry? Poetry in the First Year of the CMAJ	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
Narrative Ethics, COVID-19, and Flawed Stories	1
Confronting the Medical Leviathan: Reading a Report from the Front Lines	1
Careful the Things You Say, Children Will Listen: Parents, Adolescents, and Fairytales	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
Sickening: who is protecting pharma consumers?	1
Disputing Darwin: On Piloerection and Mental Illness	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
Placebos and Metaphors	1